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  • The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You:
    • Chapter 17 ends with Rentarou getting a Zing with Hakari’s mother Hahari.
    • Chapter 51 starts with Rentarou getting a Zing with his middle schooler cousin Chiyo.
    • A Double Subversion happens in Chapter 74. Aware of the previous two Wham Shots, Rentarou expects Kusuri’s mother to be his next girlfriend, but she isn’t. But then, Kusuri’s grandmother comes home and—ZING!!
    • The end of Chapter 134 when Rentarou doesn’t Zing with Shizuka’s mother.
  • Ace Attorney (2016):
    • In the adaptation of "Turnabout Goodbyes", Phoenix, having discovered that Manfred von Karma has a bullet in his shoulder, prepares to present the bullet from the DL-6 incident to prove that it and the bullet fired into von Karma's shoulder came from the same gun, and von Karma murdered Gregory Edgeworth. He then opens the box and discovers that it's empty.
    • A bit later, like in canon, Miles Edgeworth, having undergone a Heel–Face Turn and resolved to give up his "Demon Prosecutor" ways, leaves behind a note saying "Prosecutor Miles Edgeworth chooses death" before leaving the prosecutor's office behind, until "Farewell, My Turnabout."
  • Once Misuzu breaks down in Air, things get dark and depressing.
  • The one-shot Akuryou is about a girl named Mayu, whose Childhood Friend Nami claims to be able to see ghosts, much to Mayu's annoyance. Near the end, as Mayu reassures Nami that she knows Nami isn't lying, Nami's chair is shown to be empty, strongly implying that Nami is a ghost.
  • In the H-manga, Alice in Sexland, after the Red Queen's Wham Line about the titular world being the afterlife it shows Alice's dead body, having died from the fall in the first chapter.
  • Assassination Classroom:
  • Towards the end of Episode 10 of Asteroid in Love, Mira and Endou are on their way out of the Ishigaki Airport for the Shining Star Challenge when they hear somebody calling out for Mira. The camera then cuts to Ao, whose application for the Shining Star Challenge had been rejected, appearing in front of them. It turns out Ao wanted to tag along so badly she bought a plane ticket and flew there on her own.
  • Attack on Titan:
    • The panels where the Rogue Titan attacks another Titan over an immobile human and takes a boxing stance, indicating intelligence. Both are impossible as far as humanity's knowledge goes, as the expressions on the observers' faces show.
    • The final shot of the first season reveals a Titan encased inside the Wall, raising a huge number of questions and suggesting that the Wall Cult, who preach that the Walls were created by miracle and should not be tampered with, are not as delusional as they'd seemed.
    • The ending of Chapter 122 when Eren, enraged by the First King of Eldia's treatment to Ymir gives her a Cooldown Hug. It cuts to the outside of the Paths, where Eren's head is reattached to his body. Soon, the Walls begin to tremble as they break releasing the Wall Titans, while Eren's Titan body grows to a humongous size.
    • Annie Leonhart gasping for breath after being inadvertently released by Eren while he was destroying the Walls in Chapter 124.
  • In Episode 5 of Bakemonogatari, Senjougahara points to Hachikuji while delivering the Wham Line, "That child is invisible to me." To drive the point home, the scene cuts to a birds-eye view, showing that she's actually pointing nowhere near Hachikuji.
  • In Big Girl and Small Girl, the protagonist, a petite 23-year-old woman, ends up getting rescued by a younger, far more busty girl while at the pool. While the younger girl calls the protagonist "onee-san," a way of addressing an older sister that can also be used for a female teenager/young woman who is older than oneself, the viewer doesn't know how much younger the younger girl is until she leaves carrying an elementary schooler's backpack.
  • Black Clover:
  • Bleach:
    • When Aizen is revealed to be alive to his loyal lieutenant and the audience at the same time, an overwhelmed Hinamori hugs him and bursts into tears. Aizen gently apologies for having caused her so much pain and thanks her for being such a reliable lieutenant...before ending his speech with the word "goodbye" and the sight of him stabbing her through the chest...revealing him to be the Big Bad.
    • When Kon is almost killed by the Grand Fisher, who thinks he's really Ichigo(Kon, a modsoul, is inhabiting Ichigo's body while Ichigo's out fighting Hollows), Kon is rescued...by Ichigo's father Isshin, who is wearing a Shinigami uniform (with the remnants of a Captain's haori wrapped around his arm), sporting a zanpakutou and clearly capable of seeing ghosts.
    • Kenpachi kills Nnoitra and the usual post-battle banter kicks off between Kenpachi and Ichigo, and it looks like Ichigo and his group will now be leaving Hueco Mundo and leaving the Shinigami behind to clean up. The banter is promptly interrupted by Starrk appearing out of nowhere, kidnapping Orihime and vanishing again before Kenpachi and Ichigo can even react.
    • Burn The Witch (2018) seems like Tite Kubo's take on a Harry Potter-style universe, revolving around witches, wizards and dragons in modern-day England. But the second to last page of the original one-shot shows there's more to it, revealing the true nature of "Reverse London". A sign on the repaired gate shows what the initials "SSWB" stand for: Soul Society West Branch.
  • Bloom Into You
    • Chapter 11 reveals that Riko Hakozaki, a teacher, and Miyako Kodama, the owner of a local cafe, are friends and roommates, but the final panel shows them kissing, revealing that they're a lesbian couple.
    • During Chapter 25, Koyomi goes to an autograph session with her favorite author. Her turn comes up, at which point she's called into a separate room, and in the next panel, it's revealed that the author is a woman who uses a masculine pen name.
  • Blue Flag: The final chapter is told entirely from the P.O.V. Cam of someone whose last name is Ichinose, implied to be Taichi in a friend's wedding. Then Taichi himself shows up. Later, another shot shows that Taichi has a wedding ring on his finger and so does the P.O.V. character; the manga ends with the implication that we have been following Touma, who has at some point, married Taichi and taken his last name.
  • Bokurano
    • After Waku's battle, the group stands on top of Zearth. Ushiro, annoyed at Waku for yelling at the top of his lungs in triumph, gives him a light shove... and Waku then falls off the 500 meter-tall Humongous Mecha.
    • At the end of one episode of the anime, a shot showing an information file reveals that Tanaka is Ushiro's mother.
    • During Chizu's arc in the manga, she has Zearth stab the engine of Hatagai's car to force him to get out. She's shocked to see her older sister Ichiko also get out of the car, revealing that Ichiko is Hatagai's girlfriend.
  • The end of Episode 10 of The Caligula Effect has Ritsu, who had been absent the entire episode, wake up in an office that looks like no place seen in Mobius. Then there's a second one in the credits — Ritsu's voice actor, Chiharu Sawashiro, is listed as playing "Shingo Tachibana", a completely new character, with Ritsu nowhere to be found. This sets up the next episode's revelations on who Ritsu really is.
  • Call of the Night: Night 92 ends with Yamori getting back on his feet after collapsing from being accidentally shot by Anko, hinting that he has become a vampire.
  • Code Geass:
    • In Episode 14, Mao, a mysterious man with white hair and black visor over his eyes, confronts Shirley and seems to know all about her. After using this knowledge to ruthlessly manipulate her, the camera zooms in to reveal a Geass in his eye beneath the visor. As this is the only other character in the series shown to have a Geass by this point, this expands the lore and raises all kinds of questions about how many other Geass-users there might be, what kinds of powers they might have and what C.C.'s motives might be for making these contracts.
  • Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School:
    • Subverted at the end of the second episode of Side: Future: after the sleeping drug knocks everyone out and the attacker strikes, Makoto awakens and finds Aoi seemingly stabbed in the stomach. However, the next episode reveals that the stabbing was faked with tomato sauce and a toy knife.
    • Episode 4 ends with a shot of Monaca Towa controlling a robot Gekkogahara, dressed up in her Junko-esque outfit from the end of Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls.
    • Episode 6 ends with Munakata's peacekeeping forces heading to Jabberwock island, with someone who looks like Hajime watching them from a dock. The final shot has a closeup of his eye, which opens to reveal a red pupil as he says "This is so boring"...the catch phrase of his other personality, Izuru.
    • Episode 8 ends with Byakuya's team accidentally triggering a bomb inside the Future Foundation base, causing the building to start sinking.
    • At the end of Episode 9, when everyone awakens, they discover Kirigiri has died due to her forbidden action. Upon investigating her bracelet, they find out the cause — she died because Makoto is still alive.
    • At the end of Episode 11, Mitarai receives a text message from Tengan. Two reasons for this being so shocking; Tengan is supposed to be dead and nobody has had phone service up until now.
    • Over in Side: Despair Episode 10, the final shot is that of Izuru, who, up to that point had shown absolutely no emotion other than vague surprise and annoyance, crying over the death of Chiaki, his pre-Death of Personality Love Interest.
  • DARLING in the FRANXX:
    • At the end of Episode 3, we see Mitsuru bleeding and injured in the cockpit of Strelizia, revealing that the rumors surrounding Zero Two's partners being unable to ride with her more than three times before dying are true.
    • The end of Episode 8, showing the prior plantation 13 parasites...who were wiped out to a man.
    • In Episode 15, an exposed Klaxosaur's core reveals what's clearly a human-shaped body.
    • In Episode 16, the events of the episode pass by without much drama, until the final shot where we see what looks like another klaxosaur hybrid.
  • In Episode 12 of Date A Live IV, Phantom appears before Kurumi. The latter manages to destroy her pixelated disguise. She is revealed to be Reine Murasame. Believing that Reine is actually Mio Takamiya, the woman who turned Kurumi into a spirit, she proceeds to consume her.
  • Death Note:
    • In the very first chapter, Light initially dismisses the titular Artifact of Doom as a practical joke, and five days later, when he's first visited by Ryuk, he still appears to be acting normal enough to say goodbye to friends and talk about his exam results with his mother. Then he proudly display the dozens of names he has written to Ryuk, abruptly revealing that it didn't take long for the power over death to get to Light's head.
    • This is how Light's father and the police inspector working on the Kira case are revealed to be the same person to the viewer.
  • Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
    • Near the end of the Swordsmith Village arc, Tanjiro's little sister Nezuko forces him to continue pursuing Hantengu to stop him from getting away, even though dawn is approaching and sunlight is fatal to Nezuko. After defeating Hantengu, Tanjiro is distraught at the loss of his sister... until he turns around and sees Nezuko standing there unharmed, revealing that she has become immune to sunlight.
    • The penultimate chapter ends with glimpses of the surviving heroes' lives, with the final panel being a glimpse at a modern skyline, showing that the last chapter takes place 100 years after the final battle, in the present day.
  • In the first five minutes of Digimon Adventure tri., we see Hikari trying to wake Taichi from bed only to watch as it cuts to the main four protagonists of Digimon Adventure 02 being struck down by Alphamon.
    • Determination ends with Leomon getting killed (again) by Meicuumon and Maki smiling at the sudden Face–Heel Turn. It opens with the Village of Beginnings note  being leveled, and after a fight between Leomon and Ogremon, we see The Digimon Kaiser.
  • Dragon Ball:
    • When Raditz first appears, it's established that he's searching for someone named Kakarot. The very last shot of his introductory appearance in both the anime and manga shows what Kakarot looks like, revealing him to be Goku when he was a baby.
    • A second one with Raditz pops up exactly one episode/chapter later, when he smacks Krillin with the "belt" around his waist, revealing it's actually a tail exactly like the one Goku had when he was a kid.
    • An awesome one occurs late in the Buu Saga where Enma-Daioh is distressed how Buu is killing everyone on Earth and decides to bring out one of the more powerful souls he kept on standby just in case things started getting too out of hand. Cue the currently dead Vegeta walking up with a smirk on his face and ready to kick some ass.
    • Another comes from the Android Saga when Bulma faxes over a picture a farmer took of one of their vehicles he found out on his property. It's Trunks' time machine only far older and covered in moss, meaning someone else came back in time with it.
    • Dragon Ball Super has one in the second opening, when a shy human-looking girl suddenly turns into a Legendary Super Saiyan. We later learn her name is Kale.
  • Fairy Tail: Chapter 444. We finally see who Emperor Spriggan, the ruler of the Alvarez Empire and the apparent Arc Villain is. We then echo Makarov's reaction when it's revealed that "Emperor Spriggan" is really Zeref.
    • At the end of the Edolas arc, as a result of the Reverse Anima that Mystogan used to save the residents of Magnolia, everyone who has magic is sucked through, which means all the Exceeds and everyone from Earthland. Soon after everyone regroups, Pantherlily reveals that he found and captured someone "suspicious" and reveals his captive. She turns out to be Lisanna, which means that the Earthland Lisanna never died, but was transported to Edolas and lived as that universe's version of herself.
  • Fullmetal Alchemist:
  • Gintama: The moment where Utsuro's mask breaks and reveals his face: that of Gintoki's deceased mentor, Yoshida Shoyo.
  • Episode 12 of GUN×SWORD ends on one. The old man Wendy was talking to in the park opens a suitcase. In it is a prosthetic arm... a giant, metallic claw arm. We've just met the Claw.
  • Good Night World:
    • In the first episode, the montage of all members of Taichiro's family donning Virtual Reality visors similar to his own, logging into PLANET and spawning into to the Akabane Family's house, turning out to be three players with whom Taichiro has formed a Family of Choice due to not getting along with his real-world family.
    • In the third episode, sparks coming out of Asuma's VR visor and the character collapsing after getting his avatar stomped to death in-game by the Black Bird of Happiness, suddenly making the latter a much bigger deal.
    • In the seventh episode, the Black Bird seemingly manifesting in the real world after Shigatera's player has logged off PLANET.
  • At the end of the second volume of If I Could Reach You, Kaoru decides to call her husband Reiichi, who recently told her that his business trip has been extended by a few days. Reiichi answers the phone, and a two-page spread reveals that he's standing several feet away from Kaoru, in the company of Kaoru's friend Risako, showing that he lied about his trip.
  • JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood: When Dio's coffin appears near Jonathan's honeymoon ship.
  • Jujutsu Kaisen: Chapter 143 has a brief flashback to Yuji’s grandfather urging to his son Jin (Yuji’s father) of leaving his wife. Said wife is revealed to have scars on her forehead very similar to Geto and Noritoshi Kamo’s.
  • Kill la Kill:
    • When Nui Harime pulls out the scissor blade that matches Ryuko's, meaning she's the one who killed Ryuko's father.
    • When Ragyo tears out Ryuko's heart, and it's glowing with life fibers, revealing Ryuko to be Ragyo's long missing daughter.
  • Limit (2009) uses these in abundance to emphasize a Big Reveal. We get one in Volume 5 when it's revealed that Hinata was the "murderer hiding in our midst", even though it was foreshadowed WAY early on. We also get another one in Volume 1 right after the bus crash when Konno opens her phone and we see the pile of dead bodies behind her.
  • The Stinger of Episode 10 of the animated adaptation of Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions!, where Rikka, who always wears a yellow contact lens on her right eye and put an eyepatch over it as part of her "Evil Eye" gimmick, takes off her eyepatch to reveal... a perfectly-normal blue eye.
  • In the first season of Lyrical Nanoha, when the TSAB soldiers arrive to arrest Precia they eventually discover a dimly-lit chamber, in which is a stasis tank containing a girl who looks just like Fate, though younger. It's Alicia, Precia's clinically-dead true daughter and Fate's genetic progenitor; Fate is a clone.
  • Macross: Do You Remember Love? has a major one that still manages to shock even though it's a Late-Arrival Spoiler or It Was His Sled for those who had watched the original series. Hikaru and Misa are able to escape from the Zentradi ship just as it space-folds, depositing them on a barren, desolate planet. For a few scenes, they search over the world to find any clues to where they are, when they stumble across the hulks of the Promethius and Daedalusnote . At that point Hikaru and Misa come to the horrifiying realization that this is the Earth, completely glassed after the Macross fled, and that they are at best part of a vanishingly small fraction of the human race left alive, and at worst the two last living human beings period.
  • Monster:
  • In Muhyo and Roji
    • During the Arcanum arc, Bico stumbles upon the corpse of one of Face-Ripper Sophie's victims, and since Sophie likes to Kill and Replace her victims, the identity of the dead body helps Bico realize the identity of the victim. In the anime, you can see the victim wearing the uniform of one of the wardens, revealing that Sophie didn't kill and impersonate Judge Imai. Shortly thereafter, as Iwamoto, a warden, tries to flee with his coworker and fiancee, Furuya, he talks about his plans for them to live together. Furuya's eyes then transform, revealing that Sophie killed and impersonated her.
    • After Sophie's defeat, Roji asks Rio how she was able to use a magical tool, something that people like her, who make the tools, shouldn't be able to do. She evasively asks, "Did I?" and a scar is shown on her face, revealing that she's a forbidden magical law user.
  • My Younger Senpai
    • After Nanasawa, the main character, meets up with her old senpai Seto (whom she had a crush on) only to find that Seto had gotten married and divorced since graduating high school, Nanasawa hits her head and passes out. She comes to in the morning, only to check her phone and find out that it's the summer and to see someone else living in her apartment. Checking the newspaper reveals that she's traveled back in time 10 years with her adult body and memories.
    • At the end of the second chapter, someone walks in on the adult Nanasawa and the teenaged Seto. The final panel reveals that it's Seto's younger self.
  • Naruto:
    • In the Search for Tsunade arc, there are shots of Sasuke frantically racing to get to Naruto before Itachi, who's hunting for the Nine-Tailed Fox inside Naruto, can do so. Sasuke reaches a door, seemingly that of the inn room where Naruto is staying, and knocks, while Naruto, hearing a knock on his door, gets up to answer it. The next pages show that Sasuke found the wrong room, and Naruto opens his door to see Itachi and Kisame, who have tracked him down.
    • Just before dying, Sasori reveals that he had planned on a meeting with a spy investigating Orochimaru, and the next arc involves capturing that spy. Naruto's squad gets to the meeting point, with Yamato impersonating Sasori, and the spy is revealed to be none other than Kabuto, Orochimaru's right-hand man.
    • We finally see the unidentified corpse that scared the Masked Man into working with Kabuto: it's the real Uchiha Madara.
    • Chapter 599. After a long flashback, we finally get to see who Tobi is, several chapters after the real Madara Uchiha's resurrection proved it wasn't him. As the mask crumbles away, we get a full-page shot of the long-thought-dead Obito Uchiha, glaring hatefully at the heroes.
    • The last page of Chapter 698 shows that Naruto and Sasuke blew each other's dominant arms off with their final attacks.
  • In Kaori Yuki's Neji, the final chapter revolves around a company that makes highly-advanced AIs that are basically indistinguishable from actual humans, except that they have the company's logo as their eyes behind translucent contacts. The company's president was shot by his latest creation, leading to the guy's son to take his place and hunt down the murderous AI. During a struggle with the son, his contact falls out and there's a close-up of his eyes having the company logo in them — he is an AI built after the president's son, whom he routinely abused.
  • In the manga adaptation of Neon Genesis Evangelion, Misato looks at the dossier for Unit-04's pilot, and is shocked to see that it's Toji Suzuhara, Shinji's classmate and friend.
  • In New Game!, at the start of Episode 7 of the second season of the anime, Aoba is asked to sit in on an interview for someone who applied for a programmer job, even though Aoba doesn't know anything about programming. After a few shots of the person in question from behindnote , the door opens and the interviewee is revealed to be Aoba's Childhood Friend Nene, who'd worked at Eagle Jump before. Averted in the equivalent scene in Chapter 51 of the manga, which doesn't attempt to hide that the person in question is Nene.
  • The epic pan out at the end of the first episode of Now and Then, Here and There as Shu hangs from the bottom of the Hellywood, showing the immense, desolate scope of the blasted alien world he's tumbled into and how tiny and insignificant he is there. Any thoughts of this being a standard shonen adventure are gone.
  • One Piece:
    • Oda loves this, and would mark such moments with the onomatopoeia Don! or Dodon! on-panel. The sheer amount of such moments may lessen the impact for some, but that doesn't stop them from being revelatory, awesome, tearjerking, heartwarming, or anything in-between.
    • In Sanji's backstory, he, trapped on an island with Zeff, is led to believe that Zeff has taken the majority of the food. Out of food and literally starving to death, he plans on trying to steal Zeff's stash, and cuts open the bag he thinks contains the food. Treasure then spills out, revealing that Zeff gave all the food to Sanji, and Sanji notices Zeff's missing leg, and realizes the sacrifices Zeff had made for him; Zeff actually gave him all the food supplies, then cut off his own leg and ate it. Not only that, Zeff's fighting technique was based entirely upon kicking, meaning by maiming himself he's ended his career as a pirate. This actually re-shapes Sanji's entire personality; he left home to seek his fortune, and the sight of inedible treasure next to a starving pirate who ate his own leg and gave up his ability to fight so Sanji would have a better chance at survival makes him decide that treasure is worthless, food is life, and a friend who gives you food is family.
    • In the Water 7 arc, when the masked assassins enter Iceberg's room, Hattori lands on the shoulder of the man with the bull mask. He then takes off his mask, revealing himself as Rob Lucci, one of the Galley-La shipwrights who worked under Iceberg, and the others reveal their identities as Kaku, a fellow shipwright; Kalifa, Iceberg's secretary; and Blueno the bartender.
    • In Chapter 428, the Straw Hats are in dire straits, due to being surrounded by Marines with no chance of escape. Usopp, however, hears a voice and tells the Straw Hats to jump into the seaNote. The Straw Hats do that, and they see that the Going Merry, their ship, has arrived to serve as their escape route one last time.
    • The Punk Hazard Arc has a downplayed example when Trafalgar Law appears
    • Chapter 731 has one at the very end: After Luffy sees a certain mysterious man and has an epic Jaw Drop, he is later seen crying. When Zoro tries to snap him out of it and asks why he's crying, Luffy answers that he always thought that person was dead. We then get a shot of three sake cups at Ace and Whitebeard's graves, very strongly implying that said person is Sabo, something that is later explicitly confirmed.
    • Chapter 908 ends with the Five Elders, until then assumed to be the Greater Scope Villains of the entire series, bowing before a shadowy figure and calling it "Master." The figure is also sitting on the "empty throne" that is meant to represent the World Government's belief that no one individual should rule the world, showing that this person and the Five Elders don't follow their own teachings.
    • Chapter 918: The final panel features grave-markers for Momonosuke and his retainers.
    • Chapter 921 ends with a gigantic eastern dragon looming ominously over Okobore Town in Wano, with Trafalgar Law telling Luffy that it's Kaidou.
    • Chapter 1043 has the Darkest Hour: Luffy is near-dead thanks to the trickery of Guernica, and Kaido decides to kill everyone of the remaining fighters to punish them for resisting: when Luffy's heart begins to beat in an odd manner and something rubbery begins to emanate out of him, at which point Luffy begins to grin widely.
  • Since the Persona 5 manga followed the events of the original version, it may come as a shock to see Akira encounter Kasumi Yoshizawa (a character that appeared only in the Royal version) right after stealing Kaneshiro's Treasure.
  • Pokémon: The Series:
    • Ash's friendly rematch with Kalos Champion Diantha takes a very unexpected turn when Ash's Greninja completes his Super Mode transformation, "shedding" off his water cloak and flooring Diantha's Gardevoir with a single Fuuma Shuriken. The shock factor is even more obvious when the episode's previews never foreshadowed such a thing happening, when the anime has always been guilty of Trailers Always Spoil.
    • When the XY group starts parting ways, Serena's the first to go. Before she departs, she tells Ash that he is still her goal. She goes down the escalator, and this might be the last we'll be seeing of her, but...she asks for one last moment with Ash, and runs back up the escalator to Ash, and kisses him. The real (if additional) whammy is the look on the rest of the group's faces, confirming the deed.
    • In an episode of Sun and Moon, Ash is sent to an alternate reality. The Wham here is Ash's destroyed school. There's also a class photo which features Ash's entire class, presumably deceased, and at one point this universe's Ash is shown clearly.
    • In Journeys, when Ash and Goh go to Cero Island to find Mew, they are instead approached by Mewtwo. Yep, the very same Mewtwo from the first film, who reappears in the anime after 20 years of absence.
  • Toward the end of Pokémon Origins, very few fans were surprised to see Red's Charizard Mega Evolve, as it was hinted at even in the initial trailer. However, everyone was caught completely off guard when the aforementioned Mega Evolution took place...and a completely different version of Mega Charizard appeared. This was immediately followed by the announcement that Charizard was, in fact, getting two Mega Evolutions.
  • Pretty Cure:
  • Puella Magi Madoka Magica:
  • In Chapter 66-3 of Rosario + Vampire, the Headmaster removes his cloak for the first time to show he's completely covered in holy locks.
  • In Saki Shinohayu -dawn of age-, Mafuka, an Idol Singer, saves Hayari from a man who is trying to harm her for calling him out on his behavior, then shows her the same trick with a mahjong tile that the woman Hayari met in the hospital showed her. Hayari then realizes that the Idol Singer she initially found somewhat annoying and the woman she admired are the same person, presumably eventually leading her to become the kind of mahjong player she is in the present story.
  • School Rumble Episode 10 had Harima declaring his love for Tenma, but it was Eri by mistake.
  • Shimeji Simulation:
    • Chapter 8. It shows a shot of the Raw Fish Generator, Sis's rather strange contraption to convert fish into Fish With Names. It later plays a major role when Shijima was later sent to the Dream World through the said fishes in Chapter 9, as well as during Sis's confrontation with the Gardener in Chapter 30.
    • Chapter 46 shows shots of Majime with the staff on her hand. Before it soon transitions to her long-haired self in the future talking to her creations. It then goes into a Flash Forward scene 1400 years into the future, aptly named the Majime Era, where plants and Talking Animals are seen everywhere. It was until the end of the chapter that a statue of Shijima is seen beside the Majime statue.
    • Chapter 48's last panel shows a familiar-looking world with Talking Animals and some fruit-shaped structures that Shijima ends up after a long trip, which is revealed to be the world that Majime created.
  • Shi ni Aruki
    • Chapter 7 ends with Miyuki calling her niece Rina, who doesn't pick up her home phone. She tries Rina's cell phone, and the last panel reveals that the cell phone has been dropped into a canal, meaning that Rina has gone missing.
    • At the end of Chapter 13, Tokiko gets home and sees that Miyuki has hanged herself.
    • In Chapter 18, a shot of a yearbook shows Ai Aoya's photo, which is labeled Ai Shiroki, meaning she was the daughter of the couple who was murdered.
    • In Chapter 26, after Tokiko kills Aoya, she leaves the place where he was holding her, which turns out to be the Aoya residence. This reveals that the Cliffhanger in Chapter 23, of Koga discovering something in Aoya's apartment, took place after Chapter 26, and that "something" was Ai and the dead Aoya.
  • The Summer You Were There:
    • In Chapter 10, as Shizuku wonders if Kaori had fun at the festival, Kaori is shown in her room, gasping for breath and coughing, with medications on her bed, revealing that she is not well.
    • In Chapter 14, Shizuku thanks Kaori for accompanying her to the meeting with Ruri and Seri, only to turn and see Kaori collapse.
  • Sword Art Online:
    • After the battle with the Skull Reaper, Kirito becomes suspicious about Heathcliff's behavior, and, in an attempt to test a theory, attacks him, becoming the first person to reduce him below 50 percent HP. The result is that Heathcliff is protected by the system changing him into an "IMMORTAL OBJECT", revealing that he's Akihiko Kayaba, creator of the game and the one responsible for imprisoning everyone.
    • Near the end of the Mother's Rosary arc of the anime, Asuna gets a text message from Dr. Kurahashi revealing that Yuuki's condition has deteriorated.
    • In Episode 5 of the Alicization anime, Rinko's assistant Mayumi takes off her sunglasses and wig, revealing herself as Asuna, who'd enlisted Rinko's help in order to learn more about what happened to Kirito.
  • Takopi's Original Sin: An infamous one that made the manga viral overnight. Specifically, Shizuka's swinging corpse after hanging herself in the first chapter.
  • Tiger & Bunny has multiple in short order come the halfway point of the first season:
    • Episode 13: Kotetsu experiences a sudden spike in his NEXT powers, but his Hour of Power expires sooner than anticipated.
    • Episode 14: By the end of the episode, Kotetsu's power continues to expire before anticipated. He eventually learns that his spike in power from the previous episode is a symptom of the eventual and total depletion of his powers: his days as a superhero are numbered.
    • Episode 15: Kotetsu learns that his personal hero, Mr. Legend, also suffered a loss of powers late in his career, and he became an alcoholic. It is also revealed that he became violently abusive until he was killed by his son, Yuri Petrov — a present-day judge for the Justice Bureau, as well as the vigilante Lunatic.
    • Episode 17: Kaede is revealed to have begun developing her own NEXT powers.
    • Episode 18: Barnaby learns that Jake Martinez, the Arc Villain who died in Episode 12, was not the murderer of his parents, derailing his mental health.
    • Episode 19: Barnaby discovers the true identity of his parents' murderer: Albert Maverick, the CEO of Apollon Media and his mentor. Maverick was able to obfuscate the truth all this time because of his NEXT power to rewrite memories, which he uses on Barnaby, leading to...
    • Episode 20: Once Kotetsu starts getting close to the truth of the deaths of Barnaby's parents, Maverick has the one woman who still knows the truth, an old family friend of Barnaby's, assassinated. He then frames Kotetsu for her death, using his powers to convince the other heroes, and his control over the media to paint him as the villain.
  • Your Lie in April has few of them:
    • Kaori collapsing at the end of Episode 4.
    • Kaori in the hospital AGAIN at the end of Episode 13.
    • Episode 15 has the first few moments where Kaori's limbs give out again when she's walking around her house while reading sheet music. She falls on her head and opens a wound but doesn't notice it until she sees blood on her hands and sheet music and then she passes out. And then there's the last two minutes where she's walking around in the hospital and she falls and suddenly loses feeling in her legs.
    • In Episode 20 the black cat that's been around the whole series gets fatally run over and all the audience and Kousei sees is the cat lying lifelessly in a pool of its own blood.
    • Episode 22. Kaori disappearing in front of Kousei during his performance, symbolizing her death.
  • At the beginning of the eighth chapter of the Yu-Gi-Oh! GX manga, Sho launches an attack on his opponent's monster. When the smoke clears, it is revealed that his opponent is his best friend Judai. Shortly thereafter, it is revealed how they were forced to duel each other.
    • In the anime, in Episode 126, Axel and his team witness a scene that finally creates a ray of hope for the characters to escape the Spirit World. An hologram of Eisenstein, who managed to get in contact with them.
    • In Episode 138, Jim challenges the Supreme King, and the latter removes his helmet, revealing...Jaden's face!
  • In the Episode 33 of Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V, Kurosaki and Sora begin their duel. The announce announced that the field chosen for them is none other than Future Metropolis Heartland, which is based off of Kurosaki's now-destroyed hometown and confirms that the Xyz Dimension is definitely linked to Zexal.
  • Yuri is My Job!
    • In Volume 1, Hime goes to the changing room and, assuming that her friend Kanoko is behind the curtain, starts venting about her troubles and admits that her cute behavior is an act. Sumika, Mai and Kanoko then appear behind Hime, shortly before the curtain opens, revealing that Mitsuki was inside the changing room and heard everything.
    • At the end of Volume 2, Sumika picks up Kanoko's phone, and sees that it's full of pictures of Hime.
    • In a flashback in Chapter 25, taking place at the end of April, Mitsuki meets with Mai and Sumika, noticing that Mai no longer has her cast. While Mai had been without the cast at the end of the previous chapter, this reveals that she's been lying to Hime for months.
    • At the end of Chapter 45, a visitor arrives to the salon. She then presents a visitor's pass that says "Goeido-san" and the panel reveals her to be Yoko "Goeido" Gotou, Nene's former schwester and a character who had previously only appeared in flashbacks.
  • The shot that changed everything for Yuri!!! on Ice fans was the scene near the end of Episode 7, in which all homoerotic subtext between Yuri and Victor becomes sheer text when Victor actually tackles and kisses Yuri on international television.
  • Chapter 53 of Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs has a huge one that involves its title, "Yuna-san When She Was Alive". With the help of another psychic, Yuna and Kogarashi finally get a glimpse of what Yuna looked like when she was alive — a disabled girl sporting miserable-looking Dull Eyes of Unhappiness.
  • Zombie Land Saga: The first episode features Sakura looking in a mirror after escaping a mansion full of zombie girls and realizing she's a zombie, too.

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