History BookEnds / AnimeAndManga

* The first and last chapters of the ''DeathNote'' manga have echoing sorts of scenes on the streets.

* The final episode of the (first) ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'' anime seems does this, when Alphonse starts reciting the "Humankind cannot gain..." speech from the first episode; after the first two sentences, the speech is changed to reflect what they've learned from the events in the series.
** The same thing happens in [[FullmetalAlchemist the manga]], although we don't know who's speaking the lines.
** And in the manga, the first confrontation with a villain features Ed announcing that he's going to show Cornello why he's a third-rate charlatan nowhere near the Elrics' level. At the end of Chapter 107, after [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu punching the crap out of an]] EldritchAbomination [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu that just ate God]], he tells him to get up because "it's time you learned why you're not in our league!" [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Heads exploded.]]
** On the very first page of the manga, Ed is [[http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/1935/82954664.jpg shown]] in a train station with a suitcase and his red coat. On the very last page of the manga, [[http://img849.imageshack.us/img849/4918/112oo.jpg he is shown]] like this again, but is this time [[spoiler: leaving instead of arriving.]]

* The first episode of ''SailorMoon'' begins with Usagi saying "I'm Usagi Tsukino, 14 years old, junior high student. I'm clumsy and a bit of a crybaby. That's it." She then becomes Sailor Moon in that episode. The last episode ends with her saying "I'm Usagi Tsukino, 16 years old, high school student. I'm clumsy and a bit of a crybaby, but I'm actually the agent for love and justice, Sailor Moon."

** But [[YourMilageMayVary]]. For one thing, we never find out whether the wild Fearow is the same Spearow that Ash encountered earlier or not. The fans (and the characters) just speculate that it might be. For another, the placement of this episode is highly debatable. Some sources place it at the end of the first season, in which case it does exemplify this trope, but others place it at the beginning of Season 2 instead.

* ''PokemonTheFirstMovie'' begins and ends with a shot of Mew flying away into the sky.

** ''PokemonZensho'' has the second chapter start with Satoshi waking up the day he starts his journey. The last chapter of the manga starts this way too, the exact same page until the last few panels.

* In the beginning of the first episode of ''SayonaraZetsubouSensei'', a short black-and-white clip is shown where Nozomu is hanged, with all the students grabbing on to him and each other to form some sort of human pyramid and it turns out that the rope is attached to a giant Meru's cellphone. This clip is played again at the end of the very last episode of the second series, which, not counting the OVA series, is the final episode altogether.

* In ''Literature/{{Toradora}}'', one of the first scenes when Ryuuji meets Taiga is through a locker. At the end, Taiga and Ryuuji meet again. Guess where.

* In the first chapter of ''AiKora'', Maeda clobbers the guy who burned down the boys' dorm and was trying to do the same to the girls' dorm when he takes Sakurako hostage. [[spoiler: The same guy shows up in ''the very last chapter'', trying to burn down the girls' dorm again. He takes Sakurako hostage again, this time at ''gunpoint'', and Maeda (who had been missing for four months after accidentally taking an airplane to England) makes his triumphant return by [[DynamicEntry kicking the guy in the head and rescuing Sakurako]].]]

* ''DarkerThanBlack'' begins with the police trying to catch Louis, a Contractor with gravity-cancellation powers. He gets away, [[MookHorrorShow only to run into Hei]], who, despite Mao's protests, kills him. The first season ends with [[spoiler:Hei sparing someone who really deserved to die thanks to Kirihara's protests]], then shows the police chasing a Contractor with the same gravity-cancellation ability Louis had- but this time they catch the guy by entangling him with cables shot out of a fancy new upgrade to their handguns.

* ''Anime/YuGiOh'' has Yugi's winning card in the last duel of the series is the Golden Sarcophagus, which has been [[LampshadeHanging pointed out]] that the card resembles the box the Millennium Puzzle was in. [[spoiler: The box that brought Yugi and Atem together would be the very thing that would bring them apart.]]

* In ''Anime/{{Toradora}}'', one of the first scenes when Ryuuji meets Taiga is through a locker. At the end, Taiga and Ryuuji meet again. Guess where.

* ''{{Betterman}}'' begins and ends with Keita and Honoki on a deserted island.

* The first chapter of the ''{{Touhou}}'' ComicBookAdaptation, ''Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth'' opens with the narration "This is Eientei. The place where rabbits live." and ends with a strip with the title "The rabbits' night is long". When the manga reached its final chapter, those lines from the first chapter were used again to serve as the closing narration.

* The series finale of ''TheBigO'' repeats the first part of the driving scene and opening narration from the first episode. The difference is that [[spoiler: Angel and Dorothy are standing nearby]] and the road is smoother. It is open to interpretation, but this might indicate that [[spoiler: [[HereWeGoAgain this iteration]] of Paradigm City's reality may go more smoothly than last time.]]

* In ''TigerAndBunny'', [[TheLancer Barnaby]] flies in from nowhere and catches a falling [[TheProtagonist Kotetsu]] in both the first and the last episodes. The former's CharacterDevelopment and [[HeterosexualLifePartners the improvement in their relationship]] is obvious in how he treats Kotetsu after the fact: [[http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmem4tTzPT1qfoo7s.gif casually tossing him aside]] vs. [[http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmem5gPZST1qfoo7s.gif gently setting him down.]]

* In ''ToraDora'', one of the first scenes when Ryuuji meets Taiga is through a locker. At the end, Taiga and Ryuuji meet again. Guess where.

* ''[=~D.N.Angel~=]'' begins with a reporter speaking into a camera as police run towards a building, then cuts to Dark and Krad charging at each other. The last episode of the series shows this scene again, indicating that in reality that scene was a flash forward.

* ''[=~Pokémon: The First Movie~=]'' begins and ends with a shot of Mew flying away into the sky.

* Lampshaded in ''HanaukyoMaidTai La Verite''. In episode 1, when Taro first meets Mariel he sees her upside down (he just fell down and she walks up from behind him). In episode 12, the last episode of the series, it happens again. Taro points out that it's the same as when they first met.

* In ''TigerAndBunny'', secondary protagonist Barnaby flies in from nowhere and catches a falling Kotetsu in both the first and the last episodes. The former's CharacterDevelopment and [[HeterosexualLifePartners the improvement in their relationship]] is obvious in how he treats Kotetsu after the fact: [[http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmem4tTzPT1qfoo7s.gif casually tossing him aside]] vs. [[http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmem5gPZST1qfoo7s.gif gently setting him down.]]

* The last scene of the ''{{ARIA}}'' series depicts Akari embarrassing her new apprentice by happily staring at her, just like Alicia did to Akari at the beginning of the series.