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** Episode 4 ends with Megumi in a café, getting an email from Kimari and noticeably being silent.

* ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'': Seisōhen ends with Kenji (dressed like Kenshin) walking with a young girl beneath the cherry blossoms, saying that they will live happily together.

* Every episode of ''Anime/WelcomeToDemonSchoolIrumaKun'' has a "Sukima" [[note]]Shown as "スキ間", literal translation "gap"[[/note]] which tells a short little side story relating to the episode you just watched. These are usually adapted from the extra 4-koma inserts in the collected volumes of the manga, making them also a form of this textually.

* The closing credits for all of the ''Film/{{Pokemon}}'' movies are set in front of what Ash Ketchum, Pikachu, and the gang were doing following the film's events, usually scenes of them leaving for the next city/town, but sometimes there are more. For example, the last thing we see at the end of ''[[Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie Mewtwo Strikes Back]]'' is a shot of Mew flying away into a mountainous background. In ''[[Anime/Pokemon3 Spell of the Unown]]'', the scene of Molly reuniting with her parents was originally a stinger in the Japanese version, but it was moved to before the credits in the English dub because the producers were worried that viewers would walk out of the theater when the credits rolled and would miss it.

* ''Manga/{{Unfaithful}}'' ends with Tashiron having apparently started an affair with her coworker Ootsuki, cheating on her abusive girlfriend, with Page 21 having "FIN" on the end. On the next page, Ootsuki listens to a recording she made of that evening, and gloats to herself about how easy it was to [[ManipulativeBastard manipulate]] Tashiron into falling for her, revealing that she not only [[BitchInSheepsClothing played the "kind senpai" to her]], but also [[StalkerWithACrush followed her home and eavesdroped on her to learn of her relationship troubles].

*** In episode 3, Wang Chan finds the Stone Mask amidst the wreckage of the Joestar mansion. But as he is about to take it, [[RaisedHandOfSurvival a hand bursts from the ground and grabs Wang Chan's wrist, sucking him of his blood and revealing that Dio survived his fight against Jonathan in the mansion.

** ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood Phantom Blood]]'': At the end, there's a lingering scene of a man inside of a pillar after Jonathan's story comes to a close, leading into Part 2.

* The final episode (not counting the three OVA specials) of ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' had a post-credits scene with Issac and Miria who after decades of not aging thanks to immortality, finally figure out they don't age and... come to the wrong conclusion.

* ''LightNovel/FateApocrypha'':

* Most of the first few ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'' movies had this:

* ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'': In the ''Disappearance'' movie, Yuki is shown reading by herself in the library. She then sees [[CallBack a boy helping a girl make a library card]]. Yuki then looks toward the camera and does that adorable move where she holds her book in front of her face with only her eyes peeking out over it. As if the rest of the movie isn't enough proof that Yuki doesn't need emotions to be {{moe}}.

** The continuation movie, ''[[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion Rebellion]]'', actually [[MindScrewdriver explains the series stinger]]. Most of the movie takes place in that desert, inside a LotusEaterMachine. In the end, Homura becomes a winged demon and absorbs the universe into her labyrinth, in the same way that her weird wings absorbed the screen at the end of the series.]] And to keep the ending inexplicable, it adds a surreal stinger of its own: [[spoiler:Homura, who has apparently just [[MindRape Mind Raped]] Kyubey, dances around happily before doing a CrucifiedHeroShot and falling off a cliff.

* Every episode of 'Anime/WelcomeToDemonSchoolIrumaKun' has a "Sukima" [[note]]Shown as "スキ間", literal translation "gap"[[/note]] which tells a short little side story relating to the episode you just watched. These are usually adapted from the extra 4-koma inserts in the collected volumes of the manga, making them also a form of this textually.

** The spin-off anime ''Anime/MagiaRecordPuellaMagiMadokaMagicaSideStory'' has them after Episodes 3, 5, 7, 9 and 10.

* The second ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' movie has a plot-releveant one. The movie ends with Shinji starting [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Third Impact]]. After the credits, Kaworu shows up, impales Shinji's Eva with a giant spear to halt Third Impact, and says that he'll show Shinji "true happiness".

* ''Anime/TheGreatMissionToSavePrincessPeach'': After the credits, the old woman from the beginning returns to the grocery store where Mario and Luigi work, only to be confused when she is happily greeted by Bowser and some of his Koopas, who seem to work there now.

* ''[[VideoGame/DotHackGU .hack//G.U. Trilogy]]'' ends with a stinger conversation between Pi and Yata. It seems to be connected to the [[NoExportForYou .hack//Link]] PSP game.

* The ''[[VideoGame/HarukanaruTokiNoNakaDe Harukanaru Toki no Naka de - Maihitoyo]]'' movie [[BittersweetEnding ends]] with [[spoiler:Akane purifying [[DeadAllAlong Suefumi]] to allow him to leave the world for the afterlife]]. After the credits[[note]]which consist of random pretty pictures accompanied by a somewhat sad yet catchy song[[/note]], there's one more scene where Akane takes her [[CastFullOfPrettyBoys team of pretty guys]] along with [[GayOption the token girls]] to the place Yorihisa showed her earlier in the movie to adore the beautiful view of Kyou; [[spoiler:Suefumi is added to the list of people who are important to her, meaning he isn't going to be forgotten]].

* ''Anime/LupinIII'' usually doesn't do this, but two out of the three movies of the [[AlternateContinuity Lupin the IIIrd]] movies have them:

* ''Anime/MyHeroAcademia'':

* All ''Franchise/{{Naruto}}'' movies have post-credit scenes.
** In the credits of ''[[Anime/NarutoTheMovieNinjaClashInTheLandOfSnow Naruto the Movie: Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow]]'', there is a scene involving new Daimyo of the Land of Snow Yukie Fujikaze revealing to Naruto and the gang the script for her next movie... which happens to be the film adaptation of Jiraiya's ''Icha Icha Paradise'', which Kakashi [[MythologyGag orders tickets for]] in Episode 101.
** After the credits of ''[[Anime/NarutoShippudenTheMovie Naruto Shippuuden: The Movie]]'', there's a scene where Shion decides to continue her line of {{miko}}, and Naruto unwittingly agrees to ''sire her children''.
** After the credits of ''[[Anime/TheLastNarutoTheMovie The Last: Naruto The Movie]]'', the HappilyMarried [[OfficialCouple Naruto and Hinata]] are seen playing with their two children, Boruto and Himawari.
** After ''[[Anime/BorutoNarutoTheMovie Boruto: Naruto the Movie]]'''s credits, a chat between Boruto, Sarada, and Mitsuki reveals that Mitsuki's parent is none other than Orochimaru.

* The credits for ''[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Neon Genesis Evangelion]]: The End of Evangelion'' appear half-way through the movie, rendering the ''entire second half'' this trope.

** The spin-off anime ''VideoGame/MagiaRecordPuellaMagiMadokaMagicaSideStory'' has them after Episodes 3, 5, 7, 9 and 10.

* Episode 10 of ''VisualNovel/SchoolDays'' has a scene showing Makoto at the airport trying to find Setsuna, who is leaving for Paris. A flashback Setsuna has reveals that Setsuna was originally supposed to have the classroom seat next to Makoto, but Sekai begged her to switch seats.

* ''Manga/TokyoGhoul''' has a few:

* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' ends the anime with one, which brings in one of the biggest revelations of the manga. At the end of the credits for the last episode, the camera zooms in on one of the walls; part of the wall cracks and falls away, revealing a Titan. '''THERE ARE TITANS ''INSIDE THE WALLS''.'''

* Both ''VideoGame/{{Tamagotchi}}'' theatrical films have one.

** Episode 25 (the final episode): [[spoiler:Jeanne wanders the Reverse Side of the World until she finds Sieg, who had been turned into a dragon. When she touches him, he returns to normal. Happy to see each other, they agree to go on a journey together, then Jeanne confesses she is in love with him.]]

** After the credits for the penultimate episode of season 2, we see the One-Eyed Owl regurgitating Yoshimura and revealing itself to be none other than [[spoiler:Sen Takatsuki, the popular author]].

** The series has a pretty major one at the end of Episode 3, in which Slaine confronts Trillram [[spoiler:and then [[BewareTheNiceOnes shoots him dead]]]].
** Season 2 Episode 6 has another pretty major one, as [[spoiler: Lemrina attempts to turn off Asseylum's life support, only to decide she can't go through with it. Just as Lemrina leaves, Asseylum then starts to wake up...]]
* ''Anime/AngelBeats'': After the credits, [[spoiler:there is a brief scene where Yuzuru passes Kanade in a busy street, they both apparently having been reborn, and recognizes her by the song she is humming (My Song). He then turns around and runs after her, reaching out to try and touch her as the screen fades to white.]]

* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' ends the anime with one, which brings in one of the biggest revelations of the manga. At the end of the credits for the last episode, the camera zooms in on one of the walls; part of the wall cracks and falls away, [[spoiler:revealing a Titan. THERE ARE TITANS ''INSIDE THE WALLS''.]]
* The final episode (not counting the three OVA specials) of ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' had a post-credits scene with Issac and Miria who [[spoiler:after decades of not aging thanks to immortality, finally figure out they don't age and... ]]come to the wrong conclusion.
* ''Manga/BloomIntoYou'' has this in its anime adaptation.

** Episode 10 ends with Touko dreaming about [[spoiler:the day her sister died]], and resolving to become the person Mio was.

** Episode "Jupiter Jazz, part II" replaced the normal credits music "The Real Folk Blues" with different music ("Space Lion" by The Seatbelts), and the usual "See you space cowboy" with [[{{Engrish}} "Do you have comrade?"]] Before you ask, yes, it was fixed in the English dub.

* In ''Manga/DestinyOfTheShrineMaiden'', watching through the credits reveals that [[spoiler:Chikane, who [[HeroicSacrifice sacrificed her life for Himeko]]'s in the GrandFinale, is indeed reborn and meets Himeko at an unspecified time later]].
* ''Anime/DragonBallZResurrectionF'': Frieza ends up in the exact same place he started the movie from: {{Hell}}.

* Some of the ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'' movies had them:

** Episode 2 had [[spoiler:a foreshadowing of Asagami Fujino and Shirazumi Lio's appearances.]]
** Episode 4 [[spoiler:showed how Asagami Fujino and Fujyou Kirie got their abilities.]]

** Episode 6 had [[spoiler:Araya Souren awakening Shirazumi Lio's origin.]]
** Episode 7 had [[spoiler:an epilogue showing Shiki and Mikiya walking together after Shiki got out of the hospital.]]

** ''Anime/GodzillaPlanetOfTheMonsters'': After Haruo Sakaki's team is [[spoiler:annihilated by the original Godzilla, Haruo wakes up in a hut being tended to by a pink haired girl in tribal clothing and a mask. When she sees he is awake, she removes her mask and shows she is human, indicating the humanity left behind on Earth is not extinct.]]
** ''Anime/GodzillaCityOnTheEdgeOfBattle'': It replays an earlier scene where Metphies whispered into Harou's ear and reveals what he said. [[spoiler:He was telling Haruo about King Ghidorah.]]
** ''Anime/GodzillaThePlanetEater'': Several years in the future, [[spoiler:an elderly Maina watches as children pray to a statue of the deceased Harou and his mech the Vulture. They call him a "wrathful god" and ask him to take away their fears and anxieties.]]
* During the end credits of the {{OVA}} ''[[Manga/Golgo13 Golgo 13: Queen Bee]]'', [[spoiler: after Golgo succeeds in his task of killing Queen Bee, he does Queen Bee's final request, to assassinate Thomas Waltham on his boat.]]
* ''Anime/TheGreatMissionToSavePrincessPeach'': After the credits, the old woman from the beginning returns to the grocery store where Mario and Luigi work, only to be confused when she is happily greeted by [[spoiler:Bowser and some of his Koopas, who seem to work there now.]]
* ''Anime/GreatPretender:'' After the credits roll after the final episode, it cuts to a small fishing village off the coast of Taiwan: [[spoiler: It turns out that the presumed-dead Dorothy is [[DisneyDeath alive after all,]] albiet [[EasyAmnesia amnesiac]]--and her adoptive father figure just found her ring in the belly of a fish.]]

** After the credits roll in ''Anime/Gundam00AWakeningOfTheTrailblazer'', [[spoiler: we cut to 2091 A.D., where we see E.A. Ray talking to Aeolia Schenburg that humanity must unite in order to reach the future. Fifty years later, the ELS is now co-existing with humanity and a ship named after Sumeragi is preparing for travel, the crew featuring Innovators, and Amia Lee, the girl who was attacked by the ELS earlier. We later see Setsuna, now an ELS/Innovator hybrid, visiting an older and blind Marina playing the piano, who embraces her. The movie then ends with the saying, [[UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein "Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."]]]]

** All four movies have these as well, the third movie's Stinger also resolving [[spoiler:how [=InuYasha=] still has his kotodama rosary in subsequent episodes of the anime despite it breaking into pieces and flying off earlier in the movie.]]

** ''Anime/GravestoneOfDaisukeJigen'' has Inspector Zenigata [[spoiler: looking over at the graves of Lupin, Jigen, and Fujiko.]]

** In the credits of ''[[Anime/NarutoTheMovieNinjaClashInTheLandOfSnow Naruto the Movie: Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow]]'', there is a scene involving [[spoiler:new Daimyo of the Land of Snow]] Yukie Fujikaze revealing to Naruto and the gang the script for her next movie... [[spoiler:which happens to be the film adaptation of Jiraiya's ''Icha Icha Paradise'', which Kakashi [[MythologyGag orders tickets for]] in Episode 101]].
** After the credits of ''[[Anime/NarutoShippudenTheMovie Naruto Shippuuden: The Movie]]'', there's a scene where [[spoiler:Shion decides to continue her line of {{miko}}, and Naruto unwittingly agrees to ''sire her children'']].
** After the credits of ''[[Anime/TheLastNarutoTheMovie The Last: Naruto The Movie]]''. The HappilyMarried [[spoiler:[[OfficialCouple Naruto and Hinata]]]] are seen playing with [[spoiler:their two children, Boruto and Himawari]].
** After ''[[Anime/BorutoNarutoTheMovie Boruto: Naruto the Movie]]'''s credits, a chat between Boruto, Sarada, and Mitsuki reveals [[spoiler: that Mitsuki's parent is none other than Orochimaru]].

* In the ''Manga/OnePiece'' special, "[=3D2Y=]", as the credits end, there's a brief scene in which [[spoiler:Sabo, the brother Ace and Luffy thought was dead, pours three cups of sake at Ace and Whitebeard's grave]].
* ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'''s final episode had one, which was so obviously and shamelessly tacked on, and comes so completely [[{{asspull}} out of nowhere]] that it seems like an intentional parody of stingers. After returning from the battle with the BigBad, [[spoiler: Stocking [[FaceHeelTurn slices Panty into 666 pieces and declares that she's actually a demon]]. Then [[BigBad Corset]] reappears and tells Brief that he'll have to follow the pieces to the next city over and unlock another hellgate to save Panty, ending with a "To be continued" message (as a parody of shows that are cancelled before they can resolve their plot). Also, Garter spontaneously dies for no reason, then comes back to life for no reason.]] Yes, [[GainaxEnding this is a Gainax anime]], [[MindScrew why do you ask?]]

* In ''Anime/PrettyCureAllStars DX 3'', after the credits, we're greeted with [[spoiler:Chypre, Coffret and Potpourri sitting forlornly on the Great Heart Tree before noticing something. The screen switches over to the Cures at the time trying to act normally after TheMagicGoesAway... until all of their fairy partners drop from the sky. The thing the three fairies noticed was the MacGuffin regrowing, thus allowing them to return to their friends and thus, TheMagicComesBack. What, did you expect a DownerEnding like that when ''Anime/SuitePrettyCure'' just started?]]
* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' has one in the final episode. [[GainaxEnding It's a little weird]], though it's easy enough to understand - the big questions are "Where does it take place?", "''When'' does it take place?" and "What is with [[spoiler:those wings?]]". Then there's the part after it which [[spoiler:displays the five main characters from the back]], followed by them becoming the center of a row of silhouettes. This all might be part of a SequelHook.

** The continuation movie, ''[[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion Rebellion]]'', actually [[MindScrewdriver explains the series stinger]]. [[spoiler:Most of the movie takes place in that desert, inside a LotusEaterMachine. In the end, Homura becomes a winged demon and absorbs the universe into her labyrinth, in the same way that her weird wings absorbed the screen at the end of the series.]] And to keep the ending inexplicable, it adds a surreal stinger of its own: [[spoiler:Homura, who has apparently just [[MindRape Mind Raped]] Kyubey, dances around happily before doing a CrucifiedHeroShot and falling off a cliff.]]
** The spinoff anime ''VideoGame/MagiaRecordPuellaMagiMadokaMagicaSideStory'' has them after Episodes 3, 5, 7, 9, and 10.
* In ''Anime/RealDrive'', you see Minamo rushing off to meet [[spoiler:a rejuvenated Haru stepping out of the sea]].
* The second ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' movie has a pretty major one. The movie ends with [[spoiler:Shinji starting [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Third Impact]]. After the credits, Kaworu shows up, impales Shinji's Eva with a giant spear to halt Third Impact, and says that he'll show Shinji "true happiness".]]

* In ''Anime/SamuraiChamploo'' Episode 22, the end theme plays through most of the way normally, then begins to slow down and replaced by some rather spooky music (which is rather jarring over the sweet and sunny slideshow of Fuu's childhood) ending with the credits interrupted by [[spoiler:Shige leaping out of his grave]].

* The credits of the last episode of ''Anime/SoltyRei'' show scenes from the series in "old film" sepia tone, and are followed by the ''true'' ending: [[spoiler:Roy and Yuto go into space and find Solty, who has preserved herself for several years with her energy shield.]]

* ''Anime/TigerAndBunny'' has several plot-significant ones, such as [[spoiler: showing more of Lunatic and how much he knows about the heroes (establishing why he doubts Kotetsu's guilt in later episodes), and a SequelHook (removed from the [=DVD=]s??) in the final episode.]]

* The first episode of ''Anime/ValvraveTheLiberator'' ends with ChildSoldier L-Elf mercilessly murdering [[spoiler: TheHero, Haruto]] via stabbing him through the heart and shooting him three times. But in the post-credits, we see [[spoiler: Haruto]] ''get back up'' and [[spoiler: bite L-Elf in the neck.]]