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* ''[[Gunnm|GUNNM: Last Order]]'' might be seen as that, because when road accident forced Yukito Kishiro to [[Wrap It Up]], he tacked a [[Happy Ending]] onto the series and left it for half a decade, until he returned to it in ''Last Order''. However, as the "[[Post Script Season]]" is at this moment ''even longer'' than the original series, and it completely disregarded said happy ending, it is more like a cross between the sequel and the [[Revival]] now.
* After Akria Toriyama decided to conclude the ''[[Dragon Ball]]'' manga with the Majin Buu storyline, [[Toei]] (the producers of the anime version) did their own [[Sequel Series]] titled ''[[Dragon Ball GT]]''.
** The Dark Dragon story arc of ''[[Dragon Ball GT]]'' was itself a post-script season. Originally, the show was intended to last only through the Baby storyline, but Bandai asked [[Toei]] to kept the show going afterward in order to [[Cash Cow Franchise|help promote]] their ''Dragon Ball Final Bout'' fighting game for the [[
** This is hardly unique treatment to GT. Dragon Ball itself kept getting extended repeatedly. It seems that every major arc was intended to be the end of the franchise before Toriyama was convinced to continue it for just a little longer.
* ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'' was meant to end with the Chapter Black saga, but the [[Executive Meddling|editors]] had Yoshihiro Togashi make another arc, which was terribly contrived and rushed through in both the manga and its subsequent anime adaptation (especially the manga, where the final battle is barely even shown!)
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* After years of ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' games existing as standalone games, the success of ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'' and the intrigue created by a promotional video expanding on the game's [[Bittersweet Ending]] led to production of ''[[Final Fantasy X 2|Final Fantasy X-2]]'' scant months after the game's Japanese release. Since the world had already been saved in the previous game, this sequel had a [[Lighter and Softer]] tone, especially compared to the heavy drama of the first. It also added [[Fan Service]] by the truck load and starred three women. Finally, it also addressed the [[Bittersweet Ending]], leading to many outcries from people that had assumed {{spoiler|Tidus died, despite the ending of ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'' showing him returning to Spira and ''[[Final Fantasy X 2|Final Fantasy X-2]]'' using that ''exact'' scene to show his return.}}
* ''[[Syphon Filter]]: Logan's Shadow''. The eponymous virus and the Consortium are no longer part of the plot, which instead involves Somali pirates and a [[Big Bad]] affiliated with al-Qaeda.
* ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'' does this all the time, often including a series after its plot has been resolved simply to pad out the cast list (or because they want to pair it up with another show). ''[[Super Robot Wars Alpha]]'' and ''[[Super Robot Wars Z]]'' in particular have a rather large number of Postscript Series, since they're multi-game epics and just having characters disappear into the ether when there are still enemies to fight wouldn't make sense<ref>Though ''Alpha'' does lose a few series along the way, like ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in
* The ''[[Another Century's Episode]]'' franchise also did this in ''3: The Final'' (with ''[[Macross]]'' and ''[[Metal Armor Dragonar]]'', both of whom had their plots finished in ''2'') and ''R'' (''[[Gundam Seed Destiny]]'', the only series in the ''ACE'' franchise to debut with its plot resolved).
* The original ''[[Another World (video game)|Another World]]'' ending was meant to be [[Left Hanging]], but Interplay went ahead and made a sequel without Chahi's involvement, where you play as Buddy, and Lester, the original protagonist, dies near the end.
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** [[Meta Twist|How very Meta.]]
* ''[[Tomb Raider]]: The Last Revelation'', ''Chronicles'', and ''Angel of Darkness'', all of which became [[Canon Discontinuity]] after the reboot.
* ''[[Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker]]'', while well-received, pretty much qualifies as this. ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]]'' had already revealed the secret behind the Patriots, ended their rule, and made Big Boss repent. ''[[Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker]]'' is therefore a mostly [[Filler]] [[Interquel]] which mostly serves to explain something that was already explained by a previous [[Filler]] game (''[[Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops]]'') in a way slightly more congruent with ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]]'''s [[Retcon|retcons]]. Fortunately the plot on its own is a lot of fun, and the game is also really entertaining.
* The second half of the ''[[Mega Man Battle Network]]'' games suffer from this. The ending of ''3'' is the typical "It looks like the hero's about to die. No wait, he survives." script, while being overly sentimental and dramatic, as well as finally beating up the World Three, the main villain group. It's pretty obvious that ''4'' was made with absolutely no thought put into subsequent games (ie. the villain is a [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere]], dark chips seem to be a one-off gimick, and there plot is very bare bones). ''5'' builds on the dark chips and the new villains, the Nebula organization, but kills them off in the game, making all the development meaningless, and ''6'' switches gears back to World Three, the group you were assured were finished in ''3'', while bringing back older characters from all the other games, except, oddly fitting, from ''3''.
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