History FirstEpisodeTwist / AnimeAndManga

* ''Manga/IsItMyFaultThatIGotBullied'' starts with a middle school reunion where SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp Shinji runs into his old bullying victim Aizawa. After demonstrating no remorse for his past, even throwing out the insinuation that [[VictimBlaming it's the victim's fault that they're bullied]], he returns home to a happy family life with his wife and daughter. Cut to his daughter Shiori attending school, where not only is ''she'' a bullying victim, but her homeroom teacher is none other than Aizawa, with the story leaving it ambiguous whether or not he'll help her or leave her to her fate as payback against her father.

* The first chapter of ''Manga/MusundeTsunaide'' follows Tsunagu and Kono as kids. Kono encourages [[ChronicSelfDeprecation Tsunagu]] to clean herself up and take some pride in her appearance, and basically does everything she can to paint a giant target on her forehead for "doomed childhood friend". And sure enough, at the end of the first chapter, Kono vanishes into thin air during a game of hide and seek at a local shrine. The second chapter then skips forward to Tsunagu in high school. She has duly followed Kono's advice to clean herself up and have confidence in herself, though she rues the fact that people seem to have given up on the search for Kono. She heads to the shrine where Kono vanished and yells her name, implying the series is gearing up for an IWillFindYou plot ... only for the nine-year-old Kono to traipse happily out of the trees, wondering what's taken Tsunagu so long to find her. Yes, Kono ''hasn't aged a single day'', and that's a part of the premise.

* It can be fairly hard to explain the plot of ''Anime/DeathParade'' without spoiling the first episode's reveal that Quindecim is in the afterlife; the couple we met was DeadAllAlong, the bartender is an [[{{Psychopomp}} arbiter of souls]], and the games are created with the sole intent of judging whether someone goes to "heaven" (of rather, receive {{reincarnation}}) or to "hell" (being sent to a void for all of eternity).

* By the end of the first chapter of ''Manga/SnowWhiteWithTheRedHair'' it has been revealed that the helpful fellow traveler Shirayuki met in the woods is actually a prince and second in line to the throne of Clarines.

* ''Anime/BangBraveBangBravern:'' Over the course of the first episode, it has all the trappings of a standard RealRobot show - that is, until the titular Bravern very literally drops out of the sky in front of the protagonist. Pre-release marketing even went as far as to conceal the show's SuperRobot nature.

* ''Anime/BangBraveBangBravern:'' Over the course of the first episode, it has all the trappings of a standard RealRobot show - that is, until the titular SuperRobot Bravern very literally drops out of the sky in front of the protagonist.

* In ''Anime/ScottPilgrimTakesOff'', it seems like it's a straightforward, if not slightly altered, animated adaptation of the ''Scott Pilgrim'' comics... then Scott is ''actually defeated and seemingly killed'' during his first fight. The series, then, shifts to Ramona as she seeks to figure out what the heck happened and how everyone is taking this sudden turn of events.

* ''Manga/ShimejiSimulation'' has a DramaticIrony form of a first-chapter twist, since in one panels a mysterious black obelisk is seen standing behind Shijima and Majime. It is a significant twist, since the audience immediately knows that this world is surreal and ''not'' normal from the beginning, which is unknown from the main characters. It's a {{Foreshadowing}} that this world is a simulation.