Female of the Species Trivia Quiz

Answer: 2

Claymores (named for the swords they wield) are human women with the flesh of monsters called youma implanted inside them, which turns their hair blonde and their eyes silver, and they are tasked with fighting youma on behalf of the mysterious Organisation.

They are ranked from 1 to 47, with 1 being the highest rank and 47 - Claire's rank - being the lowest. In Claire's backstory, Priscilla starts as the new number 2, and is intent on capturing the rogue number 1, Teresa, who is also Claire's mentor and a mother figure to her. Priscilla is so powerful that Teresa has to tap into her youkai - a kind of demonic energy - in order to fight her.

When Teresa lets her guard down, Priscilla cuts off her hands and head, and turns into a giant purple monster with a craving for guts, though she can also disguise herself as an ordinary human girl. Claire becomes a Claymore after having Teresa's head implanted in her body and swears revenge on Priscilla, and spends much of the story tracking her down.

Answer: Maria Cadenzavna Eve

The series starts with Tsubasa and Maria performing at a joint idol concert, only for Maria to reveal that she is also a Symphogear user, and take hostages, although she goes against orders and allows the hostages to leave. As it happens, her relic is a black Gungnir, which - like Hibiki's Gungnir - was created from the original spear. Maria has to act as a figurehead for Finé, as she is believed to be the reincarnation of the Babylonian priestess Finé (as it turns out, it's not her, but Shirabe).

Although Maria, Shirabe and Kirika start out as antagonists, they eventually turn on their master, the mad Dr Ver, and join SONG, though they are still under constant supervision. Unlike Hibiki, Chris and Tsubasa, Maria, Kirika and Shirabe rely on the LiNKER drug to keep them synchronised to their Symphogears.

Answer: Amegakure

Konan comes from Amegakure, the Village Hidden in the Rain, along with Akatsuki leader Nagato and their friend Yahiko. Jiraiya looked after the three of them when they were orphans, although that didn't stop Konan from assisting Pein - the resurrected body of Yahiko - in killing him.

She saw him as a god, and herself as an angel, with paper wings. She killed several Konoha ninja with her paper, but defected from Akatsuki after Naruto had a talk with Nagato, and Nagato sacrificed his life to resurrect all the ninja he'd killed in the attack on Konoha.

After she left Akatsuki, Tobi confronted her and despite her trying to blow him up with thousands of paper tags, he survived and stabbed her to death.

Answer: Blade & Soul

'Blade & Soul' is somewhat different from the game, as the character Jinsoyun became Jin Varrel in the anime. Jin is a Flower Monk, an enforcer for the Palam Empire, who killed Alka's master, and is a vessel for a kind of magic known as the Impurity, which leaves severe scars on her body and makes her hallucinate.

She wipes out an entire force of rebels in seconds, as well as most of Dan Roana's group of bandits. Although Alka kills her, her henchwoman Yu Ran resurrects her, and Jon goes after Alka. Alka's butterfly tattoo protects her from Jin's magic, and after the two have a sword fight on a mountain, Jin begs Alka to kill her, but Alka refuses and lets her go.

It is also revealed that Jin is being used by Yu Ran, who has her own agenda.

Answer: Annie Leonhart

Annie, like Eren Jaeger and his friends, is a former member of the 104th Training Corps, and goes on to join the military police. Along with Reiner Braun, Marcel Galliard (who is eaten) and Bertolt Hoover, she is one of a group of Titan Shifters sent to infiltrate the enemy and retrieve the Founding Titan.

She teaches Eren boxing moves, which he later uses against her when they both change into their titan forms. In her titan form, Annie massacres the Survey Corps, though she deliberately spares Armin Arlert.

She transforms again when Mikasa Ackerman exposes her, destroying a church and attacking Eren, but ends up being crystallised after Mikasa cuts off her fingers and she is cut out of her titan body.

Answer: Grinds her head against a wall

Zorin Blitz carries a scythe and has the ability to manipulate people with illusions. She attacks the Hellsing Manor in an airship, but is forced to make an emergency landing when Seras shoots it down with her Harkonnen cannons. Zorin terrorises the Wild Geese with an illusion of herself as a giant, but Seras sees through it. Zorin and her men massacre the Wild Geese, with only three members - one of whom is Pip Bernadotte - surviving.

She forces Seras to remember the deaths of her parents, cuts off her arm and blinds her, and when Pip tries to get Seras to safety, Zorin kills him with her scythe and mocks him. Seras responds by drinking Pip's blood, absorbing his soul and becoming a true vampire, and Millennium leave Zorin to die at Seras' hands for failing her mission. Seras grinds her head against a wall until there is nothing left.

Answer: Roberta's Blood Trail

The Roberta in question is Roberta aka Rosarita Cisneros, a former FARC guerrilla working as a maid for the rich Lovelace family. Although she and Revy have run-ins earlier in the series, it is not until 'Roberta's Blood Trail' - known as 'El Baile de la Muerte', or 'the dance of death' in the manga - that things really get serious, when Roberta's master Diego is killed in a bombing masterminded by the US Special Forces. Roberta goes on a rampage around Roanapur (the fictional Thai city where 'Black Lagoon' is set), seeking revenge on Diego's killers.

As the criminal factions running the area - the Chinese Triads, the Russian Hotel Moscow and the Colombian cartel - do not want the US to intervene, they and the Lagoon Company team up to stop Roberta.

At the climax, she kills several American soldiers and wounds her master's son, Garcia, though he survives. She also ends up losing a leg, eye and fingers.

Answer: Erza Scarlet

Minerva is the daughter of Jiemma, Sabertooth's master, and replaces Yukino Agria in the Grand Wizarding Games after Yukino is thrown out of the guild for losing to Mermaid Heel's Kagura Mikazuchi. A ruthless pragmatist, Minerva beats the living daylights out of Lucy Heartfilia in one round and takes on both Erza and Kagura in the final, forcing them to fight each other by holding their friend Millianna hostage and torturing her.

After Erza defeats Kagura, Minerva stabs Kagura with her own sword and goes for Erza, but Erza beats her by requipping the legendary Nakagami Armour. Minerva does not take this well.

After a run-in with Erza in the giant country, she joins the evil guild Tartaros and is turned into a demon, enhancing her powers, and fights Erza again, to Erza's disgust.

She eventually relents and returns to Sabertooth, who have reformed.

Answer: Homura Akemi

'Rebellion' focuses on Homura, who is suspicious of the strange world that the girls are living in. In 'Rebellion', all five are alive and fighting creatures called Nightmares, and Mami Tomoe has a strange little friend called Bebe (who is actually Charlotte, the witch who ate her in the original series).

As the world around her starts to crumble, Homura realises she is in a witch's barrier, and that the witch is her. She has actually been captured by the Incubators in the hope of luring Madoka out, and turned into the witch Homulilly. Madoka and the other girls rescue Homura, but when Madoka is about to take Homura to heaven, Homura steals her powers, turns into a demon and makes Kyubey her slave.

She rewrites the universe into a new reality, and taunts Sayaka Miki by wiping her memory.

She also makes Madoka the new girl at their school, putting her in a position where Homura can take care of her, but accepts that Madoka may get her powers back some day, and that they will be enemies.

Answer: Lust

Lust is a femme fatale with long sharp fingernails, and is very close to Gluttony. She is very high ranked among the homunculi. She spies on Roy Mustang by dating his colleague, Jean Havoc, in the guise of a human woman called Solaris. Mustang figures out Lust is a homunculus and shoots her, but she is able to heal herself, douses Mustang's gloves in water to prevent him from using his fire powers, and attacks him and Havoc, leaving them to die.

She then goes after Riza Hawkeye, but Mustang is able to attack her with his fire powers by carving a seal into his hand.

His repeated flame attacks eventually kill her, and she curses him before turning into ash.