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 And no-one was spared...not even the children.
Japanese cartoons are weird, man. Though I may be on to something with that blue hair.
Anime oftentimes seems designed to make you go " The Japanese are truly mad."
Abandon all sanity, ye who enter here...
RIDICULOUS SPOILERS AHEAD
Examples (Have a seat, this could take awhile...):
- Chrono Crusade: Demons are apparently Sufficiently Advanced Aliens who live under the ocean in a giant, flying, city-sized ship
- End of Evangelion: No, everybody doesn't merely die at the end... they are melted into Tang after getting a big hug from what seem to be Rei Ayanami-shaped ghosts, whom to the eyes of their victims looks like their most loved ones. Except for the ones who didn't love living beings, who see the Reis in all their glory.
- And in the same vein, two words: Chibi Eva
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- It is well known that everything has merchandise based off it in Japan. Which is why you can purchase a plate modeled after Lilith, the Second Angel, which comes with a Lance of Longinus fork. Or this troper's favorite example, the Rei Ayanami soap dish.
- Both versions of Fullmetal Alchemist:
- Manga: Pride is Selim Bradley, King Bradley's adopted son. Mustang learned flame alchemy from a tattoo on Riza's back. Scar hangs out with May, a small kid who loves Ed even before she met him (once she does meet him, she hates him, and falls in love with Al), a tiny panda that does everything that the small kid does, and Tim Marcoh. In fact, if you've seen the anime first, the radical difference in the plot can cause this trope to happen for everything after Greed is introduced.
- Anime: The series takes place on an alternate earth, and the local Phlebotinum is fueled by the souls of humans who die violently in our earth. This all happens through a spooky gate, which previously only showed up when someone tried to bring someone back from the dead. This comes on top of the earlier revelation that the MacGuffin is made of people. Archer loses half his head (or just his face, let's be fair) and turns into some kind of cyborg.
- And let us not forget the madness onscreen in "The Conqueror of Shamballa". For fun, we will only give away the following plot point, which will not spoil anything but will nonetheless pretty much set the tone: somehow, Fritz Lang is involved.
- Two words: Suzumiya Haruhi. Let's see: Deadpan Snarker everyman main character? Check. Hyperactive slightly-crazy girl sidekick? Check. Super-cute eye candy girl? Check. Laid back and Ambiguously Gay male sidekick? Check. Quiet bookworm girl with glasses? Check. Normal so far, right? Wrong. The hyperactive girl is a goddess, but doesn't realize it -- and because of it, her subconscious daydreaming is warping the universe around her. The quiet girl is an alien android... thing sent to observe the goddess to try and understand why there's so much weird data coming out from her -- and to see if the alien computer demigod that created her can figure out how to evolve based on watching the goddess. The laid back guy was given Psychic Powers by the goddess girl on accident, and is dedicated to making sure she doesn't get bored enough to destroy the world on accident. The cute eye-candy girl is a time traveler trying to figure out why no one can time travel past 3 years ago, when the goddess ascended to divinity -- with an insinuation being that no one can time travel back past 3 years ago because the universe is really only 3 years old. Oh, and there's an increasingly large amount of evidence in the later books that said Deadpan snarker everyman main character might really be the true god, who created the goddess to entertain himself. Did we mention the laid-back Ex-goddess that shows up in book 9, who used to be a friend of Mr. Deadpan snarker, with followers who are pissed off that somehow her powers were stolen by said hyperactive girl?
- The Mai-HiME anime series is weird enough as it is, but would you believe us if we told you...
- ...about the part in the manga where one of the Orphans dissolves the clothing of the female student body? Or where Haruka dreams of having beaten Shizuru at life and made her a servant to a throng of beautiful naked women? Or that Natsuki's mother isn't really dead, but was serving as a guinea pig for the same Searrs technology that produced Alyssa? Or that Takumi becomes the Obsidian Lord's host body, and Mai is one of his servants?
- ...that the Mai-Otome manga kills off Princess Mashiro on the very first page and replaces her with a male look-alike? Yep. Eventually, the real Mashiro comes back to life to fight her twin, bringing along with her the Evil Counterparts to the Mai-HiME manga cast.
- And if you think those were weird, try to explain to someone what happens in the Mai-Otome Zwei OVA or the Mai-Otome Arashi manga without laughing like crazy or recoiling in abject horror. We dare you. Bonus points if that someone actually watches either of them and makes it through without face faulting.
- How about just the ending of Zwei? Yuna turns into a humongous copy of Fumi the Founder and gains the ability to shoot Eye Beams, and then she absorbs Mashiro and transforms into a freaky monster thing. Arika comes to the rescue riding an ear-pierced dolphin with a star on its forehead that can communicate with Mashiro's ear-pierced cat, Mikoto (not to be confused with Mikoto, the human who owns Mikoto the cat), and Mai pulls the sword out of Kagutsuchi's forehead, which turns him into a white kitten with a plaster on its forehead. Saying this is "odd" is a big understatement.
- Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni appears to be a murder mystery at first, then seems to go into the supernatural with the Shrine God's Curse and the repeating time loops, but it turns out that the curse is alien parasites which cause people to flip out and kill people out of paranoia. Not only that, the only thing to stop the murder and bloodshed is The Power Of Friendship. Yeah.
- And then you have the sequel, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai, where the Shrine God's Curse turns out to be a secret shadow organization cover-up to research the aforementioned alien parasites, whose leader is Miyo Takano, you know, that nice blonde chick who always looks stoned? She shoots each and every main character, execution style for her villainous debut, and in the next time-loop they turn the tables on her and she loses her sanity to the parasites. Then we have the adorably small child Hanyu, who actually is the Shrine god, and also Really Seven Hundred Years Old and is responsible for the time loop that has permeated the series.
- This troper would like to point out that the fact the parasites were alien in origin was a lie, and actually sprung up naturally.
- Don't forget that Mion carries an evidently non-functional gun half the time, yet nobody seems to notice, and Hanyu has horns on her head, but, you guessed it.
- Surprisingly, Mion is perfectly sane. Actually, none of the main characters are behind the constant murders, although many partake in them once the insanity spreads. Although, she had to have some mental scarring after being trapped in that dungeon, watching Shion kill everyone.
- In RahXephon, Quon Kisaragi is Ayato's real mother (and also Maya's sister, making Ayato's adoptive mother his aunt) and a Mulian (making Ayato himself a half-Mulian). Also, Dr. Itsuki Kisaragi is Ayato's twin brother, Haruka Shitow is his ex-girlfriend whom he was brainwashed to forget (and her birth name is Haruka Mishima), and Shirow Watari (the one with the eyepatch) is actually Ayato's biological father, Shirow Kamina, and Maya's husband. Not to mention that Makoto Isshiki is one of Ernst von Bähbem's clones that he uses as spare bodies when his current one dies, and Ernst von Bähbem himself is an ancient Mulian. Plus, Haruka's uncle Rikudoh adopted Maya and Quon when they were young. In other words, pretty much everyone is related to each other in some convoluted way, and perhaps to further drive the point home, Ayato's biological mother is reborn as his daughter after he "retunes" the world.
- This Troper has to admit that he didn't know any of this outside of the now adult ex, even after watching the entire series; talk about a Mind Screw!
- You know this didn't seem anywhere near as convoluted while I was watching it... Most of it's fairly well foreshadowed.
- If this were Wikipedia, this would need a citation-tag...
- Naruto has recently confirmed one of the fanon Epileptic Trees and just missed another one. Specifically, Naruto is the Fourth Hokage's son and Tobi is an Uchiha, though probably not the one previously thought to be him.
- Not only that, but it turns out that Tobi is apparently the founder of the Uchiha clan and summoned the Nine-Tailed Fox to attack Konoha after losing a battle with the First Hokage.
- Also, with Madara's recent revelation that everything Itachi did was to protect his brother, it looks like those arguing Itachi was really a good guy were right. Sigh. He was apparently ordered by Konoha to kill the Uchiha clan. Let us remind you that this is The Man Behind The Man who's talking here. Take everything he says with a shaker of salt.
- There's also the fact that you know, even if Madara isn't lying, he still did it without any regret, and he seems to have a rather screwed up way of "protecting" his brother that involves Mind Rape and Sasuke spending his whole life obsessed Itachi and finding out a whole bunch of other people were also responsible. Not quite as evil, but still a huge bastard.
- Recent events in the manga shows Itachi transferring some of his power to Naruto using... a really awkward method. May also qualify as Narm, depending on how dramatic the anime shows this scene.
- It gets better, Tobi is apparently also the Mizukage.
- Bleach: Aizen is alive and the main villain, Ichigo's dad is a former shinigami, and Nel Tu is actually the former Third Espada in a blatant copypasta of Yoruichi.
- In-story, this is combined with Cassandra Truth. One of Orihime's friends asks what she did over summer vacation. Orihime responds by beginning to describe the events of the shows Soul Society arc. She is then chided by the friend for having an overactive imagination. (To be fair, Orihime does have an overactive imagination, to say the least.)
- In the latest manga installment, Mad Scientist Kurotsuchi outsquicks a recent villain when he revives his assistant, who is also his daughter and referred to as such by him, by apparently having sex with her withered corpse. (To be honest, we just hear orgasmic moaning, but let's be serious.) Even Ishida and Renji can't believe it.
- In what is currently the latest manga installment Shinji, the ugly Vaizard who dresses like Lupin the Third, is revealed to have be Aizen's former Captain.
- More to the point, all the named vaizards were apparently ranked officers in the past. At this point it's starting to read like a bad fan fic of itself.
- Dragonball Z: The main character is an alien from another planet who was sent to earth to destroy the human race, and his biggest enemy is also an alien (although he was born on Earth). This would have been a huge deal if Saban had Funimation dub all 100+ episodes of Dragonball, instead of dumping it after only about 13 episodes because Z was more action-packed (though it was later fully dubbed after Z proved popular).
- Let's be honest. If, at the time when The Adolescence of Utena was released, someone told you that the movie ends with Utena turning into a car that Anthy drives in a race against a self-driving, car-morphed Shiori, and both of them escaping Ohtori by going under a thousand-wheeler truck shaped like the Upside-Down Castle and running through an Akio that explodes in a shower of rose petals, would you have believed them?
- After seeing the series? Sure! (And let's not forget that the movie is, if it's possible, an even more blatant allegory than the series. After all, "mahayana" literally means "great vehicle".)
- But really...shouldn't the "Akio Car" thing count all by itself?
- Candy Candy: The Great-Uncle William who adopted Candy, and whose identity was the best kept secret during all the series, is revealed to be Albert, the man who became Candy's friend, and watched over her on certain moments of her life, the last of those times while he was amnesiac. Oh, and he also was the very "Prince of the Hill" she became infatuated with when she was a little girl. Also, she ends happily single, taking care of the orphanage where she grew up. All Latin American girls who saw that became rightly shocked and outraged. No wonder the Italians declared Dis Continuity and created their own ending.
- Demashita Powerpuff Girls Z: This Japanese Magical Girl Powerpuff Girls Spin Off anime series was not an April Fool's joke. It gets better: The show actually wasn't too bad.
- No one believed this troper when he told his friends that the NFL sponsored an anime about American football in Japan -- a successful series.
- The lead character's similarity to Real Life NFL star LaDanian Tomlinson had better be a coincidence, because you're not even halfway through this page.
- The Korean comic Let's Bible. It takes place in 200X in Croatia. The main guy meets a girl asking where heaven is...so he knocks her out and locks her in a trunk. Then he ends up knocking his grandma into the ocean... He almost rapes the girl. Then Lucifer shows up dropping candy machines on the guy's boat and singing in Italian wearing a poncho. And Vulcan (horny Croatian boy) can command sea turtles it seems. Oh, and the girl looking for heaven who's almost raped by a horny Croatian boy? That's Jesus.
- If the above entry makes any sense to you, well, you're probably tripping your ass off on some highly psychoactive drug.
- As if the concept wasn't odd enough, FLCL is loaded with plot twists that are just as bizarre. It turns out Haruko is trying to "rescue" the Pirate King Atomsk by putting an interdimensional portal in Naota's head... except she just wants to steal Atomsk's powers. Oh, and Atomsk turns out to be a giant energy being shaped like a bird. The bad guys also want to destroy the earth... by ironing it.
- Eyebrows guy Amarao states that they will "iron out the wrinkles" (in everyones brains) thus destroying all intelligence.
- G Gundam starts off as a fairly basic Mobile Suit Gundam spinoff. Angsty main character with giant robot, in the middle of a conflict between Earth and its space colonies. Granted, more Super Robot-ish than usual, but not ridiculously so. ...but then you get to the giant robot that wears boxing gloves and carries revolvers. And the giant robot that rides a horse. And the giant robot shaped like a windmill. And the giant robot shaped like a sombrero. Then there's the one that looks like Sailor V, the one that's a jack-in-the-box, the one that's a lumberjack... By the time the main character and his girlfriend use The Power Of Love in playing-card-fireball form to destroy The Virus (in giant robot form, naturally), it's officially cemented its position as the weirdest Gundam of all.
- If you weren't told beforehand, this editor doubts you'd believe that Reborn becomes an action series if you read/watched it from the beginning.
- Transformers Kiss Players is a toyline/manga/Radio play that takes place in the G1 continuity(the original continuity from the cartoons). In one scene Startscream having been killed in The Movie possesses Atari Hitotonari while she is in the bathroom. She/He comes out with a gun and starts making demands, when no one takes him seriously Starscream finally notices his panties are down. Did I forget to mention that Kiss Players is aimed at horny Japanese men?
- Of course, the entire storyline for the original series Kiss Players was spun off from, Transformers Binaltech can fit into this, if only for the exploits of one robot: Ravage. In a nutshell: Scientists find the black box of the stealth ship Ravage used to go back in time and have his way in the Beast Wars, finding it contained the memories and personality of his long-dead (?) future self, and agree to make the "ghost" a new body to exist in in exchange for knowledge of the future, using the present-day Ravage to give it a spark to truly live. He kills his benefactors, then decides to screw with history, since the exploits that caused his future self to die in the past didn't. The way he does this: trap Megatron and his gang in a temporal rift during a climactic battle with the Autobots which would've ended with the Autubots' defeat, just so they'd have to face the threat of Unicron alone, leaving them weak enough for Megatron to crush them once and for all upon his return, while setting up Shockwave as commander and nuking off the Autobots' supply trains in the meantime. A lone Autobot who can sense the disturbances in the space-time continuum finds him out, helps capture him, then sends a message back to their own past selves detailing Ravage's plan in hopes of averting the Alternate History the Decepticon was trying to make. It works, but in a final Mind Screw, another Decepticon from the future breaks off Ravage's changed timeline so it can continue, babbling something about the events he caused going towards creating a new line of time-space protectors, essentially meaning that Ravage both failed and succeeded in his mission. And all this while a nasty rust-causing spore pops up again, forcing human name-brand car companies (like Subaru and Toyota) to make new bodies for those Transformers infected. If that makes any sort of sense whatsoever, then you are either a die-hard Transfan, or hopped up on some kind of psychotropic drug.
- This trope pretty much describes the entire premise of Bobobobo Bobobo. It takes place in the year 300X, in which an evil empire has taken over the Earth and is attempting to make everyone bald. The titular character, who has the power to use his nose hairs as weapons, goes on a crusade to try to stop them. He's joined by several people, including someone with ice cream as their head (at least we hope it's ice cream and not... something else), someone who uses their farts as weapons, and a walking, talking piece of jelly.
- In Kotetsushin Jeeg, Kyou and the villains are from a race of gigantic asexual aliens that can shrink themselves and Jeeg powers up by attaching it's crotch to the butt of Baruba - a giant alien tiger - becoming tiger from the waist down and giant robot from the waist up.
- The end of Seto No Hanayome features a massive brawl involving mermaid yakuza, songs of mass destruction, gigantic eels, and the Terminator himself—in a seifuku—firing laser beams out of his eyes while flexing while stuff continues to explode in the background. Meanwhile, the badass normal male lead gains the ability to catch bullets in his teeth and punch people through walls out of sheer love and righteous anger, and permanently Art Shifts into a muscle bound icon of exaggerated manliness by the epilogue. Even following the entire series can't prepare you for this stuff.
- This editor assumed that the troper who described the flying machines in Simoun as being "powered by lesbianism!" was exaggerating. For a few episodes it looked like they were, then it turned out that they really, really weren't. Well, okay, they're actually powered by helical motors, but they won't activate unless the pilots kiss. Oh, and remember the Plumbum priestess who pulled off a suicide bombing on the Arcus Prima? Her body later shows up in an ancient Simoun in the sacred ruins where the Simoun were originally found. This is never explained, although it's hinted that it might have something to do with her having been near the Simoun on the Arcus Prima when she blew them up. And eventually we find out that Onashia was transformed into a quasi-immortal being of silvery dust because she refused to choose a sex; ultimately Yun sets her free by embracing her and taking her place as the guardian of the Spring.
- Strangely enough, being activated by kissing is a feature not seen in any other helical motor powered craft.
- Apparently, Tezuka Kunimitsu killed the dinosaurs with the Tezuka Zone (his trademark tennis shot) in the Prince Of Tennis movie.
- Pretty much everything that ever happens in Papuwa.
- Fruits Basket: Akito is female. And she ends up marrying Shigure. (Seriously. Manga version only, though, since the anime never got that far.)
- Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann pushes the Lensman Arms Race so hard, Simon actually begins piloting a SUV-sized robot and ends up piloting a galaxy sized mecha.
- Also: Lord Genome pulls a Heel Face Turn after Rossiu brings him back to life as a biocomputer, Rossiu pulls a coup on Simon after the Time Skip and nearly has him executed and after the fact his remorseful suicide is only prevented by Simon jumping through hyperspace to punch him in the face, Viral also pulls a Heel Face Turn and then teams up with Simon to destroy an entire fleet of enemies by the awesomeness of their presence, Boota turns into a humanoid for about ten minutes near the end of the series, and the Big Bad's galaxy-sized mech uses an attack with raw power roughly equivalent to that of the Big Bang. Rule Of Cool all the way.
- The entire third season of Yu-Gi-Oh GX can certainly qualify as this, if only because of Yubel: a demonic hermaphrodite Duel Monster that used to be Judai's best friend/homosexual lover/ancient prince and protector from a past life, was sent into orbit after it went postal on anyone who hurt Judai's feelings before returning and almost dying during reentry, attached its only existing body part to a militant Academy teacher and tricked him into creating technology that absorbs duel energy so it could reconstitute itself, went postal again on Judai's friends and twisted him into an evil version of his past persona Haou the Supreme King, before finally "fusing" with its obsession for all time, so Judai can use its powers as his own during Season 4. And the reason behind all of this? Love, a deep, forbidden, twisted, incredibly sadomasochistic form of Mad Love between Yubel and Judai. Oh, and an Expy for Judai shows up, looking similar to what Yubel used to look like, hooks up with Judai, and is possessed by Yubel in one last bid to make him see the wonders of love through pain. Yu-Gi-Oh GX slash and Judai/Asuka shippers are going insane, as we speak.
- And let's not even go into what's happening in Season 4... The villain is an anthropomorphic deck of black haze-spewing cards, and is molesting young male duelists in order to make everyone in Domino City disappear! Fubuki Tenjoin is the host to his Superpowered Evil Side Darkness because of his best friend/possible Ho Yay lover, who then turns out to be the Duel Monster Honest in disguise, who fuses with Judai! Sho gains the Cyber Legacy to take out a Jinzo duelist sworn to wipe out all Cyber duelists! Asuka slaps some sense into Judai during a
dueling Prom date (er, partnership duel), but decides to leave before the shippers can get full resolution! Darkness is the ultimate evolution of humanity! And Yugi uses Winged Kuriboh to send Judai back in time to duel his past self at his prime!
- This troper witnessed a textbook I Am Not Making This Up phenomenon in the comments on a Youtube video that points out how similar the dialogue is to Yu-Gi-Oh The Abridged Series. No, this is not another parody -- that's the dub's actual dialogue.
- And then there's the original series. Four words: "Ancient Egyptian Laser Beams!!!"
- This troper found one moment in GX, when we find out that there was a massive war between humans... and vampires. That's right, vampires. And apparently this was never put in the history books and nearly no one knows about it despite it taking place only a few hundred years ago. You have got to be f*cking kidding me.
- And what did all this lead up to? The Big Bad's ultimate goal was to cause global Instrumentality, or capturing everyone in a shapeless void where all "souls are united" and "all intellects become one".
- Also from the original series, or rather the manga: Yami had a tendency for Disproportionate Retribution with his punishment games, especially in the sixth chapter, where the leader of a gang that smashed up Yugi's class' stand was killed with a container full of gun powder.
- Emperor Dornkirk of Vision Of Escaflowne is actually Isaac Newton, and Dilandau Albatou is the Brainwashed And Crazy magically sex-changed sister of Allen Schezar.
- De:Vadasy features a Humongous Mecha powered by sexual frustration.
- Most of Kishin Houkou Demonbane: The Necronomicon is a magical book in the form of an Elegant Gothic Lolita, that fights evil by being a Magical Girlfriend. Or more specifically - by merging with the hero, upon which she transforms into a chibi form of herself in a diaper, while he sprouts wings from his buttocks. The villains' plan involves destroying the world by giving Cthulhu cancer. The little catgirl whom the characters take home? Apparently, she's the Roman emperor Nero, and gives birth to the previously-killed Big Bad, who emerges not only fully grown but also fully clothed. And the whole reason the hero and villain duke it out with Humongous Mecha firing gravitational singularities at each other? It's all part of a Stable Time Loop which was supposed to lead to releasing the home-universe of the Great Old Ones from the Shining Trapezohedron, and the protagonists break the aforementioned time loop by having their Humongous Mecha transform into a Super Saiyan and shoot what looks like DNA strands at Nyarlathotep. Surely, by the time the series finished airing Lovecraft must have been spinning in his grave so fast he could supply power to the whole of Innsmouth...
- At one point, a villain who died a couple episodes earlier comes back, only to have a Ho Yay flashback of two other characters and get killed again by the protagonist. No explanation for any of this is ever given.
- Oh, and you know Doctor West? Of Reanimator fame? Well, here he's a guitar playing, boastful, quirky Punch Clock Villain who builds RobotGirls and his Weapon Of Choice is a bazooka.
- Vinland Saga: Askeladd is a direct descendant of King Arthur.
- Super Dimension Fortress Macross and its spinoffs, wherein the key to defeating the unstoppable millions-strong fleet of clone troop alien warriors is the music of a civilian pop singer...who lives on the eponymous fortress in a city hastily reconstructed inside a cargo hold after a teleportation accident.
- Episode 26 of the Excel Saga anime. All of it. The same could possibly be said for the series as a whole. If episode 26 was not enough, Puni Puni Poemi takes off from there.
- Dennou Coil seemed so reasonable for most of the series. Then it turned out that the two Yukos had an Internet baby together when they were kids. Oh, and they're implied to kiss at the end, which has absolutely no effect on the process of setting Yasako up with Haraken. Appropriately enough for a show about computers, this troper's brain crashed.
- Actually the Internet baby thing was more of a ridiculous literary choice than an actual event - nevertheless, nobody would believe that everything really boiled down to a little kid jealous of a girl who kissed her brother.
- Yeah, well, what with the brain crash and all, it was kind of hard to analyze it.
- The premise of the shonen anime/manga Kekkaishi: A boy and his neighbor/childhood friend defend their school at night from monsters by conjuring magic boxes. Even weirder: the series is good. Come to think of it, why is it shonen!?
- Gyo, a manga from Junji Ito, who had already let loose Ringu into the world, chronicles the downfall of mankind to farting zombie fish. And it works.
- Junji Ito didn't create Ringu; that's thriller author Koji Suzuki's bag. However, he did creat Uzumaki - a series where the evils at hand are spiral shapes, and still manage to scare the hell out of most readers.
- In Blood+ the villains are collaborating with No Celebrities Were Harmed versions of American political figures. Specifically Condoleezza Rice and Donald Rumsfeld.
- Furthermore, in the third to last episode, Rice turns into a giant blood-sucking bat monster and is killed with machineguns in an opera house by the Secret Service.
- The band Daft Punk and anime legend Leiji Matsumoto collaborated to create the movie Interstella 5555. In it, an alien rock band is kidnapped by a record mogul, who alters them so they appear human, replaces their memories with ones set on Earth, and controls them through brainwashing sunglasses. All this to fulfill a deal he made with a bizarre cosmic power, whereby he will gain the power to conquer the universe by offering it 5555 award-winning musicians. They are rescued by another of their kind, who flies a spaceship that looks like a Flying Zero guitar. The movie is entirely set to Daft Punk's Discovery album, and there isn't a single word of dialogue...and it's still awesome.
- Ultimate Teacher features a pretty implausible teen gang ruling a high school, a highly unlikely source of super powers (gym shorts) and a genetic solution to said problems (titular teacher has roach genes, which makes him able to survive in hostile environment but causes him to walk along walls)...and some other things that are too weird to explain.
- The Giant Robo: The Day the Earth Stood Still OAV series is a massive crossover of the works of Mitsuteru Yokoyama, who had written manga on anything from historical literature to giant robots to Magical Girls. And that's to say nothing of the amazingly convoluted storyline that all turns out to be one very large Xanatos Roulette by a character who's been dead since the beginning of the OAV series.
- When this troper read this Kid Radd comic, he thought the author had tried to make the most random, weird-sounding plot he could imagine. A few months later, he came across Read Or Die and realised the author Had Not Been Making That Up.
- The followup TV series managed to be even weirder: it involves even more clones (including the new main characters) and reveals that the OAV's events was part of a Xanatos Roulette by the British Library (who were supposed to be the good guys) to conquer the world. Somehow, this involved bringing London back to the 19th Century...with flying robot dinosaurs.
- The anime OVA Voices of a Distant Star (Hoshi no Koe) was entirely written, produced and animated by one man, Makoto Shinkai, using his home computer. Those who have seen it will know why this falls squarely into I Am Not Making This Up territory.
- Narutaru. Kids getting Mons that happen to be The End Of The World As We Know It, really fucked-up psychological stuff...and let's not forget the girl who got raped with a test tube by female bullies and broke down and had her Dragon's Child rape and kill the leader of the bullies. Or the gay Bishonen who wanted to have the series' Magnificent Bastard's babies...and when he's killed, his body turns into a fetus. For all the WTF, it was actually pretty well-done.
- In episode 12 of Code Geass, shy Meganekko girl Nina is shown using the edge of a school council room's table to... masturbate to a picture of another girl who had saved her life previously. The table has been called "Table-kun" by fans.
- In Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle it turns out that the hero, Syaoran, is actually a soulless clone created by Fei-Wang Reed solely to collect Sakura's feathers. The seal that was holding the copy of the real Syaoran's heart in the clone's eye breaks, so the clone goes psycho and eats one of Fay's eyes before running off to wreak havoc throughout dimensions. Then they have to save Fay by turning him into a vampire. But then, because Fay lost half his power with the eyeball, Sakura becomes more powerful than him when she gets her next feather, which activates the curse that was placed on Fay as a child, so he kills her (or rather, stabs her causing her body and soul to separate and then travel into separate dimensions). Though really Fay had been planning to betray the group from the beginning because he was working with Fei-Wang Reed in order to resurrect his twin brother. Except he's changed his mind about that. And Sakura is also a clone and dissolves into cherry blossom petals when she is killed.
- And it just got even weirder when it was revealed that the current Syaoran is not actually any Syaoran in particular but the son of the Syaoran from Cardcaptor Sakura. CLAMP has outdone itself this time.
- This might be more appropriate for the Real Life examples, but this is related enough that I post it here: One episode of Sailor Moon Super has a Shin Chan Shout Out, where a boy does the so-called "Elephant Routine" (dancing naked with his pants down) in front of Chibi-Usa. However, nothing incriminating is seen and the whole thing is played for laughs. When the Ani Manga for this episode was released in Germany, it was indexed (which means it can't be sold to anyone under 18!) by official Media Watchdogs. The reason? The whole scene was interpreted as the boy raping Chibi-Usa, with no consequences for him or her to follow afterwards.
- Sometimes the Pokemon movies have scenes that really seem out there for the anime in question. However, the Manaphy movie in particular seems to take this to an extreme as evidenced in this youtube video starting at 1:21. This troper wonders if he is the only one who recalls crossover fics where Goku is Ash's father...
- Oh wow, it's awesome to come across a video that you uploaded yourself. Glad I'm not the only one that thought that was ridiculous.
- Weiss Kreuz. Four bishonens are florists by day and assassins by night, and the team includes a 16-year-old student, and a man-whore who can recognize women by their ankles. They are assigned to kill people doing weird crap like harvesting young girls' organs (one of said girls looks like Aya's (angsty guy with red hair) long comatose sister who was put that way by a man who turns out to be Omi's (the 16-year-old kid) father) and people making people spontaneously combust. Later on in the series another team of assassins appear all having special powers like precognition, telekinesis, telepathy and an invulnerability to pain, which leads one of them to cut himself and curse God. The climax of the plot is when the evil organization performs an evil ritual involving Aya's comatose sister as the sacrifice because she also has some mystic power of some sort. This is to destroy the world but ends being foiled and just blowing up the building on the second group of assassins after the first group kills yet another group of all-female assassins.
- Did someone say Saishuu Heiki Kanojo?
- Anyone hear about Kyouran Kazoku Nikki? You will soon enough. This batshit anime features a man who is wed to a catgirl and has to start a family, which includes a little girl who is actually a demon, a lion, an electric jellyfish, an assassin robot, and a flaming kid. All this, in order to save the world, since a terrible monster declared that it would put an end to the entire world through its children.
- In the Magic Knight Rayearth manga, the creator of the CLAMP multiverse is Mokona (yes, that Mokona). Soel and Larg were created in it's image.
- Remember Pinoko, the Clingy Jealous Girl sidekick of Dr. Black Jack in the anime and manga of the same name? Well, would you believe that she's an Artificial Human constructed by the aforementioned doctor from a woman's underdeveloped parasetic twin and some spare parts while he was drunk? It's totally the truth, we swear.
- There is a manga that just started in Shonen Jump called Ultimo. The series is written and drawn by the guy that made Shaman King and the original concept came from Stan Lee. Keeping with tradition of cameos, there is a character named "Dunstan" that bears an undeniable resemblance.
- In Paranoia Agent (assuming this troper actually understood it) it is eventually revealed that the serial attacker who has been beating and in some cases killing seemingly random victims (MEGA SPOILER) is not a real person at all, but a manifestation of their own paranoia that has somehow become solid. Eventually this paranoia escalates to such an extent that by the end of the series Tokyo is almost destroyed by rampaging black slime. And what triggers off this final holocaust? Stores selling out of comforting dolls designed by an Osaka expy.
- Well, that and everything related to that doll spontaneously vanishing. Shonen Bat, the attacker, is connected to Maromi, the doll, and causes it to vanish in order to cause the final cascade of paranoia.
- Apparently, someone decided that it would be a good idea to make an anime version of Les Miserables.
- Would you believe that the Pretty Cure series, the 2000s poster child for Romantic Two Girl Friendship, was almost licensed by Four Kids Entertainment in America? If one cringed at the changes made to Sailor Moon's dub, the possible massive outcry against the many inevitable changes necessary to make Pretty Cure palatable for Saturday mornings would be powerful enough to shatter every window in a ten-story glass house. Luckily for its fans, Toei Animation said "no dice". As of July 2008, an English sub-only version of the first season has finally been made available, but direct download is the only way to get it. Warm up your broadband connections, kids.
- A similar deal happened with Ojamajo Doremi. Although much more "user friendly" than Pretty Cure, 4Kids Entertainment also approached Toei Animation about dubbing the remaining three seasons of the show, but they too were denied this, after Toei expressed their disgust at the season 1 dub.
- The anime version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I am not making this up. Holy mother of god help us find strength.
- Manga, not Anime, but close enough: Family Compo. Ok, struggling college orphan moves in with his aunt and uncle. So far so good. His cousin is extremely cute, and likes to flirt. Woo. His uncle's a manga artist who has a bunch of cute female assistants. Woo, pretty normal so far... Oh, by the way Everyone except the main character and maybe the cute cousin is a Transsexual. And she might be, too. Um, wait, what?
- In the manga of Hellsing, Alucard is apparently killed after eating Schrodinger. Because Schrodinger exists everywhere and nowhere as an imaginary number, if he isn't everywhere, then he's nowhere. And so is Alucard. Yes, Alucard got killed by math.
- The Big O in general. But especially the final few minutes of the last episode, in which, as Big O and Big Fau are coming to the end of their climatic fight, Another Big, apparently piloted by Angel, shows up, erases reality itself, including Big Fau, and before it can reach Roger is talked out of it by him, so that it merely resets reality instead. For no good reason. It might not sound so bad, but, really, coming from a film noir Humongous Mecha hybrid series, it's not what you'd expect.
- In the last episode of Slayers ' first season they defeat the Big Bad not with the ultimate spiritual attack spell, nor with the power of the greatest demon in existance or even the one who made the world. Even though all three were invoked, it was a simple healing spell cast on a tree that won the day. Oddly enough, it makes sense in context.
- A Korean example, but it still stands: there's an obscure animated film called Beauty and the Warrior, which is a retelling of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight...as a wuxia. A sword-and-sandal wuxia.
- Although this editor may have simply ingested some hallucinogenic substances on accident, he believes he saw some "thing" which may have been an anime called Dead Leaves. Right off the bat, the protagonists were introduced as a woman wearing nothing but underwear and a man with a TV for a head. They go on a killing spree and are incarcerated in a sadistic prison on the moon, which they must escape alongside mutant inmates such as a man with a drill for a penis. The insanity escalates from there, and by the time we reach the climactic battle with the warden, the female lead has just given birth to a superpowered infant that flies out of her pants with two enormous ray guns in its hands while she was fighting the warden. The baby kills the warden, spontaneously grows to adulthood, and flies off to fight a giant caterpillar that wants to eat the moon or something. It then grows old and dies. No, it doesn't make sense in context.
- Pom Poko. Giant. Tanuki. Testicles. Used as weapons. Granted, Tanuki are supposed to be like that and it's a brilliant movie otherwise (especially it's heartwarming ending), but it's kind of hard to notice that when you are seeing scrotums used as trampolines and parachutes.
- Even more fitting for I Am Not Making This Up: It was released in America by DISNEY. Unedited. (Sure, the dub called the aforementioned testicles 'pouches', but nobody really was fooled.)
- In Genesis Of Aquarion the titular Humongous Mecha is a Combining Mecha made up of three fighter planes called Vectors. When the Vectors 'unite' to form Aquarion, the pilots experience a feeling much like orgasm. It's played straight (well, as straight as anything in this show) and the show gleefully treats the audience to footage of characters 'uniting' in nearly every episode.
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