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* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Right after a dramatic moment in the [=CP9=] arc that was preceded by a four-episode flashback, the arc decides to pause ''again'' while the heroes falling in mid-air for ''five'' ''ClipShow'' ''episodes in a row'' (episodes 279-283). When these episode originally aired they coincided with a timeslot change from evening to morning, so this might have been an attempt to combat ContinuityLockout for new viewers (the final episode recaps the flashback that started only nine episodes prior). While these episodes got their own DVD in Japan, they were sold/broadcast the same any other episode internationally.
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* ''Manga/OnePiece'': ''Manga/OnePiece'':
** Right after a dramatic moment in the [=CP9=] arc that was preceded by a four-episode flashback, the arc decides to pause ''again'' while the heroes falling in mid-air for ''five'' ''ClipShow'' ''episodes in a row'' (episodes 279-283). When these episode originally aired they coincided with a timeslot change from evening to morning, so this might have been an attempt to combat ContinuityLockout for new viewers (the final episode recaps the flashback that started only nine episodes prior). While these episodes got their own DVD in Japan, they were sold/broadcast the same any other episode internationally.
** Right after a dramatic moment in the [=CP9=] arc that was preceded by a four-episode flashback, the arc decides to pause ''again'' while the heroes falling in mid-air for ''five'' ''ClipShow'' ''episodes in a row'' (episodes 279-283). When these episode originally aired they coincided with a timeslot change from evening to morning, so this might have been an attempt to combat ContinuityLockout for new viewers (the final episode recaps the flashback that started only nine episodes prior). While these episodes got their own DVD in Japan, they were sold/broadcast the same any other episode internationally.
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* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' held out for eight years before creating a clip show -- a mash of scenes from the current arc's important battles that wasn't even edited to make the music flow. The dub just skipped it, and its six later successors, because what kid in the U.S. would want the watch a Pokémon clip show?
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* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' held out for eight years before creating a clip show -- a mash mash-up of scenes from the current then-current arc's important battles that wasn't even edited to make the music flow. The dub just skipped it, and its six later successors, because what kid in the U.S. would want the to watch a Pokémon ''Pokémon'' clip show?
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Two of the clip shows after AG's were in Diamond and Pearl, and there were FOUR, count 'em, FOUR clip shows in Journeys.
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* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' held out for eight years before creating a clip show -- a mash of scenes from the current arc's important battles that wasn't even edited to make the music flow. The dub just skipped it, and its three six later successors, because what kid in the U.S. would want the watch a Pokémon clip show?
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* ''Anime/SamuraiPizzaCats'' did this Three times:
** In "Candid Kitty," the bad guys watch clips of earlier episodes in a movie theatre, hoping to find the Pizza Cats' weakness.
** In "Big Cheese's High Definition TV," the bad guys watch clips of earlier episodes on a new TV, this time focusing on the giant robots they used in the past, deciding what bits to use as they create a more dangerous robot with all the best aspects of the earlier robots.
** "The Cats Cop Cartoon Careers!" is the series finale, where the cast look back on the series.
** In the original Japanese run there were 54 episodes, but Saban only dubbed 52. The two episodes left out were clip shows, hence why they were skipped over in the US.
** In "Candid Kitty," the bad guys watch clips of earlier episodes in a movie theatre, hoping to find the Pizza Cats' weakness.
** In "Big Cheese's High Definition TV," the bad guys watch clips of earlier episodes on a new TV, this time focusing on the giant robots they used in the past, deciding what bits to use as they create a more dangerous robot with all the best aspects of the earlier robots.
** "The Cats Cop Cartoon Careers!" is the series finale, where the cast look back on the series.
** In the original Japanese run there were 54 episodes, but Saban only dubbed 52. The two episodes left out were clip shows, hence why they were skipped over in the US.
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* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' held out for eight years before creating a clip show -- a mash of scenes from the current arc's important battles that wasn't even edited to make the music flow. The dub just skipped it, and its three later successors, because what kid in the U.S. would want the watch a Pokémon clip show.
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* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' held out for eight years before creating a clip show -- a mash of scenes from the current arc's important battles that wasn't even edited to make the music flow. The dub just skipped it, and its three later successors, because what kid in the U.S. would want the watch a Pokémon clip show.show?
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* ''Manga/BlackClover'' has an unusually high number of these. Episodes 29, 66, 102, 123 and 124 are all recaps, while episode 82 consists almost entirely of post-episode humor segments from previous episodes.
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* ''Manga/BlackClover'' has an unusually high number of these. Episodes 29, 66, 102, 123 and 124 are all full episode recaps, while the majority of episode 157 is a recap, and episode 82 consists almost entirely of post-episode humor segments from previous episodes.episodes.
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** Though it is not the whole episode, the first half of Episode 152 is a [[FlashbackEcho Flashback Echo]] which not only uses clips from previous episodes as flashbacks, but also makes generous use of [[StockFootage Stock Footage]] from previous episodes as well as slightly updated [[RecycledAnimation Recycled Animations]].
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** All clips used in Episode 123 were {{flashback}}s in their original episodes, making it a rare example of a Clip Show which is also a [[WholeEpisodeFlashback Whole Episode Flashback]].
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** All clips used in Episode 123 were {{flashback}}s in their original episodes, making it a rare very literal example of a Clip Show which is also a [[WholeEpisodeFlashback Whole Episode Flashback]].
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Black Clover had even more flashbacks than that
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* ''Manga/BlackClover'' has an unusually high number of these. Episodes 29, 66 and 102 are all recaps, while episode 82 consists almost entirely of post-episode humor segments from previous episodes.
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* ''Manga/BlackClover'' has an unusually high number of these. Episodes 29, 66 66, 102, 123 and 102 124 are all recaps, while episode 82 consists almost entirely of post-episode humor segments from previous episodes.episodes.
** All clips used in Episode 123 were {{flashback}}s in their original episodes, making it a rare example of a Clip Show which is also a [[WholeEpisodeFlashback Whole Episode Flashback]].
** All clips used in Episode 123 were {{flashback}}s in their original episodes, making it a rare example of a Clip Show which is also a [[WholeEpisodeFlashback Whole Episode Flashback]].
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* ''Manga/BlackClover'' has an unusually high number of these. Episodes 29, 66 and 102 are all recaps.
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* ''Manga/BlackClover'' has an unusually high number of these. Episodes 29, 66 and 102 are all recaps.recaps, while episode 82 consists almost entirely of post-episode humor segments from previous episodes.
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* ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic Invisible Victory'' did two clip show "half-episodes" within the first eight episodes...out of a total of twelve episodes. Fans were not pleased.
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* ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic ''Literature/FullMetalPanic Invisible Victory'' did two clip show "half-episodes" within the first eight episodes...out of a total of twelve episodes. Fans were not pleased.
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* The first half of the ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'' OVA. Kirito talks to a government agent recalling events in the game world through his perspective. Meanwhile, the girls talk about their various interactions with Kirito, which essentially shows important parts where they interacted with him, in-between teaching Suguha how to swim.
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* The first half of the ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'' ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'' OVA. Kirito talks to a government agent recalling events in the game world through his perspective. Meanwhile, the girls talk about their various interactions with Kirito, which essentially shows important parts where they interacted with him, in-between teaching Suguha how to swim.
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* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' held out for eight years before creating a clip show -- a mash of scenes from the current arc's important battles that wasn't even edited to make the music flow. The dub just skipped it, and its three later successors.
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* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' held out for eight years before creating a clip show -- a mash of scenes from the current arc's important battles that wasn't even edited to make the music flow. The dub just skipped it, and its three later successors.successors, because what kid in the U.S. would want the watch a Pokémon clip show.
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** ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' had a clip show in 1993 as a year-end special, where Goku (who is at that point deceased) decides to visit Earth to spend New Years with his family, and they reminisce about everything that happened in the anime that year, mainly the Cell Games and the Otherworld Tournament. This was never aired outside of Japan.
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** ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' had a clip show in 1993 as a year-end special, where Goku (who is at that point deceased) decides to visit Earth to spend New Years with his family, and they reminisce about everything that happened in the anime that year, mainly the Cell Games and the Otherworld Tournament. This was never aired outside of Japan.Japan, because what person outside Japan would want to watch a [=DBZ=] clip show.
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** ''Anime/SmilePrecure'': The ''Anime/GlitterForce'' edit of Episode 30 uses some clips from previous episodes when the girls flashback to some of their fights with the Bad End Trio. This notable causes Majorina/Brooha to appear in the edit, when she was absent from the original cut of the episode.
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--->"[[ConversationalTroping If you ask me, this clip show's]] [[CurseCutShort a pile of horse sh-]]"
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*** Hell, spinoff ''Anime/YuGiOhVrains'' takes this to offensive levels. Season one episodes [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Yu-Gi-Oh!_VRAINS_-_Episode_013 13 (Fierce Battle's Record)]], [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Yu-Gi-Oh!_VRAINS_-_Episode_021 21 (Embers of a New Battle)]], [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Yu-Gi-Oh!_VRAINS_-_Episode_029 29 (Kusanagi Report)]] and [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Yu-Gi-Oh!_VRAINS_-_Episode_038 38 (Hanoi's Recollection)]] are solely dedicated to this. And keep in mind Season One has 46 episodes total. By skipping all episodes between the ones dedicated exclusively to Clip Shows, you can watch the whole season one in 12 episodes, and you'd arguably not miss anything.
*** Hell, spinoff ''Anime/YuGiOhVrains'' takes this to offensive levels. Season one episodes [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Yu-Gi-Oh!_VRAINS_-_Episode_013 13 (Fierce Battle's Record)]], [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Yu-Gi-Oh!_VRAINS_-_Episode_021 21 (Embers of a New Battle)]], [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Yu-Gi-Oh!_VRAINS_-_Episode_029 29 (Kusanagi Report)]] and [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Yu-Gi-Oh!_VRAINS_-_Episode_038 38 (Hanoi's Recollection)]] are solely dedicated to this. And keep in mind Season One has 46 episodes total. By skipping all episodes between the ones dedicated exclusively to Clip Shows, you can watch the whole season one in 12 episodes, and you'd arguably not miss anything.
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Up To Eleven is a defunct trope
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* Subverted in ''Manga/SeitokaiYakuindomo''. The final episode starts its second half with what appears to be a regular clip show. Then things start getting strange when characters flash back to events that didn't happen the way they happened. In Mutsumi's case, events that weren't even in the same ''genre''. And it gets UpToEleven weirder; apparently Tsuda's souvenir actually ''changed'' to conform to Shino's warped memory, causing Tsuda to go into a short HeroicBSOD. That the whole thing is topped off with a preview for the show that will be taking their time slot (that also doesn't exist) cements the show taking a sledgehammer to the fourth wall.
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* Subverted in ''Manga/SeitokaiYakuindomo''. The final episode starts its second half with what appears to be a regular clip show. Then things start getting strange when characters flash back to events that didn't happen the way they happened. In Mutsumi's case, events that weren't even in the same ''genre''. And it gets UpToEleven weirder; apparently Tsuda's souvenir actually ''changed'' to conform to Shino's warped memory, causing Tsuda to go into a short HeroicBSOD. That the whole thing is topped off with a preview for the show that will be taking their time slot (that also doesn't exist) cements the show taking a sledgehammer to the fourth wall.
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* Four of the episodes of ''Manga/AkazukinChacha'' are clip shows.
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** Finally, Episode 51 is mostly a recap of all the important episodes while Chacha reflects on her victory over Daimao.
** Finally, Episode 65 is a recap of all the episodes Dr. Mikeneko appeared in as he prepares to fight Chacha again- unaware that the world is at peace and that there is no one is fighting anymore.
** Finally, Episode 65 is a recap of all the episodes Dr. Mikeneko appeared in as he prepares to fight Chacha again- unaware that the world is at peace and that there is no one is fighting anymore.
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* Four of the episodes of ''Manga/AkazukinChacha'' are clip shows.
** Episode 14 recaps Chacha's continual victories over Daimao's minions while Sorges tries to figure out how to beat her.
** Episode 26 is a recap of Episode 3 with the in-universe framing of Yakko visiting Chacha while she tends to Seravy's house.
** Episode 40 is a recap of Chacha getting the Phoenix Sword with Shiine reminiscing over breakfast.
** Finally, Episode 51 is mostly a recap of all the important episodes while Chacha reflects on her victory over Daimao.
** Episode 14 recaps Chacha's continual victories over Daimao's minions while Sorges tries to figure out how to beat her.
** Episode 26 is a recap of Episode 3 with the in-universe framing of Yakko visiting Chacha while she tends to Seravy's house.
** Episode 40 is a recap of Chacha getting the Phoenix Sword with Shiine reminiscing over breakfast.
** Finally, Episode 51 is mostly a recap of all the important episodes while Chacha reflects on her victory over Daimao.
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* ''Franchise/PrettyCure'':
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* ''Franchise/PrettyCure'':
** ''Anime/HealinGoodPrettyCure'' episode 26 is an episode recapping the events of the previous 25 episodes.
** ''Anime/TropicalRougePrettyCure'' episode 41 recaps how the girls met each other and became Cures.
** ''Anime/HealinGoodPrettyCure'' episode 26 is an episode recapping the events of the previous 25 episodes.
** ''Anime/TropicalRougePrettyCure'' episode 41 recaps how the girls met each other and became Cures.
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Dewicking Anime/Pokemon, as the contents have been reorganized under Pokemon The Series.
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* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' held out for eight years before creating a clip show -- a mash of scenes from the current arc's important battles that wasn't even edited to make the music flow. The dub just skipped it, and its three later successors.
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* ''Manga/BlackClover'' has an unusually high number of these. Episodes 29, 66 and 102 are all recaps.
* ''Anime/{{Robotech}}'':
** The ''[[Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross Macross]]'' segment featured two clip show episodes adapted directly from the Japanese series, which had to use clip shows to fill space after its order was suddenly expanded from 23 to 36 episodes early in the season. One episode had an expertly edited dream sequence episode formed mainly of clips, with new dialogue, which flowed into each other in a very accurate rendition of dream logic. The other was the episode "Gloval's Report," which is pretty much exactly what it sounds like: Captain Gloval reporting the major milestones of the series thus far to his superiors. ("Gloval's Report" was also expanded into a CompilationMovie, ''Codename: Robotech'', for broadcast to build interest in advance of the show beginning its syndication run.)
** The ''[[Anime/GenesisClimberMospeada New Generation]]'' episode called "Sandstorm" is another clip show adapted directly from the original series. Another ''New Generation'' episode gained a several-minute recap segment at the beginning when several minutes of nudity were deleted from the original series's HotSpringsEpisode.
** Another clip show was the episode that linked the ''Macross'' segment to the ''[[Anime/SuperDimensionCavalrySouthernCross Robotech Masters]]'' segment. This episode was created entirely from other episodes' content by the American translation company, which needed to fill an episode's worth of space to pad the count out to a divisible-by-five number to better fit into weekday syndication.
* Around the middle of ''[[Anime/TransformersArmada Transformers: Energon]]'', there was a mostly clip episode for no particular reason.
* Ditto for the original series (at least the dub) of ''Anime/YuGiOh''
** ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'' took that episode and ran with it. All the lines (except the flashback to the ''opening credits'') were new.
*** The parody is immediately lampshaded by [[ThoseTwoGuys The Paradox Brothers]]:
--->"When we're through with you you'll want to submit."
--->"[[ConversationalTroping If you ask me, this clip show's]] [[CurseCutShort a pile of horse sh-]]"
*** That episode was in the original Japanese version as well. There were also two others: episodes 144 and 184. 144 took place in between the Battle City and anime-only Doma arcs that had Tea (Anzu) and Serenity (Shizuka) reminiscing about the events of the Battle City Tournament as well as when Noah took them hostage. Episode 184 ended the Doma storyline, but actually spent most of it having the characters in the arc remember what happened in the past 40 episodes.
--->'''Did I just abridge my own series?'''
*** Hell, spinoff ''Anime/YuGiOhVrains'' takes this to offensive levels. Season one episodes [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Yu-Gi-Oh!_VRAINS_-_Episode_013 13 (Fierce Battle's Record)]], [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Yu-Gi-Oh!_VRAINS_-_Episode_021 21 (Embers of a New Battle)]], [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Yu-Gi-Oh!_VRAINS_-_Episode_029 29 (Kusanagi Report)]] and [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Yu-Gi-Oh!_VRAINS_-_Episode_038 38 (Hanoi's Recollection)]] are solely dedicated to this. And keep in mind Season One has 46 episodes total. By skipping all episodes between the ones dedicated exclusively to Clip Shows, you can watch the whole season one in 12 episodes, and you'd arguably not miss anything.
* Another famous example: ''Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico'' [[PlayingWithATrope plays with this trope]] by using its ShowWithinAShow ''Anime/{{Gekiganger 3}}'' as a FramingDevice -- with the ''Gekiganger ''characters watching the episode as their own ShowWithinAShow (Within A Show... my puzzler hurts). The ''Gekiganger'' characters freely [[LampshadeHanging hang a lampshade]] on this trope. And just to completely demolish the FourthWall, the second half of the episode reveals that ''Gekiganger'''s trademark ForgottenSuperweapon, the Gekigan Flare, was inspired by ''Nadesico''. Which has already had its hero come up with a FinishingMove based on ''Gekiganger''.
* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' held out for eight years before creating a clip show -- a mash of scenes from the current arc's important battles that wasn't even edited to make the music flow. The dub just skipped it, and its three later successors.
* ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'':
** The last episode of the first StoryArc was a clip show narrated by the as-yet-unrevealed BigBad.
** And the last episode of the second arc was a joke clip show about a secondary character. And the last episode of the third arc was a clip show interspersed with a narration by the main character revealing that [[spoiler:she slept with Akio.]]
* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED'' uses this a few times during the show's run. 3 episodes out of 50 are clip shows. ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny'' has even more. Some are really annoying. Episode 29 is a decent example of how to do one of these right.
* Episodes 15-18 of ''Anime/WolfsRain''. It seems several months passed after episode 14, so it was deemed necessary to recap pretty much the whole thing (that or a low budget). On the American [=DVDs=], the four episodes filled an entire volume (vol. 4: "recollections"). It retails for $30, and the average rating on Amazon is one and a half stars (as opposed to five stars for vol. 3).
* The ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' series ''Car Robots'' has three clip shows; when it was dubbed into ''Anime/TransformersRobotsInDisguise'' those episodes remained clip shows, but the clips involved were completely different. In at least one case this was probably an attempt to show scenes that hadn't aired because the episode was released after 9/11.
** ''Anime/TransformersVictory'' had no less than six over the course of its run, with another four added for the video release. Since these episodes contributed nothing to the plot, they were omitted from the UK/Australian DVD releases.
* ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'''s 13th episode, "Vash the Stampede", is a clip show episode wherein Meryl is typing her report on Vash and summarizing all that she has witnessed since following him.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Right after a dramatic moment in the [=CP9=] arc that was preceded by a four-episode flashback, the arc decides to pause ''again'' while the heroes falling in mid-air for ''five'' ''ClipShow'' ''episodes in a row'' (episodes 279-283). When these episode originally aired they coincided with a timeslot change from evening to morning, so this might have been an attempt to combat ContinuityLockout for new viewers (the final episode recaps the flashback that started only nine episodes prior). While these episodes got their own DVD in Japan, they were sold/broadcast the same any other episode internationally.
** Used again during the Thriller Bark arc (Episode 354). Again, probably an attempt to avoid ContinuityLockout, as this arc follows on from a storyline that hadn't appeared in almost ''three hundred episodes''.
* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'':
** The original broadcast version of episode 6 (the HotSpringsEpisode) had to cut down a subplot of [[ThePeepingTom Kamina and Simon trying to peak at the girls]], and added scenes of characters remembering previous events to fill in the extra time. (After the original episode had been completed but before it could be aired, the show was moved from a late-night timeslot to an early-evening timeslot, meaning it would be reaching a younger audience than was originally intended.) The unedited episode was included on the [=DVD=]s.
** Episode 16 is a regular RecapEpisode using clips from before the TimeSkip. Oddly, this apparently didn't fill up a regular production slot, making the show 27 episodes instead of 26. The clips occur completely out of universe, not only lacking a FramingDevice, but actually showing [[MediumBlending live action]] time compressed footage of artists making the episode's packaging.
* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing'' had a pair of back-to-back clip show episodes, 27 ("The Locus of Victory and Defeat") and 28 ("Passing Destinies"), which have Relena and Treize (respectively) each recapping half of the story so far. It was later revealed that these episodes were going to show important moments from the main characters' pasts, but those plans fell through; these stories were later turned into the manga ''Episode Zero''.
* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' :
** The first half of episode 14 is one of these, with the SEELE committee narrating the events of the series so far.
** The first 70 minutes of ''Death and Rebirth'' is a clip ''movie.''
* ''Anime/EurekaSeven'''s episode 14 is one of these, with the events narrated in the form of various reports written by two cast members.
* The first ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' anime series had a clip show for its series finale, actually called "A Look Back! The 2000 Year History of Hokuto"... despite only recapping the series' events; the "proper" series finale had been the penultimate episode. ''Fist of the North Star'' is rife with these, unfortunately. There were several episodes that were nothing but clip shows, including one notorious incident where '''five episodes in a row were just clip shows.''' Fully half of the penultimate episode was a recap clip show of the antepenultimate episode.
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
** Throughout the two-year filler period that ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' Part 1 aired, only one episode, 202, was a clip show. It was based on a viewer vote of the best five fight scenes, and ended with cameos of [[spoiler:Jiraiya, Orochimaru, and Sasuke]].
** ''Naruto Shippuden'' gave us a double-length clip show with episodes 212 and 213. A handful of plot developments were thrown in between the flashbacks, but the two episodes had barely 10 minutes of new footage between them.
* ''Anime/CodeGeass'' had two Clip Show episodes in the first season, but unlike many such examples, the staff outright admitted that they were {{Filler}} episodes intended to buy them some "breathing room" so they could work on more plot-relevant episodes. These two episodes didn't even make it into the American release, becoming [[MissingEpisode Missing Episodes]].
* ''Manga/{{Chobits}}'' managed to have three clip episodes, two of which aired with the original broadcast, and one of which was made for home video. And at least in the North American DVD release, all three were included on the final volume, which also included the "Chibits" short.
* ''Manga/HisAndHerCircumstances'' had a clip show that actually lasted one and 1/2 episodes of its 26 episode run.
* ''[[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood]]'' had an interesting take on this for episode 27, with a clip show brought on by the framing device of a very strange dream by Hohenheim.
* ''Manga/AkazukinChacha'' had 4.
* ''Anime/SamuraiChamploo'' had one in episode 13 when Mugen and Jin read Fuu's diary, which sees her personally recapping the events of the past 12 episodes.
* A notable one happened in episode 89 of ''Anime/SailorMoon''. It featured only voiceovers of the five main senshi discussing the events of the season and pondering the future while clips from the entire series played out.
* ''Franchise/DragonBall'':
** ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' had a clip show in 1993 as a year-end special, where Goku (who is at that point deceased) decides to visit Earth to spend New Years with his family, and they reminisce about everything that happened in the anime that year, mainly the Cell Games and the Otherworld Tournament. This was never aired outside of Japan.
** In the primary show content, the idea was played with a little. For filler the anime would often have scenes taking place away from the action where characters would reminisce about events from both DBZ and ''Manga/DragonBall'' and could range anywhere from five to ten minutes. For example, late during the Goku/Freeza fight after [[spoiler:everyone else gets teleported back to Earth by Porunga]] there's an episode that devotes a little bit of time to have Piccolo think back on his past with Goku, which then features clips of mainly from the Piccolo storylines from Dragon Ball. Another episode has Master Roshi explain the history of the Red Ribbon Army to some of the supporting cast hanging out on his island early on during the Android saga, which in turn features clips from the entire Red Ribbon Army arc from the original Dragon Ball. Given the [[LongRunners length of the series]], those flashbacks were probably included because the people making the anime thought people legitimately wouldn't remember (or wouldn't even have seen) stuff that was important to a new plot. They became particularly important when the show was exported to America, because everything past the first 13 episodes of ''Dragon Ball'' weren't dubbed until later.
** In Japan, there was the "Summer Vacation" Special that played with the trope by applying it to the movies: Goku, Gohan and friends are dressing up for the 1992 premiere of ''Anime/DragonBallZSuperAndroid13'', and spend their time reminiscing about all six previous ''DBZ'' movies and the three ''Dragon Ball'' movies before them.
* The first half of episode 12 in ''[[Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt]]'' is a ClipShow episode. The episode does add to the plot, though.
* ''Manga/MiamiGuns'' did a clip show for its ''second'' episode, though in this case it was entirely new content with no flashbacks to the first episode. It also [[BreakingTheFourthWall broke the fourth wall]] inconsistently, with the lead characters sometimes talking about behind the scenes stuff like AnimatedActors and sometimes treating the clips as the actual events of their lives.
* A portion of episode 73 of the ''Manga/FairyTail'' anime (adapted from the manga's "Rainbow Sakura" {{omake}}) features Lucy reminiscing a bunch of events from the previous 72 episodes while she's [[SickEpisode sick in bed]].
* The first half of episode 26 of ''Manga/DeathNote'' is this, through the frame of [[spoiler:L's reports on the Kira case, which Light subsequently finds and deletes.]]
* Episodes 19 through 22 of ''Anime/SupercarGattiger'' were composed of clips from earlier episodes.
* ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic Invisible Victory'' did two clip show "half-episodes" within the first eight episodes...out of a total of twelve episodes. Fans were not pleased.
* The ''Anime/LoveLiveSunshine'' anime's final episode utilizes this technique for the song "WONDERFUL STORIES", where the choreography is comprised of clips from the musical performances of every single episode, from "Kimeta yo Hand in Hand" to [[spoiler: "WATER BLUE NEW WORLD"]].
* The first half of the ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'' OVA. Kirito talks to a government agent recalling events in the game world through his perspective. Meanwhile, the girls talk about their various interactions with Kirito, which essentially shows important parts where they interacted with him, in-between teaching Suguha how to swim.
!!Subversions and parodies:
* The second episode of ''Manga/MiamiGuns'' was one of these, that reviewed episodes from an imaginary first season.
* Subverted in ''Manga/SeitokaiYakuindomo''. The final episode starts its second half with what appears to be a regular clip show. Then things start getting strange when characters flash back to events that didn't happen the way they happened. In Mutsumi's case, events that weren't even in the same ''genre''. And it gets UpToEleven weirder; apparently Tsuda's souvenir actually ''changed'' to conform to Shino's warped memory, causing Tsuda to go into a short HeroicBSOD. That the whole thing is topped off with a preview for the show that will be taking their time slot (that also doesn't exist) cements the show taking a sledgehammer to the fourth wall.
* {{Parodied}} on ''Anime/KillLaKill''--episode 16 begins narrated by [[TheSymbiote Senketsu]], declaring this to be "the recap episode you knew was coming." (This show was made by the same people as ''Panty and Stocking'' and ''Gurren Lagann,'' listed above.) He then [[MotorMouth summarizes all the previous episodes in two minutes]], teases the audience for thinking that he was serious, and compliments the show on how its fast pace made this go so quickly. Bonus points because the actual episode that follows includes several revelations that puts the previous episodes in perspective.
* ''Anime/ExcelSaga'' had two of these despite only running for 26 episodes. The first was halfway through the series and was about half and half between old and new content (with the premise of a New Year's gameshow that had clips for some reason), while the second was about five episodes later and recapped the Pedro storyline, consisting almost entirely of recycled content up until the end when the storyline was expanded on a bit. Naturally, since this is ''Anime/ExcelSaga'', it was parodied: Not all the clips shown play out like they did in the episodes which turns "remember that time" into a form of UnreliableNarrator.
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* ''Manga/BlackClover'' has an unusually high number of these. Episodes 29, 66 and 102 are all recaps.
* ''Anime/{{Robotech}}'':
** The ''[[Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross Macross]]'' segment featured two clip show episodes adapted directly from the Japanese series, which had to use clip shows to fill space after its order was suddenly expanded from 23 to 36 episodes early in the season. One episode had an expertly edited dream sequence episode formed mainly of clips, with new dialogue, which flowed into each other in a very accurate rendition of dream logic. The other was the episode "Gloval's Report," which is pretty much exactly what it sounds like: Captain Gloval reporting the major milestones of the series thus far to his superiors. ("Gloval's Report" was also expanded into a CompilationMovie, ''Codename: Robotech'', for broadcast to build interest in advance of the show beginning its syndication run.)
** The ''[[Anime/GenesisClimberMospeada New Generation]]'' episode called "Sandstorm" is another clip show adapted directly from the original series. Another ''New Generation'' episode gained a several-minute recap segment at the beginning when several minutes of nudity were deleted from the original series's HotSpringsEpisode.
** Another clip show was the episode that linked the ''Macross'' segment to the ''[[Anime/SuperDimensionCavalrySouthernCross Robotech Masters]]'' segment. This episode was created entirely from other episodes' content by the American translation company, which needed to fill an episode's worth of space to pad the count out to a divisible-by-five number to better fit into weekday syndication.
* Around the middle of ''[[Anime/TransformersArmada Transformers: Energon]]'', there was a mostly clip episode for no particular reason.
* Ditto for the original series (at least the dub) of ''Anime/YuGiOh''
** ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'' took that episode and ran with it. All the lines (except the flashback to the ''opening credits'') were new.
*** The parody is immediately lampshaded by [[ThoseTwoGuys The Paradox Brothers]]:
--->"When we're through with you you'll want to submit."
--->"[[ConversationalTroping If you ask me, this clip show's]] [[CurseCutShort a pile of horse sh-]]"
*** That episode was in the original Japanese version as well. There were also two others: episodes 144 and 184. 144 took place in between the Battle City and anime-only Doma arcs that had Tea (Anzu) and Serenity (Shizuka) reminiscing about the events of the Battle City Tournament as well as when Noah took them hostage. Episode 184 ended the Doma storyline, but actually spent most of it having the characters in the arc remember what happened in the past 40 episodes.
--->'''Did I just abridge my own series?'''
*** Hell, spinoff ''Anime/YuGiOhVrains'' takes this to offensive levels. Season one episodes [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Yu-Gi-Oh!_VRAINS_-_Episode_013 13 (Fierce Battle's Record)]], [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Yu-Gi-Oh!_VRAINS_-_Episode_021 21 (Embers of a New Battle)]], [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Yu-Gi-Oh!_VRAINS_-_Episode_029 29 (Kusanagi Report)]] and [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Yu-Gi-Oh!_VRAINS_-_Episode_038 38 (Hanoi's Recollection)]] are solely dedicated to this. And keep in mind Season One has 46 episodes total. By skipping all episodes between the ones dedicated exclusively to Clip Shows, you can watch the whole season one in 12 episodes, and you'd arguably not miss anything.
* Another famous example: ''Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico'' [[PlayingWithATrope plays with this trope]] by using its ShowWithinAShow ''Anime/{{Gekiganger 3}}'' as a FramingDevice -- with the ''Gekiganger ''characters watching the episode as their own ShowWithinAShow (Within A Show... my puzzler hurts). The ''Gekiganger'' characters freely [[LampshadeHanging hang a lampshade]] on this trope. And just to completely demolish the FourthWall, the second half of the episode reveals that ''Gekiganger'''s trademark ForgottenSuperweapon, the Gekigan Flare, was inspired by ''Nadesico''. Which has already had its hero come up with a FinishingMove based on ''Gekiganger''.
* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' held out for eight years before creating a clip show -- a mash of scenes from the current arc's important battles that wasn't even edited to make the music flow. The dub just skipped it, and its three later successors.
* ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'':
** The last episode of the first StoryArc was a clip show narrated by the as-yet-unrevealed BigBad.
** And the last episode of the second arc was a joke clip show about a secondary character. And the last episode of the third arc was a clip show interspersed with a narration by the main character revealing that [[spoiler:she slept with Akio.]]
* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED'' uses this a few times during the show's run. 3 episodes out of 50 are clip shows. ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny'' has even more. Some are really annoying. Episode 29 is a decent example of how to do one of these right.
* Episodes 15-18 of ''Anime/WolfsRain''. It seems several months passed after episode 14, so it was deemed necessary to recap pretty much the whole thing (that or a low budget). On the American [=DVDs=], the four episodes filled an entire volume (vol. 4: "recollections"). It retails for $30, and the average rating on Amazon is one and a half stars (as opposed to five stars for vol. 3).
* The ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' series ''Car Robots'' has three clip shows; when it was dubbed into ''Anime/TransformersRobotsInDisguise'' those episodes remained clip shows, but the clips involved were completely different. In at least one case this was probably an attempt to show scenes that hadn't aired because the episode was released after 9/11.
** ''Anime/TransformersVictory'' had no less than six over the course of its run, with another four added for the video release. Since these episodes contributed nothing to the plot, they were omitted from the UK/Australian DVD releases.
* ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'''s 13th episode, "Vash the Stampede", is a clip show episode wherein Meryl is typing her report on Vash and summarizing all that she has witnessed since following him.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Right after a dramatic moment in the [=CP9=] arc that was preceded by a four-episode flashback, the arc decides to pause ''again'' while the heroes falling in mid-air for ''five'' ''ClipShow'' ''episodes in a row'' (episodes 279-283). When these episode originally aired they coincided with a timeslot change from evening to morning, so this might have been an attempt to combat ContinuityLockout for new viewers (the final episode recaps the flashback that started only nine episodes prior). While these episodes got their own DVD in Japan, they were sold/broadcast the same any other episode internationally.
** Used again during the Thriller Bark arc (Episode 354). Again, probably an attempt to avoid ContinuityLockout, as this arc follows on from a storyline that hadn't appeared in almost ''three hundred episodes''.
* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'':
** The original broadcast version of episode 6 (the HotSpringsEpisode) had to cut down a subplot of [[ThePeepingTom Kamina and Simon trying to peak at the girls]], and added scenes of characters remembering previous events to fill in the extra time. (After the original episode had been completed but before it could be aired, the show was moved from a late-night timeslot to an early-evening timeslot, meaning it would be reaching a younger audience than was originally intended.) The unedited episode was included on the [=DVD=]s.
** Episode 16 is a regular RecapEpisode using clips from before the TimeSkip. Oddly, this apparently didn't fill up a regular production slot, making the show 27 episodes instead of 26. The clips occur completely out of universe, not only lacking a FramingDevice, but actually showing [[MediumBlending live action]] time compressed footage of artists making the episode's packaging.
* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing'' had a pair of back-to-back clip show episodes, 27 ("The Locus of Victory and Defeat") and 28 ("Passing Destinies"), which have Relena and Treize (respectively) each recapping half of the story so far. It was later revealed that these episodes were going to show important moments from the main characters' pasts, but those plans fell through; these stories were later turned into the manga ''Episode Zero''.
* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' :
** The first half of episode 14 is one of these, with the SEELE committee narrating the events of the series so far.
** The first 70 minutes of ''Death and Rebirth'' is a clip ''movie.''
* ''Anime/EurekaSeven'''s episode 14 is one of these, with the events narrated in the form of various reports written by two cast members.
* The first ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' anime series had a clip show for its series finale, actually called "A Look Back! The 2000 Year History of Hokuto"... despite only recapping the series' events; the "proper" series finale had been the penultimate episode. ''Fist of the North Star'' is rife with these, unfortunately. There were several episodes that were nothing but clip shows, including one notorious incident where '''five episodes in a row were just clip shows.''' Fully half of the penultimate episode was a recap clip show of the antepenultimate episode.
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
** Throughout the two-year filler period that ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' Part 1 aired, only one episode, 202, was a clip show. It was based on a viewer vote of the best five fight scenes, and ended with cameos of [[spoiler:Jiraiya, Orochimaru, and Sasuke]].
** ''Naruto Shippuden'' gave us a double-length clip show with episodes 212 and 213. A handful of plot developments were thrown in between the flashbacks, but the two episodes had barely 10 minutes of new footage between them.
* ''Anime/CodeGeass'' had two Clip Show episodes in the first season, but unlike many such examples, the staff outright admitted that they were {{Filler}} episodes intended to buy them some "breathing room" so they could work on more plot-relevant episodes. These two episodes didn't even make it into the American release, becoming [[MissingEpisode Missing Episodes]].
* ''Manga/{{Chobits}}'' managed to have three clip episodes, two of which aired with the original broadcast, and one of which was made for home video. And at least in the North American DVD release, all three were included on the final volume, which also included the "Chibits" short.
* ''Manga/HisAndHerCircumstances'' had a clip show that actually lasted one and 1/2 episodes of its 26 episode run.
* ''[[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood]]'' had an interesting take on this for episode 27, with a clip show brought on by the framing device of a very strange dream by Hohenheim.
* ''Manga/AkazukinChacha'' had 4.
* ''Anime/SamuraiChamploo'' had one in episode 13 when Mugen and Jin read Fuu's diary, which sees her personally recapping the events of the past 12 episodes.
* A notable one happened in episode 89 of ''Anime/SailorMoon''. It featured only voiceovers of the five main senshi discussing the events of the season and pondering the future while clips from the entire series played out.
* ''Franchise/DragonBall'':
** ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' had a clip show in 1993 as a year-end special, where Goku (who is at that point deceased) decides to visit Earth to spend New Years with his family, and they reminisce about everything that happened in the anime that year, mainly the Cell Games and the Otherworld Tournament. This was never aired outside of Japan.
** In the primary show content, the idea was played with a little. For filler the anime would often have scenes taking place away from the action where characters would reminisce about events from both DBZ and ''Manga/DragonBall'' and could range anywhere from five to ten minutes. For example, late during the Goku/Freeza fight after [[spoiler:everyone else gets teleported back to Earth by Porunga]] there's an episode that devotes a little bit of time to have Piccolo think back on his past with Goku, which then features clips of mainly from the Piccolo storylines from Dragon Ball. Another episode has Master Roshi explain the history of the Red Ribbon Army to some of the supporting cast hanging out on his island early on during the Android saga, which in turn features clips from the entire Red Ribbon Army arc from the original Dragon Ball. Given the [[LongRunners length of the series]], those flashbacks were probably included because the people making the anime thought people legitimately wouldn't remember (or wouldn't even have seen) stuff that was important to a new plot. They became particularly important when the show was exported to America, because everything past the first 13 episodes of ''Dragon Ball'' weren't dubbed until later.
** In Japan, there was the "Summer Vacation" Special that played with the trope by applying it to the movies: Goku, Gohan and friends are dressing up for the 1992 premiere of ''Anime/DragonBallZSuperAndroid13'', and spend their time reminiscing about all six previous ''DBZ'' movies and the three ''Dragon Ball'' movies before them.
* The first half of episode 12 in ''[[Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt]]'' is a ClipShow episode. The episode does add to the plot, though.
* ''Manga/MiamiGuns'' did a clip show for its ''second'' episode, though in this case it was entirely new content with no flashbacks to the first episode. It also [[BreakingTheFourthWall broke the fourth wall]] inconsistently, with the lead characters sometimes talking about behind the scenes stuff like AnimatedActors and sometimes treating the clips as the actual events of their lives.
* A portion of episode 73 of the ''Manga/FairyTail'' anime (adapted from the manga's "Rainbow Sakura" {{omake}}) features Lucy reminiscing a bunch of events from the previous 72 episodes while she's [[SickEpisode sick in bed]].
* The first half of episode 26 of ''Manga/DeathNote'' is this, through the frame of [[spoiler:L's reports on the Kira case, which Light subsequently finds and deletes.]]
* Episodes 19 through 22 of ''Anime/SupercarGattiger'' were composed of clips from earlier episodes.
* ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic Invisible Victory'' did two clip show "half-episodes" within the first eight episodes...out of a total of twelve episodes. Fans were not pleased.
* The ''Anime/LoveLiveSunshine'' anime's final episode utilizes this technique for the song "WONDERFUL STORIES", where the choreography is comprised of clips from the musical performances of every single episode, from "Kimeta yo Hand in Hand" to [[spoiler: "WATER BLUE NEW WORLD"]].
* The first half of the ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'' OVA. Kirito talks to a government agent recalling events in the game world through his perspective. Meanwhile, the girls talk about their various interactions with Kirito, which essentially shows important parts where they interacted with him, in-between teaching Suguha how to swim.
!!Subversions and parodies:
* The second episode of ''Manga/MiamiGuns'' was one of these, that reviewed episodes from an imaginary first season.
* Subverted in ''Manga/SeitokaiYakuindomo''. The final episode starts its second half with what appears to be a regular clip show. Then things start getting strange when characters flash back to events that didn't happen the way they happened. In Mutsumi's case, events that weren't even in the same ''genre''. And it gets UpToEleven weirder; apparently Tsuda's souvenir actually ''changed'' to conform to Shino's warped memory, causing Tsuda to go into a short HeroicBSOD. That the whole thing is topped off with a preview for the show that will be taking their time slot (that also doesn't exist) cements the show taking a sledgehammer to the fourth wall.
* {{Parodied}} on ''Anime/KillLaKill''--episode 16 begins narrated by [[TheSymbiote Senketsu]], declaring this to be "the recap episode you knew was coming." (This show was made by the same people as ''Panty and Stocking'' and ''Gurren Lagann,'' listed above.) He then [[MotorMouth summarizes all the previous episodes in two minutes]], teases the audience for thinking that he was serious, and compliments the show on how its fast pace made this go so quickly. Bonus points because the actual episode that follows includes several revelations that puts the previous episodes in perspective.
* ''Anime/ExcelSaga'' had two of these despite only running for 26 episodes. The first was halfway through the series and was about half and half between old and new content (with the premise of a New Year's gameshow that had clips for some reason), while the second was about five episodes later and recapped the Pedro storyline, consisting almost entirely of recycled content up until the end when the storyline was expanded on a bit. Naturally, since this is ''Anime/ExcelSaga'', it was parodied: Not all the clips shown play out like they did in the episodes which turns "remember that time" into a form of UnreliableNarrator.
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