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  • Aldnoah.Zero:
    • The series has a pretty major one at the end of Episode of Season 1, in which Slaine confronts Trillram and then shoots him dead.
    • Episode 6 of Season 2 has another major one, as 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...
  • Angel Beats!: After the credits, 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.
  • A Place Further than the Universe often ends its episodes this way, having scenes that foreshadow the next question in lieu of a preview.
    • Episode 1 ends with a brief shot of Hinata at her convenience store job, looking at Antarctica on a globe.
    • Episode 4 ends with Megumi in a café, getting an email from Kimari and noticeably being silent.
    • Episode 8 ends with Gin bringing flowers for someone, presumably Takako.
    • Episode 9 ends with an email arriving from Yuzuki's mother.
    • Episode 10 ends with a list of the people calling in for New Year's. The viewer's heard of most of them before... with the exception of Hinata's "friends."
  • Attack on Titan ends the first season of 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. Have fun waiting four years for the next season!
  • The final episode (not counting the three OVA specials) of Baccano! has a post-credits scene with Issac and Miria who after decades of not aging thanks to immortality, finally figure out that they don't age and... come to the wrong conclusion.
  • Bloom Into You has two in its anime adaptation.
    • Episode 1 ends with Touko officially announcing her candidacy for student council president, and asking Yuu to be her campaign manager.
    • Episode 10 ends with Touko dreaming about the day her sister died, and resolving to become the person Mio was.
  • Blue Exorcist has one after the credits in most episodes so far. Some are comedic, but the one in the end of the second episode actually sets up where the plot is going to take place.
  • Blue Submarine No. 6 actually has entire parts of the plot that aren't repeated in the next episode. If you skip over them, you'll miss something potentially important or interesting.
  • Case Closed has a specific set-up for anime episodes: after the ED with the credits, there is a stinger - a preview of the next episode if a multi-parter is continued, or a funny scene happening right after the scenes ending the current episode otherwise, then a 'Next Conan Hint' giving a—usually not spoilery—hint on to events of the next episode and finally a shot of the main protagonists with a voice-over with usually an atrocious pun, exhorting the viewer not to miss the next episode. The movies usually also have a joke scene conclusion after the credits.
  • Cowboy Bebop:
    • "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 "Do you have comrade?" Before you ask, yes, it was fixed in the English dub.
    • Another episode ends with Andy deciding not to be a storybook cowboy (since Spike was a better one). The final scene shows Andy as rides by the Teddy Bomber's prison wagon in full samurai regalia. The final line this time is "See you... space samurai".
    • The final episode ends with the tag "You're gonna carry that weight."
  • Omake skits in Daily Lives of High School Boys, like the High School Girls are Funky series and Episode 2's Daily Life of a Lady, were made into stingers.
  • The new Darker than Black season (Gemini of the Meteor) does this at the end of every episode, right before the preview of the next episode. They're nearly all contributions to the Myth Arc or cliffhangers.
  • In Destiny of the Shrine Maiden, watching through the credits reveals that Chikane, who sacrificed her life for Himeko's in the Grand Finale, is indeed reborn and meets Himeko at an unspecified time later.
  • Dragon Ball:
  • Fate/Apocrypha:
    • Episode 1: A young girl named Laeticia prays to Jeanne d'Arc, then Jeanne is summoned and takes over her body.
    • Episode 5: Shirou Kotomine brainwashes the other Masters of Red into giving him their Command Spells.
    • Episode 9: Just as Mordred is about to kill Astolfo, Sieg arrives and challenges her.
    • Episode 14: Kairi and Fiore meet and agree to team up for the time being.
    • Episode 18: William Shakespeare writes in his book and dramatically narrates the events that happened so far, then he breaks the fourth wall to ask how Jeanne's conflict with Shirou will go, and what role Sieg will play.
    • Episode 21: An injured Astolfo wakes up and wanders through flaming surroundings. Achilles shows up and gives him one of his Noble Phantasms to honor Chiron's request.
    • Episode 23: Jeanne attempts to engage Semiramis, who sends her off to confront Shakespeare instead, as she anticipates the arrival of a few guests.
    • Episode 25 (the final episode): 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.
  • Most of the first few The Garden of Sinners movies had this:
    • Episode 1 had a minor conversation between Azaka and Touko concerning Kirie Fujyou.
    • Episode 2 had a foreshadowing of Asagami Fujino and Shirazumi Lio's appearances.
    • Episode 4 showed how Asagami Fujino and Fujyou Kirie got their abilities.
    • Episode 5 had a minor conversation between Shiki and Mikiya discussing the aftermath of the events.
    • Episode 6 had Araya Souren awakening Shirazumi Lio's origin.
    • Episode 7 had an epilogue showing Shiki and Mikiya walking together after Shiki got out of the hospital.
  • Godzilla:
    • Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters: After Haruo Sakaki's team is 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.
    • Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle: It replays an earlier scene where Metphies whispered into Harou's ear and reveals what he said. He was telling Haruo about King Ghidorah.
    • Godzilla: The Planet Eater: Several years in the future, 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 Golgo 13: Queen Bee, after Golgo succeeds in his task of killing Queen Bee, he does Queen Bee's final request, to assassinate Thomas Waltham on his boat.
  • The Great Mission to Save Princess Peach!: 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.
  • Great Pretender: After the credits roll after the final episode, it cuts to a small fishing village off the coast of Taiwan: It turns out that the presumed-dead Dorothy is alive after all, albiet amnesiac—and her adoptive father figure just found her ring in the belly of a fish.
  • Gundam:
    • Gundam 00's second season had one after every episode, often with crucial plot developments, much to the chagrin of fans when the dub got aired on Sci Fi, as they got cut out.
    • After the credits roll in Gundam 00: A Wakening of the Trailblazer, 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, "Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."
    • Nearly all of Gundam Build Fighters and Gundam Build Fighters TRY episodes features additional scene after ending credits, usually it's telling something important to the story or just for comedic purpose. Gundam Build Divers don't have as many and are less comedic.
  • .hack//G.U. Trilogy ends with a stinger conversation between Pi and Yata. It seems to be connected to the .hack//Link PSP game.
  • Haruhi Suzumiya: In the Disappearance movie, Yuki is shown reading by herself in the library. She then sees 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 Harukanaru Toki no Naka de - Maihitoyo movie ends with Akane purifying Suefumi to allow him to leave the world for the afterlife. After the creditsnote , there's one more scene where Akane takes her team of pretty guys along with the token girls to the place Yorihisa showed her earlier in the movie to adore the beautiful view of Kyou; Suefumi is added to the list of people who are important to her, meaning he isn't going to be forgotten.
  • Inuyasha:
    • At least two episodes have one. The school festival two part has a scene with Naraku visiting a demon with very big ears to search for one of the last jewel shards. And the final episode of the first Inuyasha series, has Kagome trying on new shoes after her old ones got acid-eaten and heading out again.
    • All four movies have these as well, the third movie's Stinger also resolving 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.
  • JoJo's Bizarre Adventure:
    • Phantom Blood:
      • In episode 3, Wang Chan finds the Stone Mask amidst the wreckage of the Joestar mansion. But as he is about to take it, 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.
      • 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.
    • Battle Tendency: After the final episode's credits, a fishing boat pulls up Dio's coffin from the ocean before shifting to Jotaro Kujo in his jail cell.
    • Stardust Crusaders: Once the team arrives at Egypt, a Speedwagon helicopter is on route to meet with them, carrying Iggy the Dog.
    • Diamond is Unbreakable: In the live-action movie, The Stinger teases Yoshikage Kira with several mini-scenes flashing around the Kira household showing his 3rd place trophies, jars of collected fingernails, bowling pin nail clippers, and a woman's hand sticking out of a bag.
    • Golden Wind: In Episode 13, Risotto Nero arrives at Naples' railway station and discovers a dead body next to a burnt photograph, he picks up what remains of it before leaving.
    • Stone Ocean: Episode 12 ends with Pucci summoning Sports Maxx and asking him to use his power on DIO's bone.
  • Jujutsu Kaisen: From Episode 3 onwards of the anime, a mini-anime named "Juju Stroll" occurs, focusing on the daily lives of the characters and more comedic bits based on storyboards that Gege Akutami provided.
  • In the anime adaptation of Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, the post-credits scene for the fifth episode of the anime's first season shows Kaguya and Shirogane walking by Ishigami.
  • The ending credits to the anime L/R: Licensed By Royalty shows Jack and Rowe driving off on another assignment after Rowe was supposedly killed by the revenge-seeking son of the Big Bad.
  • Lupin III usually doesn't do this, but two out of the three movies and some of the yearly specials have them:
    • Gravestone of Daisuke Jigen has Inspector Zenigata looking over at the graves of Lupin, Jigen, and Fujiko.
    • Fujiko Mine's Lie has Lupin waking up in the middle of desert and saying it would be hard to forget a woman like Fujiko.
  • My Hero Academia:
    • The anime does this with some episodes, but not all. Some of the scenes are minor... however, most of the major villains make their first anime appearances in said stingers, so if you're watching the show, take the time to check for a stinger after you've finished an episode so you don't miss anything.
    • The fourth series concludes just after Endeavor's fight with the High-End Nomu. After the ending credits play, the scene cuts to the U.A. dorms at night, where Midoriya has a dream about the previous wielders of One For All, before one of his six hidden Quirks activates in his sleep, destroying much of his room.
  • All Naruto movies have post-credit scenes.
  • The Spring and Summer OVAs of Negima! Magister Negi Magi throw in one last joke regarding a seemingly dropped side plot after the credits. The former has the Chupacabra some of the cast were hunting watching their plane fly away while the latter shows Asuna's last attempt to fend off Hakase's out-of-control bathing robot.
  • The credits for Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion appear half-way through the movie, rendering the entire second half this trope.
  • In the One Piece special, "3D2Y", as the credits end, there's a brief scene in which Sabo, the brother Ace and Luffy thought was dead, pours three cups of sake at Ace and Whitebeard's grave.
  • The first episode of Oshi no Ko has a post-credits scene showcasing a video recording Ai made for her children.
  • Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt's final episode had one, which was so obviously and shamelessly tacked on, and comes so completely out of nowhere that it seems like an intentional parody of stingers. After returning from the battle with the Big Bad, Stocking slices Panty into 666 pieces and declares that she's actually a demon. Then 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, this is a Gainax anime, why do you ask?
  • Persona 5: The Animation has a stinger for each episode except for 15 and 16, both of which end on a Cliffhanger.
  • The closing credits for all of the Pokémon 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 Mewtwo Strikes Back is a shot of Mew flying away into a mountainous background. In 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.
  • In Pretty Cure All Stars DX 3, after the credits, we're greeted with 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 The Magic Goes Away... 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, The Magic Comes Back. What, did you expect a Downer Ending like that when Suite Pretty Cure ♪ just started?
  • Puella Magi Madoka Magica has one in the final episode. 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 those wings?". Then there's the part after it which 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 Sequel Hook.
    • Word of God has stated that it was a homage to Blade, of all things.
    • The Compilation Movie keeps this stinger, and adds a trailer for the movie sequel after the credits.
    • The continuation movie, Rebellion, actually explains the series stinger. Most of the movie takes place in that desert, inside a Lotus-Eater Machine. 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: Homura, who has apparently just Mind Raped Kyubey, dances around happily before doing a Crucified Hero Shot and falling off a cliff. The last shot zooms in on a dishevelled Kyubey's eyes as he twitches and shakes.
    • The spin-off anime Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story has post-credits scenes throughout its three seasons.
  • In Real Drive, you see Minamo rushing off to meet a rejuvenated Haru stepping out of the sea.
  • The second Rebuild of Evangelion movie has a plot-relevant one. The movie ends with Shinji starting 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".
  • Rurouni Kenshin: Seisōhen ends with Kenji (dressed like Kenshin) walking with a young girl beneath the cherry blossoms, saying that they will live happily together.
  • In the "Nationals Arc" for Saki, which ends after the quarterfinals, there's a shot of Teru standing on a roof, turning to the camera, and whispering "Saki..." as it cuts to the title card.
  • In Samurai Champloo 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 Shige leaping out of his grave.
  • Episode 10 of School Days 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.
  • In Shattered Angels, the Spiritual Successor to Kannamiko of sorts, a similar scene reveals that Kyoshiro and Setsuna found the reborn Kuu many years after the events of the series.
  • After the credits of episode 13 of Slayers Revolution, there is a stinger shot of assassin Zuuma.
  • The credits of the last episode of SoltyRei show scenes from the series in "old film" sepia tone, and are followed by the true ending: Roy and Yuto go into space and find Solty, who has preserved herself for several years with her energy shield.
  • After the "Preview of the next episode" of every Steam Detectives, a still frame of a completely random scene from the episode (totally regardless of its importance in the plot) appears for a few second, with some cheesy music. The same thing happens in Ouran High School Host Club.
  • Super Sonico the Animation has one at the end of Episode 8 that reveals the answer to the episode's Locked Room Mystery, and shows that Ena isn't as stupid as she seems.
  • Both Tamagotchi theatrical films have one.
    • In Tamagotchi: The Movie, there is a scene after the end credits where Tanpopo finds her Tamagotchi toy in a box in her room, which surprises her since she had left it on Tamagotchi Planet. She finds Mametchi and Chamametchi communicating with her through it, with Mametchi explaining he was the one who sent the toy back. Tanpopo responds to them, mentioning she'd love for them to see her little brother some day.
    • Tamagotchi: Happiest Story in the Universe! has a post-credits scene where Mametchi and his friends are eating some heart-shaped fruits together, are informed a new book has been added to the Flying Library (which carries books that one can physically enter), and decide to visit the Library to see what the new book is.
  • Tiger & Bunny has several plot-significant ones, such as showing more of Lunatic and how much he knows about the heroes (establishing why he doubts Kotetsu's guilt in later episodes), and a Sequel Hook (removed from the DVDs??) in the final episode.
  • Tokyo Ghoul has a few:
    • 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 Sen Takatsuki, the popular author.
    • The final episode of the same season had an extra scene featuring Touka opening a new coffee shop called :re.
    • The final episode of Tokyo Ghoul:re finished with Kaneki, Touka and their daughter Ichika watching the sky.
  • 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 manipulate Tashiron into falling for her, revealing that she not only played the "kind senpai" to her, but also followed her home and eavesdroped on her to learn of her relationship troubles.
  • The first episode of Valvrave the Liberator ends with Child Soldier L-Elf mercilessly murdering The Hero, Haruto via stabbing him through the heart and shooting him three times. But in the post-credits, we see Haruto get back up and bite L-Elf in the neck.
  • Every episode of Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun has a "Sukima" 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.
  • Done in episode 10 of Your Lie in April to show audience reaction toward Kousei's piano playing that has changed since his last piano competition from robotic, down to the notes to become more colorful; and also to introduce his mother's best friend that later become his Parental Substitute as well as his mentor, Hiroko, to the series.

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