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* In ''Anime/EarwigAndTheWitch'', the fact that Bella Yaga and Mandrake wound up choosing their old friend and bandmate's daughter out of a literal line-up of children was just one giant coincidence. Maybe.
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** The owner of the ramen shop Taki and his friends stop at is a former Itomori resident who later helps Taki reach [[spoiler:the remains of Itomori]].
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** Taki and Mitsuha just happening to be in trains that pass each other at that exact moment when it never happened anytime earlier on their morning commutes [[spoiler:despite the years since their last contact]] is very convenient.
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* ''Psychometer Eiji'''s spinoff manga ''Debusen'' featuring comic relief character Mitsuru Fukushima relies on this in basically almost every presented plot points. One of those examples is the premise of the manga itself; Mitsuru, who decides to commit suicide in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aokigahara Sea of Trees]] after piling up so much debts finds a corpse of a woman greatly resembling him and is somehow trapped in a life of high school teacher replacing the deceased woman to reform a class filled with failure students. First of all, he chooses to go to Sea of Trees[[note]]it's a famous place for suicide in Japan but still coincidence[[/note]] instead of jumping off a cliff or using other suicide methods. Second, because Mitsuru wants to get a chocolate in a pocket of a corpse hanged on a brach which can't hold Mitsuru's height, he magically stumbles into the woman's corpse in a ''35-square-kilometre forest'', not to mention the corpse's obscured location people won't easily notice. Third, said corpse has similar body structure and appearance to Mitsuru except for general male-female characteristics. Fourth, the woman's name is conveniently ''[[http://pic.taadd.com/comics/pic9/4/47044/814855/dbea0e6a82f856ae53f9c827665af265.png Mitsuko Fukushima]]'', the name Mitsuru uses whenever he cosplays as a woman. Despite the amount of miracle it needs to work, the plot can still happen.
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* ''Psychometer Eiji'''s spinoff manga ''Debusen'' ''Manga/{{Debusen}}'' featuring comic relief character Mitsuru Fukushima relies on this in basically almost every presented plot points. One of those examples is the premise of the manga itself; Mitsuru, who decides to commit suicide in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aokigahara Sea of Trees]] after piling up so much debts finds a corpse of a woman greatly resembling him and is somehow trapped in a life of high school teacher replacing the deceased woman to reform a class filled with failure students. First of all, he chooses to go to Sea of Trees[[note]]it's a famous place for suicide in Japan but still coincidence[[/note]] instead of jumping off a cliff or using other suicide methods. Second, because Mitsuru wants to get a chocolate in a pocket of a corpse hanged on a brach which can't hold Mitsuru's height, he magically stumbles into the woman's corpse in a ''35-square-kilometre forest'', not to mention the corpse's obscured location people won't easily notice. Third, said corpse has similar body structure and appearance to Mitsuru except for general male-female characteristics. Fourth, the woman's name is conveniently ''[[http://pic.taadd.com/comics/pic9/4/47044/814855/dbea0e6a82f856ae53f9c827665af265.png Mitsuko Fukushima]]'', the name Mitsuru uses whenever he cosplays as a woman. Despite the amount of miracle it needs to work, the plot can still happen.
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* ''Anime/LittleWitchAcademia2017'': In Episode 16, the Greenman Disease is a parody of this, working off ''ridiculously specific'' triggers. The conditions and effects of the illness make it work more like a curse than an actual pathology in practice; it only happens in a specific region of Finland when, among other things, a certain amount of [=CO2=] exhaled by humans coincides with a specific breeding rate of a specific family of fish, the release of pollen into the air, ''a freaking planetary alignment event'' and '''''the consumption of a specific traditional homemade pie when baked at a specific temperature.''''' The conditions are so stringent that [[LampshadeHanging the book detailing the disease itself points out that]] [[OneInAMillionChance it's something one could only expect to occur AT MOST once every thousand years.]] Guess where our heroines decide to go to, at which time of the year (and the millennium), and which traditional treat is served to them by a well-meaning old woman.
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* ''Anime/LittleWitchAcademia2017'': In Episode 16, the Greenman Disease is a parody of this, working off ''ridiculously specific'' triggers. The conditions and effects of the illness make it work more like a curse than an actual pathology in practice; it only happens in a specific region of Finland when, among other things, a certain amount of [=CO2=] exhaled by humans coincides with a specific breeding rate of a specific family of fish, the release of pollen into the air, ''a freaking planetary alignment event'' and '''''the consumption of a specific traditional homemade pie when baked at a specific temperature.''''' The conditions are so stringent that [[LampshadeHanging the book detailing the disease itself points out that]] [[OneInAMillionChance it's something one could only expect to occur AT MOST once every thousand years.]] Guess where our heroines decide to go to, at which time of the year (and the millennium), and which traditional treat is served to them by a well-meaning old woman.
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* ''Anime/FushigiboshiNoFutagoHime'': This seems to be how the Prominence works in the early part of the first season. Whenever Fine and Rein use it to solve problems, the events just seem completely improbable to make any sort of sense.
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* ''Anime/TwinPrincessOfWonderPlanet'': This seems to be how the Prominence works in the early part of the first season. Whenever Fine and Rein use it to solve problems, the events just seem completely improbable to make any sort of sense.
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* The main character of ''Manga/AliceAcademy'' just ''happens'' to befriend a kid with a superpower, who just ''happens'' to have avoided being sent to the [[AcademyOfAdventure special school for those people]] long enough to befriend the main character, and just ''happens'' to have one of her letters reach the main character despite the faculty of the school doing everything they can [[ClosedCircle to prevent the students having any contact at all with the outside world]], which just ''happens'' to prompt the main character to travel to the school, where she just so ''happens'' to be allowed in because she has a power of her own, one which just ''[[OverlyLongGag happens]]'' to be [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway so situational]] that neither she nor anybody else knew that she had it until the plot demanded it.
* The main character of ''Manga/GakuenAlice'' just ''happens'' to befriend a kid with a superpower, who just ''happens'' to have avoided being sent to the [[AcademyOfAdventure special school for those people]] long enough to befriend the main character, and just ''happens'' to have one of her letters reach the main character despite the faculty of the school doing everything they can [[ClosedCircle to prevent the students having any contact at all with the outside world]], which just ''happens'' to prompt the main character to travel to the school, where she just so ''happens'' to be allowed in because she has a power of her own, one which just ''[[OverlyLongGag happens]]'' to be [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway so situational]] that neither she nor anybody else knew that she had it until the plot demanded it.
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* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' is filled with numerous contrived coincidences. Among some samples:
** The first student to find out about Negi's secret, Asuna, [[spoiler:is not only a magic world princess who [[LaserGuidedAmnesia had her memories of her past wiped out]], but it appears that she is also [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld a creation of Negi's ancestor]]]].
** Nodoka, after receiving her Pactio card, just happens to be walking by when she overhears Chamo and Asuna discuss how the card can be used to summon magical items. This starts a series of events (and other coincidences) that results in Nodoka not only discovering her Pactio ability of MindReading, but also discovering that Negi is actually a mage. Interestingly enough, this isn't the only time Nodoka was walking by when Negi, Asuna, and Chamo are discussing important stuff, as this also happens first when Negi tells Asuna about his past, and later when Negi invites Asuna to go with him to the Magic World during summer break.
** Taken even further when you consider the sheer improbability of Negi's class being assembled. Asuna, [[spoiler:magical world princess]] Konoka, [[spoiler:daughter of his father's fighting companion]] Evangeline, [[spoiler:sealed there by his father]] Mana, [[spoiler:half-demonfolk mercenary]], Ku Fei; apparently the most talented martial artist on campus, Chao, [[spoiler:his descendent]] Kaede; exceedingly talented ninja, and Zazie [[spoiler:demonfolk princess]]. It's possible the headmaster just meddled, but then it's still a case of ImprobableAge that everyone is in the same grade.
** It's not that contrived for all of this to happen. Considering that the school itself is quite populated by mages, several of whom are related to Negi's father's group, it isn't THAT big of a stretch so much interesting people would gather there. After all, [[spoiler: Asuna being placed into the care of a ton of mages makes sense since she's a princess in hiding, albeit unknowingly so to herself at least,]] and there probably would be several of those tied to the magical world staying in a place filled with mages, [[spoiler: such as Mana and Zazie]]. And Chao needed to be in Mahora itself since [[spoiler: she needed to use the World Tree for her spell,]] so she would be waiting around in the school for the right time. The biggest contrivance is really just that all these people were stuffed into a single classroom.
** The first student to find out about Negi's secret, Asuna, [[spoiler:is not only a magic world princess who [[LaserGuidedAmnesia had her memories of her past wiped out]], but it appears that she is also [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld a creation of Negi's ancestor]]]].
** Nodoka, after receiving her Pactio card, just happens to be walking by when she overhears Chamo and Asuna discuss how the card can be used to summon magical items. This starts a series of events (and other coincidences) that results in Nodoka not only discovering her Pactio ability of MindReading, but also discovering that Negi is actually a mage. Interestingly enough, this isn't the only time Nodoka was walking by when Negi, Asuna, and Chamo are discussing important stuff, as this also happens first when Negi tells Asuna about his past, and later when Negi invites Asuna to go with him to the Magic World during summer break.
** Taken even further when you consider the sheer improbability of Negi's class being assembled. Asuna, [[spoiler:magical world princess]] Konoka, [[spoiler:daughter of his father's fighting companion]] Evangeline, [[spoiler:sealed there by his father]] Mana, [[spoiler:half-demonfolk mercenary]], Ku Fei; apparently the most talented martial artist on campus, Chao, [[spoiler:his descendent]] Kaede; exceedingly talented ninja, and Zazie [[spoiler:demonfolk princess]]. It's possible the headmaster just meddled, but then it's still a case of ImprobableAge that everyone is in the same grade.
** It's not that contrived for all of this to happen. Considering that the school itself is quite populated by mages, several of whom are related to Negi's father's group, it isn't THAT big of a stretch so much interesting people would gather there. After all, [[spoiler: Asuna being placed into the care of a ton of mages makes sense since she's a princess in hiding, albeit unknowingly so to herself at least,]] and there probably would be several of those tied to the magical world staying in a place filled with mages, [[spoiler: such as Mana and Zazie]]. And Chao needed to be in Mahora itself since [[spoiler: she needed to use the World Tree for her spell,]] so she would be waiting around in the school for the right time. The biggest contrivance is really just that all these people were stuffed into a single classroom.
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* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' is filled with numerous contrived coincidences. Among some samples:
** The first student to find out about Negi's secret, Asuna, [[spoiler:is not only a magic world princess who [[LaserGuidedAmnesia had her memories of her past wiped out]], but it appears that she is also [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld a creation of Negi's ancestor]]]].
** Nodoka, after receiving her Pactio card, just happens to be walking by when she overhears Chamo and Asuna discuss how the card can be used to summon magical items. This starts a series of events (and other coincidences) that results in Nodoka not only discovering her Pactio ability of MindReading, but also discovering that Negi is actually a mage. Interestingly enough, this isn't the only time Nodoka was walking by when Negi, Asuna, and Chamo are discussing important stuff, as this also happens first when Negi tells Asuna about his past, and later when Negi invites Asuna to go with him to the Magic World during summer break.
** Taken even further when you consider the sheer improbability of Negi's class being assembled. Asuna, [[spoiler:magical world princess]] Konoka, [[spoiler:daughter of his father's fighting companion]] Evangeline, [[spoiler:sealed there by his father]] Mana, [[spoiler:half-demonfolk mercenary]], Ku Fei; apparently the most talented martial artist on campus, Chao, [[spoiler:his descendent]] Kaede; exceedingly talented ninja, and Zazie [[spoiler:demonfolk princess]]. It's possible the headmaster just meddled, but then it's still a case of ImprobableAge that everyone is in the same grade.
** It's not that contrived for all of this to happen. Considering that the school itself is quite populated by mages, several of whom are related to Negi's father's group, it isn't THAT big of a stretch so much interesting people would gather there. After all, [[spoiler: Asuna being placed into the care of a ton of mages makes sense since she's a princess in hiding, albeit unknowingly so to herself at least,]] and there probably would be several of those tied to the magical world staying in a place filled with mages, [[spoiler: such as Mana and Zazie]]. And Chao needed to be in Mahora itself since [[spoiler: she needed to use the World Tree for her spell,]] so she would be waiting around in the school for the right time. The biggest contrivance is really just that all these people were stuffed into a single classroom.
** The first student to find out about Negi's secret, Asuna, [[spoiler:is not only a magic world princess who [[LaserGuidedAmnesia had her memories of her past wiped out]], but it appears that she is also [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld a creation of Negi's ancestor]]]].
** Nodoka, after receiving her Pactio card, just happens to be walking by when she overhears Chamo and Asuna discuss how the card can be used to summon magical items. This starts a series of events (and other coincidences) that results in Nodoka not only discovering her Pactio ability of MindReading, but also discovering that Negi is actually a mage. Interestingly enough, this isn't the only time Nodoka was walking by when Negi, Asuna, and Chamo are discussing important stuff, as this also happens first when Negi tells Asuna about his past, and later when Negi invites Asuna to go with him to the Magic World during summer break.
** Taken even further when you consider the sheer improbability of Negi's class being assembled. Asuna, [[spoiler:magical world princess]] Konoka, [[spoiler:daughter of his father's fighting companion]] Evangeline, [[spoiler:sealed there by his father]] Mana, [[spoiler:half-demonfolk mercenary]], Ku Fei; apparently the most talented martial artist on campus, Chao, [[spoiler:his descendent]] Kaede; exceedingly talented ninja, and Zazie [[spoiler:demonfolk princess]]. It's possible the headmaster just meddled, but then it's still a case of ImprobableAge that everyone is in the same grade.
** It's not that contrived for all of this to happen. Considering that the school itself is quite populated by mages, several of whom are related to Negi's father's group, it isn't THAT big of a stretch so much interesting people would gather there. After all, [[spoiler: Asuna being placed into the care of a ton of mages makes sense since she's a princess in hiding, albeit unknowingly so to herself at least,]] and there probably would be several of those tied to the magical world staying in a place filled with mages, [[spoiler: such as Mana and Zazie]]. And Chao needed to be in Mahora itself since [[spoiler: she needed to use the World Tree for her spell,]] so she would be waiting around in the school for the right time. The biggest contrivance is really just that all these people were stuffed into a single classroom.
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* ''Manga/RentAGirlfriend'' is about a young man named Kazuya hiring the services of Chizuru, a rental girlfriend. Chizuru wants to keep her job secret from others, especially her family, so she works under an assumed last name and tries to avoid seeing clients in her true identity, hence why she usually does business with clients from out of town. Unfortunately for her, Kazuya not only goes to the same college as her, but also lives in the apartment next door. Both of their grandmothers are friends who stayed in the same hospital, and while Kazuya's grandmother has other friends, Chizuru's grandmother is the only one who sees them together. Kazuya ad Chizuru also end up going to the same beach at the same time, even though they have different groups of friends.
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* ''Manga/RentAGirlfriend'' is about a young man named Kazuya hiring the services of Chizuru, a rental girlfriend. Chizuru wants to keep her job secret from others, especially her family, so she works under an assumed last name and tries to avoid seeing clients in her true identity, hence why she usually does business with clients from out of town. Unfortunately for her, Kazuya not only goes to the same college as her, but also lives in the apartment next door. Both of their grandmothers are friends who stayed in the same hospital, and while Kazuya's grandmother has other friends, Chizuru's grandmother is the only one who sees them together. Kazuya ad and Chizuru also end up going to the same beach at the same time, even though they have different groups of friends.
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* Done especially so in the ''Manga/ZatchBell''. [[PuritySue A poor innocent girl]] in the story gets brainwashed into partnering with an evil demon and attacks her very best friend. But what's this? It turns out the attack was blocked by another demon who happens to be both said friend's partner and that demon's worst enemy. Really, out of 6 billion human beings on earth for the scattered 100 demons to choose from, these two pick two human friends that grew up together? Well, that's just dandy. It's also rather dandy that 50% of the demons fought are at one point found in Japan, and everyone in the cast all speaks English/Japanese. And why doesn't the Brainwashing demon just use his physic powers to raise an army to avoid fighting the latter demon? Maybe because it, in turn, will be the only reason he's able to find and fight him in the first place by attracting his partner's attention.
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* Done especially so in the ''Manga/ZatchBell''. [[PuritySue A poor innocent girl]] girl in the story gets brainwashed into partnering with an evil demon and attacks her very best friend. But what's this? It turns out the attack was blocked by another demon who happens to be both said friend's partner and that demon's worst enemy. Really, out of 6 billion human beings on earth for the scattered 100 demons to choose from, these two pick two human friends that grew up together? Well, that's just dandy. It's also rather dandy that 50% of the demons fought are at one point found in Japan, and everyone in the cast all speaks English/Japanese. And why doesn't the Brainwashing demon just use his physic powers to raise an army to avoid fighting the latter demon? Maybe because it, in turn, will be the only reason he's able to find and fight him in the first place by attracting his partner's attention.
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** In the ''Death God Hospital Murder Case'' special, the Gentleman Thief is revealed to have impersonated [[spoiler:Maki Daigo]], the same journalist whose identity she stole back in her first appearance. When pressed by Akechi, the Gentleman Thief admits that she had no idea the real [[spoiler: Maki]] would be aboard the ship for the heist, and that her appearance was merely a lucky coincidence.
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** In the ''Death God Hospital Murder Case'' special, the [[ClassyCatBurglar Gentleman Thief Thief]] is revealed to have impersonated [[spoiler:Maki Daigo]], the same journalist whose identity she stole back in her first appearance. When pressed by Akechi, the Gentleman Thief admits that she had no idea the real [[spoiler: Maki]] would be aboard the ship for the heist, and that her appearance was merely a lucky coincidence.
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** The way Kindaichi finds himself in the same [[StrictlyFormula kind of situation]] in every story, purely by random chance, never seems to strike anybody as too weird.
** The solution in ''Smoke and Mirrors'' hinges on Ryuta Saki, a schoolmate of Kindaichi and Nanase, having a habit of filming everything around him. Kindaichi is able to catch the killer because, conveniently enough, Ryuta and his ever-present camera are around exactly when the plot requires them to be.
** In the ''Death God Hospital Murder Case'' special, the Gentleman Thief is revealed to have impersonated [[spoiler:Maki Daigo]], the same journalist whose identity she stole back in her first appearance. When pressed by Akechi, the Gentleman Thief admits that she had no idea the real [[spoiler: Maki]] would be aboard the ship for the heist, and that her appearance was merely a lucky coincidence.
** The way Kindaichi finds himself in the same [[StrictlyFormula kind of situation]] in every story, purely by random chance, never seems to strike anybody as too weird.
** The solution in ''Smoke and Mirrors'' hinges on Ryuta Saki, a schoolmate of Kindaichi and Nanase, having a habit of filming everything around him. Kindaichi is able to catch the killer because, conveniently enough, Ryuta and his ever-present camera are around exactly when the plot requires them to be.
** In the ''Death God Hospital Murder Case'' special, the Gentleman Thief is revealed to have impersonated [[spoiler:Maki Daigo]], the same journalist whose identity she stole back in her first appearance. When pressed by Akechi, the Gentleman Thief admits that she had no idea the real [[spoiler: Maki]] would be aboard the ship for the heist, and that her appearance was merely a lucky coincidence.
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** Played straight with regards to [[spoiler:both Hahari, and, later, her maid Mei]] are among Rentarou's destined soulmates. In the former case, it saves their lives since it means [[spoiler:she gives up trying to forcibly separate Rentarou and her daughter]], but the latter is present for quite some time before she finally locks eyes with him and falls in love.
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** Played straight with regards to [[spoiler:both Hahari, and, later, her maid Mei]] are being among Rentarou's destined soulmates. In the former case, it saves their lives since it means [[spoiler:she gives up trying to forcibly separate Rentarou and her daughter]], but the latter is present for quite some time before she finally locks eyes with him and falls in love.
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** Played straight with regards to [[spoiler:both Hahari, and, later, he maid Mei]] are among Rentarou's destined soulmates. In the former case, it saves their lives since it means [[spoiler:she gives up trying to forcibly separate Rentarou and her daughter]], but the latter is present for quite some time before she finally locks eyes with him and falls in love.
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** Played straight with regards to [[spoiler:both Hahari, and, later, he her maid Mei]] are among Rentarou's destined soulmates. In the former case, it saves their lives since it means [[spoiler:she gives up trying to forcibly separate Rentarou and her daughter]], but the latter is present for quite some time before she finally locks eyes with him and falls in love.
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** Played straight with regards to [[spoiler:both Hahari, and, later, he maid Mei]] are among Rentarou's destined soulmates. In the former case, it saves their lives since it means [[spoiler:she gives up trying to forcibly separate Rentarou and her daughter]], but the latter is present for quite some time before she finally locks eyes with him and falls in love.
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* Subverted in ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou''. Kusuri just ''happens'' to have a special drug that allows people to see infrared, which is just what the gang needs to get past the infrared alarms in Hakari's house and help her escape - but it turns out Kusuri had the drug on her because she was actually planning on mailing it into a competition that, if she won, would allow her to go to America and make drugs there. The others are shocked that she's giving up this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to help them rescue Hakari.
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* Subverted in ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou''. Kusuri just ''happens'' to have a special drug that allows people to see infrared, which is just what the gang needs to get past the infrared alarms in Hakari's house and help her escape - but it turns out Kusuri had the drug on her because she was actually planning on mailing it into a competition that, if she won, would allow her to go a company that specialises in making drugs, in the hopes of becoming employed by the company and going to America and to make drugs there. The others are shocked that she's giving up this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to help them rescue Hakari.
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* Subverted in ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou''. Kusuri just ''happens'' to have a special drug that allows people to see infrared, which is just what the gang needs to get past the infrared alarms in Hakari's house and help her escape - but it turns out Kusuri had the drug on her because she was actually planning on mailing it into a competition that, if she won, would allow her to go to America and make drugs there. The others are shocked that she's giving up this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to help them rescue Hakari.
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* Izuku's fight with Gentle in ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' only happens because of three coincidences, each of which is fairly plausible by itself, but are rather unlikely in conjunction. First, Momo, the richest kid in class, receives a care package from home that includes a very rare and expensive blend of tea. Second, Izuku accidentally clicks on a link to one of Gentle's previous webstreamed crimes, in which he explains that he always has tea before a job, and the quality of the tea is a function of how big a job he expects it to be. Third, he crosses Gentle's path purely by accident while they are both out shopping. Because Izuku had recently watched one of his videos, he recognized Gentle's voice. Because Gentle mentioned that he was buying tea, Izuku knew he was about to commit a crime. And since the tea he bought was the same super-rare and expensive blend that Momo had just gotten, he knew that the job Gentle had planned would be very high profile. From there Izuku deduced what the job was and set out to stop him.
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* ''Anime/LittleWitchAcademia'': In Episode 16, the Greenman Disease is a parody of this, working off ''ridiculously specific'' triggers. The conditions and effects of the illness make it work more like a curse than an actual pathology in practice; it only happens in a specific region of Finland when, among other things, a certain amount of [=CO2=] exhaled by humans coincides with a specific breeding rate of a specific family of fish, the release of pollen into the air, ''a freaking planetary alignment event'' and '''''the consumption of a specific traditional homemade pie when baked at a specific temperature.''''' The conditions are so stringent that [[LampshadeHanging the book detailing the disease itself points out that]] [[OneInAMillionChance it's something one could only expect to occur AT MOST once every thousand years.]] Guess where our heroines decide to go to, at which time of the year (and the millennium), and which traditional treat is served to them by a well-meaning old woman.
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* ''Anime/LittleWitchAcademia'': ''Anime/LittleWitchAcademia2017'': In Episode 16, the Greenman Disease is a parody of this, working off ''ridiculously specific'' triggers. The conditions and effects of the illness make it work more like a curse than an actual pathology in practice; it only happens in a specific region of Finland when, among other things, a certain amount of [=CO2=] exhaled by humans coincides with a specific breeding rate of a specific family of fish, the release of pollen into the air, ''a freaking planetary alignment event'' and '''''the consumption of a specific traditional homemade pie when baked at a specific temperature.''''' The conditions are so stringent that [[LampshadeHanging the book detailing the disease itself points out that]] [[OneInAMillionChance it's something one could only expect to occur AT MOST once every thousand years.]] Guess where our heroines decide to go to, at which time of the year (and the millennium), and which traditional treat is served to them by a well-meaning old woman.
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** First off, in the Fairy Dance Arc. Amongst the many people playing [=ALfheim Online=], Kirito happens to CrashIntoHello Leafa [[spoiler:who is actually Suguha Kirigaya, his cousin/adoptive sister, though neither of them realized this at the time]]. As it turns out, [[spoiler: Due to the fact that Kirito and Leafa were logged in from the same place, the server thought they were the same person, and moved Kirito to Leafa. So [[SubvertedTrope it wasn't a coincidence.]]]]
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** First off, in the Fairy Dance Arc. Amongst the many people playing [=ALfheim Online=], Kirito happens to CrashIntoHello Leafa [[spoiler:who is actually Suguha Kirigaya, his cousin/adoptive sister, though neither of them realized this at the time]]. What's more, Kirito's ALO character is a newly-created Spriggan, while Leafa is part of the rival Sylph race, meaning Kirito starts outside of his own race's territory. As it turns out, [[spoiler: Due due to the fact that Kirito and Leafa were logged in from the same place, the server thought they were the same person, and moved Kirito to Leafa. So [[SubvertedTrope it wasn't a coincidence.]]]]
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** First off, in the Fairy Dance Arc. Amongst the many people playing [=ALfheim Online=], he Kirito happens to CrashIntoHello Leafa [[spoiler:Who [[spoiler:who is actually Suguha Kirigaya, his cousin/adoptive sister, though neither of them realized this at the time]]. As it turns out, [[spoiler: Due to the fact that Kirito and Leafa were logged in from the same place, the server thought they were the same person, and moved Kirito to Leafa. So [[SubvertedTrope it wasn't a coincidence.]]]]
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** First off, in the Fairy Dance Arc. Amongst the many people playing ALfheim Online, he happens to CrashIntoHello Leafa [[spoiler:Who is actually Suguha Kirigaya, his cousin/adoptive sister, though neither of them realized this at the time]]. As it turns out, [[spoiler: Due to the fact that Kirito and Leafa were logged in from the same place, the server thought they were the same person, and moved Kirito to Leafa. So [[SubvertedTrope it wasn't a coincidence.]]]]
** The second case comes from the Phantom Bullet arc. Out of all of the possible handguns Death Gun could have wielded, he just so happened to be using the exact model responsible [[spoiler:for Sinon's trauma. Once again, this [[SubvertedTrope isn't a coincidence.]] Kyouji, who's obessed with Sinon specifically due to said incident, is part of the plot, and thus chose that particular weapon for Death Gun.]]
** The second case comes from the Phantom Bullet arc. Out of all of the possible handguns Death Gun could have wielded, he just so happened to be using the exact model responsible [[spoiler:for Sinon's trauma. Once again, this [[SubvertedTrope isn't a coincidence.]] Kyouji, who's obessed with Sinon specifically due to said incident, is part of the plot, and thus chose that particular weapon for Death Gun.]]
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** First off, in the Fairy Dance Arc. Amongst the many people playing ALfheim Online, [=ALfheim Online=], he happens to CrashIntoHello Leafa [[spoiler:Who is actually Suguha Kirigaya, his cousin/adoptive sister, though neither of them realized this at the time]]. As it turns out, [[spoiler: Due to the fact that Kirito and Leafa were logged in from the same place, the server thought they were the same person, and moved Kirito to Leafa. So [[SubvertedTrope it wasn't a coincidence.]]]]
** The second case comes from the Phantom Bullet arc. Out of all of the possible handguns Death Gun could have wielded, he just so happened to be using the exact model responsible [[spoiler:for Sinon's trauma. Once again, this [[SubvertedTrope isn't a coincidence.]] Kyouji, who'sobessed obsessed with Sinon specifically due to said incident, is part of the plot, scheme, and thus chose that particular weapon for Death Gun.]]
** The second case comes from the Phantom Bullet arc. Out of all of the possible handguns Death Gun could have wielded, he just so happened to be using the exact model responsible [[spoiler:for Sinon's trauma. Once again, this [[SubvertedTrope isn't a coincidence.]] Kyouji, who's
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* In ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'', this ''appears'' to happen twice...
** First off, in the Fairy Dance Arc. Amongst the many people playing ALfheim Online, he happens to CrashIntoHello Leafa [[spoiler:Who is actually Suguha Kirigaya, his cousin/adoptive sister, though neither of them realized this at the time]]. As it turns out, [[spoiler: Due to the fact that Kirito and Leafa were logged in from the same place, the server thought they were the same person, and moved Kirito to Leafa. So [[SubvertedTrope it wasn't a coincidence.]]]]
** The second case comes from the Phantom Bullet arc. Out of all of the possible handguns Death Gun could have wielded, he just so happened to be using the exact model responsible [[spoiler:for Sinon's trauma. Once again, this [[SubvertedTrope isn't a coincidence.]] Kyouji, who's obessed with Sinon specifically due to said incident, is part of the plot, and thus chose that particular weapon for Death Gun.]]
** First off, in the Fairy Dance Arc. Amongst the many people playing ALfheim Online, he happens to CrashIntoHello Leafa [[spoiler:Who is actually Suguha Kirigaya, his cousin/adoptive sister, though neither of them realized this at the time]]. As it turns out, [[spoiler: Due to the fact that Kirito and Leafa were logged in from the same place, the server thought they were the same person, and moved Kirito to Leafa. So [[SubvertedTrope it wasn't a coincidence.]]]]
** The second case comes from the Phantom Bullet arc. Out of all of the possible handguns Death Gun could have wielded, he just so happened to be using the exact model responsible [[spoiler:for Sinon's trauma. Once again, this [[SubvertedTrope isn't a coincidence.]] Kyouji, who's obessed with Sinon specifically due to said incident, is part of the plot, and thus chose that particular weapon for Death Gun.]]
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* In ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun'', this trope is weaponized in the form of [[spoiler:Lucy Steel's [[FightingSpirit Stand]], Ticket to Ride. If Lucy comes under any form of misfortune, Ticket to Ride will cause a series of unlikely events to occur to prevent or undo the misfortune]].
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** It was just a coincidence that both Mikami and Light knew Kiyomi Takada (although it's not too absurd considering it's normal for two people to know somebody mutual over the span of five years). It was just a coincidence that Misa Amane and Light happened to live within a train ride of each other -- at one point in the anime, they're shown having coffee in the same little shop, completely unaware that the other one is actually a Kira. When you get down to it, it was a coincidence that Light just happened to have the TV on, considering how much studying he's shown to do with it off, when L first broadcasts his Lind L Tailor message. The list doesn't end; Death Note has a ton of these.
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** It was just a coincidence that both Mikami and Light knew Kiyomi Takada (although it's not too absurd considering it's normal not abnormal for two people to know somebody mutual over the span of five years).years, especially considering Light's popularity). It was just a coincidence that Misa Amane and Light happened to live within a train ride of each other -- at one point in the anime, they're shown having coffee in the same little shop, completely unaware that the other one is actually a Kira. When you get down to it, it was a coincidence that Light just happened to have the TV on, considering how much studying he's shown to do with it off, when L first broadcasts his Lind L Tailor message. The list doesn't end; Death Note has a ton of these.
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The first sentence essentially repeats the same thing (Mikami only knows her because she was a Kira supporter and yes, Light has a history with her, that's how he knows her). Also Mikami's backstory isn't contrived because the purpose of his entire character is how he's interpreting these coincidences as evidence of a divine power.
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** It was just a coincidence that both Mikami and Light knew Kiyomi Takada, that Takada was a Kira supporter, and that Light had a history with her. It was just a coincidence that all the people Mikami rejected died. It was just a coincidence that Misa Amane and Light happened to live within a train ride of each other -- at one point in the anime, they're shown having coffee in the same little shop, completely unaware that the other one is actually a Kira. When you get down to it, it was a coincidence that Light just happened to have the TV on, considering how much studying he's shown to do with it off, when L first broadcasts his Lind L Tailor message. The list doesn't end; Death Note has a ton of these.
** The encounter with Misora and Light not being taken out early is based on one, too. It just so happens that the entire police force working the Kira case was at a meeting, while Misora was trying to contact one of them and Light happened to arrive just as she talked about having information for them. After all, Sayu was supposed to bring their father the spare clothes. Light even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] how convenient this little meeting was and begins to hear Misora out on her information. And it just so happens that Aizawa was opening his umbrella ''just'' as Light and Misora were passing him by and he didn't see them.
** The encounter with Misora and Light not being taken out early is based on one, too. It just so happens that the entire police force working the Kira case was at a meeting, while Misora was trying to contact one of them and Light happened to arrive just as she talked about having information for them. After all, Sayu was supposed to bring their father the spare clothes. Light even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] how convenient this little meeting was and begins to hear Misora out on her information. And it just so happens that Aizawa was opening his umbrella ''just'' as Light and Misora were passing him by and he didn't see them.
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** It was just a coincidence that both Mikami and Light knew Kiyomi Takada, that Takada was a Kira supporter, and that Light had a history with her. It was just a coincidence that all the (although it's not too absurd considering it's normal for two people Mikami rejected died.to know somebody mutual over the span of five years). It was just a coincidence that Misa Amane and Light happened to live within a train ride of each other -- at one point in the anime, they're shown having coffee in the same little shop, completely unaware that the other one is actually a Kira. When you get down to it, it was a coincidence that Light just happened to have the TV on, considering how much studying he's shown to do with it off, when L first broadcasts his Lind L Tailor message. The list doesn't end; Death Note has a ton of these.
** The encounter with Misora and Light not being taken out early is based on one, too. It just so happens that the entire police force working the Kira case was at a meeting, while Misora was trying to contact one of them and Light happened to arrive just as she talked about having information for them. After all, Sayu was supposed to bring their father the spare clothes. Light even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] how convenient this little meeting was and begins to hear Misora out on her information. And it just so happens that Aizawa was opening his umbrella ''just'' as Light and Misora were passing him by and he didn't see them. Although, to be fair to Light, Naomi's interference in the first place was unlucky and so was Aizawa arriving at that exact time.
** The encounter with Misora and Light not being taken out early is based on one, too. It just so happens that the entire police force working the Kira case was at a meeting, while Misora was trying to contact one of them and Light happened to arrive just as she talked about having information for them. After all, Sayu was supposed to bring their father the spare clothes. Light even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] how convenient this little meeting was and begins to hear Misora out on her information. And it just so happens that Aizawa was opening his umbrella ''just'' as Light and Misora were passing him by and he didn't see them. Although, to be fair to Light, Naomi's interference in the first place was unlucky and so was Aizawa arriving at that exact time.
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* In ''Manga/RoseOfVersailles'', Rosalie [[spoiler:sees her foster mother get run over by a carriage being driven by the noblewoman who is none other than her birth mother. Continuing the stretch of crazy coincidences, Rosalie meets Oscar when attempting to prostitute herself, then meets Oscar again later when she mistakes Oscar's home for Versailles. Rosalie just can't avoid the contrived coincidence...]]
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* In ''Manga/RoseOfVersailles'', ''Manga/TheRoseOfVersailles'', Rosalie [[spoiler:sees her foster mother get run over by a carriage being driven by the noblewoman who is none other than her birth mother. Continuing the stretch of crazy coincidences, Rosalie meets Oscar when attempting to prostitute herself, then meets Oscar again later when she mistakes Oscar's home for Versailles. Rosalie just can't avoid the contrived coincidence...]]
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* In the first story arc of ''Anime/DragonBall'' while Bulma and Goku are searching for the Dragon Balls they find a turtle who is lost. Goku helps the turtle and as award the turtle gets his master, known as the Turtle Hermit, who gives him the Kinto'un, a flying cloud. After several more adventures, they face the Gyuumaou (Ox-King) who is known for his power and cruelty. The Gyuumaou recognizes the cloud since the Turtle Hermit is his old master. Even more, Goku's grandfather was also a student of the same master and him and the Gyuumaou trained together. And all of them had Dragon Balls.
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* In the first story arc of ''Anime/DragonBall'' ''Manga/DragonBall'' while Bulma and Goku are searching for the Dragon Balls they find a turtle who is lost. Goku helps the turtle and as award the turtle gets his master, known as the Turtle Hermit, who gives him the Kinto'un, a flying cloud. After several more adventures, they face the Gyuumaou (Ox-King) who is known for his power and cruelty. The Gyuumaou recognizes the cloud since the Turtle Hermit is his old master. Even more, Goku's grandfather was also a student of the same master and him and the Gyuumaou trained together. And all of them had Dragon Balls.
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** Season 1 episode 22 is just as bad. [[spoiler:See my mind control eye? I can make you do anything, all of which being horribly bad for everyone involved, and none of them funny, even though I'm trying to make a joke. It would be horrible if my power forced you to do one of them, now - er... [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Whoops?]]]] That was because DiabolusExMachina was the real BigBad of the show.
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** Season 1 episode 22 is just as bad. [[spoiler:See my mind control eye? I can make you do anything, all of which being horribly bad for everyone involved, and none of them funny, even though I'm trying to make a joke. It would be horrible if my power forced you to do one of them, now - er... [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Whoops?]]]] That was because DiabolusExMachina was the real BigBad of the show. [[spoiler:While it presumably never occurred to Lelouch that his MindControl Geass would trigger without him consciously activating it, by all rights it ''should have'' figured out that this is what always happens to a Geass user eventually, since he'd already fought Mao earlier in the season, whose {{Telepathy}} Geass had become impossible to turn off years before they met.]]
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* ''Anime/LittleWitchAcademia'': In Episode 16, the Greenman Disease is a parody of this, working off ''ridiculously specific'' triggers. The conditions and effects of the illness make it work more like a curse than an actual pathology in practice; it only happens in a specific region of Finland when, among other things, a certain amount of [=CO2=] exhaled by humans coincides with a specific breeding rate of a specific family of fish, the release of pollen into the air, ''a freaking planetary alignment event'' and '''''the consumption of a specific traditional homemade pie when baked at a specific temperature.''''' The conditions are so stringent that [[LampshadeHanging the book detailing the disease itself points out that]] [[OneInAMillionChance it's something one could only expect to occur AT MOST once every thousand years.]] Guess where our heroines decide to go to, at which time of the year (and the millennium), and which traditional treat is served to them by a well-meaning old woman.
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** This happens to the Straw Hats a lot. Luffy arrives at Shell Town to save Zoro and the villagers from Captain Morgan, they end up in Orange Town to save Nami from Buggy's thugs, arrives at Usopp's village the day Captain Kuro's plans come to fruition, stops at the Baratie when Don Krieg floats by...it seems like most of the time they get into trouble just from being at the wrong place at the wrong time. It doesn't help that Luffy's an active thrill-seeker who enjoys throwing himself into danger. This is shown when a new log post shows them the difference between the safest and most dangerous route with the rest of the crew being absolutely terrified if he found that out, which of course he does and chooses the dangerous one.
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** This happens to the Straw Hats a lot. Luffy arrives at Shell Town to save Zoro and the villagers from Captain Morgan, they end up in Orange Town to save Nami from Buggy's thugs, arrives at Usopp's village the day Captain Kuro's plans come to fruition, stops at the Baratie when Don Krieg floats by...it seems like most of the time they get into trouble just from being at the wrong place at the wrong time. It doesn't help that Luffy's an active thrill-seeker who enjoys throwing himself into danger. This is shown when a new log post Log Pose shows them the difference between the safest and most dangerous route with the rest of the crew being absolutely terrified if he found that out, which of course he does and chooses the dangerous one.
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* ''Manga/MedakaBox'' has an unusual spin on this: [[spoiler:About halfway through the series, Zenkichi has a falling out with Medaka, which leads to him deciding to challenge her for the job of Student Council President (and implicitly, the role of the story's main character; the series is extremely {{Meta}}). His ally [[PhysicalGod Aijimu]] offers to give Zenkichi a superpower since even a BadassNormal like him couldn't realistically challenge Medaka, who is TheAce in almost every way. Zenkichi chooses the power to completely and utterly '''negate''' Contrived Coincidences: no BigDamnHeroes, no [[MillionToOneChance Million-to-One Chances]], no form of narrative HandWave at all -- even if it would be to his benefit. He explains that he wants to take superpowers off the table completely and make it a contest of skill; while Aijimu goes through with it, she remarks that it's the kind of power that would make any writer recoil in horror.]]
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* The main character of ''Manga/AliceAcademy'' just ''happens'' to befriend a kid with a superpower, who just ''happens'' to have avoided being sent to the [[AcademyOfAdventure special school for those people]] long enough to befriend the main character, and just ''happens'' to have one of her letters reach the main character despite the faculty of the school doing everything they can [[ClosedCircle to prevent the students having any contact at all with the outside world]], which just ''happens'' to prompt the main character to travel to the school, where she just so ''happens'' to be allowed in because she has a power of her own, one which just ''[[OverlyLongGag happens]]'' to be [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway so situational]] that neither she nor anybody else knew that she had it until the plot demanded it.
* ''Manga/ButterfliesFlowers'': When Choko goes job-hunting at the beginning of the book, the ''only'' company hiring is the one where her family's ex-servant has become director of the department she is applying to...
* ''Manga/CatsEye'':
** In episode 18, Hitomi and Ai [[BoundAndGagged tie up and gag]] a pair of [[MaskedLuchador female wrestlers]] known as the Tiger Ladies, and [[MuggedForDisguise steal their costumes]] in order to escape the cops. Not only do the Tiger Ladies wear masks, but they conveniently have hairstyles and body measurements similar to those of the thieves as well.
** In the series finale, Hitomi and Rui try to steal a priceless diamond from a famous actress named Noriko Kurokawa, but fail. While this is happening, Ai is writing the script for her drama club's upcoming play, which is about a female thief. Due to some unlikely circumstances, it turns out that Noriko is an alumna of Ai's school, and that former students are allowed to act in school productions regardless of their age. The sisters are able to convince Noriko to portray the victim of the play, and use the opportunity to knock her unconscious and replace her diamond with a convincing fake.
* After the War in the North Campaign and the 7 year TimeSkip in ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'', the seven survivors out of 24 set out south to finally get their revenge and then run headlong into Riful of the West, one of the {{Big Bad}}s, almost immediately.
* ''Anime/CodeGeass'':
** While a lot of things can be [[{{Handwave}} explained]] by Lelouch using his Geass off screen, the second episode of the second season is just a little convenient. [[spoiler:Lelouch, having lost his memory, decides to go gambling in a skyscraper that just happens to be at the start of a street that goes straight to the Chinese consulate, the skyscraper also exactly tall enough to be stretched out along the street, has a spacy ventilation shaft inside it which would protect people in the unlikely event that it would topple over... Starting to guess what's going to happen?]]
** Season 1 episode 22 is just as bad. [[spoiler:See my mind control eye? I can make you do anything, all of which being horribly bad for everyone involved, and none of them funny, even though I'm trying to make a joke. It would be horrible if my power forced you to do one of them, now - er... [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Whoops?]]]] That was because DiabolusExMachina was the real BigBad of the show.
* The first episode of ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'' with suspiciously convenient coincidences that allow Chiaki to escape her many pursuers - electric locks malfunction when she needs them to the most, pursuers will frequently be thrown off by things such as [[CatScare stray cats]], and NiceGuy next-door neighbor/obvious {{Love Interest|s}}, Li Shengshun, is always miraculously nearby when she needs his help the most. [[spoiler:The second episode then reveals that absolutely ''none'' of these are coincidences, not even [[IntellectualAnimal the cat]], and that Li (secretly the [[ShockAndAwe electricity-manipulating]] "Black Reaper", Hei) is after her secrets just like everyone else.]]
* ''Manga/DeathNote'':
** It was just a coincidence that both Mikami and Light knew Kiyomi Takada, that Takada was a Kira supporter, and that Light had a history with her. It was just a coincidence that all the people Mikami rejected died. It was just a coincidence that Misa Amane and Light happened to live within a train ride of each other -- at one point in the anime, they're shown having coffee in the same little shop, completely unaware that the other one is actually a Kira. When you get down to it, it was a coincidence that Light just happened to have the TV on, considering how much studying he's shown to do with it off, when L first broadcasts his Lind L Tailor message. The list doesn't end; Death Note has a ton of these.
** The encounter with Misora and Light not being taken out early is based on one, too. It just so happens that the entire police force working the Kira case was at a meeting, while Misora was trying to contact one of them and Light happened to arrive just as she talked about having information for them. After all, Sayu was supposed to bring their father the spare clothes. Light even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] how convenient this little meeting was and begins to hear Misora out on her information. And it just so happens that Aizawa was opening his umbrella ''just'' as Light and Misora were passing him by and he didn't see them.
** It even ''starts'' with one: Light flat-out asks Ryuk why he was chosen to have the Death Note, and Ryuk explains he'd just dropped it from a great height. Anyone might have picked it up. Hell, the instructions are in English just because that's the most common human language.
* ''Psychometer Eiji'''s spinoff manga ''Debusen'' featuring comic relief character Mitsuru Fukushima relies on this in basically almost every presented plot points. One of those examples is the premise of the manga itself; Mitsuru, who decides to commit suicide in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aokigahara Sea of Trees]] after piling up so much debts finds a corpse of a woman greatly resembling him and is somehow trapped in a life of high school teacher replacing the deceased woman to reform a class filled with failure students. First of all, he chooses to go to Sea of Trees[[note]]it's a famous place for suicide in Japan but still coincidence[[/note]] instead of jumping off a cliff or using other suicide methods. Second, because Mitsuru wants to get a chocolate in a pocket of a corpse hanged on a brach which can't hold Mitsuru's height, he magically stumbles into the woman's corpse in a ''35-square-kilometre forest'', not to mention the corpse's obscured location people won't easily notice. Third, said corpse has similar body structure and appearance to Mitsuru except for general male-female characteristics. Fourth, the woman's name is conveniently ''[[http://pic.taadd.com/comics/pic9/4/47044/814855/dbea0e6a82f856ae53f9c827665af265.png Mitsuko Fukushima]]'', the name Mitsuru uses whenever he cosplays as a woman. Despite the amount of miracle it needs to work, the plot can still happen.
* In the first story arc of ''Anime/DragonBall'' while Bulma and Goku are searching for the Dragon Balls they find a turtle who is lost. Goku helps the turtle and as award the turtle gets his master, known as the Turtle Hermit, who gives him the Kinto'un, a flying cloud. After several more adventures, they face the Gyuumaou (Ox-King) who is known for his power and cruelty. The Gyuumaou recognizes the cloud since the Turtle Hermit is his old master. Even more, Goku's grandfather was also a student of the same master and him and the Gyuumaou trained together. And all of them had Dragon Balls.
* ''Manga/ElfenLied'', both fortunately and unfortunately, happens to be chock full of this. This is the reason why all of the characters meet in the first place, as the chances for these select few individuals encountering one another (especially Lucy and Kouta) is next to impossible. That none of them ''remember'' each other is a whole 'nother web of improbability.
* In ''Manga/FromEroicaWithLove'', the titular art thief almost always ends up going after something with a [[MacGuffin microfilm]] sought by his unrequited love interest.
* ''Anime/FushigiboshiNoFutagoHime'': This seems to be how the Prominence works in the early part of the first season. Whenever Fine and Rein use it to solve problems, the events just seem completely improbable to make any sort of sense.
* ''LightNovel/HaiyoreNyarkoSan W'':
** The protagonists go to the [[GreatBigLibraryOfEverything Great Celano Library]] so Nyarko can return an overdue book, and come into conflict with a pair of aliens who are ransacking the place looking for something. When the team arrives at the villains' lair, Nyarko realizes she forgot to return her book, which leads to her and Mahiro [[ConversationalTroping discussing]] the possibility that that book is what the bad guys were looking for; Mahiro initially thinks it's stupid, but then decides it's probably right because so far, all their adventures have had "stupid resolutions" (as he puts it). [[spoiler:It turns out he's wrong; what the bad guys ''really'' wanted was a book Mahiro unknowingly put in his pocket when everything started going nuts at the library.]]
** In the first season, a time-traveling alien "[[DemonicPossession borrows]]" the body of a classmate in order to track down a rebel from her time period. Nyarko remarks that the ClassRepresentative called in sick that day and suggests that the criminal might be possessing him. Mahiro [[LampshadeHanging says]] that would be way too convenient, Nyarko agrees that it would be pretty silly, and they share a laugh...and then the class rep jumps out of a second-story window and dashes away, obviously possessed.
* In ''Manga/HaouAiren'', [[spoiler: the Triad hitman Hakuron is sent to Tokyo twice to deal with the {{Yakuza}}. ''Both'' times, he saw the female lead Kurumi. The first one, he took a glimpse of her grieving self during her father's funeral; the second, she was the person who saved his life when he was badly injured after he finished the mission]].
* In the sixth volume of ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'', Asia gets herself forcefully transferred to a different dimension by Shalba Beelzebub and planned to kill her there. It just so happens that Vali and his group were at the Dimension Gap looking for Gogmagog and he sees her prompting him to rescue her on a whim.
* ''Manga/{{InuYasha}}'': In episode 47, Naraku sics a [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever giant]] [[YourSoulIsMine Soul Collector]] on Kikyo to kill her, sending her running until she runs into Inuyasha, who promptly kills it. Inuyasha thinks that Kikyo deliberately led the demon to him knowing he would save her, but as she quickly points out, she was just running for her life, and Inuyasha just happened to be there.
* ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' There are a lot of these thought out the series also mix with OneDegreeOfSeparation.
** [[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha Season 1]]:
*** After Arf rebelled and fled to Earth, She ended up being found by Alisa, one of Nanoha's friends.
** [[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs Season 2 (A's)]]:
*** Hayate, the master of the antagonist and is unaware of what's going on, happens to meet Suzuka, another friend of Nanoha.
** [[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers Season 3 (StrikerS)]]:
*** Subaru and Ginga were found and rescued by Quint. Quint ended up adopting them because their eyes are similar to her. Turns out their DNA matches with Quint. Yeah, of all the people in the universe who could've rescued them, it turns out to be the woman they were cloned from.
*** Quint was also partnered with Zest and Megane. Zest ended up dying and resurrected to take care of Megane's daughter. During their walk around the Mid-Childa, they found Agito, a unison device, whom very effect to Signum.
*** The first and only time Riot Force 6 have a vacation. Erio and Caro stumbled upon Vivio.
** ''[[Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaVivid ViVid]]'':
*** Five participants of the Inter-Middle Championship are descendents of rulers from the Ancient Belkan Era, four of the rulers were close friends. And a [[KingInTheMountain sixth ruler]] in a ConvenientComa is not that far away from these descendents. Hayate lampshades this.
** ''[[Manga/MagicalRecordLyricalNanohaForce Force]]'':
*** Thoma happens to be found by Subaru on that fated day when he's the sole survivor of a massacre. Years later he goes on a JourneyToFindOneself, and runs across Lily and Isis.
** ''[[Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaINNOCENT INNOCENT]]'':
*** Since this is an AlternateUniverse, the Materials are no longer [[EvilTwin doppelgängers]] of Nanoha, Fate and Hayate, just a group of strangers who happen to resemble them. And despite the drawing of in-game equipment for the series' virtual reality video game being randomized, they just ''happen'' to have PaletteSwap versions of the main trio's gear so that the resemblance will be even more apparent.
* In ''Anime/MacrossFrontier'', the three characters in the primary LoveTriangle have the amazing ability to randomly run into each other wherever they go, in a city that's home to millions of people. Even when a character decides to randomly visit places they've never been before, the other two happen to show up there as well.
* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' is filled with numerous contrived coincidences. Among some samples:
** The first student to find out about Negi's secret, Asuna, [[spoiler:is not only a magic world princess who [[LaserGuidedAmnesia had her memories of her past wiped out]], but it appears that she is also [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld a creation of Negi's ancestor]]]].
** Nodoka, after receiving her Pactio card, just happens to be walking by when she overhears Chamo and Asuna discuss how the card can be used to summon magical items. This starts a series of events (and other coincidences) that results in Nodoka not only discovering her Pactio ability of MindReading, but also discovering that Negi is actually a mage. Interestingly enough, this isn't the only time Nodoka was walking by when Negi, Asuna, and Chamo are discussing important stuff, as this also happens first when Negi tells Asuna about his past, and later when Negi invites Asuna to go with him to the Magic World during summer break.
** Taken even further when you consider the sheer improbability of Negi's class being assembled. Asuna, [[spoiler:magical world princess]] Konoka, [[spoiler:daughter of his father's fighting companion]] Evangeline, [[spoiler:sealed there by his father]] Mana, [[spoiler:half-demonfolk mercenary]], Ku Fei; apparently the most talented martial artist on campus, Chao, [[spoiler:his descendent]] Kaede; exceedingly talented ninja, and Zazie [[spoiler:demonfolk princess]]. It's possible the headmaster just meddled, but then it's still a case of ImprobableAge that everyone is in the same grade.
** It's not that contrived for all of this to happen. Considering that the school itself is quite populated by mages, several of whom are related to Negi's father's group, it isn't THAT big of a stretch so much interesting people would gather there. After all, [[spoiler: Asuna being placed into the care of a ton of mages makes sense since she's a princess in hiding, albeit unknowingly so to herself at least,]] and there probably would be several of those tied to the magical world staying in a place filled with mages, [[spoiler: such as Mana and Zazie]]. And Chao needed to be in Mahora itself since [[spoiler: she needed to use the World Tree for her spell,]] so she would be waiting around in the school for the right time. The biggest contrivance is really just that all these people were stuffed into a single classroom.
* In ''Anime/MaisonIkkoku'', Kyoko just happens to walk by when Kozue tricks Godai into a goodbye kiss--which turns out to be a turning point in the series.
* In ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'', Tohru just so happens to be rescued by (and fall in love with) Kobayashi, whose manager is a close friend of Tohru's father. Then Tohru's rival Elma gets a job at that very same company when she's stranded on Earth, and is assigned to the same department as Kobayashi (after having chosen a job at random).
* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'':
** The kid who finds a prototype mobile suit turns out to be a powerful psychic. [[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam In]] [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ six]] [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamUnicorn completely]] [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamF91 different]] [[Anime/MobileSuitVictoryGundam wars]].
** And in all but [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ one]] of those cases, one or both of the kid's parents were involved in the creation of said prototype mobile suit.
** In ''Anime/AfterWarGundamX'', the trigger Garrod steals from a salvager's ship just so happens to work in the Gundam he randomly finds in a garage in the middle of nowhere. He at least has the comical sense to lampshade the seemingly divine intervention: "Tifa, I believe in God!"
** In ''Anime/TurnAGundam'', the titular machine comes to life and the main character [[AllLovingHero Loran]] just happens to be right next to the thing. He is the only character that can both: A) understand the technology, and B) not use it to completely turn the tide of the war in favor of either side.
*** In addition, the queen of the moon [[IdenticalStranger Dianna just so happens to look nearly exactly the same as the earth girl Kihel]] for no given explanation. This allows the two to switch places at various points in the show.
* In ''Manga/{{Monster}}'', Johan Liebert is able to find another family named Liebert, who lost a son named Johan, who would be the same age that he is, allowing him to slip right into the community. This is after meeting a family named Liebert as a child who named him Johan. Fortunately, it's a fairly common name in RealLife.
* From ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' we have two 'coincidences' which [[spoiler:set Itachi free from Edo Tensei]]. The first is even encountering Naruto in the first place, a 1/80,000 chance. The second is [[spoiler:Kotoamatsukami,]] the jutsu that was used [[spoiler:to rewire his Edo Tensei to give him back his will]]: 1/36,500 due to its ten year charge time - [[spoiler:with Itachi]] not even knowing if the charge time was completed. Yet... both were fulfilled. Later comes [[spoiler:Itachi's]] 'defeat' of Kabuto. The first coincidence is running into [[spoiler:Sasuke in the first place, giving Itachi]] the backup he needed to win. The second is possessing the [[spoiler:Izanami]], since it was [[AssPull never alluded to at ALL]] [[spoiler:that Itachi was taught any Uchiha Kinjutsu, let alone one]] designed to negate an attack that (as far as they would have known) nobody could use any more. Finally, finding Kabuto was tremendous luck, since he could have easily moved from where he was pointed out [[spoiler:by Nagato]].
* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
** The Straw Hats seem to be particularly lucky to [[spoiler:show up at Fishman Island at the ''exact same day'' that Hody stages his coup d'état after years of planning, allowing them to prevent the whole island from falling to his elite soldiers and 100,000 strong slave army]].
** This happens to the Straw Hats a lot. Luffy arrives at Shell Town to save Zoro and the villagers from Captain Morgan, they end up in Orange Town to save Nami from Buggy's thugs, arrives at Usopp's village the day Captain Kuro's plans come to fruition, stops at the Baratie when Don Krieg floats by...it seems like most of the time they get into trouble just from being at the wrong place at the wrong time. It doesn't help that Luffy's an active thrill-seeker who enjoys throwing himself into danger. This is shown when a new log post shows them the difference between the safest and most dangerous route with the rest of the crew being absolutely terrified if he found that out, which of course he does and chooses the dangerous one.
* In ''Manga/PopcornAvatar'', all of the Devas and Asuras introduced so far have all been Japanese, and conveniently found in or close to the city Kurando and Lisa live in. This fact is even lampshaded in a later chapter.
* Three of the five members of ''Anime/PrincessPrincipal's'' spy team each acted on a decision the literal day rebellion broke out in the kingdom, affecting their lives forever. Ange and Princess Charlotte [[spoiler:pulled a Prince and Pauper switch]] then got separated in the chaos of the revolution, rendering them [[spoiler:unable to switch back and unable to reunite until ten years later]]. Dorothy [[spoiler:ran away from her abusive father]] and couldn't go back after TheGreatWall went up.
* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': Carelessly thrown/dumped water (often with a LampshadeHanging of "of course nobody will be there"). Koi pond. ThunderEqualsDownpour. Convenient trajectories from [[MegatonPunch propulsive attacks]]. Oh yeah, did we mention [[FirstLawOfGenderBending his curse is triggered by cold water]]?
* ''Manga/RecoveryOfAnMMOJunkie'' runs on these pretty heavily.
** In Episode 1, Moriko Morioka gets into the MMORPG ''Fruits de Mer'', and the first person she meets is an adorable WhiteMage named Lily. In Episode 2, she and Lily stay up playing all night, which results in Moriko falling asleep at her computer and catching a cold; when she goes to the pharmacy to get some medicine, she [[CrashIntoHello runs into]] a young man late for work -- who, of course, is Lily's player Yuta Sakurai. When Moriko starts telling her guildmates about Sakurai (flipping the genders to hide [[{{GIRL}} her real identity]]) and asking for advice, Sakurai realizes that it's her because of how [[LampshadeHanging incredibly unlikely]] it would be that these exact same events would be happening to two completely different sets of people.
*** Adding another layer to it, it turns out that Moriko and Sakurai were best friends and confidants in the now-shuttered MMORPG ''[=NanterSG=]'' (to the point where, when she reflects on the relationship, Moriko realizes that she probably loved "Harth"). Sakurai gets suspicious when she makes an alt character that looks like an aged-up version of her ''Nanter'' character Yuki; he does admit to himself that this is far more likely to be a coincidence, but calls her up and asks anyway. After she confirms that it was her, they both discuss how crazy it is that they found each other completely at random.
** Just to cap it all off, the college student who works part-time at the convenience store both Moriko and Sakurai frequent is the player behind their guild master, Kanbe. He and Moriko actually find out each others' identities when they strike up a friendly conversation about ''[=FdM=]'' (he had seen her purchasing prepaid cards for the game) and he suggests meeting up for a quest, sharing his server and character name.
* In ''Manga/RoseOfVersailles'', Rosalie [[spoiler:sees her foster mother get run over by a carriage being driven by the noblewoman who is none other than her birth mother. Continuing the stretch of crazy coincidences, Rosalie meets Oscar when attempting to prostitute herself, then meets Oscar again later when she mistakes Oscar's home for Versailles. Rosalie just can't avoid the contrived coincidence...]]
* ''Anime/SailorMoon R'':
** The second episode reunites the Sailor Senshi for another season of adventure. How does it do this? The bad guys stage a fake casting call for a TV show and out of untold millions of girls, they just happen to completely randomly stumble upon four of the five Senshi and the best friend (and favored VictimOfTheWeek) of the fifth. Let it be noted that it wasn't even as though the bad guys chose these people based on some vague explanation of them having a ton of energy or whatever. It was the original TV staff that just happened to choose them.
** Kaolinite (from ''Anime/SailorMoon S'') explains that the senshi's powers orchestrate events so that senshi are always close to a place of a future attack. This makes sense given that just five senshi (nine for outerplanetary attacks) have to protect a planet.
* ''Manga/SgtFrog'' uses it for humor in episode 37, pointing out the four different coincidences (including one that seems to have nothing to do with anything) that just so happen to resolve the plot in exactly the right way.
-->'''Narrator:''' Eh? Why did this happen? Well... we can't help it now that it's done with.
* ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato'':
** A couple of characters are on Titan being chased by an alien mook. One of the characters comes across a blaster lying on the ground and shoots the mook with it. After doing so, he notices that the blaster belongs to his brother, who was thought to have been KIA in the area (his brother's abandoned ship is also close by). It would have been quite a stroke of luck for ''anybody'' to stumble upon these items after landing on a random area of the planet, much less the missing pilot's ''own brother''...
** The fact that the main (human) heroine of the series is a [[IdenticalStranger dead lookalike]] for (the alien queen) Starsha and her sister is also an unexplained and apparently random coincidence.
* In ''Anime/SummerWars'', it's a pretty big coincidence that [[AIIsACrapshoot Love Machine]]'s creator just so happens to be related to [[{{Cyberspace}} OZ]]'s most powerful player, right when they're in the same house for a family reunion. And another relative has a convenient super-computer to help fight it. Oh, and the one house guest who's not actually related to anybody? He's the guy Love Machine is framing for its crimes.
* In ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'', if [[spoiler: the Anti-Spiral]] hadn't used [[spoiler: Nia]] out of everyone to be their messenger, Earth would have been doomed, since it was [[spoiler: due to her and Simon's love that the heroes were able to find the Anti-Spiral's homeworld]]. Also, what were the chances that Simon, the person with the most Spiral energy potential, find the Core Drill and Lagann underground while digging for treasure?
* ''Anime/TigerAndBunny'':
** The two main characters happen to have the same exact superpower, down to the name, strength multiplier, and time limit. There is no in-universe reason for this at all, and nobody thinks it's anything noteworthy. Would have been averted in the original draft, where Barnaby had teleportation powers instead.
** Also in episode 12 when Jake is randomly selecting which hero to fight against, he selects Kotetsu and then remarks he won't last a second before choosing another card. He ended up drawing Barnaby's card. He lampshades this by pointing out how he picked them together and saying "they really are a team".
** Part of RuleOfFunny, there are many, ''many'' coincidences that prevent Kotetsu [[spoiler: from drinking the drugged coffee]] in episode 20.
* In the very first episode of ''Anime/WitchHunterRobin'', the eponymous character shows up at a warehouse where the squad is fighting a witch and saves the day, with no explanation for why she happened to go there. No one ever comments on it.
* ''Anime/YourName'':
** The owner of the ramen shop Taki and his friends stop at is a former Itomori resident who later helps Taki reach [[spoiler:the remains of Itomori]].
** As Mitsuha waits [[spoiler:to board a train to go back to Itomori after a day of fruitless searching for Taki in Tokyo, a train Taki was taking just happens to show up at the station she was at. This gives her the chance to pass him her ribbon, which becomes important chronologically later]].
* In ''Anime/YuGiOhCapsuleMonsters'', Yami lampshades this as he wonders how the group could have won a vacation to the place Grandpa was last seen, have their plane crash, and run into the one man who knows where he is. He takes it as a sign that something isn't right.
* Done especially so in the ''Manga/ZatchBell''. [[PuritySue A poor innocent girl]] in the story gets brainwashed into partnering with an evil demon and attacks her very best friend. But what's this? It turns out the attack was blocked by another demon who happens to be both said friend's partner and that demon's worst enemy. Really, out of 6 billion human beings on earth for the scattered 100 demons to choose from, these two pick two human friends that grew up together? Well, that's just dandy. It's also rather dandy that 50% of the demons fought are at one point found in Japan, and everyone in the cast all speaks English/Japanese. And why doesn't the Brainwashing demon just use his physic powers to raise an army to avoid fighting the latter demon? Maybe because it, in turn, will be the only reason he's able to find and fight him in the first place by attracting his partner's attention.
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* The main character of ''Manga/AliceAcademy'' just ''happens'' to befriend a kid with a superpower, who just ''happens'' to have avoided being sent to the [[AcademyOfAdventure special school for those people]] long enough to befriend the main character, and just ''happens'' to have one of her letters reach the main character despite the faculty of the school doing everything they can [[ClosedCircle to prevent the students having any contact at all with the outside world]], which just ''happens'' to prompt the main character to travel to the school, where she just so ''happens'' to be allowed in because she has a power of her own, one which just ''[[OverlyLongGag happens]]'' to be [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway so situational]] that neither she nor anybody else knew that she had it until the plot demanded it.
* ''Manga/ButterfliesFlowers'': When Choko goes job-hunting at the beginning of the book, the ''only'' company hiring is the one where her family's ex-servant has become director of the department she is applying to...
* ''Manga/CatsEye'':
** In episode 18, Hitomi and Ai [[BoundAndGagged tie up and gag]] a pair of [[MaskedLuchador female wrestlers]] known as the Tiger Ladies, and [[MuggedForDisguise steal their costumes]] in order to escape the cops. Not only do the Tiger Ladies wear masks, but they conveniently have hairstyles and body measurements similar to those of the thieves as well.
** In the series finale, Hitomi and Rui try to steal a priceless diamond from a famous actress named Noriko Kurokawa, but fail. While this is happening, Ai is writing the script for her drama club's upcoming play, which is about a female thief. Due to some unlikely circumstances, it turns out that Noriko is an alumna of Ai's school, and that former students are allowed to act in school productions regardless of their age. The sisters are able to convince Noriko to portray the victim of the play, and use the opportunity to knock her unconscious and replace her diamond with a convincing fake.
* After the War in the North Campaign and the 7 year TimeSkip in ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'', the seven survivors out of 24 set out south to finally get their revenge and then run headlong into Riful of the West, one of the {{Big Bad}}s, almost immediately.
* ''Anime/CodeGeass'':
** While a lot of things can be [[{{Handwave}} explained]] by Lelouch using his Geass off screen, the second episode of the second season is just a little convenient. [[spoiler:Lelouch, having lost his memory, decides to go gambling in a skyscraper that just happens to be at the start of a street that goes straight to the Chinese consulate, the skyscraper also exactly tall enough to be stretched out along the street, has a spacy ventilation shaft inside it which would protect people in the unlikely event that it would topple over... Starting to guess what's going to happen?]]
** Season 1 episode 22 is just as bad. [[spoiler:See my mind control eye? I can make you do anything, all of which being horribly bad for everyone involved, and none of them funny, even though I'm trying to make a joke. It would be horrible if my power forced you to do one of them, now - er... [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Whoops?]]]] That was because DiabolusExMachina was the real BigBad of the show.
* The first episode of ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'' with suspiciously convenient coincidences that allow Chiaki to escape her many pursuers - electric locks malfunction when she needs them to the most, pursuers will frequently be thrown off by things such as [[CatScare stray cats]], and NiceGuy next-door neighbor/obvious {{Love Interest|s}}, Li Shengshun, is always miraculously nearby when she needs his help the most. [[spoiler:The second episode then reveals that absolutely ''none'' of these are coincidences, not even [[IntellectualAnimal the cat]], and that Li (secretly the [[ShockAndAwe electricity-manipulating]] "Black Reaper", Hei) is after her secrets just like everyone else.]]
* ''Manga/DeathNote'':
** It was just a coincidence that both Mikami and Light knew Kiyomi Takada, that Takada was a Kira supporter, and that Light had a history with her. It was just a coincidence that all the people Mikami rejected died. It was just a coincidence that Misa Amane and Light happened to live within a train ride of each other -- at one point in the anime, they're shown having coffee in the same little shop, completely unaware that the other one is actually a Kira. When you get down to it, it was a coincidence that Light just happened to have the TV on, considering how much studying he's shown to do with it off, when L first broadcasts his Lind L Tailor message. The list doesn't end; Death Note has a ton of these.
** The encounter with Misora and Light not being taken out early is based on one, too. It just so happens that the entire police force working the Kira case was at a meeting, while Misora was trying to contact one of them and Light happened to arrive just as she talked about having information for them. After all, Sayu was supposed to bring their father the spare clothes. Light even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] how convenient this little meeting was and begins to hear Misora out on her information. And it just so happens that Aizawa was opening his umbrella ''just'' as Light and Misora were passing him by and he didn't see them.
** It even ''starts'' with one: Light flat-out asks Ryuk why he was chosen to have the Death Note, and Ryuk explains he'd just dropped it from a great height. Anyone might have picked it up. Hell, the instructions are in English just because that's the most common human language.
* ''Psychometer Eiji'''s spinoff manga ''Debusen'' featuring comic relief character Mitsuru Fukushima relies on this in basically almost every presented plot points. One of those examples is the premise of the manga itself; Mitsuru, who decides to commit suicide in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aokigahara Sea of Trees]] after piling up so much debts finds a corpse of a woman greatly resembling him and is somehow trapped in a life of high school teacher replacing the deceased woman to reform a class filled with failure students. First of all, he chooses to go to Sea of Trees[[note]]it's a famous place for suicide in Japan but still coincidence[[/note]] instead of jumping off a cliff or using other suicide methods. Second, because Mitsuru wants to get a chocolate in a pocket of a corpse hanged on a brach which can't hold Mitsuru's height, he magically stumbles into the woman's corpse in a ''35-square-kilometre forest'', not to mention the corpse's obscured location people won't easily notice. Third, said corpse has similar body structure and appearance to Mitsuru except for general male-female characteristics. Fourth, the woman's name is conveniently ''[[http://pic.taadd.com/comics/pic9/4/47044/814855/dbea0e6a82f856ae53f9c827665af265.png Mitsuko Fukushima]]'', the name Mitsuru uses whenever he cosplays as a woman. Despite the amount of miracle it needs to work, the plot can still happen.
* In the first story arc of ''Anime/DragonBall'' while Bulma and Goku are searching for the Dragon Balls they find a turtle who is lost. Goku helps the turtle and as award the turtle gets his master, known as the Turtle Hermit, who gives him the Kinto'un, a flying cloud. After several more adventures, they face the Gyuumaou (Ox-King) who is known for his power and cruelty. The Gyuumaou recognizes the cloud since the Turtle Hermit is his old master. Even more, Goku's grandfather was also a student of the same master and him and the Gyuumaou trained together. And all of them had Dragon Balls.
* ''Manga/ElfenLied'', both fortunately and unfortunately, happens to be chock full of this. This is the reason why all of the characters meet in the first place, as the chances for these select few individuals encountering one another (especially Lucy and Kouta) is next to impossible. That none of them ''remember'' each other is a whole 'nother web of improbability.
* In ''Manga/FromEroicaWithLove'', the titular art thief almost always ends up going after something with a [[MacGuffin microfilm]] sought by his unrequited love interest.
* ''Anime/FushigiboshiNoFutagoHime'': This seems to be how the Prominence works in the early part of the first season. Whenever Fine and Rein use it to solve problems, the events just seem completely improbable to make any sort of sense.
* ''LightNovel/HaiyoreNyarkoSan W'':
** The protagonists go to the [[GreatBigLibraryOfEverything Great Celano Library]] so Nyarko can return an overdue book, and come into conflict with a pair of aliens who are ransacking the place looking for something. When the team arrives at the villains' lair, Nyarko realizes she forgot to return her book, which leads to her and Mahiro [[ConversationalTroping discussing]] the possibility that that book is what the bad guys were looking for; Mahiro initially thinks it's stupid, but then decides it's probably right because so far, all their adventures have had "stupid resolutions" (as he puts it). [[spoiler:It turns out he's wrong; what the bad guys ''really'' wanted was a book Mahiro unknowingly put in his pocket when everything started going nuts at the library.]]
** In the first season, a time-traveling alien "[[DemonicPossession borrows]]" the body of a classmate in order to track down a rebel from her time period. Nyarko remarks that the ClassRepresentative called in sick that day and suggests that the criminal might be possessing him. Mahiro [[LampshadeHanging says]] that would be way too convenient, Nyarko agrees that it would be pretty silly, and they share a laugh...and then the class rep jumps out of a second-story window and dashes away, obviously possessed.
* In ''Manga/HaouAiren'', [[spoiler: the Triad hitman Hakuron is sent to Tokyo twice to deal with the {{Yakuza}}. ''Both'' times, he saw the female lead Kurumi. The first one, he took a glimpse of her grieving self during her father's funeral; the second, she was the person who saved his life when he was badly injured after he finished the mission]].
* In the sixth volume of ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'', Asia gets herself forcefully transferred to a different dimension by Shalba Beelzebub and planned to kill her there. It just so happens that Vali and his group were at the Dimension Gap looking for Gogmagog and he sees her prompting him to rescue her on a whim.
* ''Manga/{{InuYasha}}'': In episode 47, Naraku sics a [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever giant]] [[YourSoulIsMine Soul Collector]] on Kikyo to kill her, sending her running until she runs into Inuyasha, who promptly kills it. Inuyasha thinks that Kikyo deliberately led the demon to him knowing he would save her, but as she quickly points out, she was just running for her life, and Inuyasha just happened to be there.
* ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' There are a lot of these thought out the series also mix with OneDegreeOfSeparation.
** [[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha Season 1]]:
*** After Arf rebelled and fled to Earth, She ended up being found by Alisa, one of Nanoha's friends.
** [[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs Season 2 (A's)]]:
*** Hayate, the master of the antagonist and is unaware of what's going on, happens to meet Suzuka, another friend of Nanoha.
** [[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers Season 3 (StrikerS)]]:
*** Subaru and Ginga were found and rescued by Quint. Quint ended up adopting them because their eyes are similar to her. Turns out their DNA matches with Quint. Yeah, of all the people in the universe who could've rescued them, it turns out to be the woman they were cloned from.
*** Quint was also partnered with Zest and Megane. Zest ended up dying and resurrected to take care of Megane's daughter. During their walk around the Mid-Childa, they found Agito, a unison device, whom very effect to Signum.
*** The first and only time Riot Force 6 have a vacation. Erio and Caro stumbled upon Vivio.
** ''[[Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaVivid ViVid]]'':
*** Five participants of the Inter-Middle Championship are descendents of rulers from the Ancient Belkan Era, four of the rulers were close friends. And a [[KingInTheMountain sixth ruler]] in a ConvenientComa is not that far away from these descendents. Hayate lampshades this.
** ''[[Manga/MagicalRecordLyricalNanohaForce Force]]'':
*** Thoma happens to be found by Subaru on that fated day when he's the sole survivor of a massacre. Years later he goes on a JourneyToFindOneself, and runs across Lily and Isis.
** ''[[Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaINNOCENT INNOCENT]]'':
*** Since this is an AlternateUniverse, the Materials are no longer [[EvilTwin doppelgängers]] of Nanoha, Fate and Hayate, just a group of strangers who happen to resemble them. And despite the drawing of in-game equipment for the series' virtual reality video game being randomized, they just ''happen'' to have PaletteSwap versions of the main trio's gear so that the resemblance will be even more apparent.
* In ''Anime/MacrossFrontier'', the three characters in the primary LoveTriangle have the amazing ability to randomly run into each other wherever they go, in a city that's home to millions of people. Even when a character decides to randomly visit places they've never been before, the other two happen to show up there as well.
* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' is filled with numerous contrived coincidences. Among some samples:
** The first student to find out about Negi's secret, Asuna, [[spoiler:is not only a magic world princess who [[LaserGuidedAmnesia had her memories of her past wiped out]], but it appears that she is also [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld a creation of Negi's ancestor]]]].
** Nodoka, after receiving her Pactio card, just happens to be walking by when she overhears Chamo and Asuna discuss how the card can be used to summon magical items. This starts a series of events (and other coincidences) that results in Nodoka not only discovering her Pactio ability of MindReading, but also discovering that Negi is actually a mage. Interestingly enough, this isn't the only time Nodoka was walking by when Negi, Asuna, and Chamo are discussing important stuff, as this also happens first when Negi tells Asuna about his past, and later when Negi invites Asuna to go with him to the Magic World during summer break.
** Taken even further when you consider the sheer improbability of Negi's class being assembled. Asuna, [[spoiler:magical world princess]] Konoka, [[spoiler:daughter of his father's fighting companion]] Evangeline, [[spoiler:sealed there by his father]] Mana, [[spoiler:half-demonfolk mercenary]], Ku Fei; apparently the most talented martial artist on campus, Chao, [[spoiler:his descendent]] Kaede; exceedingly talented ninja, and Zazie [[spoiler:demonfolk princess]]. It's possible the headmaster just meddled, but then it's still a case of ImprobableAge that everyone is in the same grade.
** It's not that contrived for all of this to happen. Considering that the school itself is quite populated by mages, several of whom are related to Negi's father's group, it isn't THAT big of a stretch so much interesting people would gather there. After all, [[spoiler: Asuna being placed into the care of a ton of mages makes sense since she's a princess in hiding, albeit unknowingly so to herself at least,]] and there probably would be several of those tied to the magical world staying in a place filled with mages, [[spoiler: such as Mana and Zazie]]. And Chao needed to be in Mahora itself since [[spoiler: she needed to use the World Tree for her spell,]] so she would be waiting around in the school for the right time. The biggest contrivance is really just that all these people were stuffed into a single classroom.
* In ''Anime/MaisonIkkoku'', Kyoko just happens to walk by when Kozue tricks Godai into a goodbye kiss--which turns out to be a turning point in the series.
* In ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'', Tohru just so happens to be rescued by (and fall in love with) Kobayashi, whose manager is a close friend of Tohru's father. Then Tohru's rival Elma gets a job at that very same company when she's stranded on Earth, and is assigned to the same department as Kobayashi (after having chosen a job at random).
* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'':
** The kid who finds a prototype mobile suit turns out to be a powerful psychic. [[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam In]] [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ six]] [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamUnicorn completely]] [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamF91 different]] [[Anime/MobileSuitVictoryGundam wars]].
** And in all but [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ one]] of those cases, one or both of the kid's parents were involved in the creation of said prototype mobile suit.
** In ''Anime/AfterWarGundamX'', the trigger Garrod steals from a salvager's ship just so happens to work in the Gundam he randomly finds in a garage in the middle of nowhere. He at least has the comical sense to lampshade the seemingly divine intervention: "Tifa, I believe in God!"
** In ''Anime/TurnAGundam'', the titular machine comes to life and the main character [[AllLovingHero Loran]] just happens to be right next to the thing. He is the only character that can both: A) understand the technology, and B) not use it to completely turn the tide of the war in favor of either side.
*** In addition, the queen of the moon [[IdenticalStranger Dianna just so happens to look nearly exactly the same as the earth girl Kihel]] for no given explanation. This allows the two to switch places at various points in the show.
* In ''Manga/{{Monster}}'', Johan Liebert is able to find another family named Liebert, who lost a son named Johan, who would be the same age that he is, allowing him to slip right into the community. This is after meeting a family named Liebert as a child who named him Johan. Fortunately, it's a fairly common name in RealLife.
* From ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' we have two 'coincidences' which [[spoiler:set Itachi free from Edo Tensei]]. The first is even encountering Naruto in the first place, a 1/80,000 chance. The second is [[spoiler:Kotoamatsukami,]] the jutsu that was used [[spoiler:to rewire his Edo Tensei to give him back his will]]: 1/36,500 due to its ten year charge time - [[spoiler:with Itachi]] not even knowing if the charge time was completed. Yet... both were fulfilled. Later comes [[spoiler:Itachi's]] 'defeat' of Kabuto. The first coincidence is running into [[spoiler:Sasuke in the first place, giving Itachi]] the backup he needed to win. The second is possessing the [[spoiler:Izanami]], since it was [[AssPull never alluded to at ALL]] [[spoiler:that Itachi was taught any Uchiha Kinjutsu, let alone one]] designed to negate an attack that (as far as they would have known) nobody could use any more. Finally, finding Kabuto was tremendous luck, since he could have easily moved from where he was pointed out [[spoiler:by Nagato]].
* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
** The Straw Hats seem to be particularly lucky to [[spoiler:show up at Fishman Island at the ''exact same day'' that Hody stages his coup d'état after years of planning, allowing them to prevent the whole island from falling to his elite soldiers and 100,000 strong slave army]].
** This happens to the Straw Hats a lot. Luffy arrives at Shell Town to save Zoro and the villagers from Captain Morgan, they end up in Orange Town to save Nami from Buggy's thugs, arrives at Usopp's village the day Captain Kuro's plans come to fruition, stops at the Baratie when Don Krieg floats by...it seems like most of the time they get into trouble just from being at the wrong place at the wrong time. It doesn't help that Luffy's an active thrill-seeker who enjoys throwing himself into danger. This is shown when a new log post shows them the difference between the safest and most dangerous route with the rest of the crew being absolutely terrified if he found that out, which of course he does and chooses the dangerous one.
* In ''Manga/PopcornAvatar'', all of the Devas and Asuras introduced so far have all been Japanese, and conveniently found in or close to the city Kurando and Lisa live in. This fact is even lampshaded in a later chapter.
* Three of the five members of ''Anime/PrincessPrincipal's'' spy team each acted on a decision the literal day rebellion broke out in the kingdom, affecting their lives forever. Ange and Princess Charlotte [[spoiler:pulled a Prince and Pauper switch]] then got separated in the chaos of the revolution, rendering them [[spoiler:unable to switch back and unable to reunite until ten years later]]. Dorothy [[spoiler:ran away from her abusive father]] and couldn't go back after TheGreatWall went up.
* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': Carelessly thrown/dumped water (often with a LampshadeHanging of "of course nobody will be there"). Koi pond. ThunderEqualsDownpour. Convenient trajectories from [[MegatonPunch propulsive attacks]]. Oh yeah, did we mention [[FirstLawOfGenderBending his curse is triggered by cold water]]?
* ''Manga/RecoveryOfAnMMOJunkie'' runs on these pretty heavily.
** In Episode 1, Moriko Morioka gets into the MMORPG ''Fruits de Mer'', and the first person she meets is an adorable WhiteMage named Lily. In Episode 2, she and Lily stay up playing all night, which results in Moriko falling asleep at her computer and catching a cold; when she goes to the pharmacy to get some medicine, she [[CrashIntoHello runs into]] a young man late for work -- who, of course, is Lily's player Yuta Sakurai. When Moriko starts telling her guildmates about Sakurai (flipping the genders to hide [[{{GIRL}} her real identity]]) and asking for advice, Sakurai realizes that it's her because of how [[LampshadeHanging incredibly unlikely]] it would be that these exact same events would be happening to two completely different sets of people.
*** Adding another layer to it, it turns out that Moriko and Sakurai were best friends and confidants in the now-shuttered MMORPG ''[=NanterSG=]'' (to the point where, when she reflects on the relationship, Moriko realizes that she probably loved "Harth"). Sakurai gets suspicious when she makes an alt character that looks like an aged-up version of her ''Nanter'' character Yuki; he does admit to himself that this is far more likely to be a coincidence, but calls her up and asks anyway. After she confirms that it was her, they both discuss how crazy it is that they found each other completely at random.
** Just to cap it all off, the college student who works part-time at the convenience store both Moriko and Sakurai frequent is the player behind their guild master, Kanbe. He and Moriko actually find out each others' identities when they strike up a friendly conversation about ''[=FdM=]'' (he had seen her purchasing prepaid cards for the game) and he suggests meeting up for a quest, sharing his server and character name.
* In ''Manga/RoseOfVersailles'', Rosalie [[spoiler:sees her foster mother get run over by a carriage being driven by the noblewoman who is none other than her birth mother. Continuing the stretch of crazy coincidences, Rosalie meets Oscar when attempting to prostitute herself, then meets Oscar again later when she mistakes Oscar's home for Versailles. Rosalie just can't avoid the contrived coincidence...]]
* ''Anime/SailorMoon R'':
** The second episode reunites the Sailor Senshi for another season of adventure. How does it do this? The bad guys stage a fake casting call for a TV show and out of untold millions of girls, they just happen to completely randomly stumble upon four of the five Senshi and the best friend (and favored VictimOfTheWeek) of the fifth. Let it be noted that it wasn't even as though the bad guys chose these people based on some vague explanation of them having a ton of energy or whatever. It was the original TV staff that just happened to choose them.
** Kaolinite (from ''Anime/SailorMoon S'') explains that the senshi's powers orchestrate events so that senshi are always close to a place of a future attack. This makes sense given that just five senshi (nine for outerplanetary attacks) have to protect a planet.
* ''Manga/SgtFrog'' uses it for humor in episode 37, pointing out the four different coincidences (including one that seems to have nothing to do with anything) that just so happen to resolve the plot in exactly the right way.
-->'''Narrator:''' Eh? Why did this happen? Well... we can't help it now that it's done with.
* ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato'':
** A couple of characters are on Titan being chased by an alien mook. One of the characters comes across a blaster lying on the ground and shoots the mook with it. After doing so, he notices that the blaster belongs to his brother, who was thought to have been KIA in the area (his brother's abandoned ship is also close by). It would have been quite a stroke of luck for ''anybody'' to stumble upon these items after landing on a random area of the planet, much less the missing pilot's ''own brother''...
** The fact that the main (human) heroine of the series is a [[IdenticalStranger dead lookalike]] for (the alien queen) Starsha and her sister is also an unexplained and apparently random coincidence.
* In ''Anime/SummerWars'', it's a pretty big coincidence that [[AIIsACrapshoot Love Machine]]'s creator just so happens to be related to [[{{Cyberspace}} OZ]]'s most powerful player, right when they're in the same house for a family reunion. And another relative has a convenient super-computer to help fight it. Oh, and the one house guest who's not actually related to anybody? He's the guy Love Machine is framing for its crimes.
* In ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'', if [[spoiler: the Anti-Spiral]] hadn't used [[spoiler: Nia]] out of everyone to be their messenger, Earth would have been doomed, since it was [[spoiler: due to her and Simon's love that the heroes were able to find the Anti-Spiral's homeworld]]. Also, what were the chances that Simon, the person with the most Spiral energy potential, find the Core Drill and Lagann underground while digging for treasure?
* ''Anime/TigerAndBunny'':
** The two main characters happen to have the same exact superpower, down to the name, strength multiplier, and time limit. There is no in-universe reason for this at all, and nobody thinks it's anything noteworthy. Would have been averted in the original draft, where Barnaby had teleportation powers instead.
** Also in episode 12 when Jake is randomly selecting which hero to fight against, he selects Kotetsu and then remarks he won't last a second before choosing another card. He ended up drawing Barnaby's card. He lampshades this by pointing out how he picked them together and saying "they really are a team".
** Part of RuleOfFunny, there are many, ''many'' coincidences that prevent Kotetsu [[spoiler: from drinking the drugged coffee]] in episode 20.
* In the very first episode of ''Anime/WitchHunterRobin'', the eponymous character shows up at a warehouse where the squad is fighting a witch and saves the day, with no explanation for why she happened to go there. No one ever comments on it.
* ''Anime/YourName'':
** The owner of the ramen shop Taki and his friends stop at is a former Itomori resident who later helps Taki reach [[spoiler:the remains of Itomori]].
** As Mitsuha waits [[spoiler:to board a train to go back to Itomori after a day of fruitless searching for Taki in Tokyo, a train Taki was taking just happens to show up at the station she was at. This gives her the chance to pass him her ribbon, which becomes important chronologically later]].
* In ''Anime/YuGiOhCapsuleMonsters'', Yami lampshades this as he wonders how the group could have won a vacation to the place Grandpa was last seen, have their plane crash, and run into the one man who knows where he is. He takes it as a sign that something isn't right.
* Done especially so in the ''Manga/ZatchBell''. [[PuritySue A poor innocent girl]] in the story gets brainwashed into partnering with an evil demon and attacks her very best friend. But what's this? It turns out the attack was blocked by another demon who happens to be both said friend's partner and that demon's worst enemy. Really, out of 6 billion human beings on earth for the scattered 100 demons to choose from, these two pick two human friends that grew up together? Well, that's just dandy. It's also rather dandy that 50% of the demons fought are at one point found in Japan, and everyone in the cast all speaks English/Japanese. And why doesn't the Brainwashing demon just use his physic powers to raise an army to avoid fighting the latter demon? Maybe because it, in turn, will be the only reason he's able to find and fight him in the first place by attracting his partner's attention.
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