History CoversAlwaysLie / AnimeAndManga

* Posters for the ''Manga/BoardingSchoolJuliet'' anime show only the female characters, implying it's a sort of harem series. In reality, it's a romcom where the ratio of male to female characters is more or less 1:1.

** An even better example is the cover of Volume 34, which has [[http://i705.photobucket.com/albums/ww56/RiseOPumkinator/nelliel.jpg Adult Nel on the cover]]. If you were a newcomer to Bleach you could be forgiven for thinking that adult Nel would play a significant role in this volume. In actuality, she has a total of '''7''' pages worth of screentime (that's counting a Double-Page spread as 2 Pages) and everything from her transformation into her adult form to her backstory was in Volume '''33'''.
* In a combination of this and [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids "What do you mean, it's not for kids?"]], the most sexually explicit yaoi manga are often mistaken for tamer series due to the heavy use of pastel-tones and flowers.
* The manga prequel to ''VideoGame/HellgateLondon'' has a cover that looks like a nice Dragon Ball-esque adventure, with the main characters and their family arranged in a happy little formation. The actual content is far from what this implies-most of the family is brutally slaughtered near the end, and that's not even getting into what comes before that.

** The poster and VHS cover for ''Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie'' has several Pokémon in the background that aren't even in the movie at all. The same thing happens with the front VHS cover of ''Anime/Pokemon2000'' showing a Kabuto and Caterpie on the front, two Pokemon of which don't appear in the movie itself.

*** The front and back covers of "Psychic Surprise" both show stills from the episode, "The Tower of Terror", which is not included on this volume at all.

*** "Jigglypuff Pop" shows various Pokémon singing when Jigglypuff is the only Pokémon that sings.

** Where to begin with the "Digimon: The Movie" poster/DVD & VHS art? The posters show the original Season 1 characters as depicted in Season 2 (high-school age), but these characters are mostly shown at their Season 1 ages (and all but Taichi, Kōshirō, Yamato and Sora have glorified cameos). Daisuke, Miyako and Iori are depicted in their Digital World outfits--they never wear them during the movie and never enter the Digital World. Terriermon (who haves 3 horns on his forehead rather than only one - basically, is actually a recolored Lopmon) is shown along with what is possibly supposed to be Chocomon's child form, Lopmon--only Lopmon never appears in the movie and is shown inaccurately on the cover as a demented, fanged Terriermon. Oh, and the back of the VHS and DVD case features a plot summary about the older kids being kidnapped by a rogue Digimon--a plotline completely cut out of the dubbed movie.

*** Most covers of ''[[Anime/DragonBallZBojackUnbound Bojack Unbound]]'' show a Goku with his HolyHalo alongside the Z-Fighters (even charging up a Kamehameha) implying he'll be joining the fray from beyond the grave. In truth he only helps out once in the film to save his son Gohan from Bojack and otherwise just spectates the battle from the Afterlife.

*** ''[[Anime/DragonBallZLordSlug Lord Slug]]'' shows Commander Zeeun on the cover along suggesting he will part of titular villain's QuirkyMinibossSquad, in the actual movie [[AdvertisedExtra he's killed 11 minutes in]].

* ''Anime/BerserkTheGoldenAgeArc'' does this with the first two movies. ''[[https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BYzA0ZGYxYzAtMmJlOC00OTFkLThhNmItYTdlMTdkNDY2NzQ4L2ltYWdlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNTAyODkwOQ@@._V1_.jpg Egg of the King]]'' depicts a fun TeamShot where everyone (especially Guts) looks cheery, anyone whose familar with [[Manga/{{Berserk}} this series]] will know the this '''not''' [[CrapSackWorld vindictive]] of the [[DarkFantasy story]] at all, another [[https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AWJyu4HEJQc/T-54XjecpGI/AAAAAAAAFUs/C_9ZuGUCkxY/s1600/berserk.jpg cover]] also shows Skull Knight in large despite him actually making no appearance in the story at that point. ''[[https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71FZeKTlHCL._SL1292_.jpg Battle for Doldrey]]'' has the Behelit opening it's eyes and crying blood while the Eclipse happening in the background along with Skull Knight, none of which happens until the third movie.

*** The cover of "The Mistery of Mount Moon" makes it look like Pikachu learns Metronome from a Clefairy that Ash catches. Nothing of that happen in the episode.
*** The front and back covers of "Psychic Surprise" both show clips from the episode, "The Tower of Terror", which is not included on this volume at all.

** This trope could be applied to the ''Anime/DragonBallGT'' season sets. The first set, containing the first '''34''' episodes, features Super Saiyan 4 Goku on the cover, Super Saiyan 4 being a form Goku first achieves in '''episode 35'''. And the second set features Super Saiyan 4 Gogeta, a '''''[[OneSceneWonder One Episode Wonder]]''''' from late in the series.
** When the Saban-dubbed episodes of Anime/DragonBallZ were released on DVD by Pioneer, there were three covers for the Namek arc that shown concept art of the characters ''past'' the Saban run. The concept art in question? Vegeta in the outfit he wore during the Freeza fight, Goku preparing the Spirit Bomb to use against Freeza and Goku as a Super Saiyan with the last one being on two of the three covers. Kid Goku is on the last cover, but he's not shown in any flashbacks in the episodes on that set.

*** ''[[Anime/DragonBallZTheReturnOfCooler The Return of Cooler]]'' might fool you into thinking Goku and Vegeta will have to fight a [[https://i33.fastpic.ru/big/2014/0227/0d/73eedac823799bb9eccbf2df94ce7a0d.jpg 60 foot Meta Cooler as well as an army of smaller ones]]. In the movie all the Meta Coolers are normal-sized.
*** Most covers of ''[[Anime/DragonBallZBojackUnbound Bojack Unbound]]'' show a Goku with his HolyHalo alongside the Z-Fighters (even charging up a Kamehameha) implying he'll be joining the fray from beyond the grave. In truth he only helps out once in the film to save his son Gohan from Bojack and otherwise just spectates the battle from the Afterlife.

** The cover of the [[Anime/BaronOmatsuriAndTheSecretIsland 6th movie]] shows Straw Hats in a colorful adventure among flowers implying some whacky hijinks are in store given Luffy is smiling broadly. The actual movie, however, has by far some ''darkest'' NightmareFuel-inducing moments in the franchise and Luffy in particular [[DarkestHour goes through hell]].

* ''Anime/BerserkTheGoldenAgeArc'' does this with the first two movies. ''[[https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BYzA0ZGYxYzAtMmJlOC00OTFkLThhNmItYTdlMTdkNDY2NzQ4L2ltYWdlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNTAyODkwOQ@@._V1_.jpg Egg of the King]]'' depicts a fun TeamShot where everyone (especially Guts) looks cheery, anyone whose familar with [[Manga/{{Berserk}} this series]] will know the this '''not''' [[CrapSackWorld vindictive]] of the [[DarkFantasy story]] at all, another [[https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AWJyu4HEJQc/T-54XjecpGI/AAAAAAAAFUs/C_9ZuGUCkxY/s1600/berserk.jpg cover]] also shows Skull Knight in large despite him actually making no appearance in the story at that point. ''[[https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71FZeKTlHCL._SL1292_.jpg Battle for Doldrey]]'' has Behelit opening it's eyes and crying blood while Eclipse happens in the background along with Skull Knight, none of which happens until the third movie.

* The far-out extreme would be the cover of ''Warriors of the Wind'', the original dub of the classic {{anime}} film ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind'' done in the mid-'80s. The artist just [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Wotwuscover.jpg made things up and added characters and elements]] that weren't in the movie at all[[note]]There were no flying horses, guns, robots, swords made of light, or shadow-men, the monsters in the movie the one on the cover vaguely resembled were not ever ridden, and of those five characters only the one on the right looks anything like a character in the actual movie (Nausicaa, who even then wasn't blonde).[[/note]]. The dub itself [[CutAndPasteTranslation wasn't an accurate representation]] of Creator/HayaoMiyazaki's work either, but it wasn't ''that'' different.

* ''Anime/BerserkTheGoldenAgeArc'' does this with the first two movies. ''[[https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BYzA0ZGYxYzAtMmJlOC00OTFkLThhNmItYTdlMTdkNDY2NzQ4L2ltYWdlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNTAyODkwOQ@@._V1_.jpg Egg of the King]]'' depicts a fun TeamShot where everyone (especially Guts) looks cheery, anyone whose familar with [[Manga/{{Berserk}} this series]] will know the this '''not''' [[CrapSackWorld vindictive]] of the [[DarkFantasy story]] at all, another [[https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AWJyu4HEJQc/T-54XjecpGI/AAAAAAAAFUs/C_9ZuGUCkxY/s1600/berserk.jpg cover]] also shows Skull Knight who makes no apperance at that point. ''[[https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71FZeKTlHCL._SL1292_.jpg Battle for Doldrey]]'' has Behelit opening it's eyes and crying blood while Eclipse happens in the background along with Skull Knight, none of which happens until the third movie.

** Volumes 6 and 11 depict the Straw Hats in [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/onepiece/images/f/fb/Volume_6.png/revision/latest?cb=20130115021821 stylish]] [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/onepiece/images/1/1b/Volume_11.png/revision/latest?cb=20130115021822 clothing]] and Volume 12 has them [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/onepiece/images/1/1b/Volume_11.png/revision/latest?cb=20130115021822 surronded by gold and treasure]]. At that point in the story they wore normal clothing and didn't have heaps of riches. Most volumes depict events or characters that actually appear in the story and save the [[RuleOfCool fun imginary stuff]] for the Cover Spreads.

* ''Anime/BerserkTheGoldenAgeArc'' does this with the first two movies. ''[[https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BYzA0ZGYxYzAtMmJlOC00OTFkLThhNmItYTdlMTdkNDY2NzQ4L2ltYWdlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNTAyODkwOQ@@._V1_.jpg Egg of King]]'' depicts a fun TeamShot where everyone (especially Guts) looks cheery, anyone whose familar with [[Manga/{{Berserk}} this series]] will know the this '''not''' [[CrapSackWorld vindictive]] of the [[DarkFantasy story]] at all, another [[https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AWJyu4HEJQc/T-54XjecpGI/AAAAAAAAFUs/C_9ZuGUCkxY/s1600/berserk.jpg cover]] also shows Skull Knight who makes no apperance at that point. ''[[https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71FZeKTlHCL._SL1292_.jpg Battle for Doldrey]]'' has Behelit opening it's eyes and crying blood while Eclipse happens in the background along with Skull Knight, none of which happens until the third movie.

*** Most covers of ''[[Anime/DragonBallZBojackUnbound Bojack Unbound]]'' show a Goku with HolyHalo alongside the Z-Fighters (even charging up a Kamehameha) implying he'll be joining the fray from beyond the grave. In truth he only helps out once in the film to save his son Gohan from Bojack and otherwise just spectates the battle from the Afterlife.

* This trope could be applied to the ''Anime/DragonBallGT'' season sets. The first set, containing the first '''34''' episodes, features Super Saiyan 4 Goku on the cover, Super Saiyan 4 being a form Goku first achieves in '''episode 35'''. And the second set features Super Saiyan 4 Gogeta, a '''''[[OneSceneWonder One Episode Wonder]]''''' from late in the series.

* ''Manga/OnePiece'' Volume 59 has Ace looking ready to kick some ass, even though [[spoiler: he's mortally injured at the ''start'' of the volume and dead at the end of the first chapter.]]

** The first volume has Nami on the cover, sitting in a boat with Luffy and Zoro. She only appears near the end, and joins the crew in the second volume.

** The poster and VHS cover for ''Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie'' has several Pokémon in the background that aren't even in the movie at all. The same thing happens with the front VHS cover of ''Anime/PokemonTheMovie2000'' showing a Kabuto and Caterpie on the front, two Pokemon of which don't appear in the movie itself.

** The poster and VHS cover for ''Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie'' has several Pokémon in the background that aren't even in the movie at all.

* On the very last Creator/DiC English dub DVD of ''Anime/SailorMoon R'', "Love Conquers All", Sailor Chibi Moon is pictured alongside Neo-Queen Serenity. However, Chibiusa doesn't actually show up as a Sailor Senshi until halfway through the next season. Apart from being spoileriffic, entirely different companies did those seasons. [=DiC=] did Classic and R, while S and [=SuperS=] were done by Creator/{{Cloverway}} (Sailor Stars wasn't dubbed until Creator/VizMedia gained the rights).

* ''Anime/{{Mazinkaiser}}'' had an episode titled "Kouji Kabuto Dies in Lava!". No points for guessing what happens (or rather, ''doesn't'' happen).

* [[http://danganronpa.wikia.com/wiki/File:Filmconfect_Danganronpa_the_Animation_BluRay_Volume_4_(Standard).jpg The German volume 4 cover]] of ''Anime/{{Danganronpa}}: The Animation'' adds Monomi, a character who wasn't on [[http://danganronpa.wikia.com/wiki/File:Lerche_Danganronpa_the_Animation_Volume_7_(Standard).jpg the original cover]] and is exclusive to the sequel ''VisualNovel/SuperDanganronpa2'', which wasn't part of the anime. Monomi did make a {{cameo}} in TheStinger to tease a anime adaptation of the second game that never came to be.

* Covers of the series ''LightNovel/TheIrregularAtMagicHighSchool'' is a vivid example, when this trope is used to tease the audience. Although the main "couple" Tatsuya and Miyuki Shiba is clearly implied as the future OfficialCouple and the series depicts their relationship almost always as an IncestSubtext, the author does not put any special focus on romance and Tatsuya seems, even when trying especially, still can not think of his sister as a woman. Nevertheless, practically every cover where they appear together portrays them as [[BrotherSisterIncest lovers with gentle hugs, hot looks and overly ambiguous poses, that are not appropriate for brothers and sisters]]. This occurred at a time when they were not even kissing in the novel.

* Some of the DVD covers for ''[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion End of Evangelion]]'' have Toji featured in his pilot gear. Not only does Toji not appear in the film at all, but he'd already been crippled by that point in the story anyway.

* [[http://danganronpa.wikia.com/wiki/File:Filmconfect_Danganronpa_the_Animation_BluRay_Volume_4_(Standard).jpg The German volume 4 cover]] of ''VisualNovel/{{Danganronpa}}: The Animation'' adds Monomi, a character who wasn't on [[http://danganronpa.wikia.com/wiki/File:Lerche_Danganronpa_the_Animation_Volume_7_(Standard).jpg the original cover]] and is exclusive to the sequel ''VisualNovel/SuperDanganronpa2'', which wasn't part of the anime. Monomi did make a {{cameo}} in TheStinger to tease a anime adaptation of the second game that never came to be.

** Where to begin with the "Digimon: The Movie" poster/DVD & VHS art? The posters show the original Season 1 characters as depicted in Season 2 (high-school age), but these characters are mostly shown at their Season 1 ages (and all but Tai, Izzy, Matt and Sora have glorified cameos). Davis, Yolei and Cody are depicted in their DigiWorld outfits--they never wear them during the movie and never enter the DigiWorld. Terriermon (who haves 3 horns on his forehead rather than only one - basically, is actually a recolored Lopmon) is shown along with what is possibly supposed to be Kokomon's rookie form, Lopmon--only Lopmon never appears in the movie and is shown inaccurately on the cover as a demented, fanged Terriermon. Oh, and the back of the VHS and DVD case features a plot summary about the older kids being kidnapped by a rogue Digimon--a plotline completely cut out of the dubbed movie.

** The [[https://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/2/2b/Lucario_and_the_Mystery_of_Mew_DVD_Region_4.png 2006 Australian DVD cover]] for 'Anime/PokemonLucarioAndTheMysteryOfMew' shows both titular Pokemon running with Ash and Pikachu (the later two in their festival costumes). In the actual film (as stated in the DVD's description), [[spoiler:Mew takes away Pikachu in that costume early in the film and Ash and Lucario try to find them.]]

** The [[https://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/2/2b/Lucario_and_the_Mystery_of_Mew_DVD_Region_4.png 2006 Australian DVD cover]] for 'Anime/PokemonLucarioAndTheMysteryOfMew' shows both titular Pokemon running with Ash and Pikachu (in his joker costume). In the actual film (as stated in the DVD's description), [[spoiler:Mew takes away Pikachu in that costume early in the film and Ash and Lucario try to find them.]]

* Posters for the ''Manga/KishukuGakkouNoJuliet'' anime show only the female characters, implying it's a sort of harem series. In reality, it's more like a romcom that has a lot of side characters.

* ''Manga/FrankenFran''. The author uses {{hentai}}-like [[ContemptibleCover covers]] like [[http://www.snoopycool.com/manga/franken_fran/FrankenFran_v2_cover.jpg this]] for a horror manga featuring images like [[http://mangafox.me/manga/franken_fran/v02/c013/9.html THIS]].