Book Ends/Anime and Manga: Difference between revisions

*** This line is also accompanied both times with a short scene where Naota has put money in a vending machine and a girl (Mamimi before, Ninamori after) pushes a button for a drink he didn't want first.

* ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'' has varoius scenes around the Academy, including Utena's meditative reverie being interrupted when she is glomped by Wakaba. The last episode has those very same vignettes, replaced with Wakaba's meditative reverie being interrupted when she is glomped by another girl. The implication is that as far as the bulk of the student body is concerned, the previous year and everything that the main characters went through never happened. {{spoiler|Only Anthy and her brother seem aware that anything took place.}}

* The last chapter of the ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'' manga has Kenshiro wandering the desert, exploding thugs. It brings a tear to one's eye.

* Both the first episode of ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' and the ending of ''End of Evangelion'' have what are colloquially known as the "bookend Reis," which appear in the distance for about 5 seconds while Shinji is looking, then disappear without a trace. As with nearly everything else in NGE, no explanation is forthcoming, and it's all left up to interpretation.

* ''[[Rah Xephon]]'''s first scene after the title is of Ayato working on a painting before going off to school. The final scene of the show before the credits {{spoiler|is of him finishing the painting at age twenty-nine before he shows it to Haruka}}.

** And the after-credits final scene is a flashback to the original inspiration of the painting.

** On the very first page of the manga, Ed is [http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/1935/82954664.jpg shown] in a train station with a suitcase and his red coat. On the very last page of the manga, [http://img849.imageshack.us/img849/4918/112oo.jpg he is shown] like this again, but is this time {{spoiler|leaving instead of arriving}} as he gives a speech summarizing the message of the series.

** The [[Fullmetal Alchemist (Anime)|2003 anime version]] does this as well, when Alphonse starts reciting the "Humankind cannot gain..." speech from the first episode; after the first two sentences, the speech is changed to reflect what they've learned from the events in the series.

* In the first chapter of ''[[Ai Kora (Manga)|Ai Kora]]'', Maeda clobbers the guy who burned down the boys' dorm and was trying to do the same to the girls' dorm when he takes Sakurako hostage. {{spoiler|The same guy shows up in ''the very last chapter'', trying to burn down the girls' dorm again. He takes Sakurako hostage again, this time at ''gunpoint'', and Maeda (who had been missing for four months after accidentally taking an airplane to England) makes his triumphant return by [[Dynamic Entry|kicking the guy in the head and rescuing Sakurako]].}}

* The first volume of ''[[My Lovely Ghost Kana]]'' starts and ends very similarly on the surface, but also shows how much things have changed in a few short months. In the beginning, [[Unlucky Everydude|Daikichi]] is buying food and beer at a convenience store and overhears the occult-obsessed owner talking to his assistant about how someone finally moved into an apartment building rumored to be haunted. Daikichi walks back to the apartment he just moved into and is welcomed energetically by [[Genki Girl|Kana]], the resident [[Cute Ghost Girl]] who [[Pretty Freeloader|excitedly goes through his grocery bags looking for beer]], which she hasn't had in years. In the end of the first volume, Daikichi is buying food and beer at the same convenience store, and the occult-obsessed owner is talking to his assistant about the strange circumstances by which Daikichi miraculously survived being buried alive. Daikichi walks back to the apartment he's come to call home and is welcomed energetically by Kana, who hugs him affectionately, having developed from [[Pretty Freeloader]] to [[Magical Girlfriend]].

* The first season of the anime version of ''[[K-On!]]'' begins with the main character Yui waking up late for her first day of high school, slipping and falling before heading out the door, where we see her jogging along her route to the campus. The last episode of the first season ends with a repeat of this before the ending concert, grabbing her guitar and running back, starting to slip, but catching herself before falling.

** The very first episode also had Mugi, Mio, and Ritsu attempt to recruit Yui into the club with an improvised song. The last chronological episode of the second season (three years later) had these four play a farewell song to Azusa. The reactions of Yui and Azusa to their exclusive performances were almost exactly the same: *solo applause*, {{spoiler|remarks "You guys really aren't that good!",}} and wants to join in next time.

** Also, this seems to be the case for many characters' background stories. Lockon, for one, lost his family in a terror attack caused by the KPSA, and in the end, he turned out to become a terrorist himself (at least according to publicity). Setsuna started out being a member of a guerilla warfare squad, and later became a member of Celestial Being, who employs this kind of warfare to a great degree.

** In the first season, Setsuna pilots Exia. In the last episode of season 2, 00 Raiser is compleely destroyed, and Setsuna changes to Exia. Also, in the first episode, we see 0 Gundam, later revealed to be piloted by Ribbons. in the finale, Ribbons changes over to the 0 Gundam, after his Reborns Gundam/Reborns Cannon is destroyed.