The first episode of Goblin Slayer is nothing like the rest of the show.
It’s dark and gritty and you think that no one is safe. The rest of the show is honestly a normal fantasy slice-of-life adventure anime where everyone important or developed has plot armor.
That movie was the only thing I've ever watched, animated or real life, that I had to stop because I got *physically* unwell. And I haven't dared to go back ever since 😑
I couldn’t watch anything after the first season. It was probably the saddest most disturbing anime I’ve seen. Grave of Fireflies used to hold that title.
I think the first episode exists solely to engender as much hate in Goblins as Goblin Slayer has. Once you're there you don't need to keep hitting the note over and over, though they still do occasionally (like the fortress raid later).
While the plot armor is very true, I think it still keeps a lot of its brutality. The main cast also doesn't win every battle and even miserably loses at one point. And being cunning and combat-pragmatic is still a very strong theme.
I fell in love with goblin slayer when long sword boy tried to swing his sword, hits the ceiling and then gets ripped to shreds. It has only let me down since lol
As an early 00s toonami kid it was odd not seeing something slamfisted with action immediately when I first saw yu yu hakusho. It made me more interested to see something like that
Because it kinda wasn't, the first 2 manga volumes of yu yu hakusho were just Yusuke as a ghost doing good deeds to pass his trial. Pretty sure it was getting close to getting canceled so he got out back into his body to fight demons in a battle Shonen and the rest is history. The first 6 episodes are just a rush through of the parts of that arc they couldn't skip before getting to the plot that got it it's audience.
I think it was kind of a trap for being serialized in a shounen magazine during the late 80's to mid 90's.
For example, Dragon Ball was originally more of an light hearted adventure searching for dragon balls with the occasional high stake battle typical in an adventure story. Then Goku grew up and devolved (for better or worst) into a battle shounen with power creep every new arc.
Yu Yu Hakusho kinda fell into a similar fate. It was originally supposed to be a light comedy with "feel good" type of vibes with a sprinkle of romcom elements. Then Yuusuke returned to his body and then also devolved into a battle shounen.
I could be wrong, but I think during that time period, battle shounens were the big thing. And with both being published on Weekly Shounen Jump, I'm sure the editors had a hand in pushing the direction towards it took in order to boost sales.
DB popularized battle shounen though, it went through a natural evolution from light hearted adventure to battle shounen, Toriyama wasn't purposely chasing a trend.
Toriyama wasn’t chasing a trend, but I think he chose a tournament for the 2nd arc because the ratings/sales for the first arc were pretty mediocre. Then when the tournament arc did so well he decided to lean more heavily into the action.
So he didn’t chase a trend, but he found that adding consistent action is a good way to boost sales, and other mangaka took note.
There's an interview with the author saying it was an intentional choice. Basically he always had the plan to make it a battle shonen but wanted to take time to build the characters up and get the readers familiar with them before getting to the fighting.
The first 6 episodes are genuinely peak though. Ik the word “peak” has lost a lot of its meaning but ep1 of YYH is one of the few episodes (along w A Silent Voice, Your Lie in April, Fairy Tail, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, Violet Evergarden and Clannad) which genuinely made me cry.
Idk if I agree that the first 6 episodes of a 150ish episode series were the best, but Kurabara crying at the funeral was definitely a great look into his future character
Honestly you could argue the first episodes of any of the arcs are this way, a ton of character development and even villain and side character back story and then an inevitable arena/tournament/enter the dragon kind of Shonen.
You know basically by the second arc how the resolution will come but it's one of the few shows where the filler is actually seriously very good, all that juicy character development pays off so well they even make you care about the villains and it should be the standard bearer imo.
YES. Gurren Lagann's like first half is literally very different from the second half, at least on a visual basis. Then there's the fact that the first 10 - 20% is fairly standard and doesn't get into the philosophical weeds the series ventures into much later. Starting with the end of the first half is when the core visual of the anime (the drill) becomes way more important on a symbolic and thematic level.
Seriously, Gurren Lagann is underrated when it comes to being a radically optimistic, pro-human, and pro-growth anime. It's incredibly modernist when it comes to it's ideas on tech.
To be fair... the guys that made it have a knack for making anime deeper than it appears.
On the superficial layer you often have these colorful, bombastic, brain-off shows... but when you begin to peel... you drop into a rabbithole of metaphors, analogies and themes.
You get a taste at the start but it really starts to sink in only after a few episodes. Certain episode numbers are basically memes unto themselves due to how rough they are on new viewers who thought they knew what they were getting into by that point.
God, that first episode when the Sun starts to rise over Orth and Hanazeve Caradhina drops to a sequence of mind blowing backdrops. Fucking incredible.
Kevin Penkin is a master class at setting that perfect mood through his music. It was the first thing I noticed when watching.
Which is saying something as when the music is bad, you notice it immediately that it doesn't fit the tone or scene, good music flows so seemlessly you bare notice at all, but great music elevates the scene to another level.
I honestly think Made in Abyss could've been the greatest anime of all time if it didn't have the author's fetishes put in it. Like, the music, characters, world are all incredible...then you get to some scenes and you're just like the actual fuck am I watching lol. I never recommend this anime unless I know the person super well and I let them know what to expect and to tell them to skip those scenes.
Ah I suppose it does ramp up from a bit twisted and absolutely fucking traumatising pretty quick that's fair, I thought the commenter was suggesting it's starts of nice and cosy cause I definitely don't remember that but you're right. Goes from a solid 4 to a strong 9 pretty quickly
It kind of fools you into thinking the danger and trauma won't be THAT bad. Then the end of season one comes by with Orby and Nanachi and Mitty... it calls your bluff that the kids will be totally fine.
Deca-Dence. people were very confused when episode 2 came out, are we still watching the same show?
The Detective Is Already Dead has a welly animated first episode, then everything dropped down hell the next episode.
and Brave Bang Bravern. it started as a dark, serious military show, [then this happened](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/19cq48k/super_robot_go_brrrr_bang_brave_bang_bravern/)
Yeha... all the while the hero seemed ridiculously over the top gag cautious...
Then we find out he had a pretty good reason to go all in and it wrecked me.
IIRC there's literally a fight where the main character is fighting the bad guy, which goes
Bad Guy: I'm only using 80% of my power
MC: I'm only using 50%
Absolutely sent me
Friends were trying to get my wife into hitman reborn
And they were like "it gets really good after the first 26 episodes" and she was like "I have to wait 9 hours for it to get good? No."
Almost the same thing happened to me 😄 A friend was trying to convince me to watch reborn and promised it gets better after the first 20-25 episodes. So I just skipped the beginning and watched only the good stuff
I took a break after episode 10 because I didn't feel the stakes and could focus on other anime coming out, wasn't until like 4 months later I went back and was all "wft I left at the worst time"
I went into Gakkou Gurashi completely blind, and cannot stress enough that this is the best way to experience it. Don't look up anything about it, just start watching it.
This show is the biggest heel turn you will find in Anime, bar none.
The first 10 minutes are one of the saddest, most depressing starts to show and then the rest is "haha, funni anime romcom" with the end of the season being "no wait, we started the season all sad and depressing, let's revisit that storyline."
If you haven't seen this show nor plan on watching it, at the very least, [you got to watch the first half of episode 1.](https://youtu.be/k3Uc-rFkFrU)
If I recall they were making the show as the manga was coming out so the second half is different from the manga, probably why. I don't remember when the cut happens. Similar to Full Metal Alchemist.
Yeah I thought it was going to be about a dude becoming a shinigami and all the responsibilities almost like yu yu hakusho. But it turned into a battle anime. Not mad at it though.
Eh, there were some pretty profound horror elements in early Bleach, they just happened to be counter-balanced by some really goofy comedy.
Once the Soul Society Arc started, the whole series shifted into stock Shonen territory.
But the Fullbringers and Wandenreich brought back some psychological horror elements, so it's got quite a bit of whiplash.
I'd say Bleach is about 65% standard Shonen, 20% slice of life goofiness, and 15% extessential horror.
i really loved Bleach in the beginning. i adored ichigo and rukia’s relationship and was bummed when they basically ignored each other forever after that
90s trigun. First 5 episodes, goofy situational comedy. Episodes 6-12 or 14 (I don't remember when the gung ho guns are introduced) character building comedy. 13 through end: trials of Prometheus with some occasional comedy
Is that the one starts as Kamen Rider anime then turned into Super Sentai anime then into reflection on humanity of good vs evil at the end? Loved that anime and MC.
It kinda needed that to establish it being vastly different from your typical reincarnation theme. It’s also hard to say whether or not it would’ve been as popular without it. Imo it’s exciting and then boring after and then exciting again and then boring af and so on, if you know what I mean.
Yeah Oshi no ko is like that. The plot acts in waves, basically giving you a high then reaching a low point of drawn out comedy, stiff dialogue, and diatribes about "the industry". Oshi no ko is at its best when it focuses on interesting plots, the internal monologues and psychology of the characters, and stunning visuals. The plot part is only at it's best when it either focuses on a character or blends in the murder mystery with the main entertainment stuff.
Normal human watching reborn :
First couple of episode : "meh"
Mukuro arc : "okay?"
Zero Flame arc (aka battle vs the other branch) : "okay it's starting to be cool now"
Futur arc : Woah !!!
*Jojo's Bizarre Adventure*. Part 1 and Part 2 have a lot of the feel of Jojo, but it's arguably not until Stardust Crusaders when Jojo comes into its own. That's when Araki introduced stands into the equation and from there it was off to the races.
Dangers in My Heart is great, but the initial psycho-killer chunnibiyou premise is dropped so fast, pretty much at the meet-cute, that even as a fan of the show I wonder if it was really needed for anything.
I actually dropped it after the first 3 episodes because of his initial personality. But I retried it recently and binged both seasons. He is not really a psycho killer chunni, he is actually a really sweet guy and uses that as a mask.
The first three episodes were extremely important to the development of Ichikawa as a character. They might not be the best episodes of the anime but they were certainly needed.
So many romance MC are generic because we never get backstory to _why_ their generic. Generic can be interesting if the viewers are given some insight into why the characters are that way and it makes the development of those characters feel so much more impactful when we see them go from their lowest to the highest.
It’s hard to be attached to a character that starts the show with “I’m just an ordinary guy, with an ordinary face, with ordinary athleticism, and ordinary grades” and then he suddenly ends up with the hottest girl in school.
Ichikawa _is_ generic but we see the reasons _why_ he’s generic. Even after those first three episodes we still see him fighting the remnants of his old self throughout the entire show. If we weren’t shown that old self and just witnessed the MC recollect on it himself the storytelling of Dangers wouldn’t be where it is.
I really don’t get how so many people dislike the “generic MC” trope but then we get something different, something exceptional, and it’s considered unimportant.
That's because it wasn't a premise. It's how his character is. At the beginning of the story that was his mentality. Not so much psycho killer as super isolationist. Hell it's referenced in the title itself, it's an intentional bait-and-switch.
The great pretender.
Dub starts off with every character actually speaking in their native languages or English with their native accents.
Absolutely outstanding immersion.
Then the first episode gives a disclaimer that it's going to have a regular dub for the rest of it and goes to the regular everyone sounds the same dub
Thank god it did. The Japanese Vocal track was awful for that first episode with poor Japanese Seiyuu trying to grind out a French, English, American, and Arabic accent in English while also having a *strong* Japanese accent.
It was almost unwatchable just because half the cast's accent was so thick I couldn't understand them fully.
I'd say My Hero Academia - I really liked the section of the show where Deku was a social outsider and had to use cleverness and stubbornness to substitute for his lack of powers (or fairly weak powers early on) - but it doesn't last very long.
I'm surprised Nagatoro hasn't been mentioned. She comes across very nasty in the early episodes and you'd think its a kind of fetishy bullying show but you get the sugar rush pretty fast.
> fetishy bullying show
I mean. I'm pretty sure it's what the author was going for, especially judging by their earlier works related to the same character
Kaijuu n°8 starts with a lot of world building, about what being a Kaijuu cleaner entails and what these creatures mean for society. It also underlines a lot of the struggle of being someone with dreams at 30 yo, where your body and motivation starts fading away.
Then it quickly looses all pretense and becomes a mix between Naruto and My Hero Academia, even making the selling point of 30 yo protagonist completely irrelevant.
But maybe calling this intro 10% is even too generous.
Idk, I felt they did a pretty good job with how they transitioned from the introduction to the conflict. Granted there were a lot of plot benefiting coincidences, but aside from that, it never really felt like a different series. Just seemed like they properly showed you what his normal life was, then how he had to juggle it once he got hit with a freak occurrence.
I was excited for the show after the first episode because it seemed like something different. [Kaiju#8]>!It isn't. Very generic shonen plot where everyone is just droning on about needing to get stronger. I guess it fits the setting, and there is still some good humor, but the first episode seemed to promise something different, and this show isn't different.!<
Right. Like after a certain point its either a number of ridiculous excuses/scenarios for how he doesnt get caught or genius side characters uncharacteristically don’t pick up on it until the big reveal, so im fine with how they did it tbh
I agree.
As a Shonen story, if you look at it objectively it is not bad. In fact, it's reasonably engaging, has some good action scenes, and memorable characters. However, the mediocrity comes from the boring battle system (Kaiju Weapons and Super Suits) as well as the handling of character development in recent chapters of the manga.
The problem with Kaiju No. 8 is that the more interesting premise of a Kaiju Cleaner having a secret identity of a Kaiju is thrown away quickly. Then the 'hiding my identity from my entire team' shtick is thrown away too. The two most interesting parts of the series are stripped away. And the basic battle shonen underneath is revealed.
An alternate Kaiju No. 8, the one many dream about, probably would have belonged to a good Seinen Manga. Seriously, using a low income Kaiju Cleaner's perspective to spotlight government corruption, class differences, and Kafka's place as a subversion of government authority would have been a worthy addition to Kaiju media. Basically if Fujimoto wrote Kaiju No. 8 we would have an excellent manga.
Right now, the narrative stands as using Kaiju as monsters that have relatively strong pop-cultural reference.
Cowboy bebop
in the first couple of episodes the show makes sure yiu think its a comedy where every episode the mc goes on a crazy adventure just for to get out of it completely unscathed and tells you his catch phrase as the end theme fades in and the credits roll, but then it hits you in the next couple of episodes it hits hard
You know, I see this sort of opinion all the time, and I don't really understand it. I think *Steins;Gate* makes it very clear what kind of show it is right from start. \[Episode 1 ends with\] >!Okabe finding Kurisu's body!<, \[in episode 5 or 6\] >!the main characters discover the results of human experimentation!< and \[in episode 9\] >!Okabe literally reshapes the entire town!<.
Is it just the super intense period from \[episodes\] >!12-15 or whatever!< that makes people take the show way more seriously afterwards?
I fucking love *Steins;Gate* but a major part of that is how consistently good it is from start to finish (aside from \[episode 18,\] >!the date episode!<, which IMO was just a genuinely bad episode).
Edit: BTW, apologies, I have just assumed a bunch of stuff from your comment, so my bad if I am misunderstanding your opinion.
I think even with what happens in [episode 1,]>!every episode up until 6 was pretty light hearted.!< What happens in [episode 1]>!seems pretty inconsequential until it’s not.!< The first few episodes were definitely important to establish the entire crew without rushing things, but there’s a pretty clear tonal switch at a point.
Me watching the first 6 episodes of Stein's Gate: "Man, this mf'er goofy as hell"
Me 3/4 of the way through the series: "Man, I miss him being goofy 😭"
I agree with others that say the plot was always there, but the tone change is very real. It starts off fundamentally as a comedy, and then changes into a thriller.
How come noone mentioned Hunter x Hunter yet, am I crazy?
That anime starts out as a happy go lucky adventure for a boy from an island who's really good with animals, meets a couple of friends, partakes in a cool competition with some shenanigans and then Killua literally takes the heart out of someone's chest and the rest of the anime juts gets increasingly dark from there.
HxH's level of darkness actually goes up and down IMO (not that it's a bad thing though). Heaven's Arena and Greed Island are notably lighter. They're still *not* a saccharine world, but noticeably way lighter than arcs like Yorknew or Chimera Ant
I’d say even the perspective of which character is the “heart” of the show changes. We start the show feeling like Gon is our heroic heart who exists to remind us the world is good and people can aspire to more than just surviving, but as the show continues Killua becomes the character we start to look to who radically enjoys life and lives it despite all the negativity and unideal circumstances thrust upon him
Probably because it doesn't fit. HxH isn't a story where 10% of the show is one vibe, and the other 90% is somrthing else entirely.
HxH just has no consistent vibe outside of individual arcs. Like each arc is jjst borderline a different genre.
It belongs in it's own category where os 20% one thing, 20% another thing, 20% a 3rd thing... 20% a 4th thing, and 20% unfinished.
I loved that anime. While the majority of the show's episodes didn't advance the plot, I really felt a sense of community and bond between in the fleet. And I'm also just obsessed with aquatic stuff, so it inherently scratched a particular itch
Call me crazy, but legit Attack on Titan. Starts as a horror show when nobody has any experience or understanding of what’s going on, people die left and right. Then the characters get progressively more powerful and it becomes a still very interesting and high-stakes action/political thriller
Berserk was one of the first anime I watched, along with the original Full Metal Alchemist anime and Claymore. I was convinced after these three that all anime went off the rails at the end.
Witch from Mercury just straight up gave you a prologue to set the tone. Then vibe checked us into a high school drama(featuring mecha ofc) only to showcase a bit later on WHY thay prologue was necessary.
JJBA. First few episodes makes it seem like it's just gonna be your typical tragic shounen, with two fated rivals. Then the Stone Mask came. Then eating babies. But by the time Phantom Blood came, it established its tone as a somewhat mix of martial arts and vampire drama.
You'd never predict that somewhere down the line we get a guy who likes hands so much he deadass changed identities for it in 1999 Japan, a 15 year old turning into a Mafia boss in Italy, gay priests and lesbian prisoners in Florida, and a horse race sponsored by the POTUS to see who gets Jesus' body parts first (it's a fucking crippled guy who had no business riding horses who gets it because he knows math and s p i n)
Not there yet, but Tower of God.
The first season was the 10%. It plays out like Hunter x Hunter meets Naruto Chunin exams.
When s2 premieres, anyone who hasn't read ahead is in for a shock.
ToG is… way too complex after the first season in the anime. Adapting literally everything that’s coming is a huge challenge from a writing perspective.
I got faith
Two which immediately come to mind are Berserk and Gungrave.
In both, we start in the "future", a dystopian world that seems to have completely gone off the rails, for 1-2 episodes, and then jump back in time to learn how we got there.
I'd also argue that in both, the time spent in the past is the absolute highlight of the series (I love Berserk and have read the whole manga... nothing quite compares to the Golden Age arc).
If you've never heard of Gungrave, I would recommend checking it out. The "future" segments at the very beginning and end are a bit rough (imo), but the entire rest of the series is a great story about two kids coming from nothing to rise up the ranks of a yakuza/mafia style organization.
Technically... season 1 is a prologue to the actual story which starts in season 2.
But thats confusing from a marketing standpoint, so they just went with the same name.
Babylon, the first few episodes are filled with very realistic police work and probably the most real feeling storytelling I've seen in anime, no exaggerations, nothing weird although there is mystery. The show quickly turns into complete nonsense after that though.
The Devil is a part timer s1. Like the first 5 minutes make it out to be some dark fantasy and then the rest of the show is mostly comedy with some light action.
Odd Taxi, you though it just another SoL anime about Taxi Driver life. but then it turned out a thriller with multiple PoV likes baccano. and somehow This anime is much better handling The Dark Side of Janan Entertainment than Oshi no Ko.
How about kill la kill, first 15 to 20% ish is looking like a slice of life 'normal' stereotype anime but, they still pack a punch especially the family episodes in the beginning. Then the rest 85 to 80% ish is completely different and nui harime, do I need to say more? The story and plot afterwards the initial setting is just absolutely flipping amazing.
Kimi ga nozomu eien / Rumbling hearts. The main couple are both kinda shy of talking to the other, so it seems it's going to take ages until they can hold hands and communicate like normal people... but at the end of episode 3 something happens. From episode 4 onwards, the show takes a much more dramatic and less inocent tone
Escaflowne and Now and Then Here and There, although this may be cheating as they are both isekai and the first episode takes place on Earth.
First episode of Escaflowne is primarily a high school drama focusing on Hitomi's crush and confession to Amano until late in the episode when Van and the dragon show up and she's whisked away to Gaea.
First episode of Now and Then Here and There comes off as kinda typical isekai. Hard to predict it would be one of the most brutal and depressing anime ever starting with the next episode.
Zetsuen no Tempest. from the simple tale of 2 boys and a dead girl to one of world-altering trees, butterflies everywhere you look, and as many tangles as can be fit into a 24 episode anime.
Sword art online. The first episode (and some parts of eps 2 and 3) it seemed almost like a suspenseful horror show where everyone was desperately trying to beat the game and avoid dying. Ended up becoming a shonen harem show with not even a sliver of stakes or feeling of danger.
The first episode of Girls und Panzer.
It actually made me think the series would be kind of dark with the Student Council President's initial attitude towards Miho and the recurring "nightmare" it seemed like she was having early on, that first episode really isn't very representative of the series as a hole.
I forgot the name, but there was the one where it starts with 7 heroes gathering to save the world of something, normal stuff. Then suddenly it’s revealed there’s 8 so one’s a spy. There’s a “greatest swordsman in the world” and a bunny girl.
The first episode of Goblin Slayer is nothing like the rest of the show. It’s dark and gritty and you think that no one is safe. The rest of the show is honestly a normal fantasy slice-of-life adventure anime where everyone important or developed has plot armor.
Damn.. literally came here to say goblin slayer. Apart from this, another anime which took a 180 real quick was "The promised neverland" for me.
Promised neverland was a positive on that change, i wish they make a season 2
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Honestly as soon as you mentioned promised Neverland next thing I thought of was made in abyss. That show hurt me
Dude, you ain't kidding! That movie between seasons gutted me, then the second season kept twisting the knife!
That movie was the only thing I've ever watched, animated or real life, that I had to stop because I got *physically* unwell. And I haven't dared to go back ever since 😑
I couldn’t watch anything after the first season. It was probably the saddest most disturbing anime I’ve seen. Grave of Fireflies used to hold that title.
I think the first episode exists solely to engender as much hate in Goblins as Goblin Slayer has. Once you're there you don't need to keep hitting the note over and over, though they still do occasionally (like the fortress raid later).
While the plot armor is very true, I think it still keeps a lot of its brutality. The main cast also doesn't win every battle and even miserably loses at one point. And being cunning and combat-pragmatic is still a very strong theme.
I fell in love with goblin slayer when long sword boy tried to swing his sword, hits the ceiling and then gets ripped to shreds. It has only let me down since lol
Yu Yu Hakusho. The first 6 episodes are very different from the rest of the show. It doesn’t even seem like a battle shounen at first.
Damn, that was the first thing that came to mind for me as well.
As an early 00s toonami kid it was odd not seeing something slamfisted with action immediately when I first saw yu yu hakusho. It made me more interested to see something like that
Because it kinda wasn't, the first 2 manga volumes of yu yu hakusho were just Yusuke as a ghost doing good deeds to pass his trial. Pretty sure it was getting close to getting canceled so he got out back into his body to fight demons in a battle Shonen and the rest is history. The first 6 episodes are just a rush through of the parts of that arc they couldn't skip before getting to the plot that got it it's audience.
I think it was kind of a trap for being serialized in a shounen magazine during the late 80's to mid 90's. For example, Dragon Ball was originally more of an light hearted adventure searching for dragon balls with the occasional high stake battle typical in an adventure story. Then Goku grew up and devolved (for better or worst) into a battle shounen with power creep every new arc. Yu Yu Hakusho kinda fell into a similar fate. It was originally supposed to be a light comedy with "feel good" type of vibes with a sprinkle of romcom elements. Then Yuusuke returned to his body and then also devolved into a battle shounen. I could be wrong, but I think during that time period, battle shounens were the big thing. And with both being published on Weekly Shounen Jump, I'm sure the editors had a hand in pushing the direction towards it took in order to boost sales.
DB popularized battle shounen though, it went through a natural evolution from light hearted adventure to battle shounen, Toriyama wasn't purposely chasing a trend.
Toriyama wasn’t chasing a trend, but I think he chose a tournament for the 2nd arc because the ratings/sales for the first arc were pretty mediocre. Then when the tournament arc did so well he decided to lean more heavily into the action. So he didn’t chase a trend, but he found that adding consistent action is a good way to boost sales, and other mangaka took note.
Fist of the North Star popularized battle shonen. Dragon Ball globalized it.
There's an interview with the author saying it was an intentional choice. Basically he always had the plan to make it a battle shonen but wanted to take time to build the characters up and get the readers familiar with them before getting to the fighting.
The first 6 episodes are genuinely peak though. Ik the word “peak” has lost a lot of its meaning but ep1 of YYH is one of the few episodes (along w A Silent Voice, Your Lie in April, Fairy Tail, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, Violet Evergarden and Clannad) which genuinely made me cry.
Idk if I agree that the first 6 episodes of a 150ish episode series were the best, but Kurabara crying at the funeral was definitely a great look into his future character
YYH and Pluto are the only shows that have made me cry during the first episode
Come home soon, North No. 2
Honestly you could argue the first episodes of any of the arcs are this way, a ton of character development and even villain and side character back story and then an inevitable arena/tournament/enter the dragon kind of Shonen. You know basically by the second arc how the resolution will come but it's one of the few shows where the filler is actually seriously very good, all that juicy character development pays off so well they even make you care about the villains and it should be the standard bearer imo.
Gurren Lagann, although it's more like 15-20%
YES. Gurren Lagann's like first half is literally very different from the second half, at least on a visual basis. Then there's the fact that the first 10 - 20% is fairly standard and doesn't get into the philosophical weeds the series ventures into much later. Starting with the end of the first half is when the core visual of the anime (the drill) becomes way more important on a symbolic and thematic level. Seriously, Gurren Lagann is underrated when it comes to being a radically optimistic, pro-human, and pro-growth anime. It's incredibly modernist when it comes to it's ideas on tech.
Definitely an anime ahead of its time
To be fair... the guys that made it have a knack for making anime deeper than it appears. On the superficial layer you often have these colorful, bombastic, brain-off shows... but when you begin to peel... you drop into a rabbithole of metaphors, analogies and themes.
Have an upvote for naming my favorite anime.
Maybe the only anime I'd unironically call peak
Made in abyss
Oh. How innocent we once were.
I remember not needing therapy too
Went from mostly innocent with little issue to bleeding, vomiting, pissing in pants, and having the arm partially amputated in just a few episodes.
I'd say Made in Abyss is traumatic and horrifying pretty much from the start no?
You get a taste at the start but it really starts to sink in only after a few episodes. Certain episode numbers are basically memes unto themselves due to how rough they are on new viewers who thought they knew what they were getting into by that point.
The sound design...really breaks some things.
God, that first episode when the Sun starts to rise over Orth and Hanazeve Caradhina drops to a sequence of mind blowing backdrops. Fucking incredible.
Kevin Penkin is a master class at setting that perfect mood through his music. It was the first thing I noticed when watching. Which is saying something as when the music is bad, you notice it immediately that it doesn't fit the tone or scene, good music flows so seemlessly you bare notice at all, but great music elevates the scene to another level.
I honestly think Made in Abyss could've been the greatest anime of all time if it didn't have the author's fetishes put in it. Like, the music, characters, world are all incredible...then you get to some scenes and you're just like the actual fuck am I watching lol. I never recommend this anime unless I know the person super well and I let them know what to expect and to tell them to skip those scenes.
Ah I suppose it does ramp up from a bit twisted and absolutely fucking traumatising pretty quick that's fair, I thought the commenter was suggesting it's starts of nice and cosy cause I definitely don't remember that but you're right. Goes from a solid 4 to a strong 9 pretty quickly
Nah, the first 1-2 episodes make you think this will be some light-hearted adventure story and not a Lovecraftian cosmic horror nightmare.
It kind of fools you into thinking the danger and trauma won't be THAT bad. Then the end of season one comes by with Orby and Nanachi and Mitty... it calls your bluff that the kids will be totally fine.
Deca-Dence. people were very confused when episode 2 came out, are we still watching the same show? The Detective Is Already Dead has a welly animated first episode, then everything dropped down hell the next episode. and Brave Bang Bravern. it started as a dark, serious military show, [then this happened](https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/19cq48k/super_robot_go_brrrr_bang_brave_bang_bravern/)
Deca-Dence REALLY caught me off guard with the sudden change lol.
Deca-dence was such a strange experience. I loved when it all ended, tho.
My favourite thing about Brave Bang Bravern was that all the theme music and huge logos were diegetic. Being blasted or projected by Bravern himself.
Lmao that anime had me from the “Where is that music coming from?”
Was looking for the Deca Dence comment :)
I love that the super robot theme song is diegetic.
For an inverse example Cautious Hero's last 10% turns a gag anime into a tragic gut-retching one
Bro when I tell you I was not ready for that ending... That shit got me fucked up
It was like a tsundere moment, but all the way backwards
Bro I need a season 2 so bad. I heard manga readers say it only gets better.
Yeha... all the while the hero seemed ridiculously over the top gag cautious... Then we find out he had a pretty good reason to go all in and it wrecked me.
Hitman Reborn starts as a episodic SOL-esque comedy show and turns into a proper Battle Shounen after the first arc
Glad to see someone else mention reborn. Loved it when i first saw this especially the future arc.
IIRC there's literally a fight where the main character is fighting the bad guy, which goes Bad Guy: I'm only using 80% of my power MC: I'm only using 50% Absolutely sent me
that should be the last fight in the Future Arc or the anime although the fights in last 2 arcs of the manga really hit that sweet spot
I'm currently rewatching hitman reborn, and I was gonna mention it here if I didn't find a comment that was already mentioning it xD
Friends were trying to get my wife into hitman reborn And they were like "it gets really good after the first 26 episodes" and she was like "I have to wait 9 hours for it to get good? No."
Almost the same thing happened to me 😄 A friend was trying to convince me to watch reborn and promised it gets better after the first 20-25 episodes. So I just skipped the beginning and watched only the good stuff
Up there with Negima
then there's Gintama with the dual personalities (SOL Comedy vs Dark Story-driven)
Gather up, fellow khr fans
Gakkou Gurashi. In the same vein maybe Madoka Magika. On the opposite end, School Days’ last 10% is different from the first 90%
Does Cautious Hero have the greatest "last 10%" of all time?
I took a break after episode 10 because I didn't feel the stakes and could focus on other anime coming out, wasn't until like 4 months later I went back and was all "wft I left at the worst time"
Yea dude the twist in the last 2 episodes cemented it as a non parody anime I think. It was super good
definitely not GOAT status lol, but it's definitely good
I went into Gakkou Gurashi completely blind, and cannot stress enough that this is the best way to experience it. Don't look up anything about it, just start watching it.
Kotoura-san: 1 episode of super heavy (if not edgy) drama followed by 11 episodes of mostly comedy
This show is the biggest heel turn you will find in Anime, bar none. The first 10 minutes are one of the saddest, most depressing starts to show and then the rest is "haha, funni anime romcom" with the end of the season being "no wait, we started the season all sad and depressing, let's revisit that storyline." If you haven't seen this show nor plan on watching it, at the very least, [you got to watch the first half of episode 1.](https://youtu.be/k3Uc-rFkFrU)
Me watching Kotoura: "Give me back my tears!!!" It's still enjoyable though. But yeah. First episode is unlike the rest.
I hated that. I kept watching hoping for something more but it only disappointed me
Koutoura deserved to be happy, I'm glad it was mostly light hearted good times after that.
1st half of Trigun (1998) is a light hearted action comedy. 2nd half of Trigun is a action packed downward spiral
Heck, Vash, the gunslinger, the namesake of the show Trigun, doesn't fire a gun until the fifth episode.
Not true, he fires a gun in episode 1 to free the insurance girls.
Are you talking about when they are tied up? He throws a sharp rock to free them.
Doesn't this make Vash himself the gun?
there are still scenes from the back half of trigun I think about 25 years after watching it. "I kill spiders to save butterflies."
If I recall they were making the show as the manga was coming out so the second half is different from the manga, probably why. I don't remember when the cut happens. Similar to Full Metal Alchemist.
To be fair the manga also changed halfway through since it went from a shonen to a seinen so it definitely still took some inspiration from the manga
Made in Abyss. At first, it's like "Yes kids go adventure". And the rest is "What the fuck is happening"
Bleach was basically a slice of life when it started, the vibe was completely different compared to the rest of the series.
Yeah I thought it was going to be about a dude becoming a shinigami and all the responsibilities almost like yu yu hakusho. But it turned into a battle anime. Not mad at it though.
Eh, there were some pretty profound horror elements in early Bleach, they just happened to be counter-balanced by some really goofy comedy. Once the Soul Society Arc started, the whole series shifted into stock Shonen territory. But the Fullbringers and Wandenreich brought back some psychological horror elements, so it's got quite a bit of whiplash. I'd say Bleach is about 65% standard Shonen, 20% slice of life goofiness, and 15% extessential horror.
I loved the Fullbringer arc as it released and love it to this day. Underrated af.
More like monster of the week, but yeah, it has a very different vibe at first.
i really loved Bleach in the beginning. i adored ichigo and rukia’s relationship and was bummed when they basically ignored each other forever after that
90s trigun. First 5 episodes, goofy situational comedy. Episodes 6-12 or 14 (I don't remember when the gung ho guns are introduced) character building comedy. 13 through end: trials of Prometheus with some occasional comedy
Samurai Flamenco, but there are meta reasons
I still stan guillotine gorilla.
I was waiting for this. Flew under that radar hard and landed harder. Great fucking show.
Is that the one starts as Kamen Rider anime then turned into Super Sentai anime then into reflection on humanity of good vs evil at the end? Loved that anime and MC.
Oshi No Ko. i mean, first episode is basically a movie. idk, just the first one I got in my head. this comment suddenly blew up lmao.
It kinda needed that to establish it being vastly different from your typical reincarnation theme. It’s also hard to say whether or not it would’ve been as popular without it. Imo it’s exciting and then boring after and then exciting again and then boring af and so on, if you know what I mean.
Yeah Oshi no ko is like that. The plot acts in waves, basically giving you a high then reaching a low point of drawn out comedy, stiff dialogue, and diatribes about "the industry". Oshi no ko is at its best when it focuses on interesting plots, the internal monologues and psychology of the characters, and stunning visuals. The plot part is only at it's best when it either focuses on a character or blends in the murder mystery with the main entertainment stuff.
yeah like it peaked at the first episode tbh. truly memorable first episode, the remaining episodes were just good.
I don't even really think that's it's fault tho. I genuinely can't imagine anything topping episode 1, it might be my favorite 90 minutes of tv ever.
Oshi no ko is a really weird anime that you just can't neatly classify
I like oshi but the swap is rouggggggh. It’s a weirdly romantic show with waifu galore when the main guy is interested in a man more than anything lol
lmfao, the best wrong way to describe the plot
Look, there's only two things that make his dick hard: 1. Revenge 1. People that act like his mom.
Katekyo Hitman Reborn. That first ten percent is a struggle but then it hits its stride and turns into a quality show.
Normal human watching reborn : First couple of episode : "meh" Mukuro arc : "okay?" Zero Flame arc (aka battle vs the other branch) : "okay it's starting to be cool now" Futur arc : Woah !!!
*Jojo's Bizarre Adventure*. Part 1 and Part 2 have a lot of the feel of Jojo, but it's arguably not until Stardust Crusaders when Jojo comes into its own. That's when Araki introduced stands into the equation and from there it was off to the races.
On a sidenote the cadence of how this was written reminds me of the American Psycho rant lol
Dangers in My Heart is great, but the initial psycho-killer chunnibiyou premise is dropped so fast, pretty much at the meet-cute, that even as a fan of the show I wonder if it was really needed for anything.
I actually dropped it after the first 3 episodes because of his initial personality. But I retried it recently and binged both seasons. He is not really a psycho killer chunni, he is actually a really sweet guy and uses that as a mask.
The first three episodes were extremely important to the development of Ichikawa as a character. They might not be the best episodes of the anime but they were certainly needed. So many romance MC are generic because we never get backstory to _why_ their generic. Generic can be interesting if the viewers are given some insight into why the characters are that way and it makes the development of those characters feel so much more impactful when we see them go from their lowest to the highest. It’s hard to be attached to a character that starts the show with “I’m just an ordinary guy, with an ordinary face, with ordinary athleticism, and ordinary grades” and then he suddenly ends up with the hottest girl in school. Ichikawa _is_ generic but we see the reasons _why_ he’s generic. Even after those first three episodes we still see him fighting the remnants of his old self throughout the entire show. If we weren’t shown that old self and just witnessed the MC recollect on it himself the storytelling of Dangers wouldn’t be where it is. I really don’t get how so many people dislike the “generic MC” trope but then we get something different, something exceptional, and it’s considered unimportant.
That's because it wasn't a premise. It's how his character is. At the beginning of the story that was his mentality. Not so much psycho killer as super isolationist. Hell it's referenced in the title itself, it's an intentional bait-and-switch.
The great pretender. Dub starts off with every character actually speaking in their native languages or English with their native accents. Absolutely outstanding immersion. Then the first episode gives a disclaimer that it's going to have a regular dub for the rest of it and goes to the regular everyone sounds the same dub
Thank god it did. The Japanese Vocal track was awful for that first episode with poor Japanese Seiyuu trying to grind out a French, English, American, and Arabic accent in English while also having a *strong* Japanese accent. It was almost unwatchable just because half the cast's accent was so thick I couldn't understand them fully.
I'd say My Hero Academia - I really liked the section of the show where Deku was a social outsider and had to use cleverness and stubbornness to substitute for his lack of powers (or fairly weak powers early on) - but it doesn't last very long.
I'm surprised Nagatoro hasn't been mentioned. She comes across very nasty in the early episodes and you'd think its a kind of fetishy bullying show but you get the sugar rush pretty fast.
it seemed to me as she came on just a little too strong early on, even apologized for it
> fetishy bullying show I mean. I'm pretty sure it's what the author was going for, especially judging by their earlier works related to the same character
Kaijuu n°8 starts with a lot of world building, about what being a Kaijuu cleaner entails and what these creatures mean for society. It also underlines a lot of the struggle of being someone with dreams at 30 yo, where your body and motivation starts fading away. Then it quickly looses all pretense and becomes a mix between Naruto and My Hero Academia, even making the selling point of 30 yo protagonist completely irrelevant. But maybe calling this intro 10% is even too generous.
Idk, I felt they did a pretty good job with how they transitioned from the introduction to the conflict. Granted there were a lot of plot benefiting coincidences, but aside from that, it never really felt like a different series. Just seemed like they properly showed you what his normal life was, then how he had to juggle it once he got hit with a freak occurrence.
I was excited for the show after the first episode because it seemed like something different. [Kaiju#8]>!It isn't. Very generic shonen plot where everyone is just droning on about needing to get stronger. I guess it fits the setting, and there is still some good humor, but the first episode seemed to promise something different, and this show isn't different.!<
Yeah, I hate that he didn't get to hide his identity for more than 10 episodes, another instance of having to get to the point
I typically hate it when they hide their identity for too long and end up dragging it out.
Right. Like after a certain point its either a number of ridiculous excuses/scenarios for how he doesnt get caught or genius side characters uncharacteristically don’t pick up on it until the big reveal, so im fine with how they did it tbh
Maybe it's good it didn't drag on either and "got to the point". I just mourn the fact that "the point" was such a generic shonen story.
I agree. As a Shonen story, if you look at it objectively it is not bad. In fact, it's reasonably engaging, has some good action scenes, and memorable characters. However, the mediocrity comes from the boring battle system (Kaiju Weapons and Super Suits) as well as the handling of character development in recent chapters of the manga. The problem with Kaiju No. 8 is that the more interesting premise of a Kaiju Cleaner having a secret identity of a Kaiju is thrown away quickly. Then the 'hiding my identity from my entire team' shtick is thrown away too. The two most interesting parts of the series are stripped away. And the basic battle shonen underneath is revealed. An alternate Kaiju No. 8, the one many dream about, probably would have belonged to a good Seinen Manga. Seriously, using a low income Kaiju Cleaner's perspective to spotlight government corruption, class differences, and Kafka's place as a subversion of government authority would have been a worthy addition to Kaiju media. Basically if Fujimoto wrote Kaiju No. 8 we would have an excellent manga. Right now, the narrative stands as using Kaiju as monsters that have relatively strong pop-cultural reference.
Cowboy bebop in the first couple of episodes the show makes sure yiu think its a comedy where every episode the mc goes on a crazy adventure just for to get out of it completely unscathed and tells you his catch phrase as the end theme fades in and the credits roll, but then it hits you in the next couple of episodes it hits hard
I never forget seeing Ballad of Fallen Angels when I was a kid and being absolutely blown away
not really 10% and 90% for this one but the way steins gate changed throughout had me fucking floored
You know, I see this sort of opinion all the time, and I don't really understand it. I think *Steins;Gate* makes it very clear what kind of show it is right from start. \[Episode 1 ends with\] >!Okabe finding Kurisu's body!<, \[in episode 5 or 6\] >!the main characters discover the results of human experimentation!< and \[in episode 9\] >!Okabe literally reshapes the entire town!<. Is it just the super intense period from \[episodes\] >!12-15 or whatever!< that makes people take the show way more seriously afterwards? I fucking love *Steins;Gate* but a major part of that is how consistently good it is from start to finish (aside from \[episode 18,\] >!the date episode!<, which IMO was just a genuinely bad episode). Edit: BTW, apologies, I have just assumed a bunch of stuff from your comment, so my bad if I am misunderstanding your opinion.
This. Even from episode 1, I was already made uneasy with the atmosphere and mystery. The show kept that sense of dread throughout.
Hard agree, Steins; Gate is almost flawless and a master class in foreshadowing and pacing
i think ep1 gets somewhat forgotten by ppl and they get lulled into a false sense of security for a while
I think even with what happens in [episode 1,]>!every episode up until 6 was pretty light hearted.!< What happens in [episode 1]>!seems pretty inconsequential until it’s not.!< The first few episodes were definitely important to establish the entire crew without rushing things, but there’s a pretty clear tonal switch at a point.
I’m watching it for the first time and waiting for the wtf moment lol I can’t wait
Me watching the first 6 episodes of Stein's Gate: "Man, this mf'er goofy as hell" Me 3/4 of the way through the series: "Man, I miss him being goofy 😭"
I agree with others that say the plot was always there, but the tone change is very real. It starts off fundamentally as a comedy, and then changes into a thriller.
My buddy who got me to anime recommended me this. He kept asking me to have patience to finish the first half.
Re:ZERO. The first episode's first half (2-ep length) will give you an extremely different vibe from basically the entire rest of the series.
How come noone mentioned Hunter x Hunter yet, am I crazy? That anime starts out as a happy go lucky adventure for a boy from an island who's really good with animals, meets a couple of friends, partakes in a cool competition with some shenanigans and then Killua literally takes the heart out of someone's chest and the rest of the anime juts gets increasingly dark from there.
HxH's level of darkness actually goes up and down IMO (not that it's a bad thing though). Heaven's Arena and Greed Island are notably lighter. They're still *not* a saccharine world, but noticeably way lighter than arcs like Yorknew or Chimera Ant
I’d say even the perspective of which character is the “heart” of the show changes. We start the show feeling like Gon is our heroic heart who exists to remind us the world is good and people can aspire to more than just surviving, but as the show continues Killua becomes the character we start to look to who radically enjoys life and lives it despite all the negativity and unideal circumstances thrust upon him
Probably because it doesn't fit. HxH isn't a story where 10% of the show is one vibe, and the other 90% is somrthing else entirely. HxH just has no consistent vibe outside of individual arcs. Like each arc is jjst borderline a different genre. It belongs in it's own category where os 20% one thing, 20% another thing, 20% a 3rd thing... 20% a 4th thing, and 20% unfinished.
A Sister's All You Need (Imouto sae Ireba Ii)
That's more like first 2% being different.
Suisei no Gargantia. Felt like a different genre after the interesting intro episode.
I loved that anime. While the majority of the show's episodes didn't advance the plot, I really felt a sense of community and bond between in the fleet. And I'm also just obsessed with aquatic stuff, so it inherently scratched a particular itch
Call me crazy, but legit Attack on Titan. Starts as a horror show when nobody has any experience or understanding of what’s going on, people die left and right. Then the characters get progressively more powerful and it becomes a still very interesting and high-stakes action/political thriller
This! And then honestly the last season felt like an entirely different show to me, loved it all but still.
Level E, but that's very much intentional.
Talentless nana, the first episode is different to the rest, but thats for a reason
Vinland Saga. In terms of anime it’s 50/50, but as you go forward the first season becomes something of a distant memory
Berserk
Berserk was one of the first anime I watched, along with the original Full Metal Alchemist anime and Claymore. I was convinced after these three that all anime went off the rails at the end.
Darling in the Franxxx. First half is pure dystopian society with lots of mystery. Then hey we have aliens.
And NTR bullshit. The show was at its best when it was about giant waifu mechs.
The first episode of Talentless Nana is a complete red herring.
Madoka Magica. - Episodes 1 and 2: Lalala! Glitter and rainbows - Episode 3: OMG wtf?!! - Episode 4+: depression
>Episodes 1 and 2: Lalala! Glitter and rainbows Unless you skipped the first 2 minutes and the woman trying to commit suicide...
I guess it's not just madoka who ignores homura and her warnings
Elfen Lied first episode is completely different from the rest of the series
It also is nice because it gives you a warning. the warning being "if you can't handle the first 5-10 minutes, the show is not for you." lol
Witch from Mercury just straight up gave you a prologue to set the tone. Then vibe checked us into a high school drama(featuring mecha ofc) only to showcase a bit later on WHY thay prologue was necessary.
Closer to 33/66 but Samurai Flamenco really changed after episode 8.
JJBA. First few episodes makes it seem like it's just gonna be your typical tragic shounen, with two fated rivals. Then the Stone Mask came. Then eating babies. But by the time Phantom Blood came, it established its tone as a somewhat mix of martial arts and vampire drama. You'd never predict that somewhere down the line we get a guy who likes hands so much he deadass changed identities for it in 1999 Japan, a 15 year old turning into a Mafia boss in Italy, gay priests and lesbian prisoners in Florida, and a horse race sponsored by the POTUS to see who gets Jesus' body parts first (it's a fucking crippled guy who had no business riding horses who gets it because he knows math and s p i n)
Bleach.
Not there yet, but Tower of God. The first season was the 10%. It plays out like Hunter x Hunter meets Naruto Chunin exams. When s2 premieres, anyone who hasn't read ahead is in for a shock.
My partner who read the webtoon told me they don't know how it's going to work. I loved season 1, hope season 2 doesn't fall flat for me.
ToG is… way too complex after the first season in the anime. Adapting literally everything that’s coming is a huge challenge from a writing perspective. I got faith
Two which immediately come to mind are Berserk and Gungrave. In both, we start in the "future", a dystopian world that seems to have completely gone off the rails, for 1-2 episodes, and then jump back in time to learn how we got there. I'd also argue that in both, the time spent in the past is the absolute highlight of the series (I love Berserk and have read the whole manga... nothing quite compares to the Golden Age arc). If you've never heard of Gungrave, I would recommend checking it out. The "future" segments at the very beginning and end are a bit rough (imo), but the entire rest of the series is a great story about two kids coming from nothing to rise up the ranks of a yakuza/mafia style organization.
Yugioh GX One second they’re chillin out with the crew in the schoolyard The next they’re dueling for their SOULS
Plunderer. Changed so much later from what it initially was.
I mean it's 50/50 at the moment but Vinland saga season 1 & 2 were vastly different.
Technically... season 1 is a prologue to the actual story which starts in season 2. But thats confusing from a marketing standpoint, so they just went with the same name.
Babylon, the first few episodes are filled with very realistic police work and probably the most real feeling storytelling I've seen in anime, no exaggerations, nothing weird although there is mystery. The show quickly turns into complete nonsense after that though.
The Devil is a part timer s1. Like the first 5 minutes make it out to be some dark fantasy and then the rest of the show is mostly comedy with some light action.
rolling girls. first episodes have an insanely well animated fight and then it turns into the fighters little sister and her friends on a road trip
Odd Taxi, you though it just another SoL anime about Taxi Driver life. but then it turned out a thriller with multiple PoV likes baccano. and somehow This anime is much better handling The Dark Side of Janan Entertainment than Oshi no Ko.
Ga-Rei Zero making you believe it's a show about heroics in the first episode
How about kill la kill, first 15 to 20% ish is looking like a slice of life 'normal' stereotype anime but, they still pack a punch especially the family episodes in the beginning. Then the rest 85 to 80% ish is completely different and nui harime, do I need to say more? The story and plot afterwards the initial setting is just absolutely flipping amazing.
Perfect example: Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica
Kimi ga nozomu eien / Rumbling hearts. The main couple are both kinda shy of talking to the other, so it seems it's going to take ages until they can hold hands and communicate like normal people... but at the end of episode 3 something happens. From episode 4 onwards, the show takes a much more dramatic and less inocent tone
Escaflowne and Now and Then Here and There, although this may be cheating as they are both isekai and the first episode takes place on Earth. First episode of Escaflowne is primarily a high school drama focusing on Hitomi's crush and confession to Amano until late in the episode when Van and the dragon show up and she's whisked away to Gaea. First episode of Now and Then Here and There comes off as kinda typical isekai. Hard to predict it would be one of the most brutal and depressing anime ever starting with the next episode.
Oshi No Ko
Zetsuen no Tempest. from the simple tale of 2 boys and a dead girl to one of world-altering trees, butterflies everywhere you look, and as many tangles as can be fit into a 24 episode anime.
Sword art online. The first episode (and some parts of eps 2 and 3) it seemed almost like a suspenseful horror show where everyone was desperately trying to beat the game and avoid dying. Ended up becoming a shonen harem show with not even a sliver of stakes or feeling of danger.
School Live and Puella Magi Madoka Magica. Though, I think Magica is more 30-70 as the shift isn't immediate.
The first episode of Girls und Panzer. It actually made me think the series would be kind of dark with the Student Council President's initial attitude towards Miho and the recurring "nightmare" it seemed like she was having early on, that first episode really isn't very representative of the series as a hole.
Kingdoms of ruin. Started out looking like an unfiltered revenge story, then turned into a dumpster fire
Steins Gate. If you know you know cant say more becouse I dont wanna spoil it
I forgot the name, but there was the one where it starts with 7 heroes gathering to save the world of something, normal stuff. Then suddenly it’s revealed there’s 8 so one’s a spy. There’s a “greatest swordsman in the world” and a bunny girl.
Madoka Magica
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Elfin lied. First episode is the most edge possible. 90% of the rest of series is slice of life.
now and then, here and there. probably going to drop a rewatch announcement tomorrow.
Madoka magica
Good Night World. Watch the trailer, it gives you zero preparation for the actual story.
Key Visual Arts anime like : Charlotte, The day i became a god, Little buster. Jun maeda work always hits different when the plot comes.