Shoot the Shaggy Dog/Anime and Manga: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Naru Taru]]'''s anime adaptation. Most of the cast goes insane and dies in a generally unsatisfying fashion, except for the [[Break the Cutie|main character]] and the vaguely established villains, who vanish off the face of the earth around episode 10. Most of the plot points are [[Left Hanging]], and noone seems to care much. The description that 'nothing much has happened except that a few ineffectual people has died' fits the story like a glove, although this is because the anime only covers the first half of the manga, cutting off right before things start to get ''really'' bad. The manga, incidentally, may also count as this.

* ''[[School Days (Visual Novel)|School Days]]''. After spending ten episodes acting like a complete jerk and taking advantage of [[Idiot Plot|the complete idiocy]] that seems to affect the entirety of the school, Makoto is {{spoiler|stabbed to death by his pregnant ex-girlfriend Sekai, and then his corpse is decapitated by his girlfriend Kotonoha, who proceeds to murder (and cut up) Sekai and runs away, taking Makoto's head with her.}} Life at the school goes on, unaffected by the lunacy that just transpired.

** {{spoiler|Even though the end result is world peace, it comes at the expense of the destruction caused during the Zero Requiem, which, again, could have been averted had it not been for the above case. Not to mention that the resulting peace will not last more likely than not, and at the same time, Lelouch will still be dead, when he would be more useful alive as a leader.}}

* The whole Fallen One arc in ''[[D Gray Man]]'' is one of these. Allen encounters another Exorcist, Suman Dark, who has betrayed his [[Empathic Weapon|Innocence]] by betraying the Black Order to a villain, and has been turned into a [[One-Winged Angel|giant angelic torso-looking thing]]. Allen struggles to save Suman while he attacks mindlessly, killing a lot of innocent people. Allen finally manages to hold Suman back by over-activating his own Innocence, and he manages to pull Suman out of the monster... {{spoiler|only for him to find that Suman has lost his soul anyway. Turns out Allen hadn't succeeded; Suman's Innocence basically timed out. Then, just to make things worse, Suman explodes in a fountain of blood, thanks to the sudden appearance of the villain from whom he begged for mercy in the first place.}}

** And all the Rikas get to become Umineko's [[Fallen Hero]] [[Big Bad]] as well, starting the cycle of death all over again for another group of people! Because [[You Bastard|she knows you want more.]]

* ''[[Hell Girl (Anime)|Hell Girl]]'' Negoro Tetsurou's story is a mild version of this, played mostly for laughs.

* ''[[Tokyo Babylon]]'', particularly when the continuation provided by ''[[X 1999]]'' is added in. After spending the series waiting to see if Subaru can inspire any actual feelings of love in him, and just when Subaru has realized his feelings for Seishiro, Seishiro decides that... no, he doesn't care about Subaru. So he tortures him, tries to kill him, and does kill his sister, leaving Subaru permanently broken with the heart's desire that one day Seishiro will kill him too. Except that when he tries to let that happen, he ends up killing Seishiro instead. And then he becomes the Sakurazukamori in Seishiro's place.

* The anime adaptation of ''Requiem'' (marketed as ''Anal Sanctuary'' in the United States) has Yukina being presented with Cecilia, an angelic violin capable of opposing Cannone, the demonic violin that has driven Akio to...ahem...enslaving the female student body of St. Cecilia academy. Immediately after we see Cecilia, cut to a scene of Yukina and the priestess who presented the violin in captivity, about to be raped by Akio's possessed students, and Akio in possession of Cecilia. Everyone gets ruined, mission failed, do not pass Go, do not collect 200 pints of [[Nausea Fuel|shit]].