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* ''[[Eyeshield 21]]'' has "Amefuto Clinic", where Mamori and the Devil Bat give the audience a trivia question about the rules of American football in each episode's eyecatch.
* ''[[Death Note (Manga)|Death Note]]'' places a rule for using the Death Note in each of its eyecatches, much the same way the manga uses a page at the end of each chapter. The exceptions are episodes 25 and 26, in which only "Death Note" is shown.
* ''[[Ranma One Half]]'' had two different eyecatches, one in the first season, one applied to all of the remaining six seasons, and the first one might not have been a proper eyecatch. The differences between the two could be chalked up to the fact that the series was produced by first one studio, then dropped and picked up by a second. The first season had a single eyecatch that played in the middle of the episode, and a second one that played just before the end-credits. The former consisted of Genma, in panda form, juggling three pieces of fruit and eating them on the second rotation before washing them down with a cup of tea. The second consisted of Ranma, in girl form, nonchalantly juggling first P-chan (Ryoga's cursed form), then Shampoo's cursed form, then looking horrified and barely managing to catch Genma's panda form. The latter seasons had a two-parter proper eyecatch, using [[Super
* The original ''[[The Slayers|Slayers]]'' series had no eyecatch. ''Next'' had a quick montage of the main characters ending with two of them in a couple pose; amusingly, when Gourry and Zelgadis (both men) ended together the screen would shatter. In ''Try'' the montage showed the main characters as children and ended again on a couple pose, but this one seemed to represent possible pairings as they would be at the end of the main story arc (and the series). Both series reused a set number of eyecatches but had unique ones for the last few episodes. For the first time in the series, ''[[Slayers]] Revolution'' has the post-break eyecatch showing events directly connected to the current episode.
* ''[[Tenchi Muyo]]'' uses a Kabuki stage with ''[[Kabuki Sounds|tsuzumi]]'' and ''[[Kabuki Sounds|okawa]]'' sounds in its [[Eyecatch]].
* ''[[Cromartie High School]]'' parodied this trope in one episode, as it has [[Three Shorts|11-minute episodes]] and thus no commercial breaks.
* ''[[Cosplay Complex]]'' also parodied this trope, since it was an [[OVA]] and had no commercials. Rather, each [[Eyecatch]] showed off the cast cosplaying characters from another anime.
* The [[Non
* ''[[Lucky Star (Anime)|Lucky Star]]'' has the round little cat (The [[Author Avatar]]) from the episode card to the left of the logo with two variations; the first commercial eyecatch is on a green background with the cat yawning; the eyecatch before the [[Show Within a Show|Lucky Channel]] segment is on a pink background with the cat sleeping and snoring. Both eyecatches conclude with the four main girls saying "Lucky Star!"
* ''[[Pokémon (Anime)|Pokémon]]'' has the "Who's That Pokémon" segment, in which viewers are asked to identify a Pokémon by its silhouette (and, in more recent episodes, some information about its behavior). The Japanese version eventually dropped this, replacing it with normal eyecatches, but the American dub kept it. Then, the dub replaced it with "Trainer's Choice", a quiz on Pokémon knowledge (the answers to which were usually [[Did Not Do the Research|highly inaccurate]]) until The Pokémon Company International took over the dub.
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* 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.
* ''Tsuyokiss Cool X Sweet'' also had a guitar riff, played backwards at the end of the break.
* ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew]]'' had a cute eyecatch featured [[Super
* ''[[Jungle wa Itsumo Hale Nochi Guu]]'' would just show Guu saying "Eyecatch," sometimes featuring other characters.
* ''[[Kidou Tenshi 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.
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* ''[[Bakuretsu Tenshi]]'' 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.
* ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler (Manga)|Hayate the Combat Butler]]'' and ''[[Zettai Karen Children]]'' have the characters playing shiritori (a Japanese word game) across the eyecatches for the entire show. In ''Hayate's'' case, the eyecatch sometimes contains [[Shout
* 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.
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** 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.
* One very odd example can be seen in the second set of ''[[Angelique]]'' [[OVA|OVAs]]. The artwork consists of fairly standard images of characters posing on Tarot cards. The ''background'' however contains some [http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v291/s-chan/pink.jpg suspicious background text] which English-speaking fans figured out came from an article about ''[[Queer As Folk]]''. Remember now -- this is supposed to be a very chaste series of [[Dating Sim|Dating Sims]] for girls... but it does have a very large fanbase of [[Yaoi Fangirl|Yaoi Fangirls]] due to the sheer amount of slash-worthy guys involved, making this a rather funny occurrence.
* ''[[Sky Girls]]'' has one halfway through the episode. It will feature closeup (often [[Fan Service]]) of one member of the Sky Girls and a picture of said member piloting their [[Mini
* ''[[Kiddy Grade]]'' has a different pair of eyecatch images for each episode, often depicting the main characters Éclair and Lumière in similar situations in each image of the pair (e.g., Éclair sitting on a couch with a Lumière doll in one and Lumière sitting on a couch with an Éclair doll in its corresponding image). Each episode featured a different guest artist and some image pairs also sported...unusual art styles.
** ''[[Kiddy Girl-and (Anime)|Kiddy Girl-and]]'' continued the trend - however they were all done by the one artist, Dr. Moro, in how own.. unique style.
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* ''[[The Wild Wild West]]'' had a unique method of doing this. The last frame of the sequence before the commercial (usually a cliffhanger) was transformed into a comics-style illustration (in the pilot and from sometime during season two onwards) or alternatively a black and white (in season one)/tinted colour (in the first several season two episodes) and placed into one of five panels that resembled a comic strip, with each sequence being placed in a different panel.
* Some ''[[Victorious]]'' and ''[[Big Time Rush (TV)|Big Time Rush]]'' episodes have Customized Eyecatches featuring their recent songs, but that depends if they're using their customized [[Credits Pushback]] ending credits.
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* ''[[Better Off Ted (TV)|Better Off Ted]]'' has a fake ad for Veridian Dynamics (the show's fictional company) before the first commercial break.
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