Book Ends/Anime and Manga: Difference between revisions

[[Book Ends|For when you most likely have seen things twice before.]]

 

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* ''[[Monster (manga)|Monster]]'' ends when {{spoiler|Tenma saves Johann from dying via shot to the head}}, an event that bears pretty obvious similarity to what started the whole thing.

* Near the beginning of the first episode of ''[[FLCL]]'', Mamimi offers Naota the rest of her canned juice, but he protests "You know I don't like the sour stuff," and eventually tosses it aside. At the end of the episode, after all the craziness with the giant robots coming out of his head, he gets another offer of sour juice, and this time takes a reluctant gulp.

* ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'' does this subtly. The first episode, "Asteroid Blues" begins with just Spike and Jet as the crew of the Bebop, along with Chief Laughing Bull making one of his trademark cryptic predictions, as well as Spike commenting on how he died once before because of a woman. {{spoiler|At the end of "Hard Luck Woman", Faye, Ed and Ein leave, leaving Jet and Spike alone on the Bebop and completing one book end. The final episode, "The Real Folk Blues (part 2)" ends with Chief Laughing Bull making a cryptic prediction on Spike... who attacks his old syndicate and dies because of a woman.}}

** Also happens in [[The Movie]], with Spike calling a criminal out on their threats to hurt people.

** In fact, the entire last chapter of ''Eyeshield'' echoes the first one in many different ways. {{spoiler|Sena enters a new school (college this time) gets headhunted to join the football club, and even plays the sister team of the same team he played in his first high school game. The difference is that this time his team's lineup is different, and it's implied that his chief rival in college ball will be Hiruma, who led Sena and the Devilbats to the national championship.}}

* The first episode of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' begins with Usagi saying "I'm Usagi Tsukino, 14 years old, junior high student. I'm clumsy and a bit of a crybaby. That's it." She then becomes Sailor Moon in that episode. The last episode ends with her saying "I'm Usagi Tsukino, 16 years old, high school student. I'm clumsy and a bit of a crybaby, but I'm actually the agent for love and justice, Sailor Moon." Adding to that, the original [[Anime Theme Song]], "Moonlight Densetsu", is heard.

* ''[[D.N.Angel]]'' begins with a reporter speaking into a camera as police run towards a building, then cuts to Dark and Krad charging at each other. The last episode of the series shows this scene again, indicating that in reality that scene was a flash forward.

* ''[[Somedays Dreamers]]'' begins and ends with Yume at Shibuya in Tokyo, one of the most crowded crossings in the world--with the marked difference that {{spoiler|in the end she has gained courage to cross it by herself}}.

* ''[[Darker than Black]]'' begins with the police trying to catch Louis, a Contractor with gravity-cancellation powers. He gets away, [[Mook Horror Show|only to run into Hei]], who, despite Mao's protests, kills him. The first season ends with {{spoiler|Hei sparing someone who really deserved to die thanks to Kirihara's protests}}, then shows the police chasing a Contractor with the same gravity-cancellation ability Louis had- but this time they catch the guy by entangling him with cables shot out of a fancy new upgrade to their handguns.

* The second arc (and the first major storyline) of ''[[Dragon Ball]]'' is about Goku training for and competing in the Budokai. Several later arcs revolve around the Budokai. The anime is renamed ''Dragon Ball Z'' after Goku finally wins the Budokai and the story changes tone, and the manga ends right in the middle of a new Budokai.

* The first episode of ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew]]'' has an aura of an Iriomote cat entering Ichigo Momomiya's body after she is injected with the cat's DNA by Ryou Shirogane. At the end of the last episode, we see the same aura of the Iriomote cat leaving her body when she (and the other Mew Mews) {{spoiler|temporarily}} lose their animal-based superpowers.

* The ''[[Daily Lives of High School Boys]]'' anime ends with a small variation of the [[Late for School]] scene in the beginning, showing not much has been different in their lives, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]].

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