History VoodooShark / AnimeAndManga

** ''Anime/YuGiOhZEXAL'' has its AR Vision concept. The idea isthat instead of the projected hard-light holograms of earlier shows, the monsters are shown on an eyepiece worn by the characters that is linked to an AugmentedReality network, for something more realistic than the earlier approach. Unfortunately, this one causes even more plot holes than the old holograms, largely because the writers treat them the same way--among them being that people still flinch when these immaterial monsters are hit, and that the AR projections are visible to people like the Barians and Number Guardians, who have no possible way of being linked to the wireless network that lets people see them. It also raises the question of why seemingly everyone in the world (even Rokujuro, whose whole personality is being old-school) has switched to a new system that's much less technologically impressive than the old one--and if you consider later shows to be in the same canon as ''ZEXAL'', why everyone in the whole world then switched back.

* ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003'' ended with a NoEnding situation, leaving many questions and plot points unresolved. To fix this, a movie was made to wrap up the story called ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemistTheConquerorOfShamballa'', where in the big twist of the anime was that the GateOfTruth connects to ''our'' world during the events of World War 1. This reveal infamously fractured the fandom for years and has become a major negative point of the fandom due to how many questions it raises that could never be explained, as well as the sheer FridgeLogic forcing people to have to guess on what any of the implications even mean, such as how Alchemy even works if its connected to another world.

* It is revealed in ''Manga/{{The 100 Girlfriends Who Really Really Really Really Really Love You}}'' that Hakari’s mother gave birth to her at 13, because her boyfriend had a terminal disease and thus she underwent ''in vitro'' fertilization so they could have a family before her boyfriend died. But this just raises a bunch of questions, like “Since she was a minor, how did she get parental consent for this?” [[WorldOfNoGrandparents “What happened to her parents, anyway?”]] “What kind of doctor would perform this procedure on a 13-year-old?” “How did she acquire a sample of her boyfriend’s sperm to be inseminated with?” and “If the sperm was from a different donor, then what would be the point of all this?” Considering that TeenPregnancy is a thing that happens, OccamsRazor would mean there is no necessity for Hakari to have been a test tube baby for the plot to work.
* ''Anime/AttackOnTitan'' attempts to 'fix' the somewhat downer ending in the manga by making the buildings in the ending futuristic, thus changing the ending from Eren's plan failing within a few decades to Paradis surviving hundreds of years before getting obliterated by enemy forces. But this itself raises further questions. Why are the anti-aircraft defenses and planes shown of a WWII era design whilst the buildings are vastly beyond anything in the real world? How did the tree, which in the original manga was just not hit by conventional bombing, survive what is presented as weapons of a similar strength to nuclear bombs? Why is Paradis getting annihilated right now when it has been a titanless society for centuries, and thus no real reason exists for such utter annihilation, (when the original implied heavily that it was so brutally targeted for its genocide in recent memory.)
* ''Manga/AfterSchoolNightmare'': It's revealed at the end of the manga that all of the students are unborn children and that the reason they become {{Unperson}}ed after graduating the special class is because they're being born in the real world. In addition, it's revealed that Mashiro's struggles with their gender identity are actually because they're a pair of boy-girl twins struggling for possession of one life (with the boy ultimately dying so the girl can be born). This, of course, begs the question of how Kureha could've been raped as a child or how Sou could be in an incestuous relationship with his sister if neither of them had been born yet, or what those events could ''actually'' represent.

* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': When [[DragonWithAnAgenda Gin]] betrays Aizen near the end of the Arrcanar arc, a flashback reveals his reasoning for doing so was because he witnessed Aizen steal part of his childhood friend's (Rangiku Matsumoto) soul to feed to the Hōgyoku. Some viewers were confused by the scene though, as it doesn't get referenced in the manga again, and it never is made clear why Aizen would steal part of Rangiku's soul, making it look like a [[AbortedArc dropped plot point]]. ''Literature/BleachCantFearYourOwnWorld'' would reveal that Rangiku was actually a [[PiecesOfGod fragment]] of the PhysicalGod of the setting, the Soul King, and Aizen stole part of her soul to feed to the Hōgyoku when he discovered this. This created even more questions however, because such a reveal would seem to warrant her being more important, but she is mostly a minor character at the end of the day. If she was one all along, how come she was never found earlier, given she and Gin were living in the slums? How did Aizen learn she had a piece of the Soul King? How could Rangiku have such a big part of her soul removed and not know or remember? What part of the Soul King was she, given others who do carry part of him are explicitly tied to some body part?

** The Remnants of Despair in [[VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair the second game]] was a group of BrainwashedAndCrazy followers of the BigBad of the first game. How they got to this state is never completely explained, other than it involving the death of a friend, implying this was traditional brainwashing. ''Anime/Danganronpa3TheEndOfHopesPeakHighSchool'', tasked with actually showing this event and the events leading up to it went with a rather different approach. What's that approach? The BigBad has a brainwashing anime created by copying the talent of a previously unseen classmate whose life work was to make the most emotionally moving anime of all time via subliminal messages and mind control, although he never considered the moral implications of this. The ability to create this brainwashing anime by copying his talent is done in less than 30 seconds, when it took him a decade to get as good as he was. What was previously unexplained murder-based brainwashing now created an entire new plot hole: if [[spoiler:Junko]] had brainwashing anime this entire time, why not use it ever again? Sure, some instances can be handwaved via the explanation of [[spoiler:she's too horny for despair to care about logic]], but the stated point of the entire first game's [[spoiler:live broadcasting]] is to [[spoiler:plunge the bits of humanity still alive into despair.]] Which is what the brainwashing anime already does.
** Furthermore, the anime implicitly reveals the BigBad's secret true talent, which had been alluded to before, is the [[AwesomeByAnalysis Ultimate Analyst]], which can copy any talent. Only, if the Big Bad can do that, why aren't they remarkably more overpowered? One canon character has every talent, and he's presented as pretty much a science-made demigod which took almost eighty years of research to create, but the Big Bad could become just as powerful by copying all the talents at will. Despite this, it is shown that character outclasses the Big Bad, including in combat, despite him having amnesia and the Big Bad also copying the talents of Mukuro Ikusaba, the Ultimate Soldier, who was said to be so good in combat that she went into active war zones without getting a scratch. [[spoiler:Especially considering that Junko is Mukuro's sister and spent her whole life by Mukuro's side. Junko's even shown displaying that she can copy Mukuro's abilities by mere observation, or even just having Mukuro yell what to do. While Mukuro is also heavily outclassed by him, one of their classmates is the Ultimate Mixed Martial Artist, which should actually put her above Mukuro in combat skill. But she gets taken down in one second by a man whose sum total of memories are sitting in a room. She's also beaten one-on-one in [[VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc the first game]] by Kyoko Kirigiri, the Ultimate Detective despite this, which isn't seen but is a plot point. It's never said that the ability is temporary, and if it were it would put a further plot hole in Junko's motives]]. Basically, if the Big Bad really did have "every talent", it opens up another plot hole as to why they aren't on the giving end of a CurbStompBattle.
** Among the more infamous moments from the anime is when [[spoiler:Nagito Komaeda meets Izuru Kamukura and is nearly killed by him, in spite of the flashback set just before the events of the second game explicitally being when the the two first met]]. The final episode handwaves this away by explaining that [[spoiler:Izuru]] wiped the classes memory of him (with plans to do so to himself as well) so that their next encounter would be "more interesting". Except... why would he do that when he never even met them for an extended period of time? Why would he gain anything by wiping his own memories, meaning he wouldn't have an encounter to compare to? And why the hell would he even want to meet any of them when the only one of the class who mattered to him was [[spoiler:Chiaki, as a result of his past life as Hajime]]?

** The out-of-story reason why the main characters of ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' are no longer able to digivolve to ultimate or mega is that they can't upstage the new kids. This was weakly patched by the kids claiming halfway through the season that they'd gone back to the Digital World at some point and released their inner crest powers, claiming it was necessary to create a barrier or shield to maintain the world's balance. The problem is that said barrier or shield never actually seems to matter outside of that explanation. And the other problem is that the series had already introduced a 9th crest, still with full power, so they didn't even have the power of all the crests. And the other other problem is that the world was already reborn with restored balance at the end of the first season. And the kid's crests were already destroyed, with it being explicit that they no longer needed the crests to pull off higher evolutions...
** It goes far deeper than that though, when this explanation didn't go over well, the writers tried for a different one: the crest powers were used to awaken and free the Harmonious Ones that were sealed away by the Dark Masters. Not only does this explanation have the same problems as the first one, it has a whole host of new ones. To wit: the Harmonious Ones were resealed almost immediately after they were freed, making the sacrifice of the crests essentially pointless. And once one Harmonious Ones is freed again, he does exactly two things (besides exposition): Creates more destiny stones (which wouldn't have been needed if the original kids could still evolve past champion, as they would have never been destroyed), and give the older kids the ability to evolve again (which is basically fixing a problem he created). In addition, they never mention seeking out the other three, nor do they ever mention them again. And despite being a supposedly super powerful god, he never attempts to actually help the kids fight anyone. And one would have to wonder how PhysicalGod-tier Digimon were all bested and sealed away by the Dark Masters, who last season were thoroughly beaten by the Digidestined, and then resealed by the Digimon Emperor, who at the time couldn't even control [=MetalGreymon=].

** Has no-one ever heard of a condom? The series is implied to have occurred in a LostColony of Earth. Does this mean humanity somehow retained knowledge of advanced robotics, but not birth control, which real life humans have used for thousands of years? Even though condoms can break if used improperly, they're better than nothing. Even if Otome are sworn to chastity while active, a lot of the stress caused by the premise could be solved if non-virgins were allowed to become Otome in the first place.
** Why does no-one seem to think to weaponize this weakness? While rape is an obvious drawback to any VirginPower (which the series itself references), it would be easier to isolate the chemical, slip it into an Otome's food or drink, and neutralize them discreetly. No-one even discusses this.
** Why not just re-dose the nanomachines if they get knocked out? The chemical in sperm can't possibly stick around in the body ''that'' long.
** Has ''nobody'' tried to work on some way to counter the chemical? If people are willing and able to consider the Otome as walking weapons to the point [[FictionalGenevaConventions that there's a version of]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Arms_Limitation_Talks SALT]] for them, then ''someone'' would have figured out that finding a way to counter this chemical would give an advantage.
** There are several openly lesbian Otome seen during the series and no-one seems to care about their presence, and Situational Sexuality is considered perfectly normal among the trainees. Why not actively recruit gay or asexual women? Even if ''all'' the Otome aren't ace or lesbians, having a few with no interest in sex with men can help assure that they won't come in contact with the chemical.

** Someone connected to Luffy was thought to be dead for the longest time, but turns out to be alive and with the Revolutionary Army. This naturally brings up the question of why they didn't look for Luffy as he started gaining notoriety. This is explained by the character in question gaining amnesia and forgetting about Luffy until Ace's death. However, this raises even more questions. [[spoiler:Why did Sabo not look for Luffy in the two-year time skip after he got his memory back? How was Sabo even believed to be dead, when as an increasingly high-ranking member of the Revolutionary Army, his identity and bounty should've been public knowledge before Luffy even set sail? Furthermore, it was demonstrated that a lot of people connected to Luffy knew about Sabo, and that Sabo was Luffy's sworn brother. Sabo would absolutely talk to Robin about Luffy, knowing that she's on his crew. Garp knew the two were sworn brothers, and he almost certainly knew Sabo as one of Dragon's closest confidants. And Ace kept up on world events far more than Luffy did, so he must surely have either have heard about or met Sabo at some point. Which just brings up the biggest question this reveal introduced: why did none of these people just tell Luffy that his brother was still alive?]]

** Unlike the contemporary games which [[LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy took place on Earth]], ''Anime/SonicX'' has [[WorldOfFunnyAnimals Sonic's World]] as a separate dimension/planet from Earth, explaining why no [[ConservationOfDetail plot-relevant]] {{Funny Animal}}s appear in the games. This was fine until Shadow was introduced. It's never explained how 50 years ago humans were able to create an anthropomorphic hedgehog, that just so happens to look like Sonic's species at that, without knowing that Sonic's World existed.
** A similar and arguably even worse example is that, in order to explain why Eggman was the TokenHuman on Sonic's World and allow Gerald and Maria to still exist in Shadow's backstory, they reveal Eggman was actually born on Earth and lost his memory after coming to Sonic's. How this happened is never explained in the main series, but the tie-in comic would attempt to explain it was because Gearld sent him there. How exactly Gerald sent his grandson to another dimension and why he didn't do the same for himself and Maria is never explained. This is made worse when it's later revealed that Sonic's world functions on a YearOutsideHourInside system relative to the human world, which would mean less than ''five years'' passed relative to Maria's death and Gearld's imprisonment. Meaning Eggman either is seriously YoungerThanTheyLook, or he was unexplainably several decades older than his cousin Maria for no given reason.

* The explanation for why the Witches in ''Manga/StrikeWitches'' spend all their time bottomless except for a [[PantyShot pair of panties]] (or maybe a SchoolSwimsuit) is that using the Striker Units that attach to their legs requires contact with bare skin to function, and the Witches need to be combat ready at a moment's notice (and from there it simply became fashionable). None of this explains why A) wearing shorts or short skirts wasn't considered, since the Striker Units only go up as far as a pair of stockings normally would, or B) why two Witches can operate their Striker Units while wearing ''pantyhose''. The BigDamnMovie attempted to explain this as well by saying that witches in the setting's history have ''always'' worn their clothes like this, even in the past when they fought with more regular human soldiers, and it did in fact become a long-lasting fashion trend. Essentially the Striker Units were later designed around this, instead of the other way around, to keep the visual image intact. Of course, this then raises the question of how running around in your panties on the battlefield became a fashion trend to begin with, especially while the witches were hanging around a bunch of horny male soldiers. Naturally, there's never gonna be a good answer because the real one is just that ''Strike Witches'' is an {{Ecchi}}.

** In ''Duel Monsters'', the manga villain "The Ventriloquist of the Dead" is replaced with "The Imitator of Death", who disguises himself as Seto Kaiba's ghost. In the Japanese, it's never really stated whether or not he's a {{Shapeshift|ing}}er, or just a MasterOfDisguise. The English dub by Creator/FourKidsEntertainment tries to explain this by him actually ''being'' Kaiba, more specifically, his evil side, created as a result of Yami's "Mind Crush" penalty game, whom [[ArcVillain Pegasus]] freed from the Shadow Realm... which only raises several more questions: "How did he come to life in the first place if the whole point of Yami's Mind Crush on Kaiba was to ''destroy'' his evil side?" "Why was he sent to the Shadow Realm if he's just a LiteralSplitPersonality of Kaiba?" "Why has something like this never happened any of the other times Yami used Mind Crush?" "Why does he even have a separate form, much less one that looks ''nothing'' like Kaiba?"
** Most shows use either the excuse of friendly competition or ancient dark magic to explain why people feel the need to partake in the franchise's local AbsurdlyHighStakesGame, but ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'' takes place in a CyberPunk future, and for its first few arcs, mostly had neither. To facilitate the traditional "[[BadassBiker hero]] evades the DirtyCop on a motorbike" situations, they came up with the idea that the protagonists and cops ride D-Wheels, the series's infamous motorcycles, and that if a person begins a Duel, the D-Wheel locks itself to a given speed depending on the state of the Duel, and losing causes the D-Wheel to forcibly come to a stop. This means the cops can catch a person by challenging them to a Duel and beating them, and the person can escape by beating them... and in the process, raises a massive pile of questions. Just for starters, "Wouldn't a motorbike that pulls the brakes whenever it loses a game [[NoOSHACompliance be incredibly unsafe?]]", "Why don't criminals just remove the D-Wheel's ability to play the game and make themselves uncatchable?", "Why do the cops design their own motorbikes to stop? [[HonorBeforeReason Do they just want to play fair?]]", "If winning the game lets cops catch criminals, why don't they make cards for cops that just instantly win the game?", and "If they can reduce the speed of a criminal's motorcycle, why can't they make it stop dead?" For the most part, fans just shrug it off with RuleOfCool.
** ''Anime/YuGiOhZEXAL'' ran into a similar problem with its AR Vision concept. The idea was that instead of the projected hard-light holograms of earlier shows, the monsters were shown on an eyepiece worn by the characters that was linked to an AugmentedReality network, for something more realistic than the earlier approach. Unfortunately, this one raised even more questions than the old holograms, largely because the writers treated them the same way--among them being "if the monsters are immaterial, then why do people still flinch when they get hit?" and "If the AR projections are only visible to people linked to a wireless network, then why are they visible to people like the Barians or the Number Guardians, who have no possible way they could be linked to it?" It also raises the question of why seemingly everyone in the world (even Rokujuro, whose whole personality is being old-school) has switched to a new system that's much less technologically impressive than the old one--and if you consider later shows to be in the same canon as ''ZEXAL'', why everyone in the whole world then switched back.

* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Near the end of the Arrancars arc, when [[DragonWithAnAgenda Gin]] betrays the then BigBad Aizen, a flashbacks reveals his reasoning for doing so was because he witnessed Aizen steal part of his childhood friend's (Rangiku Matsumoto) soul to feed to the Hōgyoku. Some viewers were confused by the scene though, as it doesn't get referenced in the manga again, and it never is made clear why Aizen would steal part of Rangiku's soul, with some wondering if it was a [[AbortedArc dropped plot point]]. After the manga ended, the light novel ''Literature/BleachCantFearYourOwnWorld'' would reveal that Rangiku was actually a [[PiecesOfGod fragment/incarnation]] of the PhysicalGod of the setting, the Soul King, and Aizen learned of this and stole that part of her soul to feed to the Hōgyoku. This created even more questions however, because such a reveal would seem to warrant her being more important, but she is mostly a minor character. If she was one all along, how come she was never found earlier, given she and Gin were living in the slums? How did Aizen even find her? How could Rangiku have such a big part of her being removed and not know or remember? What part of the Soul King was she, given others who do carry part of him are explicitly tied to some body part?

** [[spoiler:Sabo, Luffy's sworn brother]] who was thought to be dead, turns out to be alive and with the Revolutionary Army. This naturally brings up the question of why he didn't [[spoiler:look for Luffy when he started gaining notoriety. This is explained by him gaining amnesia and forgetting about Luffy until Ace's death. However, this raises even more questions. Why did Sabo not look for Luffy in the two year time skip? After Robin has returned to the crew after two years of being with the Revolutionary Army, why did she not tell Luffy about Sabo? It is demonstrated that they know each other, and Sabo would absolutely talk to Robin about Luffy knowing that she is on his crew. Why did Garp not tell Luffy about Sabo? He knew the two were sworn brothers, and he almost certainly knew Sabo as one of Dragon's closest confidants. How was Sabo even believed to be dead, when as an increasingly high-ranking member of the Revolutionary Army, his identity and bounty should've been public knowledge before Luffy even set sail? How did Ace not know that Sabo was alive? He keeps up on world events far more than Luffy does.]]

** Furthermore, the anime implicitly reveals the big bad's secret true talent, which had been alluded to before [[spoiler:because of her amnesiac counterpart being able to learn anything nearly instantly]], the [[AwesomeByAnalysis Ultimate Analyst]], which is used to copy the talent to create the aforementioned brainwashing anime. Only, if [[spoiler:Junko]] can copy any talent, why aren't they remarkably more overpowered? One canon character has every talent and he's presented as pretty much a science-made demigod which took almost 80 years of research to create, but the big bad could become just as powerful by copying all the talents (or at least ones that aren't nearly useless). Despite this, it is shown that character outclasses the big bad incredibly, including in combat, despite him having amnesia and [[spoiler:her living the majority of her life with the Mukuro, the Ultimate Soldier, by her side and displaying that she can copy Mukuro's abilities by mere observation or even just having Mukuro yell what to do at her.]] While [[spoiler:Mukuro]] is also heavily outclassed by him, one of their classmates is the Ultimate Mixed Martial Artist, which should actually put [[spoiler:her above Mukuro]] in combat skill. But [[spoiler:she gets taken down in one second by a man whose sum total of memories are sitting in a room. She's]] also beaten one-on-one in [[VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc the first game]] by [[spoiler:Kyoko Kirigiri, the Ultimate Detective]] despite this, which isn't seen but is a plot point. It's never said that the ability is temporary, and if it were it would put a further plot hole in the big bad's motives, so how [[spoiler:she lost a fight where she was the only one armed]] makes no sense.

* Anime/AttackOnTitan attempts to 'fix' the somewhat downer ending in the manga by making the buildings in the ending futuristic, thus changing the ending from Eren's plan failing within a few decades to Paradis surviving hundreds of years before getting obliterated by enemy forces. But this itself raises further questions. Why are the anti-aircraft defenses and planes shown of a WWII era design whilst the buildings are vastly beyond anything in the real world? How did the tree, which in the original manga was just not hit by conventional bombing, survive what is presented as weapons of a similar strength to nuclear bombs? Why is Paradis getting annihilated right now when it has been a titanless society for centuries, and thus no real reason exists for such utter annihilation, (when the original implied heavily that it was so brutally targeted for its genocide in recent memory.)

* When ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' ended, the final chapter revealed Naruto had married Hinata, while Sasuke had married Sakura. As these pairings had not been properly addressed in the series, people had questions about how they ended up together, leading to ''Anime/TheLastNarutoTheMovie'' being made to specifically resolve it by revealing Naruto was ObliviousToLove towards Hinata, and that his crush on Sakura was only because of jealousy towards Sasuke, essentially LovingAShadow. The issue is that this doesn't line up with the details from the original story; Naruto had shown enough instances to know what romantic love was, even chewing out Sakura for a fake confession she gave him, and even asked his mother about how she met his dad, showing on some level he understood what romantic feelings were. His crush on Sakura was also genuine, since Part One had a scene showing him reacting sadly to Sakura tending to Sasuke in the hospital, showing he very obviously was jealous of Sasuke for it. If Naruto really was ObliviousToLove, why did he call Sakura out for a fake love confession, when he should have thought it was real by that logic, and then go on to still imply even during the final arc he had a crush on her? Why did he react to negatively to Hinata's seeming death at the hands of Pain right after she confessed to him, as Naruto and Hinata weren't super close, yet Naruto seeing her nearly die almost is the DarkestHour for his character? Furthermore, Naruto's ObliviousToLove moments were almost always created in filler or non-canon movies, yet now Naruto is supposedly ObliviousToLove as to opposed to just developing feelings for Hinata and naturally moving past his feelings for Sakura, which felt like it raised more issues than it should have.