DYK 1

... that the Japanese manga Black God was created by a manhwa team of Koreans who do not know the Japanese language?

... that Japanese mangaka Ken Akamatsu received Kodansha's Freshman Manga Award for his debut manga Hito Natsu no Kids Game?

... that before the release of the Japanese visual novel Sora o Tobu, Mittsu no Hōhō, there was a similarly based manga series by Kensha Shimotsuki?

... that Reki Kawahara, author of Sword Art Online, planned to submit the draft for the light novel series to a 2002 competition, but refrained because it exceeded the page limit?

... that the character posings in the manga Phantom Blood were influenced by the sculpture Apollo and Daphne (pictured)?

DYK 2

...that the Japanese manga character Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo can command his own body hair to perform various martial arts?

...that the children's anime series The Littl' Bits has aired in Japanese, English, Spanish, Polish, German, and Italian?

... that the Japanese visual novel Twinkle Crusaders received three manga adaptations before its release?

... that the opening theme of the eighth season of the Bleach anime, "After Dark", was provided by the Japanese rock band Asian Kung-Fu Generation?

... that Roujin Z is a 1991 Japanese anime film about a computerized hospital bed with its own built-in atomic power reactor?

DYK 3

... that Nausicaä, the main character from the Hayao Miyazaki manga and film, is based on Nausicaa from the Odyssey and "The Princess Who Loved Insects", a Japanese folk hero?

... that Keizō Tsukamoto set a Guinness World Record by creating the cover art for more than 1,900 issues of Weekly Manga Times starting in 1970?

... that the Japanese band Daisy × Daisy provided the song "Brave your truth" as the opening theme song of the episodes of the Chrome Shelled Regios anime?

... that "Girls on Film" by Duran Duran served as the opening theme for the Japanese anime Speed Grapher though FUNimation was unable to obtain its license for US release?

... that American singer Becca provided the closing theme "I'm Alive!" for the episodes of the 2008 Japanese anime Kuroshitsuji?

DYK 4

... that Queen Millennia was combined by Harmony Gold and Carl Macek with another Leiji Matsumoto series, Captain Harlock, to create Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years?

... that while the anime adaptation of the Japanese visual novel White Album began its broadcast in 2009, it was actually first considered in 1998?

... that AfterEllen.com praised the yaoi manga series The Moon and the Sandals for illustrating "the challenges gay men face in Japanese society"?

... that Sabu to Ichi Torimono Hikae, a manga about a blind samurai, won the 1968 Shogakukan Manga Award?

... that Chikara to Onna no Yo no Naka, released in 1933 and directed by Kenzō Masaoka, was the first "talkie" animated film in Japan?

DYK 5

... that Japanese manga Red Colored Elegy has an eponymous single performed by Morio Agata, which ranked seventh in Japan's Oricon charts in 1972?

... that Cencoroll is a 2009 30-minute Japanese animated science fiction film nearly singlehandedly written, designed, directed, and animated by manga author Atsuya Uki?

... that Summer Wars was the first Japanese animated film to be included for competition at the Locarno International Film Festival?

... that the Japanese animated television series Last Exile uses terms from chess in its episode titles?

... that the Japanese visual novel Princess Lover!'s anime adaptation was first exhibited as a video hosted by Television Kanagawa prior to its televised broadcast?

DYK 6

... that A Letter to Momo is the first Japanese anime film to be showcased at the Warsaw International Film Festival?

... that female viewers of the film Kimi ni Todoke on its opening weekend outnumbered male viewers by a ratio of more than seven to one?

... that the Japanese anime film Magic Tree House is based on the American children's book series of the same name?

... that the manga AKB49: Renai Kinshi Jourei features real-life members of the Japanese idol group AKB48?

... that one of the three Hoenn starter Pokémon is Torchic?

DYK 7

...that composer Takanori Arisawa won three JASRAC International Awards for most international royalties, due to the worldwide popularity of the Sailor Moon anime soundtrack?

... that Del Rey Manga found most of its translator talent from anime and manga fans at conventions since fluent English speakers who know enough Japanese are preferred over native Japanese translators?

... that Katsura Hoshino based her manga character Allen Walker off of a female character, only altering the hair length?"

...that when Masashi Kishimoto was creating the characters of the Naruto manga, he used other shōnen manga as references, including Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball?

...that in the otaku culture, it is common to see trains, computer operating systems, warplanes, and even home appliances anthropomorphized as girls (pictured)?

DYK 8

... that the 1999 anime series Digimon Adventure was first seen as an imitation of Nintendo's Pokémon franchise when its episodes first aired in North America?"

... that Redjuice brought cat ears to Guilty Crown?

... that upon graduating from Tokyo University of the Arts, Hayato Matsuo went straight to work under Koichi Sugiyama, the composer for the Dragon Quest video game series?

... that the twelve episodes of the Tsukihime, Lunar Legend anime were developed by the Tsukihime Production Committee, which included companies such as Geneon Entertainment, Movic, Tokyo Broadcasting System, and J.C. Staff?

... that the titles of the thirteen episodes of the Japanese animated television series Gunslinger Girl were given in Italian as well as Japanese?

DYK 9

...that Singaporean anime distributor Odex asked for legal settlements from children as young as nine years old for copyright infringement through file-sharing?

... that the anime film xxxHolic: A Midsummer Night's Dream was released on DVD and Blu-ray alongside the film Tsubasa The Movie: The Princess in the Birdcage Kingdom?

... that before its broadcast, the Japanese visual novel Tayutama: Kiss on my Deity's anime adaptation was first exhibited as a video hosted by Media Factory?

... that J-pop band Round Table provided the song "Nagareboshi" as the closing theme of the episodes of the Yozakura Quartet anime?

...that the Japanese manga series Soul Eater by Atsushi Okubo has been developed into an animated television series that plans to adopt the source material over fifty-one episodes?

DYK 10

... that Chōji Suitengu, a character from the anime Speed Grapher, rolls his cigarettes with 10,000 yen bills?

... that the Japanese manga Kannagi: Crazy Shrine Maidens went on a hiatus because the mangaka fell ill, though there was speculation that the hiatus was caused by a fan controversy over Nagi's virginity?

... that the Blade of the Immortal manga authored by Hiroaki Samura was adapted into an anime series by Bee Train, Production I.G and Pony Canyon?

...that the thirteen episodes of the Rental Magica anime were shown in a nonlinear order, meaning that the order the episodes were aired in is different from the episodes' chronological order?

... that Firo Prochainezo, a character of the Baccano! light novel and anime series, wears glasses in an attempt to look smarter?

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