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** In the manga, when Kaiba visits Yugi during Duelist Kingdom to reclaim the deck stolen earlier by Pegasus' subordinates, Jounouchi confronts him over nearly getting killed during the [[DeadlyGame Death-T Games]], something prior to Duelist Kingdom in the manga. In the anime this is simply changed to being in response to Kaiba denying belief in the heart of the cards.
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* ''Manga/FairyTail'': While the anime will often make little corrections to Mashima's consistency errors, coming close to the manga has caused it to create a few of its own. The shadowy figure that Jellal is kept from pursuing is changed from a spiky haired silhouette to the hooded girl, for instance. [[spoiler: While that was generally assumed to have been Mashima not knowing how the figure should look until later, a manga chapter that came out at almost exactly the same time as the episode revealed that it actually had been Silver, not F!Lucy.]]
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* ''Manga/FairyTail'': While the anime will often make little corrections to Mashima's consistency errors, coming close to the manga has caused it to create a few of its own. The shadowy figure that Jellal is kept from pursuing is changed from a spiky haired silhouette to the hooded girl, for instance. [[spoiler: While that was generally assumed to have been Mashima not knowing how the figure should look until later, a manga chapter that came out at almost exactly the same time as the episode revealed that it actually had been Silver, Future Rogue, not F!Lucy.Future Lucy.]]
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** A variant of this trope is Pantyhose Taro's issue with his name. English-speaking fans usually wonder why he just doesn't ''use'' his EmbarrassingFirstName; this is because Pantyhose Taro's name in Japanese is a singular word (Pansutotaro), and can't be broken up due to how the linguistics work. The separation into "Pantyhose Taro" is a necessarily imperfect translation, as the inherent grammar rules can't be literally translated in English.
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* ''Anime/AceAttorney'': A major part of Phoenix's backstory involves "class trial" when he was accused of stealing [[spoiler: Edgeworth's]] lunch money. He was sick the day the money was stolen and didn't attend PE class, so when he was only one without alibi everyone assumed it was him. The anime-only episode "Turnabout Promise" [[AdaptationExpansion extended the scene]] by showing Pheonix taking the envelope the money was supposed to be in and [[NotWhatItLooksLike being seen by a girl from his class]]. However, despite being seemingly caught red-handed, the trial goes the same way it did in the game with [[spoiler:Edgeworth]] claiming they accuse him with no evidence, and the fact that he was seen isn't brought up at all.
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* ''Anime/AceAttorney'': A major part of Phoenix's backstory involves "class trial" when he was accused of stealing [[spoiler: Edgeworth's]] lunch money. He Phoenix was sick the day the money was stolen and didn't attend PE class, so when he was the only one student without alibi an alibi, everyone assumed it was him. The anime-only episode "Turnabout Promise" [[AdaptationExpansion extended the scene]] by showing Pheonix Phoenix taking the envelope the money was supposed to be in in, and [[NotWhatItLooksLike being seen by a girl from his class]]. However, despite being seemingly caught red-handed, the trial goes the same way it did in the game with [[spoiler:Edgeworth]] Edgeworth claiming they accuse accused him with no evidence, and the evidence. The fact that he Phoenix was seen by someone isn't brought up at all.
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** In the Garlic Jr. saga, Krillin briefly has a girlfriend named Maron, who he ends up dumping by the end. In the eight-year time skip between the Cell saga and the Buu saga, however, Krillin marries Android 18 and has a kid with her with the very similar name of Marron. Although it's not exactly a plot hole per-say, the fact that Krillin would have a daughter with such a similar name to his ex-girlfriend comes across as incredibly odd. Interestingly enough, this actually ended up getting a LampshadeHanging of sorts in ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' - when Android 17 meets Marron, he mispronounces her name as Maron. 18 promptly gives 17 a DeathGlare, and threatens to kill him.
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** Another example from ''Brotherhood'' happens due to the anime [[CompressedAdaptation condensing the early chapters of the manga]] in order to reach new material that the first anime hadn't adapted. It was shown that, after Ed's first battle with Scar, Lust is tailing him on the same train to Resembool in order to protect him in case Scar returns. Thus when Armstrong calls out to Dr Marcoh, whom he recognises at one of their pit stops, Lust ends up seeing the Doctor as well explaining how she was able to track him. In the anime there is no indication that Lust in following Edward so it seems as if she just arbitrarily finds the Doctor right after Ed, Al and Armstrong do.
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** Another example from ''Brotherhood'' happens due to the anime [[CompressedAdaptation condensing the early chapters of the manga]] in order to reach new material that the first anime hadn't adapted. It was shown that, after Ed's first battle with Scar, Lust is tailing him on the same train to Resembool in order to protect him in case Scar returns. Thus when Armstrong calls out to Dr Dr. Marcoh, whom he recognises at one of their pit stops, Lust ends up seeing the Doctor as well explaining how she was able to track him. In the anime there is no indication that Lust in following Edward so it seems as if she just arbitrarily finds the Doctor right after Ed, Al and Armstrong do.
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* ''Franchise/DragonBall'':The ''Franchise/DragonBall'' anime was especially prone to this, due to being a tightly plotted series being adapted as the source material was being written. Since Creator/AkiraToriyama's WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants style meant he didn't bother with giving the anime team notes, and the anime being in a constant state of OvertookTheManga meant they had to create a ton of filler to buy time, it creates a lot of cases where something depicted in the anime directly violates major plot points:
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** ''Brotherhood'' has a pretty noticeable plothole. Roughly about 2/5ths through the manga, all hell breaks loose and sees Alphonse, Mustang's group, Barry the Chopper, and Ling and Lan Fan get caught up in a battle with the Homunculi. Ling and Lan Fan fight Gluttony and Ling manages to cut Gluttony in half. Gluttony immediately heals up from this, which causes Ling and Lan Fan to learn about the Homunculi's regenerative abilities. When Ed returns from Xerxes later on and reveals his plan to capture a Homunculus, Ling and Lan Fan want to get in on the action because of their knowledge of the Homunculi's regeneration since it relates to their own quest to find immortality. In ''Brotherhood'', the two's fight with Gluttony is completely cut, but they still want to join on Ed and Al's plan to capture a Homunculus for the same reasons, making one wonder how they know about the Homunculi and their power to regenerate. Dub fixes this, as Ling overhears Ed mentioning that Homonculi are immortal.
** ''Brotherhood'' has a pretty noticeable plothole. Roughly about 2/5ths through the manga, all hell breaks loose and sees Alphonse, Mustang's group, Barry the Chopper, and Ling and Lan Fan get caught up in a battle with the Homunculi. Ling and Lan Fan fight Gluttony and Ling manages to cut Gluttony in half. Gluttony immediately heals up from this, which causes Ling and Lan Fan to learn about the Homunculi's regenerative abilities. When Ed returns from Xerxes later on and reveals his plan to capture a Homunculus, Ling and Lan Fan want to get in on the action because of their knowledge of the Homunculi's regeneration since it relates to their own quest to find immortality. In ''Brotherhood'', the two's fight with Gluttony is completely cut, but they still want to join on Ed and Al's plan to capture a Homunculus for the same reasons, making one wonder how they know about the Homunculi and their power to regenerate. Dub fixes this, as Ling overhears Ed mentioning that Homonculi are immortal.
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* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'':
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**''Brotherhood'' ''[[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Brotherhood]]'' has a pretty noticeable plothole. Roughly about 2/5ths through the manga, all hell breaks loose and sees Alphonse, Mustang's group, Barry the Chopper, and Ling and Lan Fan get caught up in a battle with the Homunculi. Ling and Lan Fan fight Gluttony and Ling manages to cut Gluttony in half. Gluttony immediately heals up from this, which causes Ling and Lan Fan to learn about the Homunculi's regenerative abilities. When Ed returns from Xerxes later on and reveals his plan to capture a Homunculus, Ling and Lan Fan want to get in on the action because of their knowledge of the Homunculi's regeneration since it relates to their own quest to find immortality. In ''Brotherhood'', the two's fight with Gluttony is completely cut, but they still want to join on Ed and Al's plan to capture a Homunculus for the same reasons, making one wonder how they know about the Homunculi and their power to regenerate. Dub fixes this, as Ling overhears Ed mentioning that Homonculi are immortal.
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* The first episode of ''Manga/WanderingSon'' has Yuki buying Takatsuki a gakuran. In the manga Takatsuki already has a gakuran. She wore a gakuran frequently while out as a boy, and the gakuran is a hand-me-down from her brother.
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* The first episode of ''Manga/WanderingSon'' has Yuki buying Takatsuki a gakuran. In the manga Takatsuki already has a gakuran. She wore a gakuran frequently while out as a boy, and the boy. The gakuran is even a hand-me-down from her brother.
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* [[Manga/TheLegendOfZelda The manga adaptation of]] ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' skips the Temple of Shadows, meaning that we see Link collecting only five medallions... but when he haves to break the barrier around Hyrule Castle, the sixth medallion appears out of nowhere, along with Impa in the group shot with the other sages.
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* [[Manga/TheLegendOfZelda [[Manga/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime The manga adaptation of]] ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' skips the Temple of Shadows, meaning that we see Link collecting only five medallions... but when he haves to break the barrier around Hyrule Castle, the sixth medallion appears out of nowhere, along with Impa in the group shot with the other sages.
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* In an early episode of the Sun and Moon series of ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', Sophocles is shown to be afraid of the dark, which is a trait not present with his counterpart in the ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' video games. While this also doubles as AdaptationExpansion, this could prove problematic should the anime decide to adapt the trials on Ula'Ula Island. If they use the original trial in Hokulani Observatory rather than the redesigned one in ''VideoGame/PokemonUltraSunAndUltraMoon'', it will have to be extensively rewritten.
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* ''Anime/CodeGeass'': In the final volume of the manga, the removal of some characters and plotlines led to several {{Out Of Character Moment}}s. For example, Kaguya, who is Zero's biggest fangirl and a lot more cunning, not to mention absent during the meeting, is essentially the engineer behind the Black Knights' ''coup d'état'' against him and the one who smooths things over after he escapes; in effect, she takes up the roles of Diethard (who isn't in the manga) and Ohgi (whose motivation to betray Zero came from Viletta's excised storyline).
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* ''Anime/CodeGeass'': In the final volume of the manga, the removal of some characters and plotlines led to several {{Out Of Character Moment}}s. For example, Kaguya, who is Zero's biggest fangirl and a lot more cunning, fangirl, not to mention absent during the meeting, is essentially the engineer behind the Black Knights' ''coup d'état'' against him and the one who smooths things over after he escapes; in effect, she takes up the roles of Diethard (who isn't in the manga) and Ohgi (whose motivation to betray Zero came from Viletta's excised storyline).
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* In the anime adaption of the arc from ''Manga/AkagamiNoShirayukihime'' in which Zen, Obi, Kiki, Mitsuhide and the Mountain's Lions rescue Shirayuki and Kazuki the pirates base is discovered after Raji chases the pirates in an attempt at giving the unapologetic attempted rapist AdaptationalHeroism. Unfortunately this means that Zen not only allowed Shirayuki to be taken out of his sight to be sold into slavery at an undisclosed location it also means he conscripted Kiki to the same fate. In the manga the entire plan was generated because ''they already knew the location of the pirate's hidden base'' and were forcing them to return there in order to ambush them.
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It was Anachronic Order not plot hole.
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* ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' has a minor one in the "The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya" arc of the anime. The light novel starts with Kyon telling Haruhi about the powers of the SOS Brigade members, and Haruhi dismissing it as "too convenient". Then the main plot is Haruhi making a bad movie where the SOS Brigade members played characters with their actual powers. The anime moved around that first scene to make it the last scene of the arc (so Haruhi dismissed because it was so obvious he was basing it on the movie). But the anime still kept Kyon's narration line "Is this my fault?" when he found out about the roles.
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* In an early episode of the Sun and Moon series of ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', Sophocles is shown to be afraid of the dark, which is a trait not present with his counterpart in the ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' video games. While this also doubles as AdaptationExpansion, this could prove problematic should the anime decide to adapt the trials on Ula'Ula Island. If they use the original trial in Hokulani Observatory rather than the redesigned one in ''VideoGame/PokemonUltraSunAndUltraMoon'', it will have to be extensively rewritten.
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** Another example from ''Brotherhood'' happens due to the anime [[CompressedAdaptation condensing the early chapters of the manga]] in order to reach new material that the first anime hadn't adapted. It was shown that, after Ed's first battle with Scar, Lust is tailing him on the same train to Resembool in order to protect him in case Scar returns. Thus when Armstrong calls out to Dr Marcoh, whom he recognises at one of their pit stops, Lust ends up seeing the Doctor as well explaining how she was able to track him. In the anime there is no indication that Lust in following Edward so it seems as if she just arbitrarily finds the Doctor right after Ed, Al and Armstrong do.
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* ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'':
** Due to the chapters being adapted out of order, Lucoa and Fafnir checking up on Tohru during the dodgeball chapter loses most of its meaning. In the manga, it happened right after the whole debacle with Tohru's father, but it happened beforehand in the anime.
** Due to the change of how Kanna gets her hands on the chocolate that Tohru made, the anime adaptation of the Valentine's Day chapter leaves out the crucial plot point of how the LovePotion had no effect when consumed by a dragon (in the manga, Kobayashi is unaware of this, and ends up eating some of the chocolate when offered by Kanna because she assumed that if Kanna's eating it without any odd effects, it would be safe for her to eat as well).
** Due to the chapters being adapted out of order, Lucoa and Fafnir checking up on Tohru during the dodgeball chapter loses most of its meaning. In the manga, it happened right after the whole debacle with Tohru's father, but it happened beforehand in the anime.
** Due to the change of how Kanna gets her hands on the chocolate that Tohru made, the anime adaptation of the Valentine's Day chapter leaves out the crucial plot point of how the LovePotion had no effect when consumed by a dragon (in the manga, Kobayashi is unaware of this, and ends up eating some of the chocolate when offered by Kanna because she assumed that if Kanna's eating it without any odd effects, it would be safe for her to eat as well).
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** In the manga, part of the Battle City ruleset was that most Special Summoned monsters could not attack on the turn they were summoned. This is why Egyptian God Cards are never summoned from the Graveyard for attacks, because since they go to the Graveyard after being revived, they would essentially just sit around for a turn unable to do anything and then die. Winged Dragon of Ra was the exception, possessing an Instant Attack ability that allowed it to attack on the turn it was Special Summoned, which is why it's the only monster where the "dump and revive" strategy was ever used. The anime changed this to only Fusion Summoned monsters having that limitation, which raised the question of why Ra was the only God used in that manner. Furthermore, to maintain its "Instant Attack" ability, they had Marik use Vengeful Bog Spirit in that Duel, which stops monsters from attacking on the turn they were Summoned, and showed Ra bypassing it - and in the process, raising the question of why Ra has an ability that seems to exist just to counter one card.
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*** Watch those episodes again. Hinata's custom technique is more useful against smaller, more vulnerable targets and is more defensive in nature, which is rather useless against an opponent who controls gravity. And further more, Hinata was not strictly trying to fight Pein. Instead her focus was on freeing Naruto, the only person who had realistic chance of beating Pein. Twin Lion Fist was the better technique to us given the situation.
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** ''Brotherhood'' has a pretty noticeable plothole. Roughly about 2/5ths through the manga, all hell breaks loose and sees Alphonse, Mustang's group, Barry the Chopper, and Ling and Lan Fan get caught up in a battle with the Homunculi. Ling and Lan Fan fight Gluttony and Ling manages to cut Gluttony in half. Gluttony immediately heals up from this, which causes Ling and Lan Fan to learn about the Homunculi's regenerative abilities. When Ed returns from Xerxes later on and reveals his plan to capture a Homunculus, Ling and Lan Fan want to get in on the action because of their knowledge of the Homunculi's regeneration since it relates to their own quest to find immortality. In ''Brotherhood'', the two's fight with Gluttony is completely cut, but they still want to join on Ed and Al's plan to capture a Homunculus for the same reasons, making one wonder how they know about the Homunculi and their power to regenerate.
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** ''Brotherhood'' has a pretty noticeable plothole. Roughly about 2/5ths through the manga, all hell breaks loose and sees Alphonse, Mustang's group, Barry the Chopper, and Ling and Lan Fan get caught up in a battle with the Homunculi. Ling and Lan Fan fight Gluttony and Ling manages to cut Gluttony in half. Gluttony immediately heals up from this, which causes Ling and Lan Fan to learn about the Homunculi's regenerative abilities. When Ed returns from Xerxes later on and reveals his plan to capture a Homunculus, Ling and Lan Fan want to get in on the action because of their knowledge of the Homunculi's regeneration since it relates to their own quest to find immortality. In ''Brotherhood'', the two's fight with Gluttony is completely cut, but they still want to join on Ed and Al's plan to capture a Homunculus for the same reasons, making one wonder how they know about the Homunculi and their power to regenerate. Dub fixes this, as Ling overhears Ed mentioning that Homonculi are immortal.
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** Naruto claims to have only read 10 pages of Jiraiya's latest novel, Make Out Tactics, in the anime as an extra joke that he was lying when he distracted Kakashi by pretending to spoil the ending. However, later on [[spoiler:when he's trying to decode a message Jiraiya left behind while dyineatg]], it's revealed that Jiraiya asked him to proofread his books, and he at least obliged to the degree he knows Jiraiya's handwriting [[spoiler:well enough to notice that he disguised a "ta" katakana (ã‚¿) as a 9]]. Perhaps he lied about lying he'd read the book, just to annoy Kakashi.
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** Naruto claims to have only read 10 pages of Jiraiya's latest novel, Make Out Tactics, in the anime as an extra joke that he was lying when he distracted Kakashi by pretending to spoil the ending. However, later on [[spoiler:when he's trying to decode a message Jiraiya left behind while dyineatg]], dying]], it's revealed that Jiraiya asked him to proofread his books, and he at least obliged to the degree he knows Jiraiya's handwriting [[spoiler:well enough to notice that he disguised a "ta" katakana (ã‚¿) as a 9]]. Perhaps he lied about lying he'd read the book, just to annoy Kakashi.
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The toei anime did cover death-t but not everything, and ti was altered greatly from the manga in said anime. the ceremonial battle also had to have Atem ACCEPT said loss, which he coudln't do in the doma arc.
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** Naruto claims to have only read 10 pages of Jiraiya's latest novel, Make Out Tactics, in the anime as an extra joke that he was lying when he distracted Kakashi by pretending to spoil the ending. However, later on [[spoiler:when he's trying to decode a message Jiraiya left behind while dying]], it's revealed that Jiraiya asked him to proofread his books, and he at least obliged to the degree he knows Jiraiya's handwriting [[spoiler:well enough to notice that he disguised a "ta" katakana (ã‚¿) as a 9]]. Perhaps he lied about lying he'd read the book, just to annoy Kakashi.
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** Naruto claims to have only read 10 pages of Jiraiya's latest novel, Make Out Tactics, in the anime as an extra joke that he was lying when he distracted Kakashi by pretending to spoil the ending. However, later on [[spoiler:when he's trying to decode a message Jiraiya left behind while dying]], dyineatg]], it's revealed that Jiraiya asked him to proofread his books, and he at least obliged to the degree he knows Jiraiya's handwriting [[spoiler:well enough to notice that he disguised a "ta" katakana (ã‚¿) as a 9]]. Perhaps he lied about lying he'd read the book, just to annoy Kakashi.
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* ''Manga/YuGiOh'' had quite a few examples in the anime, particularly with the size of the dueling arenas in Duelist Kingdom. It also owes from the anime's Duelist Kingdom arc being something of a BroadStrokes adaptation, trying to carry in as many manga arcs as possible that were absolutely necessary for CharacterDevelopment while also shortening them heavily and [[MerchandiseDriven adding card games]].
** In the manga, Yugi's grandfather was subjected to [[https://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/yugioh/images/b/b9/Sugoroku%27s_Experience_of_Death.png/revision/latest?cb=20160726193048 a nightmarish simulation of monsters attacking him]] after his duel with Kaiba, something that put him under so much stress that it hospitalized him. As this was cut from the anime, it appeared that he somehow lost a card game so badly that he had a heart attack. This is given a HandWave as the holograms being too much for him, but we see him duel or watch duels quite a few times afterward with no problems (and the holograms by then are supposed to be more realistic than the ones he used then).
** Jonouchi discovering Mai's perfume-trick makes less sense in the anime. In the manga, they were sitting relatively close to each other, so it would make sense for Jonouchi to pick up on the scents. In the anime, there's quite a distance between them, not to mention that they're outside, so it should be impossible for Jonouchi to smell the perfume.
** In the manga, Yugi's grandfather was subjected to [[https://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/yugioh/images/b/b9/Sugoroku%27s_Experience_of_Death.png/revision/latest?cb=20160726193048 a nightmarish simulation of monsters attacking him]] after his duel with Kaiba, something that put him under so much stress that it hospitalized him. As this was cut from the anime, it appeared that he somehow lost a card game so badly that he had a heart attack. This is given a HandWave as the holograms being too much for him, but we see him duel or watch duels quite a few times afterward with no problems (and the holograms by then are supposed to be more realistic than the ones he used then).
** Jonouchi discovering Mai's perfume-trick makes less sense in the anime. In the manga, they were sitting relatively close to each other, so it would make sense for Jonouchi to pick up on the scents. In the anime, there's quite a distance between them, not to mention that they're outside, so it should be impossible for Jonouchi to smell the perfume.
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* ''Manga/YuGiOh'' had quite a few examples in [[Anime/YugiOh the anime, anime]], particularly with the size of the Pegasus's dueling arenas in Duelist Kingdom. It also owes from the anime's Duelist Kingdom arc being something of a BroadStrokes adaptation, trying to carry in as many manga arcs as possible that were absolutely necessary for CharacterDevelopment while also shortening them heavily and [[MerchandiseDriven adding card games]].
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** In the manga, Yugi's grandfather was subjected to [[https://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/yugioh/images/b/b9/Sugoroku%27s_Experience_of_Death.png/revision/latest?cb=20160726193048 a nightmarish simulation of monsters attacking him]] after his duel with Kaiba, something that put him under so much stress that it hospitalized him. As this was cut from the anime, it appeared that he somehow lost a card game so badly that he had a heart attack. This is given a HandWave as the holograms and the shock of the torn Blue-Eyes being too much for him, but we see him duel or watch duels quite a few times afterward with noproblems (and the holograms by then are supposed to be more realistic than the ones he used then).
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** Jonouchi discovering Mai'sperfume-trick perfume trick makes less sense in the anime. In the manga, they were sitting relatively close to each other, so it would make sense for Jonouchi to pick up on the scents. In the anime, there's quite a distance between them, not to mention that they're outside, so it should be impossible for Jonouchi to smell the perfume.
** In the manga, Yugi's grandfather was subjected to [[https://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/yugioh/images/b/b9/Sugoroku%27s_Experience_of_Death.png/revision/latest?cb=20160726193048 a nightmarish simulation of monsters attacking him]] after his duel with Kaiba, something that put him under so much stress that it hospitalized him. As this was cut from the anime, it appeared that he somehow lost a card game so badly that he had a heart attack. This is given a HandWave as the holograms and the shock of the torn Blue-Eyes being too much for him, but we see him duel or watch duels quite a few times afterward with no
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** In one that doesn't, in a change of pace, involve Duelist Kingdom, the final Ceremonial Battle requires that Atem be defeated in a fair duel, finally breaking his InvincibleHero status. This requires a bit more thought in the anime, as Atem already lost a fair duel in a FillerArc, to Raphael. (In the manga, it's implied he lost to Jounouchi, but it was never shown on-panel.)
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** In the manga, when Kaiba visits Yugi during Duelist Kingdom to reclaim the deck stolen earlier by Pegasus' subordinates, Jounouchi confronts him over nearly getting killed during the [[DeadlyGame Death-T Games]], something prior to the Duel Monsters anime (yet covered in the Toei anime that covered everything before, but which was disowned due to studio turnover). In the anime this is simply changed to being in response to Kaiba denying belief in the heart of the cards.
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* ''Manga/YuGiOh'' had quite a few examples in the anime, particularly with the size of the dueling arenas in Duelist Kingdom.
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* ''Manga/YuGiOh'' had quite a few examples in the anime, particularly with the size of the dueling arenas in Duelist Kingdom. It also owes from the anime's Duelist Kingdom arc being something of a BroadStrokes adaptation, trying to carry in as many manga arcs as possible that were absolutely necessary for CharacterDevelopment while also shortening them heavily and [[MerchandiseDriven adding card games]].
** In the manga, Yugi's grandfather was subjected to [[https://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/yugioh/images/b/b9/Sugoroku%27s_Experience_of_Death.png/revision/latest?cb=20160726193048 a nightmarish simulation of monsters attacking him]] after his duel with Kaiba, something that put him under so much stress that it hospitalized him. As this was cut from the anime, it appeared that he somehow lost a card game so badly that he had a heart attack. This is given a HandWave as the holograms being too much for him, but we see him duel or watch duels quite a few times afterward with no problems (and the holograms by then are supposed to be more realistic than the ones he used then).
** In the manga, Yugi's grandfather was subjected to [[https://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/yugioh/images/b/b9/Sugoroku%27s_Experience_of_Death.png/revision/latest?cb=20160726193048 a nightmarish simulation of monsters attacking him]] after his duel with Kaiba, something that put him under so much stress that it hospitalized him. As this was cut from the anime, it appeared that he somehow lost a card game so badly that he had a heart attack. This is given a HandWave as the holograms being too much for him, but we see him duel or watch duels quite a few times afterward with no problems (and the holograms by then are supposed to be more realistic than the ones he used then).
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** In one that doesn't, in a change of pace, involve Duelist Kingdom, the final Ceremonial Battle requires that Atem be defeated in a fair duel, finally breaking his InvincibleHero status. This requires a bit more thought in the anime, as Atem already lost a fair duel in a FillerArc, to Raphael. (In the manga, it's implied he lost to Jounouchi, but it was never shown on-panel.)
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*** Watch those episodes again. Hinata's custom technique is more useful against smaller, more vulnerable targets and is more defensive in nature, which is rather useless against an opponent who controls gravity. And further more, Hinata was not strictly trying to fight Pein. Instead her focus was on freeing Naruto, the only person who had realistic chance of beating Pein. Twin Lion Fist was the better technique to us given the situation.
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** The Warship Island {{Filler}} Arc makes two: first when Zoro easily cuts through steel chains, despite it being a plot-point in the canon Alabasta arc that he couldn't yet cut steel. Second is that all the Strawhats meet Ryuji, a dragon, which makes Zoro's comment to Ryuma in the Thriller Bark arc that he doesn't believe in dragons seem [[FlatEarthAtheist completely stupid]].
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** The Warship Island {{Filler}} Arc makes two: first when Zoro easily cuts through steel chains, despite it being a plot-point plot point in the canon Alabasta arc that he couldn't yet cut steel. Second is that all the Strawhats meet Ryuji, a dragon, which makes Zoro's comment to Ryuma in the Thriller Bark arc that he doesn't believe in dragons seem [[FlatEarthAtheist completely stupid]].
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* The final season of the ''LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana'' anime has a pretty massive one surrounding [[spoiler:Yuji's FaceHeelTurn in becoming the avatar of the Snake of the Festival and the leader of Bal Masque]]. It comes completely out of left-field, as the show skips several important character moments and plot points from the novels, not the least of which include [[spoiler:Yuji meeting and being tempted by the Snake of the Festival, and the development of his increased aggression and [[WellIntentionedExtremist well-intentioned extremist]]]].
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* The final season of the ''LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana'' anime has a pretty massive one surrounding [[spoiler:Yuji's FaceHeelTurn in becoming the avatar of the Snake of the Festival and the leader of Bal Masque]]. It comes completely out of left-field, as the show skips several important character moments and plot points from the novels, not the least of which include [[spoiler:Yuji meeting and being tempted by the Snake of the Festival, and the development of his increased aggression and [[WellIntentionedExtremist well-intentioned extremist]]]].
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* ''Manga/CityHunter'': In few filler episodes of the anime main character Ryo gets on a plane or helipcoter. After in the manga, it is revealed that Ryo's afraid of flying.
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* ''Anime/TheMelancholyOfHaruhiSuzumiya'' has a minor one in the "The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya" arc of the anime. The light novel starts with Kyon telling Haruhi about the powers of the SOS Brigade members, and Haruhi dismissing it as "too convenient". Then the main plot is Haruhi making a bad movie where the SOS Brigade members played characters with their actual powers. The anime moved around that first scene to make it the last scene of the arc (so Haruhi dismissed because it was so obvious he was basing it on the movie). But the anime still kept Kyon's narration line "Is this my fault?" when he found out about the roles.
* In ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs'', Chrono's staff Durandal was created by Gil Graham to fight the Book of Darkness. Due to Graham being AdaptedOut, the movie changed it to [[AncestralWeapon originally belonging to his father]]. All well and good, were it not for the fact that Chrono's father died via exploding spaceship while on duty (meaning he would have had his weapon with him), which makes you wonder how in the
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* ''Anime/TheMelancholyOfHaruhiSuzumiya'' ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' has a minor one in the "The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya" arc of the anime. The light novel starts with Kyon telling Haruhi about the powers of the SOS Brigade members, and Haruhi dismissing it as "too convenient". Then the main plot is Haruhi making a bad movie where the SOS Brigade members played characters with their actual powers. The anime moved around that first scene to make it the last scene of the arc (so Haruhi dismissed because it was so obvious he was basing it on the movie). But the anime still kept Kyon's narration line "Is this my fault?" when he found out about the roles.
* In ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs'', Chrono's staff Durandal was created by Gil Graham to fight the Book of Darkness. Due to Graham being AdaptedOut, the movie changed it to [[AncestralWeapon originally belonging to his father]]. All well and good, were it not for the fact that Chrono's father died via exploding spaceship while on duty (meaning he would have had his weapon with him), which makes you wonder how inthe
the hell Lindy got a hold of it.
* In ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs'', Chrono's staff Durandal was created by Gil Graham to fight the Book of Darkness. Due to Graham being AdaptedOut, the movie changed it to [[AncestralWeapon originally belonging to his father]]. All well and good, were it not for the fact that Chrono's father died via exploding spaceship while on duty (meaning he would have had his weapon with him), which makes you wonder how in
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* ''Manga/OnePiece'' :
** In a mini-arc about Coby and Helmeppo, the two are said to have sailed over Reverse Mountain to Marine Headquarters with Garp. Later on, it is revealed that Marine ships can cross the Calm Belt with special Seastone equipment, and the newspaper photo is hand waved away as a deception for the press.
** The Warship Island {{Filler}} Arc makes two: first when Zoro easily cuts through steel chains, despite it being a plot-point in the canon Alabasta arc that he couldn't yet cut steel. Second is that all the Strawhats meet Ryuji, a dragon, which makes Zoro's comment to Ryuma in the Thriller Bark arc that he doesn't believe in dragons seem [[FlatEarthAtheist completely stupid]].
*** Later in the manga, the crew meets a dragon for the first time, with all of them expressing surprise as they have never seen one before. Whoops.
** At the end of the Warship Island Arc, Nami outright murders the DragonInChief by [[SuperDrowningSkills knocking him into the sea]]. Cut to the Dressrosa Arc where Nami considers the idea of tossing a fruit user into the ocean to be too cruel.
** Another one was when a {{filler}} episode had Chopper use two Rumble Balls a short time apart without consequence, when it was later shown taking more than one within six hours has dangerous consequences; taking two should have made him lose control of his transformation. The filler arc was made before that particular weakness was revealed in the manga.
** In the Impel Down arc, the scene in the control room was extended and added Bon Clay destroying the controls for the Gates of Justice. It wouldn't be big a deal if Blackbeard were not still deep in the prison, which means that Bon Clay's interference should have prevented Blackbeard from escaping the prison and arriving at Marineford.
** During the Reunion Arc (the first arc to take place after the two-year TimeSkip), the anime had Chopper chew a Rumble Ball before transforming into the forms that normally require it, just short of Monster Point. This contradicts a later revelation that, thanks to his two years of training, he now only needs a Rumble Ball for his Monster Point form, and in fact, the original manga scene didn't have him take any Rumble Balls at all.
** In Dressrosa, when Doflamingo is about to offer Law a SadisticChoice at gunpoint, the anime has him [[spoiler:address Law by his full name, "Trafalgar D. Water Law". This is despite the fact that Law never told Mingo his full name, only saying that he's a "D" like Luffy...something that Doffy did not even know at all until Law mentioned it. Doflamingo should have had no way of knowing about the "Water" in his name]].
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
** Naruto claims to have only read 10 pages of Jiraiya's latest novel, Make Out Tactics, in the anime as an extra joke that he was lying when he distracted Kakashi by pretending to spoil the ending. However, later on [[spoiler:when he's trying to decode a message Jiraiya left behind while dying]], it's revealed that Jiraiya asked him to proofread his books, and he at least obliged to the degree he knows Jiraiya's handwriting [[spoiler:well enough to notice that he disguised a "ta" katakana (ã‚¿) as a 9]]. Perhaps he lied about lying he'd read the book, just to annoy Kakashi.
** A {{filler}} episode expanded Suigetsu and Sasuke's trip to get Zabuza's sword from the Land of Wave, and it's mentioned that Inari and Tazuna would be working on a job in the Cloud Village for the next year. However, in the manga they actually ended up making guest reappearances in a job in ''the Leaf Village'' ([[spoiler:helping rebuild after the Pain invasion]]) what was at most a couple months later.
** A smaller one is how the anime gives the Fireball Jutsu to various characters that aren't members of the Uchiha clan or who are officially unable to perform Fire techniques.
** During Itachi's fight against Naruto and Kakashi in Shippuden, it is stated that Itachi's Sharingan is not affected by the Hidden Mist technique. This contradicts what happened in the Land of Waves arc, where Kakashi's Sharingan was rendered useless against Zabuza's technique.
** {{Omake}} should probably not be considered canon in general, but an early ''Shippuden'' omake has a ''really'' noticeable one where Deidara casually asks Kisame what Itachi is like as if he's never met him, even though Deidara was (forcibly) recruited into Akatsuki by Itachi in the first place and Deidara had spent the last several years trying to find a way to ''kill'' Itachi.
** One {{Filler}} episode had Hinata learn a unique, powerful technique featuring myriad pinpoint-precision chakra laser beams. Later in the manga, a major villain is able to {{curb stomp|Battle}} her using his powerful gravity blast attack--she spends the fight repeatedly charging at him while trying to land a physical hit, which is ''hopeless''. The chakra lasers would have obviously been a much better bet.
** In the anime [[spoiler:Obito]] is able to suck Fu into his PocketDimension without touching him, while in the manga it was not clear if he touched him or not and it was later ''explicitly stated'' to require physical contact, which was exactly why [[spoiler:Minato was able to beat him.]]
* ''Manga/DeathNote'':
** The anime adaptation omitted several scenes from the manga, which while usually not problematic, have led to plotholes. In the manga, it's explained that [[spoiler: SPK member Ill Ratt is actually a spy for Mello, which is how the mafia learned the SPK's names and were able to kill them.]] This is not explained in the anime, but in the ''Relight 2'' special, [[spoiler: the mafia are cut, and Light blackmails the president to send their names to Kiyomi Takada. In this version, Light's meetings with her and Teru Mikami are moved to earlier than occurred in the anime, and ''they'' kill the SPK.]]
** However, [[VoodooShark while fixing one plothole, said special creates another]]: as [[spoiler: the mafia are cut, Soichiro making the trade for Shinigami Eyes and subsequent death]] is omitted in the process, leaving plotholes regarding [[spoiler: Soichiro's absence]] as well as how Light was [[spoiler: able to acquire Mello's true name.]]
** Also in ''Relight'', they have one scene where Light says to Ryuk that talking with him would be impossible due to his room being bugged by L, but two scenes later they are shown freely talking without any mention of said cameras being removed.
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
** In both anime and canon, when Ichigo first meets Renji, Renji expresses surprise over the size of Ichigo's zanpakutou. Ichigo admits he noticed it was large compared to Rukia's but, not having met any other Shinigami until now, he had nothing to compare it to. The anime creates the plot hole because it had [[{{filler}} inserted]] ShipTease scenes in Episodes 8-9 where Ichigo fights another Shinigami over Rukia and therefore gets to see another Shinigami's weapon up close. These scenes do not exist in the canon.
** When the anime covers Chad's backstory, it bizarrely changes the canon story. In the manga, Chad's grandfather lectured him against being a bully so Chad obeyed his grandfather and vowed to never fight for himself. Ichigo realised Chad could fight for others so the two vowed to fight to protect the other; Chad therefore only ever fights to protect others. In the anime, Chad ignores his grandfather until his grandfather is beaten almost to death by Chad's victims. Horrified, Chad vows never to fight again. Since the anime has Chad fighting to protect others, just as the manga set him up to do, Chad's anime behaviour completely contradicts the anime version of his vow.
* In ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'', the group uses Yanagisawa's Copy power to copy Kaito and use his video game skills to win a round against the Game Master. In the anime, the group uses Yusuke (who is otherwise not very good at video games) to win a fighting game, which makes their desperation to win when Kurama comes up seem strange; in the manga, only Yusuke and the non-gamer Hiei were left, but in the anime, they could have utilized Yanagisawa's power.
* In the ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' TV series, during an episode where Jagi terrorizes a village while pretending to be Kenshiro, one of the villagers remarks that Kenshiro was the one who defeated "Devil's Rebirth and the Fang Clan". However, not many people outside Jackal and his gang were even aware of Devil's existence. In the original manga, the villager simply said that Kenshiro defeated Jackal instead. This change was likely done due to the fact that Jackal was an independent villain in the manga, whereas in the TV series he was simply a lackey of Shin.
* ''Anime/CodeGeass'': In the final volume of the manga, the removal of some characters and plotlines led to several {{Out Of Character Moment}}s. For example, Kaguya, who is Zero's biggest fangirl and a lot more cunning, not to mention absent during the meeting, is essentially the engineer behind the Black Knights' ''coup d'état'' against him and the one who smooths things over after he escapes; in effect, she takes up the roles of Diethard (who isn't in the manga) and Ohgi (whose motivation to betray Zero came from Viletta's excised storyline).
* ''Manga/InuYasha'':
** The anime tries to explain that shikon shards are needed for Kagome and Inuyasha to travel through the well. This was never the case in the manga, and Kagome spends quite a while without any at all but still travels through the well, so it stops being a requirement in the anime without explanation.
** Also, many plot points center around Kagome and Kikyo looking alike (Kagome being Kikyo's reincarnation). In the anime, nearly ''everything'' about them looks different- eye shape; hair color, texture, style, and length; skin tone; and even height- so makes no sense that people would confuse them.
* ''Franchise/DragonBall'':
** In a filler episode of the ''Manga/DragonBall'' animé, Goku meets Dr. Flappe, a professor who lives not far from Jingle Village and was pressured by the Red Ribbon Army into creating Android 8. No such character existed in the manga, which caused some problems when several years later (when the animé became ''Anime/DragonBallZ''), [[RememberTheNewGuy Dr. Gero]] is introduced as the creator of the Red Ribbon Androids. ''[[AllThereInTheManual Daizenshuu 7]]'' addresses this and notes Flappe might have been Gero's colleague during Android 8's creation.
** The ship Goku uses to get to Namek is a modified version of the ship he was sent to Earth in, which Piccolo destroyed in a {{filler}} episode during the Saiyan Saga. However, the latter issue is no longer present in ''Anime/DragonBallKai''.
** Also in the ''Dragon Ball Z'' anime, the line from the manga is cut where Zarbon tells Vegeta that Frieza can transform, leaving a bit of a headscratching moment when Vegeta references it later on. ''Kai'' does not fix this.
** The anime shows Nappa throwing off his armor, which is apparently a massive and heavy object. The Frieza Saga later reveals that the armor is not only very elastic, but also extremely light, so Nappa's armor being heavy makes no sense.
** Animé filler shows the character Dabura becoming good. Namek's Dragon Balls are then used to wish back the people who are not evil. Dabura should logically have been revived, yet he doesn't appear later as this doesn't happen in the manga.
** The Garlic Jr. Saga is basically one big adaptation induced plot hole. Neither it, nor [[NonSerialMovie any of the movies]], occur in the manga. It directly follows the movie ''[[Anime/DragonBallZDeadZone Dead Zone]]'', which is supposed to take place before the start of ''Dragon Ball Z''. If ''Dead Zone'' was canon, then there's no reason Krillin and the others don't know about Gohan in the first episode of ''Dragon Ball Z'' and are surprised when he unleashes his power on Raditz.
** In one filler episode of ''Dragon Ball'', Master Roshi tells a story of the creation of the Dragon Balls, which not only contradicts the later canon (which is forgivable because he introduces it as a story he heard, not necessarily claiming it as the truth) but is also out of place because he didn't know what Dragon Balls were in the first place.
** Similarly, an episode of ''Z'' has King Kai tell the story of how the Saiyans were wiped out, and attributes it to the "Kami-sama" of their galaxy summoning a meteor to strike Planet Vegeta in order to rid the galaxy of the Saiyans and their evil ways. As it turns out, this is far from the truth, as Frieza was the one who destroyed the planet, and for less than noble reasons.
** One of the most egregious examples is the filler scenes after everybody on Namek has been transported to Earth. Vegeta starts acting like a dick, which is typical of him, but behaves in a way completely contradictory of his character motivations. He brags about Goku and Frieza's potential deaths [[EvilPowerVacuum making him the strongest by default]], antagonizes the Namekians, and then claims in a flashback during his time working for Frieza that he knew he blew up his home planet all along, even though he was shocked when Dodoria told him this and said he would have revolted if he knew. And then he laughs at Gohan when the news breaks of Goku's "death" and pummels him in a fight before flying off. [[RetCon And then in the next episode he's standing under a tree as if nothing happened, Gohan has no scratches or bruises, and he suggests a method of wishing Goku back to life so he can find out how to become a Super Saiyan and defeat him]].
** ''Dragon Ball Kai'' fixes some plotholes (like the Vegeta-dickery from the previous point), but creates some new ones thanks to the fact that it retains some filler while excising others. For example, the Buu Saga retained a scene in Hell where the previous villains watch the final battle on a giant crystal ball. Two of the Oni present recognize Goku as "that fellow who fell off Snake Way a while back", referring to a Saiyan Saga filler episode that didn't make the cut.
*** ''Anime/DragonBallZResurrectionF'' messes up this previous scene in another way by saying Frieza spent 15 years in Hell being put through a SugarBowl punishment (suspended from a tree while fairies sing happy songs), while in the filler he was free to move around. Of course, the entire depiction of Hell as a somewhat pleasant park originated in filler in the first place...
** When Vegeta is about to self-destruct himself to destroy Majin Buu, he asked Piccolo where he would be in the afterlife. Piccolo retorts that since Vegeta has been a ruthless Saiyan for most of his life, he would be sent to hell where he would not only lose his body, but his soul would also be purified until he is reborn without any memories. While it makes sense in the manga as we never saw what Hell looks like at the time, it doesn't explain why many villains such as Frieza, Cell and others in filler, movies and ''Anime/DragonBallGT'' keep their bodies and no-one even lifts a finger in an attempt to purify them.
* {{Plot Hole}}s seriously tarnish what is an otherwise excellent series in ''Flights of Fancy'', the second season of the ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'' TV series-- Skuld is seen using her stamp power in one late episode, but there's no episode in which we see it developed, and Chihiro, and her shop, Whirl Wind, show up, but Chihiro is never formally introduced, and the fact that she wanted to start a shop is never even mentioned.
** ''Flights of Fancy'' '''also inverts''' this Trope: Keiichi and Belldandy are an OfficialCouple by Episode 24 of ''Manga/AhMyGoddess''; at the end of the Lord of Terror arc, they share a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming when they confess their love for each other. In the 24th (and last) episode of ''Flights of Fancy'', Keiichi spends the entire episode trying to confess his love for Belldandy, but CannotSpitItOut-- even though Belldandy flat-out says she's ready for him to say it!
* ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'': In his fight with Alucard, Luke Valentine is shown to have a strong HealingFactor, surviving after getting shot in the head by Alucard's specialized gun. However he is unable to regenerate his legs. In the manga there was no headshot. He was instead shot in the stomach by the Casull, while his legs were shot off by Jackal. In the OVA, Jackal was the cause of all three wounds. This was rectified in the Blu-ray re-release, where Luke's initial injuries are now caused by the Casull.
* In ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'', [[GenderBender Ranma (as a girl)]] competes with [[WholesomeCrossdresser Tsubasa]] (whose disguise had yet to be revealed) in who can sell more food to the boys at school, but since all of them knew that Ranma wasn't a real girl they didn't buy any from her until she started wearing [[PlayboyBunny a]] [[PaperThinDisguise disguise.]] However, in the anime Ranma's curse wasn't revealed by this point, so the boys bought them ''only'' from the disguised Ranma for no apparent reason.
* ''Manga/SaintSeiya'' had one when they showed Scorpio Milo killing Shun's Master. Then the manga came out and it was [[spoiler: Pisces Aphrodite]]. A number of {{Ass Pull}}s had to be done to fix the problem of Shun swearing revenge against someone who didn't apply the coup de grace against his teacher.
* ''Manga/DoctorSlump'' had a story where Akane dressed up as Miss Yamabuki to play some pranks on Senbei. This took advantage of [[OnlySixFaces their faces looking the same]]. The second anime made their faces more different (And gave them [[AdaptationDyeJob different hair colors]]), yet they adapted this story even though it didn't make sense any more.
* ''Anime/Berserk1997'' ends with Guts facing certain doom, but then skips to him still alive in TheStinger (looking as he did in the ActionPrologue). As Skull Knight, the guy who saved him in the manga, was AdaptedOut, this just seems blatantly nonsensical.
* ''Manga/ElfenLied'':
** The anime begins with a [[RRatedOpening violent]] demonstration of Lucy's [[ImmuneToBullets immunity to bullets]], despite the fact that the guards are supposed to have special bullets designed to penetrate her [[PsychicPowers vectors]]. In the manga, she grabs a HumanShield before any of the heavily armed guards can get a shot off.
** The anime also gave Lucy only four vectors, as opposed to the seemingly unlimited number she had in the original, while allowing her to do things she did in the manga that would be impossible with only four vectors, such as simultaneously holding a few hundred bullets in mid-air.
* ''Manga/YuGiOh'' had quite a few examples in the anime, particularly with the size of the dueling arenas in Duelist Kingdom.
** Jonouchi discovering Mai's perfume-trick makes less sense in the anime. In the manga, they were sitting relatively close to each other, so it would make sense for Jonouchi to pick up on the scents. In the anime, there's quite a distance between them, not to mention that they're outside, so it should be impossible for Jonouchi to smell the perfume.
** In the manga, Kaiba's dueling rings were exclusive to himself and his company, and Pegasus was only able to produce the smaller Battle Boxes, creating a need for him to want Kaiba's technology to make a lifelike, real-size copy of his wife. In the anime, Pegasus's dueling rings were nearly identical to Kaiba's, making one wonder why he needed Kaiba's technology if he already had an equivalent. The dub fixes this by having him need both the technology and the Millennium Items to bring his wife back to life, which he could only get through beating Yugi and acquiring [=KaibaCorp=].
** Some of the Millennium Items are given one-time-only powers that they never had in the manga, such as the Puzzle being used to swap the Bakuras' souls, though this is phased out post-Duelist Kingdom.
* The anime adaptation of the video game ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss'' suffers from its CompressedAdaptation status. Sometimes it's only [[AdaptationExplanationExtrication Adaptation Explanation Extrications]], but other times are full blown plot holes. The most obvious example is [[spoiler:Ion's death]], which it's explained in the game, but in the anime comes practically out of nowhere and without any tangible reason.
* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'':
** ''Brotherhood'' has a pretty noticeable plothole. Roughly about 2/5ths through the manga, all hell breaks loose and sees Alphonse, Mustang's group, Barry the Chopper, and Ling and Lan Fan get caught up in a battle with the Homunculi. Ling and Lan Fan fight Gluttony and Ling manages to cut Gluttony in half. Gluttony immediately heals up from this, which causes Ling and Lan Fan to learn about the Homunculi's regenerative abilities. When Ed returns from Xerxes later on and reveals his plan to capture a Homunculus, Ling and Lan Fan want to get in on the action because of their knowledge of the Homunculi's regeneration since it relates to their own quest to find immortality. In ''Brotherhood'', the two's fight with Gluttony is completely cut, but they still want to join on Ed and Al's plan to capture a Homunculus for the same reasons, making one wonder how they know about the Homunculi and their power to regenerate.
** In the [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist first anime]], Greed's plan to bind his soul to an inanimate object was a failure before it even began, since homunculi in the first series had no souls to begin with. He was aware he had no soul, too.
* Periodically in ''Anime/SailorMoon:''
** At the end of the first act of the [[Manga/SailorMoon manga]], InnocentBystander Naru is insistent that morning that she and her mother were attacked by "robbers" the previous night (which fits somewhat with the fact that her mother was found taped up and locked in the basement of her jewelry store), who were stopped by MagicalGirlWarrior Sailor Moon (she has mercifully [[TraumaInducedAmnesia forgotten]] they were a shapeshifting monster). In first episode of TheNineties anime, rather than operating under a WeirdnessCensor, Naru believes the full incident was AllJustADream, which raises questions as to whether she remembers that the "dream" monster told her that her mother was BoundAndGagged [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse in the basement]].
** In the ''Sailor Moon S'' season, the then-currently condescending Outer Senshi have an oddly polite conversation with Tuxedo Mask (despite him being one of the weakest senshi) and refer to him respectfully as Endymion, despite no other indications that they know much about the existing cast (barring Pluto). This was lifted almost directly from the manga, where the Outer Senshi are implied to already know who most of the senshi are/were but are avoiding working with them out of a sense of duty and penance rather than dislike and skepticism.
** The anime never explains how Mamoru is able to keep Chibi-Usa alive at the end of ''Sailor Moon S'' when her heart crystal is stolen. This is a plot point that is lifted directly from the manga, but by this point the story had already established that he has the power to pass on energy to another person and even heal wounds several times. The anime never establishes him as possessing such a power, but it acts as though he's been able to do this all along.
** The anime short film ''Ami's First Love'' (accompanying the ''Super S'' movie) is a straight up adaptation of one of the Exam Battle short stories in the manga, which is about Ami getting a love letter from a secret admirer and freaking out so much she breaks out into hives. The problem? In the anime's timeline, Ami has already had a brief relationship with a CanonForeigner fellow student, Urawa Ryou (thus this isn't even her ''first'' love) and she was shown handling his shy affection for her with grace and maturity. The short film also has the problem of showing Ami using an attack that she only used in the manga without explanation of where she got it. The films already create so many continuity problems that they're generally considered non-canon anyway, but it's still jarring when a story from the manga is adapted straight into a timeline that proceeded so differently as to contradict it.
** A minor issue is with Uranus being mistaken as a boy. In the original manga, she is intentionally disguising herself as a male student to investigate the Mugen academy. She even poses as a new Tuxedo Kamen in one scene. Sailor Moon only realizes that she is a girl by recognizing her as Sailor Uranus. In the anime, she is simply a tomboy. It never gets explained exactly why Minako and Usagi initially mistake her as a boy, or even why Minako realizes that she is a girl in the end.
*** The same episode where the girls mistake Uranus as a boy also has Neptune deny that they are a couple, even though it was just as obvious.
** A minor plot hole happens in ''[=SuperS=]'' in regards to the Amazons Quartet. At the very end of the series, they make a comment about possibly meeting Chibimoon again, and it is also never explained why they're named after goddesses/celestial bodies (a ThemeNaming pattern common for the Solar System Sailor Senshi) rather than minerals or metals (a ThemeNaming pattern common for the antagonists) -- the implication is that they used to live in the asteroid belt, which only raises questions as to their true origins. In the manga, the four of them were actually dormant Sailor Senshi meant to be Chibimoon's guardians, who were forcibly awakened before their time and brainwashed into working for Nehellenia; their names come from the four asteroids that grant them their powers. Because the anime deviated from the manga in handling these characters, and ended up having Chibimoon herself PutOnABus following the first arc of ''Stars'', this development never happened in this version, leaving the hints that there was more to the Quartet with no outcome.
** In the ''[=Sailor StarS=]'' season, many characters remark that Chibi Chibi looks exactly like Usagi. Not just like her little sister, more like her daughter. Well, in the manga, this did make sense as Chibi Chibi is actually Sailor Cosmos, a future form of Sailor Moon herself, and thus they are essentially the same person. In the anime, however, her origin is completely independent of Sailor Moon entirely and it's never explained why they look the same.
** In episode six of ''Anime/SailorMoonCrystal'' Usagi freaks out that she can't transform in front of Tuxedo Mask and reveal she's Sailor Moon, a few minutes after telling him she feels powerless as a leader. She's then surprised to learn he already knows about her secret identity. In the manga, he tells her he knows before she starts worrying about her inadequacies as a Guardian, so her reaction makes perfect sense. (Out of context, her words could be interpreted in a more general sense since she doesn't specifically mention the Sailor Guardians but talking about having to protect everyone while there's clearly a fight going on not too far away doesn't leave much room for interpretation.)
*** Near the end of the same episode, Tuxedo Mask carries an unconscious Sailor Moon to his home so she can rest after overusing her powers. When she subsequently wakes up in Mamoru's room, she is detransformed, with no explanation why this happened. In the manga, she detransforms at will upon waking up, and in general it is shown that simply being unconscious doesn't make a Guardian spontaneously revert to the civilian form, so it's unclear why her transformation was undone in this case.
** Another episode of ''Crystal'' recreated the scene from the manga which reveals that Mamoru survived being stabbed by Sailor Moon because the stones the Shitennou transformed into [[PocketProtector blocked the blade]], preventing him from receiving a fatal wound. In the manga, the possessed Mamoru was explicitly shown carrying the Kunzite stone after the Shitennou's human bodies decayed. In ''Crystal'', however, the Shitennou didn't die until shortly before Mamoru was stabbed, which happened in a different place, so there's no explanation why he had their stones at that moment.
** Another problem that occurs with the alterations to the Shitennou's plotline is occurs when a brainwashed Mamoru brainwashes Motoki to hold off the Guardians. Any viewer who hasn't read the manga will likely be scratching their heads as to why he doesn't just use the Shitennou, who have been proven to be more than a match for the girls before.
* The first episodes of ''Manga/DetectiveConan'' anime removed several references to [[TheSyndicate Dark Organization]] and its members that existed in the manga, causing two examples of this trope:
** In ''Shinkansen Bomb'' case (animated as episode 4), originally it was the ThoseTwoBadGuys who gave Shinichi that fateful FountainOfYouth that planted a bomb on the train, and during the case Conan (i.e. the alias Shinichi took after being shrunk) overheard their {{code name}}s: Gin and Vodka. In the anime the criminals were no longer members members of Dark Organization but some random criminals, so this left a plot hole in the anime that was never adequately resolved-- when these names were needed in the third season, Conan just mentioned that without any explanation on how he knew that in the first place.
** ''The Billion-yen Robbery Case'' involves the death of [[spoiler:Akemi Miyano]], a Dark Organization {{mook|s}}, in the hands of the same Gin and Vodka. In the anime (Episode 12), the Dark Organization aspects of this case were completely removed-- the said {{mook|s}} did not die, and she wasn't injured by Gin and Vodka either. This caused a case of SchrodingersCast as the said mook's ''death under the hands of the Dark Organization'' is essential to the plot, and she became the focal point of many, many backstories. An anime original episode was thus made right before one of those important backstories unravel, where the said mook was killed by Gin.
* ''VisualNovel/LittleBusters'': In the VisualNovel, Kud's reluctance to return to Tevua stemmed partially from her relationship with Riki and partially from her fear of the dangerous conditions there, and only lasted for a couple of scenes. The anime drew this out, instead using this plot point to show Kud's backstory and how she felt unable to become a cosmonaut like her mother and was ashamed of herself, and claiming that she came to Japan to 'escape' from this. Nicely dramatic...but then why does Kud speak fluent Japanese? In the visual novel, it's made clear that Kud was always meant to go to high school in Japan and so had been taught Japanese as her dual first language with Russian. But in the anime, her moving to Japan was treated as a sudden whim outside of her mother's knowledge.
* A few exist in ''Anime/{{Robotech}}'' thanks to its origins as a CutAndPasteTranslation:
** Why does Dana Sterling have green hair as a baby but is a blonde by the time she grows up? Dye job? Or because she was originally two different characters (Komilia Maria Fallyna Jenius in ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross'' and Jeanne Francaix in ''Anime/SuperDimensionCavalrySouthernCross'')?
** Why, when humanity come across Zor Prime, do they act surprised when they analyze him and find out he's basically human (never mind the shoehorned-in "and not just a micronized [[Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross Zentraedi]]" statement pointing out their alleged familiarity with HumanAliens - surely the races are so similar as to be practically the same species, as they can interbreed)? Maybe the fact that the original ''Anime/SuperDimensionCavalrySouthernCross'' character actually was a (brainwashed) human, Seifriet Weisse.
** Why cities such as New York (complete with famous RealLife theatres) exist in ''The New Generation'' series when [[spoiler: the Earth got nuked by the Zentraedi and they barely managed to rebuild before being invaded again by the Invid]]? Maybe because there were no Zentraedi in ''Anime/GenesisClimberMospeada'' to begin with.
* In the manga adaptation of ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'', due to [[CompressedAdaptation its nature]], they had to cut out some scenes from the final stretch of the anime. One of those scenes was a MeaningfulFuneral, which had its purpose be that [[spoiler:Sayaka's body, which was left in the apartment by Kyouko, was found]]. Cutting out that scene just suggests that [[OffscreenInertia the corpse is still rotting in the apartment]].
* Shinji's reluctance to pilot the Eva in the ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' series makes far, far less sense than in the original ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', in which he made sure to ask what would happen if he were gone, and Misato assured him Rei would replace him. In 1.0, she egged him into leaving despite knowing full well the fate of humanity rests on his shoulders, and in 1.11, he realizes only seconds before starting the final decisive battle of the film that other people’s lives depend on him, despite having ''seen'' what an Angel can do.
* The anime of ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'' contains so many of these (either by misinterpreting scenes from the visual novel, going for RuleOfCool or because of CompressedAdaptation) that the mystery becomes impossible to solve on one's own:
** The first two are in episode 5 alone, where Battler shoots a bullet at the portrait [[spoiler:even though the gun he picked up is supposed to be unloaded]] and sees gold butterflies (while in the VN Beatrice appears in person) [[spoiler:which are supposed to indicate we are watching a fantasy scene. So the detective ''shouldn't'' see them, the only exception being the end of Episode 2, where Battler had surrendered]].
** Another one is in episode 10, where [[spoiler:Shannon's corpse is found with the stake in her forehead; while in the VN the fact that the stake is ''beside'' her corpse is an important clue that she committed suicide in Episode 2 and 4.]]
** Yet another is how [[spoiler:in the anime, Shannon and Kanon would appear together in front of other people, such as the cousins, in scenes that weren't fantasy. In the visual novel, the fact that Shannon and Kanon never appear together in front of the other members of the family outside fantasy scenes is meant to be foreshadowing for how they're actually one and the same]].
** And of course, the entire first half of the Episode 4 Tea Party is axed, along with several important bits of information.
* ''Anime/BlazBlueAlterMemory'' has [[spoiler:Ragna leave a nearly dead Hazama alive to go find Rachel and Noel. While the game establishes this by saying that Hazama has a lifelink active (which requires one to kill both members of the lifelink at the same time in order to have them die), the anime doesn't bother stating it and makes Ragna look like an idiot.]]
* In ''Manga/ICantUnderstandWhatMyHusbandIsSaying'', one of the main characters is shown to be a smoker in the manga, but not the anime. This becomes a problem when she's told that she needs to quit in episode 6.
* At the end of the ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'' anime [[spoiler:Angelica]] dies. This is all perfectly fine since it's the last episode, but four years later they created a new anime called ''Gunslinger Girl Il Teatrino''. It's closer to the manga and [[spoiler:Angelica]] was revived, as she doesn't die until halfway through the manga. The problem is ''Teatrino'' tries to act as a sequel to the first anime, and her [[spoiler:falling asleep instead of dying]] ruins the impact of the original ending.
* The first episode of ''Manga/WanderingSon'' has Yuki buying Takatsuki a gakuran. In the manga Takatsuki already has a gakuran. She wore a gakuran frequently while out as a boy, and the gakuran is a hand-me-down from her brother.
* In ''Manga/{{Ooku}} The Inner Chambers'', [[spoiler: the shogunate bypasses the closest heir, Tokugawa Harusada, in favor of her son Toyochiyo (Shogun Ienari). In real life, the reason Ienari became shogun was because he had been adopted by his predecessor Ieharu to become his heir. In ''Ooku'', though, no such adoption ever took place, and everyone had expected Harusada to become the next shogun, making her abdication one of these, especially since no explanation's been given so far as to why she turned it down.]]
* The SickEpisode from ''Manga/MonthlyGirlsNozakiKun'' revolves around Sakura, Hori, and Waka having to guess how Mamiko, the heroine in Nozaki's manga, would act after Nozaki gets sick and is unable finish his current chapter. They never even ''think'' to call their friend Mikoshiba for help, despite the fact that Mamiko's personality is explicitly said to be based off his, meaning he would likely have some insight into how to write her. The manga chapter this episode was adapted from contained a line stating that they would be unable to reach Mikoshiba since he was either buying or playing a newly-released DatingSim, but for some reason this scene was omitted from the anime.
* A large amount occur in the anime adaptation of ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'', due its severely compressed nature. One of the more notable ones is with Tsukiyama. In the manga, Tsukiyama becomes a major ally of Kaneki's in the latter half and goes through significant CharacterDevelopment, culminating in a confrontation with Kaneki where he attempts to prevent Kaneki from going on a suicide mission, which causes Tsukiyama to eventually have a mental breakdown. In the anime, the plot is altered so his CharacterDevelopment doesn't happen, but the confrontation plays out pretty much the exact same way, which makes his reaction come off as completely overblown and random, considering he and Kaneki have barely got know each other. Another example is that in the manga, it is revealed that [[spoiler: Dr Kanou was intentionally creating One-Eyed-Ghouls for Aogiri and Kaneki was a successful experiment.]] This (along with [[spoiler: Kanou's]] character) is cut from the anime, so the existence of the twins Kurona and Nashiro go completely unexplained.
* The anime of Manga/{{Karneval}} drops a sub-plot early in the story in which Nai is framed for murdering a policeman, leaving it unexplained why Gareki needs to keep him hidden from the police in subsequent scenes.
* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'':
** In the anime, the Titan eating Eren's mother is shown intentionally breaking her spine beforehand, which makes little sense for a mindless Titan to do. Though Eren's mother ''was'' struggling against the Titan's hold, it's possible the Titan was at least smart enough to know that crushing her would make her stop squirming.
** Episode 25 shows Levi, getting Eren [[spoiler:out of his Titan form]] in his 3D Maneuver Gear after defeating [[spoiler:Annie]], despite that he had [[spoiler:an injured leg]] back in Episode 22, which was emphasized several times. In the manga, [[spoiler:he wasn't able to participate in capturing Annie because of his injury]].
** In the manga, [[spoiler:titan!Annie was scaling the Wall so quickly that titan!Eren had to throw Mikasa in order to reach her. In the anime, Mikasa was somehow able to reach her all on her own (though it would appear that titan!Annie was climbing the Wall much slower than in the manga).]]
* ''Manga/FairyTail'': While the anime will often make little corrections to Mashima's consistency errors, coming close to the manga has caused it to create a few of its own. The shadowy figure that Jellal is kept from pursuing is changed from a spiky haired silhouette to the hooded girl, for instance. [[spoiler: While that was generally assumed to have been Mashima not knowing how the figure should look until later, a manga chapter that came out at almost exactly the same time as the episode revealed that it actually had been Silver, not F!Lucy.]]
** The anime also had the Trinity Raven guild escape the Tower of Heaven before it collapsed, whereas they are implied to die in it in the manga. Along comes chapter 482 and 483, and it's revealed that [[spoiler: they actually did die in the Tower, since a villain uses a spell that conjures dead people, and Ikaruga is one of them]].
* While ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' is mostly consistent (helped by two breaks), it suffered this when TheMovie included a flashback scene that strongly implied that Gintoki was taken in later by Shouyo after Takasugi and Katsura, only for it to be established later on that it was the other way around. Unsurprisingly, when the anime finally adapted those chapters, it lampshaded the problem two episodes later were Gintoki answered fanmail and promptly made up a deliberately nonsense explanation.
* [[Manga/TheLegendOfZelda The manga adaptation of]] ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' skips the Temple of Shadows, meaning that we see Link collecting only five medallions... but when he haves to break the barrier around Hyrule Castle, the sixth medallion appears out of nowhere, along with Impa in the group shot with the other sages.
* The first episode to ''Manga/YourLieInApril'' has Kousei mention that he has brown eyes. This is [[AdaptationDyeJob despite]] him very clearly having blue eyes.
* ''Anime/AceAttorney'': A major part of Phoenix's backstory involves "class trial" when he was accused of stealing [[spoiler: Edgeworth's]] lunch money. He was sick the day the money was stolen and didn't attend PE class, so when he was only one without alibi everyone assumed it was him. The anime-only episode "Turnabout Promise" [[AdaptationExpansion extended the scene]] by showing Pheonix taking the envelope the money was supposed to be in and [[NotWhatItLooksLike being seen by a girl from his class]]. However, despite being seemingly caught red-handed, the trial goes the same way it did in the game with [[spoiler:Edgeworth]] claiming they accuse him with no evidence, and the fact that he was seen isn't brought up at all.
* ''Anime/TheMelancholyOfHaruhiSuzumiya'' has a minor one in the "The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya" arc of the anime. The light novel starts with Kyon telling Haruhi about the powers of the SOS Brigade members, and Haruhi dismissing it as "too convenient". Then the main plot is Haruhi making a bad movie where the SOS Brigade members played characters with their actual powers. The anime moved around that first scene to make it the last scene of the arc (so Haruhi dismissed because it was so obvious he was basing it on the movie). But the anime still kept Kyon's narration line "Is this my fault?" when he found out about the roles.
* In ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs'', Chrono's staff Durandal was created by Gil Graham to fight the Book of Darkness. Due to Graham being AdaptedOut, the movie changed it to [[AncestralWeapon originally belonging to his father]]. All well and good, were it not for the fact that Chrono's father died via exploding spaceship while on duty (meaning he would have had his weapon with him), which makes you wonder how in the
hell Lindy got a hold of it.
* ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'' has a small version of this: Gauron's twin assassins mistakenly pronounce Kaname's surname Chidori using the Chinese reading of the characters. This makes sense in the original light novels and the anime adaptation, where they're Chinese; it's less logical in the manga adaptation ''Full Metal Panic! Sigma'', which [[RaceLift makes them]] ambiguously Caucasian {{Gothic Lolita}}s.
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* ''Manga/OnePiece'' :
** In a mini-arc about Coby and Helmeppo, the two are said to have sailed over Reverse Mountain to Marine Headquarters with Garp. Later on, it is revealed that Marine ships can cross the Calm Belt with special Seastone equipment, and the newspaper photo is hand waved away as a deception for the press.
** The Warship Island {{Filler}} Arc makes two: first when Zoro easily cuts through steel chains, despite it being a plot-point in the canon Alabasta arc that he couldn't yet cut steel. Second is that all the Strawhats meet Ryuji, a dragon, which makes Zoro's comment to Ryuma in the Thriller Bark arc that he doesn't believe in dragons seem [[FlatEarthAtheist completely stupid]].
*** Later in the manga, the crew meets a dragon for the first time, with all of them expressing surprise as they have never seen one before. Whoops.
** At the end of the Warship Island Arc, Nami outright murders the DragonInChief by [[SuperDrowningSkills knocking him into the sea]]. Cut to the Dressrosa Arc where Nami considers the idea of tossing a fruit user into the ocean to be too cruel.
** Another one was when a {{filler}} episode had Chopper use two Rumble Balls a short time apart without consequence, when it was later shown taking more than one within six hours has dangerous consequences; taking two should have made him lose control of his transformation. The filler arc was made before that particular weakness was revealed in the manga.
** In the Impel Down arc, the scene in the control room was extended and added Bon Clay destroying the controls for the Gates of Justice. It wouldn't be big a deal if Blackbeard were not still deep in the prison, which means that Bon Clay's interference should have prevented Blackbeard from escaping the prison and arriving at Marineford.
** During the Reunion Arc (the first arc to take place after the two-year TimeSkip), the anime had Chopper chew a Rumble Ball before transforming into the forms that normally require it, just short of Monster Point. This contradicts a later revelation that, thanks to his two years of training, he now only needs a Rumble Ball for his Monster Point form, and in fact, the original manga scene didn't have him take any Rumble Balls at all.
** In Dressrosa, when Doflamingo is about to offer Law a SadisticChoice at gunpoint, the anime has him [[spoiler:address Law by his full name, "Trafalgar D. Water Law". This is despite the fact that Law never told Mingo his full name, only saying that he's a "D" like Luffy...something that Doffy did not even know at all until Law mentioned it. Doflamingo should have had no way of knowing about the "Water" in his name]].
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
** Naruto claims to have only read 10 pages of Jiraiya's latest novel, Make Out Tactics, in the anime as an extra joke that he was lying when he distracted Kakashi by pretending to spoil the ending. However, later on [[spoiler:when he's trying to decode a message Jiraiya left behind while dying]], it's revealed that Jiraiya asked him to proofread his books, and he at least obliged to the degree he knows Jiraiya's handwriting [[spoiler:well enough to notice that he disguised a "ta" katakana (ã‚¿) as a 9]]. Perhaps he lied about lying he'd read the book, just to annoy Kakashi.
** A {{filler}} episode expanded Suigetsu and Sasuke's trip to get Zabuza's sword from the Land of Wave, and it's mentioned that Inari and Tazuna would be working on a job in the Cloud Village for the next year. However, in the manga they actually ended up making guest reappearances in a job in ''the Leaf Village'' ([[spoiler:helping rebuild after the Pain invasion]]) what was at most a couple months later.
** A smaller one is how the anime gives the Fireball Jutsu to various characters that aren't members of the Uchiha clan or who are officially unable to perform Fire techniques.
** During Itachi's fight against Naruto and Kakashi in Shippuden, it is stated that Itachi's Sharingan is not affected by the Hidden Mist technique. This contradicts what happened in the Land of Waves arc, where Kakashi's Sharingan was rendered useless against Zabuza's technique.
** {{Omake}} should probably not be considered canon in general, but an early ''Shippuden'' omake has a ''really'' noticeable one where Deidara casually asks Kisame what Itachi is like as if he's never met him, even though Deidara was (forcibly) recruited into Akatsuki by Itachi in the first place and Deidara had spent the last several years trying to find a way to ''kill'' Itachi.
** One {{Filler}} episode had Hinata learn a unique, powerful technique featuring myriad pinpoint-precision chakra laser beams. Later in the manga, a major villain is able to {{curb stomp|Battle}} her using his powerful gravity blast attack--she spends the fight repeatedly charging at him while trying to land a physical hit, which is ''hopeless''. The chakra lasers would have obviously been a much better bet.
** In the anime [[spoiler:Obito]] is able to suck Fu into his PocketDimension without touching him, while in the manga it was not clear if he touched him or not and it was later ''explicitly stated'' to require physical contact, which was exactly why [[spoiler:Minato was able to beat him.]]
* ''Manga/DeathNote'':
** The anime adaptation omitted several scenes from the manga, which while usually not problematic, have led to plotholes. In the manga, it's explained that [[spoiler: SPK member Ill Ratt is actually a spy for Mello, which is how the mafia learned the SPK's names and were able to kill them.]] This is not explained in the anime, but in the ''Relight 2'' special, [[spoiler: the mafia are cut, and Light blackmails the president to send their names to Kiyomi Takada. In this version, Light's meetings with her and Teru Mikami are moved to earlier than occurred in the anime, and ''they'' kill the SPK.]]
** However, [[VoodooShark while fixing one plothole, said special creates another]]: as [[spoiler: the mafia are cut, Soichiro making the trade for Shinigami Eyes and subsequent death]] is omitted in the process, leaving plotholes regarding [[spoiler: Soichiro's absence]] as well as how Light was [[spoiler: able to acquire Mello's true name.]]
** Also in ''Relight'', they have one scene where Light says to Ryuk that talking with him would be impossible due to his room being bugged by L, but two scenes later they are shown freely talking without any mention of said cameras being removed.
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
** In both anime and canon, when Ichigo first meets Renji, Renji expresses surprise over the size of Ichigo's zanpakutou. Ichigo admits he noticed it was large compared to Rukia's but, not having met any other Shinigami until now, he had nothing to compare it to. The anime creates the plot hole because it had [[{{filler}} inserted]] ShipTease scenes in Episodes 8-9 where Ichigo fights another Shinigami over Rukia and therefore gets to see another Shinigami's weapon up close. These scenes do not exist in the canon.
** When the anime covers Chad's backstory, it bizarrely changes the canon story. In the manga, Chad's grandfather lectured him against being a bully so Chad obeyed his grandfather and vowed to never fight for himself. Ichigo realised Chad could fight for others so the two vowed to fight to protect the other; Chad therefore only ever fights to protect others. In the anime, Chad ignores his grandfather until his grandfather is beaten almost to death by Chad's victims. Horrified, Chad vows never to fight again. Since the anime has Chad fighting to protect others, just as the manga set him up to do, Chad's anime behaviour completely contradicts the anime version of his vow.
* In ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'', the group uses Yanagisawa's Copy power to copy Kaito and use his video game skills to win a round against the Game Master. In the anime, the group uses Yusuke (who is otherwise not very good at video games) to win a fighting game, which makes their desperation to win when Kurama comes up seem strange; in the manga, only Yusuke and the non-gamer Hiei were left, but in the anime, they could have utilized Yanagisawa's power.
* In the ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' TV series, during an episode where Jagi terrorizes a village while pretending to be Kenshiro, one of the villagers remarks that Kenshiro was the one who defeated "Devil's Rebirth and the Fang Clan". However, not many people outside Jackal and his gang were even aware of Devil's existence. In the original manga, the villager simply said that Kenshiro defeated Jackal instead. This change was likely done due to the fact that Jackal was an independent villain in the manga, whereas in the TV series he was simply a lackey of Shin.
* ''Anime/CodeGeass'': In the final volume of the manga, the removal of some characters and plotlines led to several {{Out Of Character Moment}}s. For example, Kaguya, who is Zero's biggest fangirl and a lot more cunning, not to mention absent during the meeting, is essentially the engineer behind the Black Knights' ''coup d'état'' against him and the one who smooths things over after he escapes; in effect, she takes up the roles of Diethard (who isn't in the manga) and Ohgi (whose motivation to betray Zero came from Viletta's excised storyline).
* ''Manga/InuYasha'':
** The anime tries to explain that shikon shards are needed for Kagome and Inuyasha to travel through the well. This was never the case in the manga, and Kagome spends quite a while without any at all but still travels through the well, so it stops being a requirement in the anime without explanation.
** Also, many plot points center around Kagome and Kikyo looking alike (Kagome being Kikyo's reincarnation). In the anime, nearly ''everything'' about them looks different- eye shape; hair color, texture, style, and length; skin tone; and even height- so makes no sense that people would confuse them.
* ''Franchise/DragonBall'':
** In a filler episode of the ''Manga/DragonBall'' animé, Goku meets Dr. Flappe, a professor who lives not far from Jingle Village and was pressured by the Red Ribbon Army into creating Android 8. No such character existed in the manga, which caused some problems when several years later (when the animé became ''Anime/DragonBallZ''), [[RememberTheNewGuy Dr. Gero]] is introduced as the creator of the Red Ribbon Androids. ''[[AllThereInTheManual Daizenshuu 7]]'' addresses this and notes Flappe might have been Gero's colleague during Android 8's creation.
** The ship Goku uses to get to Namek is a modified version of the ship he was sent to Earth in, which Piccolo destroyed in a {{filler}} episode during the Saiyan Saga. However, the latter issue is no longer present in ''Anime/DragonBallKai''.
** Also in the ''Dragon Ball Z'' anime, the line from the manga is cut where Zarbon tells Vegeta that Frieza can transform, leaving a bit of a headscratching moment when Vegeta references it later on. ''Kai'' does not fix this.
** The anime shows Nappa throwing off his armor, which is apparently a massive and heavy object. The Frieza Saga later reveals that the armor is not only very elastic, but also extremely light, so Nappa's armor being heavy makes no sense.
** Animé filler shows the character Dabura becoming good. Namek's Dragon Balls are then used to wish back the people who are not evil. Dabura should logically have been revived, yet he doesn't appear later as this doesn't happen in the manga.
** The Garlic Jr. Saga is basically one big adaptation induced plot hole. Neither it, nor [[NonSerialMovie any of the movies]], occur in the manga. It directly follows the movie ''[[Anime/DragonBallZDeadZone Dead Zone]]'', which is supposed to take place before the start of ''Dragon Ball Z''. If ''Dead Zone'' was canon, then there's no reason Krillin and the others don't know about Gohan in the first episode of ''Dragon Ball Z'' and are surprised when he unleashes his power on Raditz.
** In one filler episode of ''Dragon Ball'', Master Roshi tells a story of the creation of the Dragon Balls, which not only contradicts the later canon (which is forgivable because he introduces it as a story he heard, not necessarily claiming it as the truth) but is also out of place because he didn't know what Dragon Balls were in the first place.
** Similarly, an episode of ''Z'' has King Kai tell the story of how the Saiyans were wiped out, and attributes it to the "Kami-sama" of their galaxy summoning a meteor to strike Planet Vegeta in order to rid the galaxy of the Saiyans and their evil ways. As it turns out, this is far from the truth, as Frieza was the one who destroyed the planet, and for less than noble reasons.
** One of the most egregious examples is the filler scenes after everybody on Namek has been transported to Earth. Vegeta starts acting like a dick, which is typical of him, but behaves in a way completely contradictory of his character motivations. He brags about Goku and Frieza's potential deaths [[EvilPowerVacuum making him the strongest by default]], antagonizes the Namekians, and then claims in a flashback during his time working for Frieza that he knew he blew up his home planet all along, even though he was shocked when Dodoria told him this and said he would have revolted if he knew. And then he laughs at Gohan when the news breaks of Goku's "death" and pummels him in a fight before flying off. [[RetCon And then in the next episode he's standing under a tree as if nothing happened, Gohan has no scratches or bruises, and he suggests a method of wishing Goku back to life so he can find out how to become a Super Saiyan and defeat him]].
** ''Dragon Ball Kai'' fixes some plotholes (like the Vegeta-dickery from the previous point), but creates some new ones thanks to the fact that it retains some filler while excising others. For example, the Buu Saga retained a scene in Hell where the previous villains watch the final battle on a giant crystal ball. Two of the Oni present recognize Goku as "that fellow who fell off Snake Way a while back", referring to a Saiyan Saga filler episode that didn't make the cut.
*** ''Anime/DragonBallZResurrectionF'' messes up this previous scene in another way by saying Frieza spent 15 years in Hell being put through a SugarBowl punishment (suspended from a tree while fairies sing happy songs), while in the filler he was free to move around. Of course, the entire depiction of Hell as a somewhat pleasant park originated in filler in the first place...
** When Vegeta is about to self-destruct himself to destroy Majin Buu, he asked Piccolo where he would be in the afterlife. Piccolo retorts that since Vegeta has been a ruthless Saiyan for most of his life, he would be sent to hell where he would not only lose his body, but his soul would also be purified until he is reborn without any memories. While it makes sense in the manga as we never saw what Hell looks like at the time, it doesn't explain why many villains such as Frieza, Cell and others in filler, movies and ''Anime/DragonBallGT'' keep their bodies and no-one even lifts a finger in an attempt to purify them.
* {{Plot Hole}}s seriously tarnish what is an otherwise excellent series in ''Flights of Fancy'', the second season of the ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'' TV series-- Skuld is seen using her stamp power in one late episode, but there's no episode in which we see it developed, and Chihiro, and her shop, Whirl Wind, show up, but Chihiro is never formally introduced, and the fact that she wanted to start a shop is never even mentioned.
** ''Flights of Fancy'' '''also inverts''' this Trope: Keiichi and Belldandy are an OfficialCouple by Episode 24 of ''Manga/AhMyGoddess''; at the end of the Lord of Terror arc, they share a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming when they confess their love for each other. In the 24th (and last) episode of ''Flights of Fancy'', Keiichi spends the entire episode trying to confess his love for Belldandy, but CannotSpitItOut-- even though Belldandy flat-out says she's ready for him to say it!
* ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'': In his fight with Alucard, Luke Valentine is shown to have a strong HealingFactor, surviving after getting shot in the head by Alucard's specialized gun. However he is unable to regenerate his legs. In the manga there was no headshot. He was instead shot in the stomach by the Casull, while his legs were shot off by Jackal. In the OVA, Jackal was the cause of all three wounds. This was rectified in the Blu-ray re-release, where Luke's initial injuries are now caused by the Casull.
* In ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'', [[GenderBender Ranma (as a girl)]] competes with [[WholesomeCrossdresser Tsubasa]] (whose disguise had yet to be revealed) in who can sell more food to the boys at school, but since all of them knew that Ranma wasn't a real girl they didn't buy any from her until she started wearing [[PlayboyBunny a]] [[PaperThinDisguise disguise.]] However, in the anime Ranma's curse wasn't revealed by this point, so the boys bought them ''only'' from the disguised Ranma for no apparent reason.
* ''Manga/SaintSeiya'' had one when they showed Scorpio Milo killing Shun's Master. Then the manga came out and it was [[spoiler: Pisces Aphrodite]]. A number of {{Ass Pull}}s had to be done to fix the problem of Shun swearing revenge against someone who didn't apply the coup de grace against his teacher.
* ''Manga/DoctorSlump'' had a story where Akane dressed up as Miss Yamabuki to play some pranks on Senbei. This took advantage of [[OnlySixFaces their faces looking the same]]. The second anime made their faces more different (And gave them [[AdaptationDyeJob different hair colors]]), yet they adapted this story even though it didn't make sense any more.
* ''Anime/Berserk1997'' ends with Guts facing certain doom, but then skips to him still alive in TheStinger (looking as he did in the ActionPrologue). As Skull Knight, the guy who saved him in the manga, was AdaptedOut, this just seems blatantly nonsensical.
* ''Manga/ElfenLied'':
** The anime begins with a [[RRatedOpening violent]] demonstration of Lucy's [[ImmuneToBullets immunity to bullets]], despite the fact that the guards are supposed to have special bullets designed to penetrate her [[PsychicPowers vectors]]. In the manga, she grabs a HumanShield before any of the heavily armed guards can get a shot off.
** The anime also gave Lucy only four vectors, as opposed to the seemingly unlimited number she had in the original, while allowing her to do things she did in the manga that would be impossible with only four vectors, such as simultaneously holding a few hundred bullets in mid-air.
* ''Manga/YuGiOh'' had quite a few examples in the anime, particularly with the size of the dueling arenas in Duelist Kingdom.
** Jonouchi discovering Mai's perfume-trick makes less sense in the anime. In the manga, they were sitting relatively close to each other, so it would make sense for Jonouchi to pick up on the scents. In the anime, there's quite a distance between them, not to mention that they're outside, so it should be impossible for Jonouchi to smell the perfume.
** In the manga, Kaiba's dueling rings were exclusive to himself and his company, and Pegasus was only able to produce the smaller Battle Boxes, creating a need for him to want Kaiba's technology to make a lifelike, real-size copy of his wife. In the anime, Pegasus's dueling rings were nearly identical to Kaiba's, making one wonder why he needed Kaiba's technology if he already had an equivalent. The dub fixes this by having him need both the technology and the Millennium Items to bring his wife back to life, which he could only get through beating Yugi and acquiring [=KaibaCorp=].
** Some of the Millennium Items are given one-time-only powers that they never had in the manga, such as the Puzzle being used to swap the Bakuras' souls, though this is phased out post-Duelist Kingdom.
* The anime adaptation of the video game ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss'' suffers from its CompressedAdaptation status. Sometimes it's only [[AdaptationExplanationExtrication Adaptation Explanation Extrications]], but other times are full blown plot holes. The most obvious example is [[spoiler:Ion's death]], which it's explained in the game, but in the anime comes practically out of nowhere and without any tangible reason.
* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'':
** ''Brotherhood'' has a pretty noticeable plothole. Roughly about 2/5ths through the manga, all hell breaks loose and sees Alphonse, Mustang's group, Barry the Chopper, and Ling and Lan Fan get caught up in a battle with the Homunculi. Ling and Lan Fan fight Gluttony and Ling manages to cut Gluttony in half. Gluttony immediately heals up from this, which causes Ling and Lan Fan to learn about the Homunculi's regenerative abilities. When Ed returns from Xerxes later on and reveals his plan to capture a Homunculus, Ling and Lan Fan want to get in on the action because of their knowledge of the Homunculi's regeneration since it relates to their own quest to find immortality. In ''Brotherhood'', the two's fight with Gluttony is completely cut, but they still want to join on Ed and Al's plan to capture a Homunculus for the same reasons, making one wonder how they know about the Homunculi and their power to regenerate.
** In the [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist first anime]], Greed's plan to bind his soul to an inanimate object was a failure before it even began, since homunculi in the first series had no souls to begin with. He was aware he had no soul, too.
* Periodically in ''Anime/SailorMoon:''
** At the end of the first act of the [[Manga/SailorMoon manga]], InnocentBystander Naru is insistent that morning that she and her mother were attacked by "robbers" the previous night (which fits somewhat with the fact that her mother was found taped up and locked in the basement of her jewelry store), who were stopped by MagicalGirlWarrior Sailor Moon (she has mercifully [[TraumaInducedAmnesia forgotten]] they were a shapeshifting monster). In first episode of TheNineties anime, rather than operating under a WeirdnessCensor, Naru believes the full incident was AllJustADream, which raises questions as to whether she remembers that the "dream" monster told her that her mother was BoundAndGagged [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse in the basement]].
** In the ''Sailor Moon S'' season, the then-currently condescending Outer Senshi have an oddly polite conversation with Tuxedo Mask (despite him being one of the weakest senshi) and refer to him respectfully as Endymion, despite no other indications that they know much about the existing cast (barring Pluto). This was lifted almost directly from the manga, where the Outer Senshi are implied to already know who most of the senshi are/were but are avoiding working with them out of a sense of duty and penance rather than dislike and skepticism.
** The anime never explains how Mamoru is able to keep Chibi-Usa alive at the end of ''Sailor Moon S'' when her heart crystal is stolen. This is a plot point that is lifted directly from the manga, but by this point the story had already established that he has the power to pass on energy to another person and even heal wounds several times. The anime never establishes him as possessing such a power, but it acts as though he's been able to do this all along.
** The anime short film ''Ami's First Love'' (accompanying the ''Super S'' movie) is a straight up adaptation of one of the Exam Battle short stories in the manga, which is about Ami getting a love letter from a secret admirer and freaking out so much she breaks out into hives. The problem? In the anime's timeline, Ami has already had a brief relationship with a CanonForeigner fellow student, Urawa Ryou (thus this isn't even her ''first'' love) and she was shown handling his shy affection for her with grace and maturity. The short film also has the problem of showing Ami using an attack that she only used in the manga without explanation of where she got it. The films already create so many continuity problems that they're generally considered non-canon anyway, but it's still jarring when a story from the manga is adapted straight into a timeline that proceeded so differently as to contradict it.
** A minor issue is with Uranus being mistaken as a boy. In the original manga, she is intentionally disguising herself as a male student to investigate the Mugen academy. She even poses as a new Tuxedo Kamen in one scene. Sailor Moon only realizes that she is a girl by recognizing her as Sailor Uranus. In the anime, she is simply a tomboy. It never gets explained exactly why Minako and Usagi initially mistake her as a boy, or even why Minako realizes that she is a girl in the end.
*** The same episode where the girls mistake Uranus as a boy also has Neptune deny that they are a couple, even though it was just as obvious.
** A minor plot hole happens in ''[=SuperS=]'' in regards to the Amazons Quartet. At the very end of the series, they make a comment about possibly meeting Chibimoon again, and it is also never explained why they're named after goddesses/celestial bodies (a ThemeNaming pattern common for the Solar System Sailor Senshi) rather than minerals or metals (a ThemeNaming pattern common for the antagonists) -- the implication is that they used to live in the asteroid belt, which only raises questions as to their true origins. In the manga, the four of them were actually dormant Sailor Senshi meant to be Chibimoon's guardians, who were forcibly awakened before their time and brainwashed into working for Nehellenia; their names come from the four asteroids that grant them their powers. Because the anime deviated from the manga in handling these characters, and ended up having Chibimoon herself PutOnABus following the first arc of ''Stars'', this development never happened in this version, leaving the hints that there was more to the Quartet with no outcome.
** In the ''[=Sailor StarS=]'' season, many characters remark that Chibi Chibi looks exactly like Usagi. Not just like her little sister, more like her daughter. Well, in the manga, this did make sense as Chibi Chibi is actually Sailor Cosmos, a future form of Sailor Moon herself, and thus they are essentially the same person. In the anime, however, her origin is completely independent of Sailor Moon entirely and it's never explained why they look the same.
** In episode six of ''Anime/SailorMoonCrystal'' Usagi freaks out that she can't transform in front of Tuxedo Mask and reveal she's Sailor Moon, a few minutes after telling him she feels powerless as a leader. She's then surprised to learn he already knows about her secret identity. In the manga, he tells her he knows before she starts worrying about her inadequacies as a Guardian, so her reaction makes perfect sense. (Out of context, her words could be interpreted in a more general sense since she doesn't specifically mention the Sailor Guardians but talking about having to protect everyone while there's clearly a fight going on not too far away doesn't leave much room for interpretation.)
*** Near the end of the same episode, Tuxedo Mask carries an unconscious Sailor Moon to his home so she can rest after overusing her powers. When she subsequently wakes up in Mamoru's room, she is detransformed, with no explanation why this happened. In the manga, she detransforms at will upon waking up, and in general it is shown that simply being unconscious doesn't make a Guardian spontaneously revert to the civilian form, so it's unclear why her transformation was undone in this case.
** Another episode of ''Crystal'' recreated the scene from the manga which reveals that Mamoru survived being stabbed by Sailor Moon because the stones the Shitennou transformed into [[PocketProtector blocked the blade]], preventing him from receiving a fatal wound. In the manga, the possessed Mamoru was explicitly shown carrying the Kunzite stone after the Shitennou's human bodies decayed. In ''Crystal'', however, the Shitennou didn't die until shortly before Mamoru was stabbed, which happened in a different place, so there's no explanation why he had their stones at that moment.
** Another problem that occurs with the alterations to the Shitennou's plotline is occurs when a brainwashed Mamoru brainwashes Motoki to hold off the Guardians. Any viewer who hasn't read the manga will likely be scratching their heads as to why he doesn't just use the Shitennou, who have been proven to be more than a match for the girls before.
* The first episodes of ''Manga/DetectiveConan'' anime removed several references to [[TheSyndicate Dark Organization]] and its members that existed in the manga, causing two examples of this trope:
** In ''Shinkansen Bomb'' case (animated as episode 4), originally it was the ThoseTwoBadGuys who gave Shinichi that fateful FountainOfYouth that planted a bomb on the train, and during the case Conan (i.e. the alias Shinichi took after being shrunk) overheard their {{code name}}s: Gin and Vodka. In the anime the criminals were no longer members members of Dark Organization but some random criminals, so this left a plot hole in the anime that was never adequately resolved-- when these names were needed in the third season, Conan just mentioned that without any explanation on how he knew that in the first place.
** ''The Billion-yen Robbery Case'' involves the death of [[spoiler:Akemi Miyano]], a Dark Organization {{mook|s}}, in the hands of the same Gin and Vodka. In the anime (Episode 12), the Dark Organization aspects of this case were completely removed-- the said {{mook|s}} did not die, and she wasn't injured by Gin and Vodka either. This caused a case of SchrodingersCast as the said mook's ''death under the hands of the Dark Organization'' is essential to the plot, and she became the focal point of many, many backstories. An anime original episode was thus made right before one of those important backstories unravel, where the said mook was killed by Gin.
* ''VisualNovel/LittleBusters'': In the VisualNovel, Kud's reluctance to return to Tevua stemmed partially from her relationship with Riki and partially from her fear of the dangerous conditions there, and only lasted for a couple of scenes. The anime drew this out, instead using this plot point to show Kud's backstory and how she felt unable to become a cosmonaut like her mother and was ashamed of herself, and claiming that she came to Japan to 'escape' from this. Nicely dramatic...but then why does Kud speak fluent Japanese? In the visual novel, it's made clear that Kud was always meant to go to high school in Japan and so had been taught Japanese as her dual first language with Russian. But in the anime, her moving to Japan was treated as a sudden whim outside of her mother's knowledge.
* A few exist in ''Anime/{{Robotech}}'' thanks to its origins as a CutAndPasteTranslation:
** Why does Dana Sterling have green hair as a baby but is a blonde by the time she grows up? Dye job? Or because she was originally two different characters (Komilia Maria Fallyna Jenius in ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross'' and Jeanne Francaix in ''Anime/SuperDimensionCavalrySouthernCross'')?
** Why, when humanity come across Zor Prime, do they act surprised when they analyze him and find out he's basically human (never mind the shoehorned-in "and not just a micronized [[Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross Zentraedi]]" statement pointing out their alleged familiarity with HumanAliens - surely the races are so similar as to be practically the same species, as they can interbreed)? Maybe the fact that the original ''Anime/SuperDimensionCavalrySouthernCross'' character actually was a (brainwashed) human, Seifriet Weisse.
** Why cities such as New York (complete with famous RealLife theatres) exist in ''The New Generation'' series when [[spoiler: the Earth got nuked by the Zentraedi and they barely managed to rebuild before being invaded again by the Invid]]? Maybe because there were no Zentraedi in ''Anime/GenesisClimberMospeada'' to begin with.
* In the manga adaptation of ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'', due to [[CompressedAdaptation its nature]], they had to cut out some scenes from the final stretch of the anime. One of those scenes was a MeaningfulFuneral, which had its purpose be that [[spoiler:Sayaka's body, which was left in the apartment by Kyouko, was found]]. Cutting out that scene just suggests that [[OffscreenInertia the corpse is still rotting in the apartment]].
* Shinji's reluctance to pilot the Eva in the ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' series makes far, far less sense than in the original ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', in which he made sure to ask what would happen if he were gone, and Misato assured him Rei would replace him. In 1.0, she egged him into leaving despite knowing full well the fate of humanity rests on his shoulders, and in 1.11, he realizes only seconds before starting the final decisive battle of the film that other people’s lives depend on him, despite having ''seen'' what an Angel can do.
* The anime of ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'' contains so many of these (either by misinterpreting scenes from the visual novel, going for RuleOfCool or because of CompressedAdaptation) that the mystery becomes impossible to solve on one's own:
** The first two are in episode 5 alone, where Battler shoots a bullet at the portrait [[spoiler:even though the gun he picked up is supposed to be unloaded]] and sees gold butterflies (while in the VN Beatrice appears in person) [[spoiler:which are supposed to indicate we are watching a fantasy scene. So the detective ''shouldn't'' see them, the only exception being the end of Episode 2, where Battler had surrendered]].
** Another one is in episode 10, where [[spoiler:Shannon's corpse is found with the stake in her forehead; while in the VN the fact that the stake is ''beside'' her corpse is an important clue that she committed suicide in Episode 2 and 4.]]
** Yet another is how [[spoiler:in the anime, Shannon and Kanon would appear together in front of other people, such as the cousins, in scenes that weren't fantasy. In the visual novel, the fact that Shannon and Kanon never appear together in front of the other members of the family outside fantasy scenes is meant to be foreshadowing for how they're actually one and the same]].
** And of course, the entire first half of the Episode 4 Tea Party is axed, along with several important bits of information.
* ''Anime/BlazBlueAlterMemory'' has [[spoiler:Ragna leave a nearly dead Hazama alive to go find Rachel and Noel. While the game establishes this by saying that Hazama has a lifelink active (which requires one to kill both members of the lifelink at the same time in order to have them die), the anime doesn't bother stating it and makes Ragna look like an idiot.]]
* In ''Manga/ICantUnderstandWhatMyHusbandIsSaying'', one of the main characters is shown to be a smoker in the manga, but not the anime. This becomes a problem when she's told that she needs to quit in episode 6.
* At the end of the ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'' anime [[spoiler:Angelica]] dies. This is all perfectly fine since it's the last episode, but four years later they created a new anime called ''Gunslinger Girl Il Teatrino''. It's closer to the manga and [[spoiler:Angelica]] was revived, as she doesn't die until halfway through the manga. The problem is ''Teatrino'' tries to act as a sequel to the first anime, and her [[spoiler:falling asleep instead of dying]] ruins the impact of the original ending.
* The first episode of ''Manga/WanderingSon'' has Yuki buying Takatsuki a gakuran. In the manga Takatsuki already has a gakuran. She wore a gakuran frequently while out as a boy, and the gakuran is a hand-me-down from her brother.
* In ''Manga/{{Ooku}} The Inner Chambers'', [[spoiler: the shogunate bypasses the closest heir, Tokugawa Harusada, in favor of her son Toyochiyo (Shogun Ienari). In real life, the reason Ienari became shogun was because he had been adopted by his predecessor Ieharu to become his heir. In ''Ooku'', though, no such adoption ever took place, and everyone had expected Harusada to become the next shogun, making her abdication one of these, especially since no explanation's been given so far as to why she turned it down.]]
* The SickEpisode from ''Manga/MonthlyGirlsNozakiKun'' revolves around Sakura, Hori, and Waka having to guess how Mamiko, the heroine in Nozaki's manga, would act after Nozaki gets sick and is unable finish his current chapter. They never even ''think'' to call their friend Mikoshiba for help, despite the fact that Mamiko's personality is explicitly said to be based off his, meaning he would likely have some insight into how to write her. The manga chapter this episode was adapted from contained a line stating that they would be unable to reach Mikoshiba since he was either buying or playing a newly-released DatingSim, but for some reason this scene was omitted from the anime.
* A large amount occur in the anime adaptation of ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'', due its severely compressed nature. One of the more notable ones is with Tsukiyama. In the manga, Tsukiyama becomes a major ally of Kaneki's in the latter half and goes through significant CharacterDevelopment, culminating in a confrontation with Kaneki where he attempts to prevent Kaneki from going on a suicide mission, which causes Tsukiyama to eventually have a mental breakdown. In the anime, the plot is altered so his CharacterDevelopment doesn't happen, but the confrontation plays out pretty much the exact same way, which makes his reaction come off as completely overblown and random, considering he and Kaneki have barely got know each other. Another example is that in the manga, it is revealed that [[spoiler: Dr Kanou was intentionally creating One-Eyed-Ghouls for Aogiri and Kaneki was a successful experiment.]] This (along with [[spoiler: Kanou's]] character) is cut from the anime, so the existence of the twins Kurona and Nashiro go completely unexplained.
* The anime of Manga/{{Karneval}} drops a sub-plot early in the story in which Nai is framed for murdering a policeman, leaving it unexplained why Gareki needs to keep him hidden from the police in subsequent scenes.
* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'':
** In the anime, the Titan eating Eren's mother is shown intentionally breaking her spine beforehand, which makes little sense for a mindless Titan to do. Though Eren's mother ''was'' struggling against the Titan's hold, it's possible the Titan was at least smart enough to know that crushing her would make her stop squirming.
** Episode 25 shows Levi, getting Eren [[spoiler:out of his Titan form]] in his 3D Maneuver Gear after defeating [[spoiler:Annie]], despite that he had [[spoiler:an injured leg]] back in Episode 22, which was emphasized several times. In the manga, [[spoiler:he wasn't able to participate in capturing Annie because of his injury]].
** In the manga, [[spoiler:titan!Annie was scaling the Wall so quickly that titan!Eren had to throw Mikasa in order to reach her. In the anime, Mikasa was somehow able to reach her all on her own (though it would appear that titan!Annie was climbing the Wall much slower than in the manga).]]
* ''Manga/FairyTail'': While the anime will often make little corrections to Mashima's consistency errors, coming close to the manga has caused it to create a few of its own. The shadowy figure that Jellal is kept from pursuing is changed from a spiky haired silhouette to the hooded girl, for instance. [[spoiler: While that was generally assumed to have been Mashima not knowing how the figure should look until later, a manga chapter that came out at almost exactly the same time as the episode revealed that it actually had been Silver, not F!Lucy.]]
** The anime also had the Trinity Raven guild escape the Tower of Heaven before it collapsed, whereas they are implied to die in it in the manga. Along comes chapter 482 and 483, and it's revealed that [[spoiler: they actually did die in the Tower, since a villain uses a spell that conjures dead people, and Ikaruga is one of them]].
* While ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' is mostly consistent (helped by two breaks), it suffered this when TheMovie included a flashback scene that strongly implied that Gintoki was taken in later by Shouyo after Takasugi and Katsura, only for it to be established later on that it was the other way around. Unsurprisingly, when the anime finally adapted those chapters, it lampshaded the problem two episodes later were Gintoki answered fanmail and promptly made up a deliberately nonsense explanation.
* [[Manga/TheLegendOfZelda The manga adaptation of]] ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' skips the Temple of Shadows, meaning that we see Link collecting only five medallions... but when he haves to break the barrier around Hyrule Castle, the sixth medallion appears out of nowhere, along with Impa in the group shot with the other sages.
* The first episode to ''Manga/YourLieInApril'' has Kousei mention that he has brown eyes. This is [[AdaptationDyeJob despite]] him very clearly having blue eyes.
* ''Anime/AceAttorney'': A major part of Phoenix's backstory involves "class trial" when he was accused of stealing [[spoiler: Edgeworth's]] lunch money. He was sick the day the money was stolen and didn't attend PE class, so when he was only one without alibi everyone assumed it was him. The anime-only episode "Turnabout Promise" [[AdaptationExpansion extended the scene]] by showing Pheonix taking the envelope the money was supposed to be in and [[NotWhatItLooksLike being seen by a girl from his class]]. However, despite being seemingly caught red-handed, the trial goes the same way it did in the game with [[spoiler:Edgeworth]] claiming they accuse him with no evidence, and the fact that he was seen isn't brought up at all.
* ''Anime/TheMelancholyOfHaruhiSuzumiya'' has a minor one in the "The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya" arc of the anime. The light novel starts with Kyon telling Haruhi about the powers of the SOS Brigade members, and Haruhi dismissing it as "too convenient". Then the main plot is Haruhi making a bad movie where the SOS Brigade members played characters with their actual powers. The anime moved around that first scene to make it the last scene of the arc (so Haruhi dismissed because it was so obvious he was basing it on the movie). But the anime still kept Kyon's narration line "Is this my fault?" when he found out about the roles.
* In ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs'', Chrono's staff Durandal was created by Gil Graham to fight the Book of Darkness. Due to Graham being AdaptedOut, the movie changed it to [[AncestralWeapon originally belonging to his father]]. All well and good, were it not for the fact that Chrono's father died via exploding spaceship while on duty (meaning he would have had his weapon with him), which makes you wonder how in the
hell Lindy got a hold of it.
* ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'' has a small version of this: Gauron's twin assassins mistakenly pronounce Kaname's surname Chidori using the Chinese reading of the characters. This makes sense in the original light novels and the anime adaptation, where they're Chinese; it's less logical in the manga adaptation ''Full Metal Panic! Sigma'', which [[RaceLift makes them]] ambiguously Caucasian {{Gothic Lolita}}s.
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