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== Anime & Manga ==

* Yuuko from ''[[~~XxxHolic~~]]''. This idea is her whole entire shtick and a major plot point, if not ''the'' major point of the series; though she also comments that the ultimate cause of an event may be an incident so minor that it's next to impossible to recognize the connection, even ''with'' supernatural help. She has a point -- for example, the only reason that we, the readers, know that Doumeki's destroying one specific spiderweb while housecleaning is at all relevant to the story is that the manga devotes an entire page to depicting it, as opposed to the many other spiderwebs that have presumably been destroyed at some point or another without being shown. (Watanuki's ''job'' is being Yuuko's live-in slave, after all.) [[Law of Conservation of Detail|Unlike real life, fictional works have limited space, so only the significant events are depicted]].

* Yuuko from ''[[xxxHolic]]''. This idea is her whole entire shtick and a major plot point, if not ''the'' major point of the series; though she also comments that the ultimate cause of an event may be an incident so minor that it's next to impossible to recognize the connection, even ''with'' supernatural help. She has a point -- for example, the only reason that we, the readers, know that Doumeki's destroying one specific spiderweb while housecleaning is at all relevant to the story is that the manga devotes an entire page to depicting it, as opposed to the many other spiderwebs that have presumably been destroyed at some point or another without being shown. (Watanuki's ''job'' is being Yuuko's live-in slave, after all.) [[Law of Conservation of Detail|Unlike real life, fictional works have limited space, so only the significant events are depicted]].

** The phrase came before in an older work, ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]'' and even before the idea of fate had come before in most of clamp works, since the begining.

** This was also prominent in ''[[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]'' which was the sister series to ''[[~~XxxHolic~~]]'' and (sort of) tied in with the original ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]'' series.

** This was also prominent in ''[[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]'' which was the sister series to ''[[xxxHolic]]'' and (sort of) tied in with the original ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]'' series.