American recreation present “Jeopardy” has all the time quizzed contestants on all kinds of topics, from science and historical past to literature and “Potent Potables” (which is a a lot classier class identify than “Stuff That’ll Get Ya Drunk!”). Jeopardy even mixes in questions on popular culture, and generally these questions are about anime, resembling on the episode that aired September 12.
As seen within the clip under which was just lately posted to the Jeopardy official YouTube channel, the gamers got a immediate that concurrently reveals how immensely common anime has develop into abroad, and in addition that it’s a medium that, in some methods, can nonetheless be thought-about a distinct segment outdoors its dwelling nation. After the participant in charge of the board chosen a class and dollar-prize quantity, host Ken Jennings learn:
“Films based on this anime series include ‘Mugen Train’ and now one with Tanjiro facing foes at ‘the Infinity Castle.’”
Now, for anybody even remotely maintaining with the present anime scene, the reply is a slam dunk (although no, not “Slam Dunk”). The right response to the immediate, phrased within the type of a query as per “Jeopardy’s” trademark gimmick, is “What is ‘Demon Slayer?’”
In addition to mentioning protagonist Tanjiro by identify, the immediate offers the subtitles of each “Demon Slayer/Kimetsu no Yaiba” motion pictures, 2020’s “Mugen Train” and this 12 months’s “Infinity Castle,” which premiered in Japan in July and opened in U.S. theaters on the identical day that the Jeopardy episode aired (although presumably the episode was recorded on an earlier date).
The phenomenally common “Mugen Train” is the highest-grossing movie of all time in Japan, surpassing not simply celebrated Studio Ghibli anime movies like “Spirited Away” but in addition live-action Hollywood blockbusters resembling “Titanic.” “Infinity Castle,” in the meantime, is at the moment the second-highest grossing movie in Japan.
And but, not a single one of many contestants buzzed in with the right response. Looking at their responses, there’s not even a flicker of partial recognition, with two contestants standing statue-still, and the opposite going as far as to shake his head, signaling to the digicam pointed at him that there’s not going to be something for the viewers to see from him. Making the second much more teeth-gnashingly irritating for anime followers is that there was a major amount of cash driving on this, because the “Demon Slayer” query was value $2,000, the very best doable quantity for the standard query underneath “Jeopardy’s” present format.
So between the big-money quantity and nobody with the ability to make a lot as a guess, is that this an indication that anime continues to be an obscure backwater of the U.S. leisure panorama? Not essentially. While the three people competing on the episode didn’t acknowledge “Demon Slayer,” it’s fascinating that the query didn’t come as a part of a class on anime particularly, nor was it slotted underneath the matters of overseas cinema or cartoons.
Instead, the “Demon Slayer” query was a part of a class merely titled “Movie Sequels,” implying that, at the very least within the eyes of “Jeopardy’s” writers/producers, anime is now large enough within the U.S. to be one thing that they anticipate film buffs basically to have a level of data about, even when they’re not centered followers of Japanese animation.
With that in thoughts, this in all probability gained’t be the final time questions on anime or manga pop up in sudden locations on “Jeopardy,” and perhaps subsequent time the “Demon Slayer” immediate might be “As the heroes battled demons on-screen, real-life violence broke out at the screening of this anime movie because somebody started peeing in theater.”
Source: YouTube/Jeopardy! through Anime News Network/Ken Iikura-Gross
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