One that doesn't is Madoku Magica. It's a normal magical girl anime. JUST KIDDING SOMEONE TOLD ME THE PLOT TWIST AND SAID IT WAS REVEALED IN THE SECOND EPISODE AND IT WASN'T TILL THE END AND I WAS PISSED OFF FOREVER.
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If it makes you feel better, they made a movie that expands upon the original story (preceded by two movies summarizing it). Another one will come in like a week, finally, after being delayed for ten years.
IT WAS REVEALED IN THE SECOND EPISODE
I'll admit I haven't consumed a lot of Magical Girls stories, but
Madoku Magica spoiler
isn't fallen/former-magical-girls-turn-antagonist quite a common trope in these stories?
I'd say the later twists are stronger.
I hadn't really heard of that trope till later
Talentless Nana has quite the twist in the first episode.
This is what immediately came to mind for me.
Angel beats, Shinsekai Yori, Summertime Render, Higurashi, Nier Automata, Sonny Boy, Kowloon, Tokyo Magnitude 8
Sonny Boy is a work of art. I highly recommend it.
Shinsekai Yori
From the New World spoiler
This trope is surprisingly common. I can name multiple anime utilising the same twist off the top of my head:
meta spoiler; multiple anime titles
- Attack on Titan
- Sword Art Online: Alicization arc
- Madoka
- Gargantia
Having seen these stories beforehand made the twist kinda predictable.
I'd say Your Lie in April qualifies. Yes, they telegraph the ending from very early on. You know it's gonna happen. They swerve a couple times. You think maybe it won't. Then it does. "Ah, that sucks, but I called it from the very beginning," you say. Then the story keeps going, and just when you think "oh yeah what's with the title? It never made any sense," they explain the title.
Angel Beats! is another good one. It's about a purgatory school. They tell you the girl called "Angel" is trying to get people to move on. She kind of is, and eventually those opposing her realise that's the right move, but there's a lot more to it than that. Ask yourself why she's trying to help others when everyone else is just out for themselves.
Then there's Sword Art Online II (the second season). The first part, with the gun game, kind of has a twist — how a guy in a video game that should be harmless is killing people IRL by shooting them in a video game. It's pretty lame, though. The second part, the last seven episodes, if it were a standalone anime, it would be my favourite anime. The adaptation of book 7, Mother's Rosary. The secret behind the undefeated duelist.
You described how my first watch of YLIA went 😆
Code Geass is structured around having huge twists every 5-10 episodes. My favorite is the one from
(episode #)
Season 2, episode 5
Jaw-dropping, gasping for air, falling out of your chair kinda plot twist
One piece
I now know how to put the spoiler tag, thanks.
Spoiler
But for hundreds of episodes nobody ever dies. Never ever ever ever. Then Ace dies graphically on screen sending Luffy into utter despair. It felt like such a guy punch! It’s supposed to be a feel good story! (Still mad about it)
I don’t know how to put the spoiler tag, sorry.
Tap for spoiler
hidden content
Thanks! Edited
Your spoiler tag is still incorrect.
Why? How should I change it?
To me it shows “Spoiler” and only if clicked shows the details
Yeah, you're all good. Lemmy uses a kind of weird spoiler syntax compared to most other markdown renderers. So, sometimes some third-party apps might not display it as such. There is no way to make a spoiler render correctly for everybody. I have an old spoiler guide I wrote for the community here that is still pretty accurate.
To me it shows “Spoiler” and only if clicked shows the details
On my end, it works on the Voyager app but not the Photon frontend.
Try placing the last ":::" below the rest of the text.
Changed
Your Lie in April - agreed with @cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com's comment
Steins;Gate - I won't spoil it. I'll only encourage you to watch all episodes, no matter what.
Nagi no Asukara
Talentless Nana
BanG Dream! It's MyGO!!!!! and Ave Mujica
I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
Sound Euphonium S3
Orb
Takopi's Original Sin
Steins;Gate
Steins;Gate spoiler
IMO it's quite a standard time-travel story, and having watch / read enough of stories, there's nothing really unexpected.
Ave Mujica
Ave Mujica spoiler
I certainly didn't expect the reveal of Uika being related to Sakiko. But it's not on the same level as the example I gave IMO.
Sound Euphonium S3
Takopi's Original Sin
If there were any plot twists, I must have missed them. Or in other words, nothing about these anime surprised me.
Attack on Titan starts off pretty unpredictable, but it later falls into its own formula that you can predict. The only thing that really was predictable from the start was what the titans actually are. It's just the safest bet, and they don't push the envelope with that. Being vague to not spoil it, even though this one has likely been seen by a majority of everyone already; possibly even OP.
formula that you can predict
Yeah, I'd say it's quite predictable and not what I'm looking for.
Currently watching the Monogatari series.
Man this thing is wild. The whole thing is unpredictable.
Attack on Titan
Full metal alchemist brotherhood
Revolutionary girl Utena
Attack on Titan
Full metal alchemist brotherhood
I will honest with you, these two series have some of the most predictable "twists" I've seen.
Space Dandy!
He’s a dandy guy, in space!
School Days