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* ''Manga/PenguinRevolution'' ends each volume with an out-of-continuity short involving the characters - for example, at the end of a volume in which Ryo was injured shielding a producer, Yukari polls some of the other characters to find out if they would have done the same, getting humorous results from each. These shorts are then followed by an author's note in panel format - also usually humorous, but in one volume it is devoted to the recent [[TearJerker death of the author's dog]].
* Every volume of ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' comes with some truly side-splitting {{Yonkoma}} strips and assorted drawings by the author parodying the events of her own comic. For example, there's the ongoing drama of Roy Mustang in a 1970s {{shoujo}} romance comic.
** She also includes occasional bonus chapters, many of which were adapted into the first anime, including Jean Havoc and Armstrong's little sister, Ed vs Roy in an alchemy battle, and Izumi's backstory.
** Some of the four panel strips were also adapted into the first anime including the rather well known line about a certain colonel and [[MemeticMutation TINY MINI-SKIRTS]].
* ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'' has these at the end of most volumes. Generally they involve Super Deformed versions of the Valentine brothers or Seras giving commentary on the series thus far.

* ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth'' has an "omake" option on the extras menus of its North American DVD release. The omnibus editions of the manga have omakes between chapters.
** Not to mention all the artwork, often showing them SuperDeformed or wearing {{Pimped Out Dress}}es.
** This is actually common among most Creator/{{CLAMP}} works.
** ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'' and ''Manga/XxxHolic'' share an omake AlternateUniverse with a lot of the tropes associated with the Franchise/LyricalNanoha franchise, particularly the relationship between Nanoha and Fate, [[spoiler:with Nanoha either unaware of Fate's feelings, aware but not returning them, or Fate in full PsychoLesbian mode]], as well as Erio and Caro [[spoiler: with Erio wanting to get away from Caro, whos is a {{Yandere}} in the omake]].
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}} Shippuden'' has omake at the end of most episodes; they ranged from characters talking about the history of Konoha to downright silliness like Shikamaru and Asuma talking about changing the show's name to Shikamaru/Asuma Shippuden. The latter is particularly memorable when Naruto shows up indignantly in the end and is handed the script for future episodes, only to find that he's barely in any of them. (A subtle dig at the manga's and its titular character's lack of screentime for a long period.)
** Also to note is that the ''Shippuden'' Omakes have been dubbed into English, which doesn't happen that often.
*** Though they're only on the [=DVDs=]; the Creator/DisneyXD broadcast cuts them out (which is probably true for a lot of anime aired in countries with more commercial time per episode).
* Played straight in both ''VisualNovel/ToHeart'' and ''To Heart: Remember My Memories'', where six stand-alone omakes were made for each series. The ''To Heart'' omakes were more of slice of life themed, while the ''Remember My Memories'' omakes had a continuous plotline for the six omakes.
** An EarlyBirdCameo was featured in the sixth omake for ''To Heart: Remember My Memories'' with the appearance of [[spoiler:Konomi Yuzuhara]], the lead heroine in ''VisualNovel/ToHeart2''.

* ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeed Gundam SEED]]'' has some hilarious omakes in its ''Anime/GundamSeedCharacterTheater''. This first involves Yzak Jule's hilarious attempts to take Athrun down a peg or three by learning and mastering Athrun's secret of success. The other two involve Rey Za Burrel, Meyrin and Lunamaria Hawke, and Shinn Asuka's attempts, on Gilbert "Gil" Durandal's orders to destroy the successful formation of Kira and Athrun's friendship, and destroy Lacus' reputation. Both attempts fail hilariously.
** The latter ends up resulting in [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Shinn imitating Lacus at a concert, dressed in one of her dresses and shredding the stage with one of Impulse's swords as he sings "Quiet Night"]]. ItMakesSenseInContext.
* ''Manga/PrincessPrincess'' is published with actual slipcovers. If you happen to take the slipcovers off, you find that there are omake printed on the covers of the books themselves. The mini comics are called "Prince Prince" and feature the main characters in an AlternateUniverse as girls crossdressing as guys. (As opposed to the canon, where they are guys crossdressing as girls.)
* Third season episodes of ''Manga/ZatchBell'' would end with a gag section where they switched two characters' hairstyles.
* ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'' has two omake chapters in the manga (one in which the secondary protagonist discovers that Hei is on good terms with the cops, and another consisting of rather hilarious four-panel comics), and the {{OVA}} similarly spoofs the main series.
* ''Anime/CodeGeass'' has quite a few. Some are serious (like Picture Dramas which fill in gaps in the backstory), but mostly they're comedic, like the Flash-animated and highly nonsensical Baba Theater included with the ''R2'' [=DVDs=]. Even the Manga Spin Offs have been known to add the occasional omake pages, involving such characters as Lelouch, Clovis, and Bartley.
-->'''Young Clovis:''' You're the only one who understands me, Bartley.
** The picture drama associated with the last episode of Code Geass R2 actually extends the show's ending, showing what some might consider to be the true conclusion of the series.
* ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'''s Pioneer [=DVDs=] contain a lot of omake, including raw commercials, artwork, music clips, a [[LoveDodecahedron relationship chart]], interviews and footnotes. There's also a special omake known as "The Tale of the Forbidden Women's Hot Spring Resort", which parodies the Nyosei arc that the anime omitted.

* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' has had a number of extra animated shorts and side episodes produced for release on DVD sets or bundled with other products, including 15 "Parallel Works" music videos, a 12-minute episode bundled with the DS game, a video manga called "Viral's Sweet Dream," and a director's cut version of episode 6.
** There's a Yonkoma in between every chapter of ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'''s Manga adaptation.

* ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' manga volumes tend to have at least two omakes. The anime also has omakes of their own. The sound novels have bonuses too.
* At the end of every ''Manga/FutureDiary'' volume, there is an Omake that explains certain things easy to miss in the main work, or reveals a little about other Future Diary holders.
* ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'' has a few extra pages at the ends of volumes, usually a collection of [[{{Yonkoma}} 4-Komas.]] One notable strip has Nekonome-sensei reading a fan mail [[LampshadeHanging asking how]] the girls' MagicPants work.

* The pre-opening shorts in ''VisualNovel/WeWithoutWings'' (We Without Wings) are not only out-of-continuity, they are out-of-genre.
* In the start of the ''Manga/YuGiOh'' manga volumes, Creator/KazukiTakahashi would have a small paragraph explaining either how he got started on the story itself (he wanted a ''shounen'' hero who never hits anyone, hence games), how a certain character was conceived (Kaiba started from him overhearing an arrogant card player and Marik from a fear of having a cellphone meant his publishers would annoy him in his free time), or random observations as the story progressed (noting his ArtEvolution from the first manga). He would also occasionally include bonus games at the end of chapters, sometimes based on the games in question that the characters played (a mini-version of the Monster World TabletopRPG, a monster-battle maze game based on the Player Killer Meikyuu Brothers, etc.), that the readers could photocopy and try out for themselves.
** Likewise in the GX manga, his student Naoyuki Kageyama would insert small Yonkomas about his life as a Mangaka student. (Like how he was thrust with doing the GX manga by a drunk Takahashi).
* ''Manga/FairyTail'' has these at the end of most volumes. Included are special missions, a dating misunderstanding, a tour of the local girls' dormitory while searching for treasure, a HighSchoolAU, Happy's backstory, and others. The latest one details Lucy's adventure in invading Natsu's house instead of the other way around for once. Several have already been incorporated into the anime, and two of these have been adapted into full-length [=OVAs=].
* ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' is somewhat well-known for having hilarious omakes, which are different for the anime and manga. These range from having the BloodKnight partially AxeCrazy Revy turning into a MagicalGirl who kills everyone because of BlueAndOrangeMorality, to a HighSchoolAU where the most hard-core criminals become students, teachers, and the faculty.
* ''Manga/PsychicSquad'' has a lot of these in form of bonus art panels (often in color), but there are also two major examples:
** The LighterAndSofter supplemental 4-panel strips, usually two of them before the beginning of each chapter. These 4-panel strips often break the fourth wall, but they are also apparently canonical, having some connections (even if weak) with the main story. In at least one case one of these side stories was actually a ''prelude'' to one of the main story's arcs.
* ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'' features several in every volume, with a few of them making it into the anime as an after-credits joke. While almost all are of a humorous nature, those that aren't complete crack are often at least hinted to be canon.
** A noteworthy example of crack is FracturedFairyTale collection including Kaneki as Cinderella (with [[StalkerWithACrush Tsukiyama]] as his prince), and Amon as Literature/{{Momotaro}}.
* [[http://www.shingeki.tv/story/ The official website]] of ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' releases {{Yonkoma}} with each episode broadcast... until the next week. [[http://maxiburger.tumblr.com/tagged/shingeki-no-kyojin Fortunately they've been archived.]]
** And now a properly animated ''omake'' exists, except 1. they don't follow the ''yonkoma'' plotline proper and 2. every episode ends with the Colossal Titan popping our heroes like pills for laughs.

* ''Manga/BlackClover'' has a short omake section between the ending credits and the next episode preview, dubbed "Petit Clover" (or "Clover Clips" in the Funimation dub).
* ''[[Manga/HunterXHunter Hunter x Hunter (2011)]]'' has the "Hunterpedia" segments between the end credits and the next episode preview in the Heavens Arena and Yorknew arcs. In the Greed Island arc, there's the "Greed Island Tutorial".
* ''Manga/ShiNiAruki'' has each volume end with a short bonus chapter detailing how [[IceQueen Tokiko]] and [[PassionateSportsGirl Natsuki]] first met and became best friends, despite their polarizing personalities.

* ''Franchise/MiddleEarth'' books:

* Website/NobodyHere: "[[https://nobodyhere.com/justme/download.here Download]]" features a bunch of wallpapers, cursors and banners for readers to enjoy.

* ''Podcast/RandomAssault'': As a reward for getting 100 likes on the Facebook page, the crew released a scrapped first segment of an unreleased version of episode 034, in which Alex, Mitch, Mela and Tony talk about comic books.

* ''Webcomic/{{Nebula}}'' has several canonical short stories from the POVs of different characters. "Nix" is about Pluto and his feelings before Ceres' attack on the planets, "Proco" is about Earth and how she found the comet that ran away from Jupiter, and "Lux" is about Sun and how he's struggling to deal with everything going on.

* ''Rainverse'':

* ''Webcomic/Rain2010'': Creator/{{Jocelyn|Samara}} intersperses bonus omake strips between her regular chapters under the title [[PunnyName "Rain Delay"]].
** There's also some book only stuff.

** ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' featured a WesternAnimation/ClutchCargo-esque cartoon featuring Mr. Incredible and his "sidekick".

* ''Anime/MayoiNekoOverrun'' has ''Mayoi Neko Neko Douga'', 3 minute shorts that involve, in order, Nozomi dancing, Rock Paper Scissors matches, fanservice and surreal short sketches. Possibly the only thing weirder than the series itself.

* The collector's edition of ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'' came with a fold out map of Cyrodiil; a bonus DVD filled with concept art, early renders and a substantial making-of; a 112 page 'Pocket Guide to the Empire' and a reproduction of a Septim, the in-game currency.

* ''Film/TheChroniclesofRiddick'' had special features that looked into the backstory of the character's life, his weapons and training; background information on the Necromonger cult; the video diaries of the bounty hunter Toombs, which serves as a sort of prequel to the film and a virtual guide to the universe with info on characters and settings.

* ''Webcomic/GrimTrigger'' has a ''ton'' of extra art. The official website has a whole page dedicated to it, and the creator's [[http://tntiger.deviantart.com/ deviantART]] has over 200 drawings of the characters.

* The [=DVD=]s of ''LightNovel/MariaWatchesOverUs'' contain shorts with the characters in chibi-format, called ''Maria-sama ni wa Naisho'' ("Don't tell Maria-sama"), in which the makers poke mild fun at events in the series with the characters as AnimatedActors.

* ''Webcomic/CogaSuro'' has a 'Coga Suro Review' at the end of the first chapter of Coga Suro 2, which looks to be a recurring feature. Appears to be heavily influenced by Anime/LuckyStar's 'Lucky Channel'.

** ''The Illustrated [[Literature/TheWeeFreeMen Wee Free Men]]'' included, at the bit which reveals [[spoiler: the toad was a lawyer who suffered a ForcedTransfomation after suing a fairy godmother for breach of promise,]] a transcript of the trial.

** ''The Illustrated [[Literature/TheWeeFreeMen Wee Free Men]]'' included, at the bit which reveals [[spoiler: the toad was a lawyer who suffered BalefulPolymorph after suing a fairy godmother for breach of promise,]] a transcript of the trial.

* The authors of ''Webcomic/{{Hellp}}'' produce a lot of bonus art on a regular basis, sometimes even of characters that are yet to appear in the actual story. There is a whole [[http://hellpcomic.tumblr.com/ Tumblr]] and a [[http://hellpcomic.deviantart.com/gallery/ deviantArt group]] dedicated to collecting all the bonus material they make. And then there's [[UpToEleven even more]] on the comic's [[http://www.patreon.com/hellpcomic Patreon.]] They also make smaller BSideComics on special occasions.

* ''Manga/ShiNiAruki'' has each volume ends with a short bonus chapter detailing how [[IceQueen Tokiko]] and [[PassionateSportsGirl Natsuki]] first met and became best friends, despite their polarizing personalities.

* ''VideoGame/EarthBound'' comes with the official Player's Guide - which causes the box to be a lot larger than an average SNES game.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' complete series DVD features the animatics for two existing episodes, done when creator Craig [=McCracken=] was still at [=CalArts=]. It also has interstitials from Cartoon Network, a documentary with cast and crew, the Christmas episode and the [[MilestoneCelebration 10th anniversary special]] ''The Powerpuff Girls Rule!''

** ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'' also includes a "note on pronunciation", an "index of names" and "elements in Quenya and Sindarin" names. All are interesting, but the second one can be [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters particularly useful]] when reading the book for the first time.

* The War Room tutorial segments in ''VideoGame/AdvanceWars: Days of Ruin'' feature exaggerated, less-serious versions of the characters -- including villains -- who come to give you advice, and contain much of the game's humor. At one point the game [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it with the page quote.