Eyecatch: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' had new catches for each season, usually involving the team jumping around inspirationally.

** A few of the eye catches were also recreated for the video games. Notably, the first part of R's eye catch is recreated in one of the first games, unless Chibi-usa mode is selected, where-in she drops into the eye catch ontop of the Sailor Senshi.

* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' has an eye catch with white lettering on a black background, preceded by Japanese kanji shown with startling rapidity.

* ''[[Planetes]]'' has one where the show's title shifts from one language to another.

* ''[[Marmalade Boy]]'' features eyecatches that sort out which members of the [[Love Dodecahedron]] are an [[Official Couple]].

** In addition, you can always tell which characters will be featured in the second half of the episode by which ones are shown/come out on top in the Eyecatch.

{{quote|Okay, trainers! Which of these Pokemon<ref>Arbok, Sableye, and Suicune</ref> evolves into Seviper?

If you chose Arbok, you're right! }}

* ''[[Trigun]]'''s eyecatch at the beginning of a break had a distinctive guitar fill; the one at the end of the break had the same riff played backwards.

* In the [[Toei Animation]] version of ''[[Kanon]]'', two different characters, the arrangement changing each time, would [[Title Drop|say the show's name]] while standing beside the logo.

* ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew]]'' had a cute eyecatch featured [[Super-Deformed]] versions of the protagonists, and then a cute slider puzzle eyecatch.

* ''[[Angelic Layer]]'' changed the eyecatch mid-season from just Misaki to Misaki and Hatoko. In the English voice actors' audio commentaries, someone would often announce "Commercial!" when the eyecatch showed up.

* The first ''[[Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch]]'' eyecatch was composed of pictures of Lucia and Hanon in glowing stars (apparently ignoring Rina, even though the show is focused on the three as a [[Power Trio]]). Once the [[Anime Theme Song|OP]] changed for the first time, Lucia would draw a card from a deck of playing cards, with Hanon and Rina around her. She smiled if the card bore a hero and gasped at a villain; the character on the card was usually a character that had a big role in the episode, and if not, it was Lucia. The second season's eyecatch was one of the mermaids (or [http://www.jpfankelly.com/Series%20Summaries/PDVD_4731.jpg Hippo]{{Dead link}}) surrounded by a bubble border; again, if no specific character [[A Day in the Limelight|held the spotlight]], Lucia or Seira appeared. Caren, Noel and Coco each appeared in this eyecatch a total of ''[[Out of Focus|one time]]''.

* ''[[Burst Angel]]'' usually features Meg and Jo in some sort of badass pose, and occasionally, they feature Amy, Sei and Kyohei.

* ''[[Midori no Hibi]]'' features the eponymous character waving a wooden sign around.

* The boys love anime ''[[Gakuen Heaven]]'' had two. One had the student council president (called the King) approaching the treasury president (called the Queen) as if flirting or asking for a date. The next eye catch is The King on the floor devastated after being rejected and the Queen walking away nonchalantly.

** The Eye Catches in this series also tend to have action of another sort—including one in the first episode of the token [[Creepy Twins]] with each other.

* ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED|Gundam SEED]]'' initially has eyecatches showing off the Gundam. Once Lacus is introduced the post-break eyecatch instead switches to a scene with Lacus and Athrun. Later in the series when {{spoiler|Lacus becomes Kira's love interest, he replaces Athrun in that scene}}. The eyecatch in ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny|Gundam SEED Destiny]]'' is similar to that last scene.

** During the bowling episode, the events happening over the eye catch take longer than the catch did, so the catch was repeated several times. Naturally, the characters then wondered why the catch was being repeated so many times.

** During the "survival" episode, Excel accidentally shoots Menchi, with a lot of drama in it. In the "be right back" eyecatch, she tosses Menchi's corpse into the Great Will of the Macrocosm, asking her to reset it. In the "back to the show" eyecatch, the Great Will tells her it's done, and Excel pulls a revitalized Menchi back out.

* In ''[[Sonic X]]'', a card would appear with data about one of the characters—usually one relevant to the plot. That is how the name of Cream the Rabbit's mom Vanilla was revealed.

** Sometimes they double as [[Trailers Always Spoil]], especially in the case of [[Monster of the Week|the weekly robot]] that hasn't shown up yet. This, however, is averted in Episode 26, where the featured robot, E-99, was shown in silhouette. For that extra-special effect, it took up both of the usual spots of the eyecatch (still in silhouette), and Dr. Eggman even popped up in front of the second occurrence.

* The first season of ''[[Princess Tutu]]'' has an eyecatch of the main character's mentor {{spoiler|and the eventual villain}}, Drosselmeyer, spinning on a cog while the Nutcracker March (his [[Leitmotif]]) plays in the background. The second season originally didn't have an eyecatch, since each episode was split up into two parts and joined with another show—but when they were put back together for the DVD, they added an eyecatch in which a clock spun around to the same tune, then opened to show Drosselmeyer drinking a cup of tea.

** One of the episodes in the first season also replaced the normal eyecatch with a special one in one episode. The marriage-obsessed Mr. Cat believed the main character was going to meet him for a date at the pizza parlor, and the eyecatch shows him waiting patiently for her while humming the Nutcracker March.

* ''[[Fairy Tail]]'''s first season has Happy doing a little dance, then him with a [[Balloon Belly]], having apparently consumed a lot of fish. This is accompanied by a cute little jingle, which can be a moment killer when it follows a serious moment.

** Notably, who appeared in the eyecatches for the {{spoiler|S-Class Exam}} arc in season 3 changed usually depending on who was the focus of the episode.

* ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'' has a cute one with Super Deformed versions of the main characters killing some demons, which then form the show's title. Then Botan flies in and Koenma falls on Kuwabara's head. It never changes though, and it does get a bit annoying after seeing it over one hundred times.

* ''[[Princess Princess]]'' uses an eyecatch with one of the boys in both their normal clothes and then their princess outfits.

* The first season of ''[[Ikki Tousen]]'' featured Hakafu kicking the camera for the "going to commercial" eyecatch, followed by her skirt lifting, giving us a panty shot for the "back to show" eyecatch. 2nd-4th seasons feature still images of suggestive poses and revealing attire on the female characters while rock music plays.

* The eyecatch for ''[[To LOVE-Ru]]'' featured Lala removing her towel.

* Spoofed in ''[[D.N.Angel]]''. In one episode, the eyecatch is used to transition between scenes instead of cut to commercial. This causes it to pop up about once every three minutes. Eventually the characters get sick of it and scream "Knock it off!" when the eyecatch appears.

* ''[[GetBackers]]'' shows one of the characters.

* ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' is an interesting case. It's not aired on television and is instead aired through cellphones and the internet, and the episodes are only about 5 minutes long, so the eyecatches are used to switch scenes instead. The eyecatches themselves have the logo with a [[Moe Anthropomorphism|chibi nation-tan]] popping out from behind the logo and saying the title in a slightly more high-pitched voice.

* ''[[Tenshi ni Narumon]]'' is an interesting case in that throughout the whole series its eyecatch featured always [[The Hero|Noelle]] and Yuusuke - the main couple, but {{spoiler|in the last episode, it was switched to one with Mikael and Raphael, implying that THEY were the main couple, because Mikael was the real main character}}.

* ''[[Fruits Basket]]'' featured two different eyecatches in each episode, usually cute pictures of the characters' cursed animal forms. The final handful of episodes just use somber black ones.

* The Japanese dub of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' has a spinning Millenium Puzzle and the word "Yu-Gi-Oh" appear on the screen.

** ''[[Digimon Xros Wars]]'': Cards from the Super Digica Taisen game are demonstrated, with cartoony renditions of the heroes popping up. The first half had one of its two eye catches feature ghostly images of [[Call Back|Agumon, Garurumon, V-mon and Guilmon]] popping out of Taiki's X Loader and laughing at him.

** ''[[Digimon Xros Wars: The Young Hunters Leaping Through Time]]'': Pictures of one of the six Heroes posing with their unevolved partner, then flicks around into a silhouetted image of them posing with their evolved partner, enclosed in a circle.

* ''[[Natsume Yuujinchou]]'' has Nyanko-sensei doing something slightly different with each eye catch (yawning, trying to catch a butterfly, etc.).

 

== Live-Action TV ==

** After the commercials ended, the announcer would say "kaBlam!" , while a picture of the logo would do something. Later seasons changed this toHenry trying to lift up the logo, it falls on him, and then June winks at the audience. Then the announcer would say "[[KaBlam!]]!" again like previously, this was to start the next break.

* ''[[Daria]]'' - The Eye Catch was a slow-motion clip of something that happened earlier in the episode. A subversion occured when Daria and Quinn pick up a hitchhiker. After they drop him off, Daria freaks out that he stole their money. Cue the Eye Catch, only for it to cut halfway through and go back to the show, as Quinn explains that she ''gave'' him the money.

* Coming Attractions, the [[Show Within a Show]] from ''[[The Critic]]'', featured these, usually as a joke at the expense of host Jay Sherman.

* ''[[Beavis and Butthead]]'' has eyecatches that either use "we'll be back after this" messages or fake "Coming up, this will happen to the protagonists" announcements.

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