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** There's probably at least one person who tuned in to the first episode right after the first scene and opening credits, knowing nothing about the show, and assumed the series was a comedy. It must be like playing ''[[Eversion]]'' blind.
** The anime has two noticeable whip lashes. Right after Meakashi ends, {{spoiler|the arc where Shion goes the a murder spree that [[Never Live It Down|ruined her reputation]]}}, we see her again in the next episode. Normal and happy, back to her [[Genki Girl]] self; it's more striking then with the other characters. Next is at the end of the first season. Everything seems happy and fine, until you notice {{spoiler|this is another world, which is why everyone's happy and back to normal.}}
** The whole series is an expert in Mood Whiplash as it often turns a funny or cute scene into a surprising or even nightmare bringing scene. What is creepy in the anime is often scary or terrifying in the manga where you sometimes almost don't dare to turn to the next page. Like in Onikakushi-hen chapter 3 (in where there are no less than 4 changes in mood in just a few pages) when Keiichi confronts Rena about her and Mion keeping secrets from him only for Rena to turn the tables on him and instead accuse him of keeping secrets from his friends. It's all seems to be end peacefully when Rena calms down, until you turn the page and see [https://web.archive.org/web/20160429163608/http://manga.animea.net/higurashi-no-naku-koro-ni-onikakushihen-chapter-3-page-30.html this], complete in colour and all. It is without warning and you have to read carefully to even notice that the page before was also in colour. And now imagine a series full of similar things...
*** One notable scene in the manga is {{spoiler|Shion's}} death. We see her falling, then are shown a diabetes inducing scene of "What if" {{spoiler|that's very much like what happens in the Kai arcs}}, before we get a gory shot of her dead body.
** The manga is bad about this, often using omakes at the end or beginning of a chapter. It's especially noticeable at the end of Minagoroshi. {{spoiler|Right after a [[Downer Ending]] there are a bunch of omakes ''making fun'' of the depressing scenes, and lampshading Miyo's odd facial expressions}}.
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* Amazingly, ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]''. Watch some episodes. [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Laugh.]] Then watch [[Tear Jerker|the ending]].
* Recently ''[[Naruto]]'' has the title character coming back to the village from a particularly arduous battle to find {{spoiler|[[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|the entire village congratulating him and recognizing him as a hero]]}}. This is then followed by a rather amusing scene of a squad of Cloud nin {{spoiler|coming the village to inform them ''their'' village plans to take care of Sasuke and Akatsuki}} while one of them talks about theoretical girlfriends he would get while traveling but upset when he leaves them. But ''then'' {{spoiler|we find out that Tsunade's attempt to save the villager's from Pain's attack didn't just render her unconscious, but ''put her in a coma'' so the village council decides she needs to be replace in the meantime and '' Danzo'' successfully pushes his way into the becoming the acting Sixth Hokage}}. All of this in '''one chapter''' (which is called "[[Ironic Episode Title|The Joyful Village]]").
** An even worse example happened much earlier: the same chapter included Hayate being brutally murdered for [[He Knows Too Much|learning about the planned invasion of the Leaf Village by the Sound and Sand Villages]] then goes to Naruto making a summoning contract but only being able to summon a tadpole, then it goes back to Hayate's corpse [https://web.archive.org/web/20100401190356/http://www.onemanga.com/Naruto/92/20/ on the same page].
** Something similar to Bleach's omake happened with ''[[Naruto]]'' after Shippuden started, although omakes weren't shown after some of the more serious episodes (especially around the time {{spoiler|Asuma}} died).
** Anyone who reads the manga saw this one coming in Shippuden: the seventh season's ending is a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRY1pfabiiw saccharine cheery feature] of a certain character. This same season also happens to be the one in which {{spoiler|the main characters' hometown is flattened, and several characters die.}} Episode 165's omake calls attention to this out of place and mostly ridiculous ending just before it is used again. Episode ''166'' {{spoiler|has the same featured character make what is intended to be a heroic sacrifice, get thrown around like a ragdoll, and stabbed. Naruto goes into a rage greater than he's ever been in before, unleashing the fox's six-tailed form}}. Cue the same ending!
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