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== Anime ==
* ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler]]'' parodies this like so much else. Nagi is convinced that her manga is a masterpiece, but the only other person who can understand it is her friend Isumi. Everybody else just feels very confused after reading it. Or even just hearing her describe it.
** That may be less due to True Art Is Incomprehensible, and more due to the fact that she's a terrible writer and just doesn't realize it... Specifically, her manga is more or less ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' meets ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'', with the main character being a female, muscle-bound version of Ken in a Sailorfuku.
*** And there's an incoherent [[Kudzu Plot]].
** Don't forget what happens when [[Cloudcuckoolander|Isumi herself]] tries writing a manga. [http://onemanga.com/Hayate_the_Combat_Butler/100/10/ Behold,] and ''[http://onemanga.com/Hayate_the_Combat_Butler/100/16/ be amazed]''. Naturally, Nagi immediately declares it a work of genius.
* ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'' fits this the more it goes on, and the movie in its entirety is a definite example.
* ''[[Melody of Oblivion]]'' thrives on this trope, to the point where you start wondering how much is really happening and how much is [[Rule of Symbolism|just symbolic]]. {{spoiler|Are they singing karaoke, or are they all getting killed on flying motorcycles in space? You tell me.}}
** Not surprisingly, ''[[Melody of Oblivion]]'' was written by the same guy who wrote ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena|Utena]]'', Enokido Youji (aka "the ''other'' man behind ''Utena'' who never gets any recognition").
* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]].'' Seriously, who here actually understood the movie?
** [[The Movie]] was rather straightforward. If you didn't understand it, rewatch it and pay attention to the dialogue, rather than the visuals. The TV ending, however... I got nothing.
*** The TV ending is basically just a happier, less visual version of the movie. Granted, the TV ending catches everyone by surprise but once you recover and watch it again, it's pretty damn awesome in its own right.
*** Also, after applying [[All There in the Manual]], it ''[[It Makes Sense in Context|makes perfect sense]]''. Although why the relevant information wasn't included in the show itself is something of a mystery.
*** They wanted to get the feel across, rather than the technical side -- and let's face it, there's no question that the last two episodes feel like the end of something. If they'd had more time, more money, and hadn't pissed off their sponsors, they probably would have included the necessary info to make it make sense.
**** Actually, the maker ''did'' intend for it to be hard to understand and he was always reluctant to give concrete answers to what's literally going on. The company itself has an entire division devoted to trying to make the technical side of his madness into a form which is marketable and sellable, which is then released as assorted manuals. The maker himself is liable to ignore that, then make something completely different if it ever suits his whims.
* ''[[Serial Experiments Lain]]''. (That is, if you're not willing to spend 2 hours on Wikipedia reading about Schumann Waves and the collective unconscious.)
** No, ''Lain'' is pretty incomprehensible to anyone, regardless of background knowledge. The first 6-or-so episodes are a non-story that just features weird stuff for its own sake. At one point, Lain has smoke emit from her fingers and fill the room. It doesn't make sense, it doesn't imply or symbolize anything, and serves no dramatic purpose. It's just bizarre. Or, this trope.
*** It is in fact a fairly typical schizophrenic hallucination to perceive yourself emitting ectoplasm from your body. This, along with many other incidents in the early episodes are [[Red Herring]] [[Foreshadowing]] to the assumption that Lain is mentally unstable, rather than supernaturally gifted. It's not meaningless, if you understand that the goal is making the viewer doubt her sanity.
* Parodied in ''[[GA Geijutsuka Art Design Class]]''. Noda, who's [[Cloudcuckoolander|already in her own little world]], declares "You don't need drawing techniques for modern art, you just need taste." This is proven when a solid black rectangle drawn in pencil is able to be viewed as "art" by everybody except for [[Deadpan Snarker|Namiko]].
** Partially subverted in that the black blob actually functions as a reverse canvas.
* Mamoru Oshii's ''[[Angel's Egg]]'' is a surreal piece with minimal dialogue, and tons of semi-Christian symbolism. It's essentially about a little girl who carries around a big egg that she hopes will hatch some day, and a young man she meets, who isn't so sure that's going to happen.
* The first half of ''[[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]'' is [[CLAMP]]'s mind. The second half, however, is their mind ''narrating their own acid trip''.
* ''[[Hidamari Sketch]]'', also in an arts class setting, cannot avoid this. When the tenants decided to draw their renditions of a bunny as an introduction, Hiro and Yuno just couldn't comprehend [[Ditzy Genius|Miyako]]'s work...
* "[[FLCL|If you wish to understand FLCL, watch the series from beginning to end.]] [[Rule of Cool|The desire will pass.]]"
** Put another way, the most likely meaning of ''FLCL'' is that it has no meaning, it's just a bunch of stuff that happens. If you're trying to find meaning or comprehensibility in it, you're watching it wrong.
== Comic Books ==
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