Evolving Credits / Anime & Manga

Works with their own pages:

• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

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Individual examples:

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• Akuma no Riddle has a completely different ending for every episode, each corresponding to one of the students of class Black.
• The end credits of Aldnoah.Zero Season 2 end with a shot of Princess Asseylum lying comatose in a suspended animation tank. After she wakes up in Episode 7, the shot is changed to show her waking up, followed by the now-empty stasis tank.
• The opening of the anime adaptation of Amagi Brilliant Park gradually gets more and more crowded as the titular amusement park gains new employees over the course of the series.
• Angel Beats!:
  • The ending credits evolve with changes in the cast or relations among the characters, such as the removal of characters who move on, or a character who was revealed in that episode to be buff going shirtless in the credits.
  • The opening credits evolve as well. Like the ending credits, characters are added or subtracted from the opening as they are introduced to the cast, or they move on. Both the opening and ending of the final episode credits include ALL of the characters, even those who moved on very early in the series.
• Ascendance of a Bookworm: The final shot of the Season 3 ending includes puppet-like figures of Myne's family. Once Kamil is born, he gets his own puppet.
• Assassination Classroom: With the opening theme.
  • Irina and Ritsu appear in the first OP after their introduction in Episodes 4 and 9, respectively.
  • Episode 7 follows six students in a group during a field trip to Kyoto. The OP for that episode and the episode after that are sung by the voice actors of those six students instead of the ones who usually sing the theme tune.
  • Episode 18 overhauls the second OP's sequence with new images and animations of the characters in their summer uniforms as well as dancing on the beach in casual summer wear, highlighting the start of the summer break portion of the series.
  • Itona appears in the Season 2 opening from Episode 4 onwards, after losing his tentacles and joining Terasaka's gang in the previous episode.
  • Following the God of Death arc, the opening of Season 2 Episode 9 shows Irina after her Good Costume Switch, and the God of Death's maskless face.
  • The second OP of Season 2 (Episode 15 onwards) changes to show how many days the class has left to kill Koro-sensei.
• During the Opening song in the first episode of Attack on Titan, The Emblem of Wall Maria is shown with bright, clear colors. By Episode 4, the emblem is now shown with duller and darker colors. This seems to be an error, however, since the Blu-ray releases of every episode include the later version.
• In Back Arrow, both the opening and the ending add characters to them as they appear in the show. Most notable with the latter, with involves all of the important characters running through a field, with more appearing in subsequent episodes.
• Bakuon!!, similarly to the K-On example below, strategically inserts Chisame into the opening sequence following her introduction midway through the season.
• Best Student Council uses the "simple" revealing-silhouettes version.
• Black Clover has the Opening Narration talk about how the first Wizard King became a legend for defeating a demon and saving the kingdom. After his name is revealed and the fight is shown in detail, the narration changes to mention his name and show more in-depth visuals of the battle. After the Reincarnation Arc, which resolves the story of the first Wizard King, the narration changes to talk about Asta and his desire to become the Wizard King.
• The Bleach ending theme Haruka Kanata gives the spotlight to a different character every episode.
  • The same thing was done before with Houkiboshi, which gives the spotlight to one of the captains and their lieutenant (and sometimes, other members of that Gotei 13) each episode that ending theme was used.
  • While not exactly credits, the opening of the Fullbring arc of the anime changed as Ichigo's Fullbring evolved.
• BNA: Brand New Animal: The closing credits of the first five episodes show Michiru's best friend Nazuna in human form. At the sixth episode where she's revealed to have transformed into a fox beastman, the end sequence depicts her with her beast form for the rest of the series.
• Bodacious Space Pirates:
  • Its opening does this a couple times as new characters are introduced. One interesting example is that after Episode 18, Jenny is now shown in the wedding dress she wore in the prior two episdes as well as in a different pose and position.
  • Another example is with one of the commercial bumpers which shows the Space Yacht Club, where after Jenny graduates, the image no longer depicts her in it and the new members of the club are added.
  • The end credits originally showed only Marika, Chiaki, and Mami. Starting from Episode 13 onward, the sequence adds Gruier and Grunhilde to the group.
• In Btooom! Once the heroine starts opening up to Sakamoto they start holding hands in the OP.
• Brave Police J-Decker: Both the opening and ending get updated as more and more of the Brave Police members get introduced. The initial opening only features Deckerd and the three starting members of the Build Team, adding later Drillboy, Shadowmaru, Gunmax and Duke. In addition, the combination sequence of J-Decker is replaced by Fire J-Decker after Duke joins the team.
• Cardcaptor Sakura had Syaoran appear briefly in the opening credits only after he was introduced; the American version (even the subtitled version) used one set of credits for almost everything, missing this.
• In the anime adaptation of Chivalry of a Failed Knight, one shot in the opening sequence changes to foreshadow Ikki's next big fight every four episodes. Additionally, after Ikki and Stella become a couple in episode 4, a shot that originally has the two slide past each other reverses to have them come to face each other instead.
• The ending credits for the Clannad After Story anime features most of the cast walking in line one after the other. When Tomoya's grandmother is introduced in episode 18, she shows up in the ending. One episode later, and his father gets added as well, in the space behind Akio and Sanae. In the final episode, Fuuko and Ushio lead the line.
  • The episode title card also changes, showing the orbs of light collecting, and eventually the girl from the illusory world.
• The first two openings of Code Geass's first season added images of new characters and mecha after a few episodes (like a silhouetted shot of the revived Jeremiah in the latter half of the episodes using Kaidoku Funou).
  • R2's openings were much more static in who they showcased, though there's a minor example in how Shirley gets omitted in the back half.
• Cross Game does this very subtly. The heroine is from a family of four sisters who together are (in show) symbolized by a four leaf clover, which appears in the show's title logo. (See the image on the Cross Game page.) After the first episode, one of the leaves is faded, as the corresponding sister dies in the first episode. In the series finale, the leaf returns to full color once again, symbolizing that the cast have finally come to terms with Wakaba's death.
• Danganronpa: The Animation:
  • The ending pans out from a picture featuring Makoto Naegi and everyone who has died up to that point. Episode 10 onwards changes the picture to include all 15 students.
  • After the introduction of Genocider Sho, the opening slightly changes to show them as well.
• Both sides of Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School do this. In Side: Future, the opening slightly changes between episodes 1 and 2, adding colours to characters' potential deaths. It also includes the counter showing how many people are still alive. In Side: Despair, episode 1 opening only shows Nanami as a silhouette, only fully showing her starting from episode 2.
  • The Side:Despair opening changes again starting episode 6. The biggest change is that the formerly light and pastel color palette is much darker, resulting in everyone (sans Chiaki Nanami) having red eyes. There are several other changes, starting with the question mark being removed from the English phrase "Hello, Hope's Peak High School?." The part showing Kamukura and Hinata has Hinata being only a flickering image within the silhouette of Kamukura's hair, reflecting his personality having been surgically erased in order for him to become Kamukura. Finally, Nanami is seen smiling when she turns around, as opposed to the neutral expression she had in the previous version. There's also the grown-up version of Saionji.
• DARLING in the FRANXX:
  • Futoshi and Mitsuru swap their positions in the opening sequence from Episode 12 to Episode 14 to reflect them swapping their partners in the previous episode.
  • While a new animated sequence is used for the OP from Episode 16 onwards, "KISS OF DEATH" is still used as the OP song. Much like Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, though, this opening sequence uses the second verse and chorus instead of the first verse and chorus.
• Death Note:
  • In the first opening, Watari is in silhouette and trenchcoat until the series shows his true appearance. Although, curiously, L's much more mysterious and intriguing appearance DOESN'T get this treatment.
  • They also subvert the trope with Naomi Misora, showing her well before her introduction and for quite some time after her death.
  • Of course when it came time to adapt the second arc, the same second spoilerish opening was used even long after L and Watari's deaths and wasn't updated to give more focus to the "new" characters, perhaps foretelling the less focus that the second arc would get in the anime.
• The opening of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba features the nine members of the Hashira. For the first couple of episodes, only Giyu Tomioka is visible (since he appears in the first episode) while the other 8 members are shrouded in shadow. Once each of them make their first full appearances in future episodes, the opening updates by making them fully visible alongside Tomioka.
• In Devil Survivor 2: The Animation, dead characters are removed from the ending credits.
• Digimon:
  • Digimon Tamers and Digimon Data Squad feature these by unshadowing the higher level Digimon (and in the case of the latter two, unshadowing the Sixth Rangers) as the series progressed.
  • Digimon Fusion did a variant in its second opening - initially in the sequence where Shoutmon and Greymon warp through all their Xrossed forms the sequence stops at the point where Shoutmon X5 and DeckerGreymon form and switches to stock evolution footage to illustrate OmegaShoutmon and ZekeGreymon, padding it out slightly. When Shoutmon DX and Shoutmon X7 showed up, the stock footage was removed and the full "warp" sequence was played adding in Shoutmon DX and Shoutmon X7.
  • The opening of Digimon Adventure 02 was altered slightly partway through, switching and editing a couple of scenes to reflect the change in antagonists, Ken's Sixth Ranger Heel–Face Turn and the newfound availability of natural evolution. This was the only time the opening was changed, so it still managed to spoil the existence of both of Imperialdramon's forms...
  • A rare example of a translation doing this: the English dub of Digimon Adventure added Kari and the higher level digivolutions to the opening partway through the series.
• The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-chan's credits sequence changes subtly for episodes 10 to 13, to reflect the emergence of the other Yuki. When the original Yuki returns, the outro also reverts back, but instead of the sparkles escaping, Yuki manages to catch them.
• The opening for Dragon Ball Z Kai swaps out old footage for new action scenes whenever each new baddie shows up in the story. At first it focuses primarily on Vegeta and Frieza's men, then exclusively on Goku's fight with Frieza, and then changes to include the entire group fighting the Androids.
  • This is far from the first time Dragon Ball has used this trope. The original opening, Mystical Adventure, changes around the time of Piccolo Daimao, while the ending changes footage four times (the American release only uses one version for each throughout). Z's first theme, Cha-La Head Cha-La changes around the arrival of Vegeta and Nappa, and again at the beginning of the Artificial Humans arc.
  • Following in tradition, the intro to Dragon Ball Super involved two shots of Goku turning into the Super Saiyan God form (once as Shenron appeared in the background, once at the end.) At the start of the Golden Frieza arc, this changed to him attaining the blue Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan form. Shots of Frieza and his henchmen were also added in.
    • Continues with shots of the Universe 6 Team during the Universe 6 Arc and Trunks, Mai, Black and Zamasu during the Black Arc. The entire opening changes for the Universe Survival Arc. Even the Universe Survival Arc didn't come out unscathed as Majin Buu is replaced with Frieza in both the opening and in the version of the credits playing "Boogie Back".
• The end of Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai's first opening updates every arc and shows the party (plus Avan) with their current equipment.
• ef: A Tale of Memories eventually displays the pairings in the credits once the love intrigue was solved. While only shown in silhouette form you can see that Hiro ends up with Miyako and that Chihiro breaks from her chain which is a symbol for her having overcome, to some extent, the issues with her memory loss condition.
  • The trend continues with its sequel, A Tale of Melodies. In the final episode, Yuu breaks free from his crucifixion and Yuuko appears with angel wings.
• ERASED's opening changes significantly in Episode 11; most noticeably, Satoru is completely removed from the intro, leaving several shots that just show empty windows or walls, reflecting his apparent death at the end of the previous episode (actually a fifteen-year coma). The black bars over the eyes of various characters are removed, and three spider's threads appear above Sachiko, Airi and Kayo's heads to reflect Yashiro's opening narration, in which he describes seeing such threads hanging over the heads of his victims. The final episode adds Satoru back in again but keeps the other changes.
• The first opening and ending sequences in Eureka Seven Ao change the color of Ao's hair and the Nirvash in sync with their actual color changes in the series. As the series progresses the opening also adds an additional shot of Eureka - first with her back to the camera, then turning to face it.
• Fate Series: Fate/Grand Carnival uses the exact title sequence from its predecessor Carnival Phantasm ten years back, keeping the basic structure but changing characters/events to reflect the franchise's expanded universe in those ten years. It can be seen here.
• The credits of GA: Geijutsuka Art Design Class not only cycles between 5 versions of the ending song, but also has steadily changed over the course of the series with the girls getting older and their activities changing.
• GaoGaiGar:
  • The original TV series changes its credits every time a new robot gets added to the heroes' lineup.
  • GaoGaiGar FINAL changes its opening for every single episode to account for the changes in the storyline. The main reason they could do this was because FINAL is an eight-episode OAV, and would thus have the size and budget to do such a thing.
• In Girls und Panzer, the ending rotates through different girls and the tanks they operate. And in episode 5.5, it shows four of them side by side.
• In Granblue Fantasy, the last part of episode 13 replaces Gran with Djeeta, a woman who takes his place during said episode. Oddly enough, he still appears in the first half of the ending as well as the opening.
• Good Night World: The ending credits, which center around Pico, switch out her avatar for the doll the avatars of logged off players turn into after she gets deleted. The last episode, which shows that at least her "player" was restored, goes back to using her proper avatar.
• Gundam:
  • The second opening for Gundam SEED features the Freedom Gundam with its wings deployed in silhouette, many episodes before its debut. The third opening, which started playing at least a dozen of episodes before the Freedom's actual debut, has it launching from the Archangel's linear catapult and in a few action scenes with the Justice Gundam, which also did not get its debut until an episode or two after the Freedom's. Subsequently, in Destiny's first opening, the same scene shown in SEEDs second opening is shown again, this time without the shadowing.
  • Gundam SEED Destiny's second opening features shots of three future Gundams (Destiny, Strike Freedom, and Destroy) fighting one another in silhouette; by the time the third opening comes, all three have been revealed in-series, and thus the sequence returns sans shadowing.
  • After War Gundam X has a silhouette of the Gundam Double X showing up as it starts to influence the plot; the OP changes completely after it becomes Garrod's Mid-Season Upgrade. And then, it changes again one more time when the Leopard Destroy and G-Falcon make their debuts.
  • Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ has its first opening altered early on, dumping all of the Leave the Camera Running segments in favor of ZZ Gundam in action and replacing Mashymre Cello with Roux Louka in the cast group shot once they both appear.
  • Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans does this for its entire first season- the Barbatos's armor changes in time with its upgrades in the show, going from an emaciated, barely armored wreck to a mishmash of parts and finally to its fully armored completed form. Characters also enter (Naze and his girls, the different mobile suits the kids collect as they go) and leave (Fumitan most notably) in accordance with their introductions and exits. The gimmick is unfortunately absent from season 2.
  • The Witch From Mercury's first opening adds the looming silhouettes of the Gundams Lfrith Ur and Lfrith Thorn to the shot of Big Bad Delling Rembran starting from the seventh episode and by the eleventh episode entirely replaces Delling and a subsequent shot of Lady Prospera with Sophie and Norea, the two Gundams' pilots.
• The opening of GUN×SWORD silhouettes everyone who hasn't yet shown up in a sort of violet-blue aether, and everyone and everything who has been killed or destroyed in solid black shadow. The end credits do something similar, showing various "casual" pictures of major characters. In the beginning, they're all of Van and Wendy; as the cast expands, pictures of the newcomers replace various shots in the montage.
• Handa-kun's ending adds characters to the lineup as they're introduced in-episode. Additionally, Episode 8 shows Ichimiya and his gang, and in the final episode the previously-transparent supporting characters are fully-colored and stay until the end, reflecting how they've finally connected with Handa.
• The first line of Hello!! Kiniro Mosaic's intro changes from episode to episode, with either one girl singing it, or the main five girls singing it.
• Halfway through the series, the opening of Higurashi: When They Cry Kai added two scenes with and without Hanyuu near the end and slightly modified another to reflect a very important event that had just occurred. A variation from the same intro was a playback to the gory, Poor Communication Kills time (Rena's machete) being replaced with a scene where the connection was fixed. It's a variation since it was due to censorship.
• Himouto! Umaru-chan's outro depicts the four main girls frolicking at the beach. They spend most of the final episode doing exactly that, and the episode ends with Taihei suggesting that they visit the mountains next time. The final episode's credits sequence duly depicts the four main girls frolicking in the mountains instead.
• Idolmaster: Xenoglossia's second opening, after Yukiho Hagiwara is revealed to be The Mole, the shot of her towards the end of the opening is changed from her wearing her school uniform to wearing the outfit she has after The Reveal.
• Inazuma Eleven:
  • The first anime opening goes through some changes starting with episode 19, mostly to ilustrate Kidou's transition from a member of Teikoku and Kageyama's underling (being replaced by Zeus' captain Aphrodi in this scene) to a member of Raimon. Domon and Ichinose are also added in the opening for the first time, although the former joined the protagonist's team as early as episode 5.
  • Orion no Kokuin has a habit of changing its opening and ending themes every time a new member joins Inazuma Japan.
• In Infinite Stratos (pictured in the main page), the ending credits change as more girls are introduced; the most significant change is that since the ending theme is sung by these girls' voice actors, the song progressively gets more and more complex as the verses get distributed between more voices. It also hints at how close the girls are to Ichika, the main male protagonist, and the closer the girl is to him in that episode, the closer they're running behind him during the ending credits. In hindsight, the ending credits have a stealth spoiler in the form of Charl who appears in the credits right after her introduction... even though it takes a few more episodes to reveal her real gender (and when that happens, her appearance in the credits changes accordingly). The spoiler comes from the fact that aside from Ichika, everyone else who appears in the credits is a girl.
• In the Heart of Kunoichi Tsubaki: With both the opening and ending sequences:
  • Rindou is added to the title card◊ in the opening after her introduction in Episode 6.
  • The ending song is given a different rendition each episode, each sung by one of the twelve teams, and later the entire Akane Class in the final episode.
• Inukami! has its endings show where the cast is currently living.
• The cards displayed in the endings of Is the Order a Rabbit? anime vary slightly, and adds more girls as they're introduced in the show.
  • In episodes 8 and 9, it switches from blue to red cards about halfway through, and displays multiple cards at once instead of one at a time. Additionally, at the end of 8, instead of Chino's father and Tippy at the end, it's Aoyama and Tippy. He doesn't say anything, and instead just turns around and notices it's not his son.
  • In episode 10, it reverts back to the original ending, though it doesn't always shows face cards initially. A couple of cards then drop on top of it until one of the correct cards is seen, then the rotation begins again, until a set of Royal Straight Flush with two Jokers (containing all girls) is completed. Chino also pops up at the next episode preview when Tippy mentions wanting a quiet Christmas to announce they were throwing a Christmas party next episode.
  • During episode 11's ending, the red and blue cards are shown simultaneously, along with the face of the cards on a third deck. After a short while only one card is seen, and it rotates between the face cards with the various girls on them. Additionally the background is Christmas-themed and switches images occasionally.
• Jujutsu Kaisen's first opening, Kaikai Kitan, has a scene with a few characters having a picnic. As more characters are introduced throughout the show, more characters are added to the picnic (barring villains and a couple others, usually less noteworthy characters). The scene eventually comes to resemble Claude Monet's Luncheon on the Grass.
  • The scene initially starts with Yuji, Gojo, Megumi, and curiously enough, Junpei, who doesn't get introduced until much later.
  • Episode 3 adds Yaga and Nobara.
  • The second years Maki, Inumaki and Panda are added in Episode 6 along with Ijichi and Ieri. Nobara's position is also moved, with a slightly different pose.
  • Filling out the rest of the painting in Episode 9 are Nanami and Todo. It's also worth mentioning here that a different scene earlier, with Gojo slowly removing his blindfold before cutting out, has him finally revealing his eye in full.
  • A final change occurs in Episode 13, the last time Kaikai Kitan is used; Yuji is shown with tears in the end, after Junpei's death at Mahito's hands.
• Kaguya-sama: Love Is War:
  • The ending for Season 2 initially keeps Iino's face hidden during her close-up, but she turns to face Kaguya like everyone else following her formal introduction in episode 4. Episodes 9 and 11 would further change it, first by making Iino smile, and then Ishigami following suit.
  • The opening of Season 3 features a scene where Kaguya is standing with her back to Shirogane with a closed hand held in front of her. In episode 12 she opens her hand, revealing the heart pendant she plans to give Shirogane for her love confession.
• Karin's opening avoids this by having a character who hasn't been introduced yet be seen only in a silhouette until after their first full episode as part of the cast, although their rather unique form makes it hard not to guess who it is when they first appear...
• Strangely averted in the opening credits for the anime version of Kekkaishi. The credits change to add shots of either enemies or allies relevant to whatever arc the episodes take place in, but always showcased Shishio Gen far before he even made an appearance and even after he is Killed Off for Real.
• Kemono Friends' opening fills in silhouettes of the characters as they appear.
• Kill la Kill's second opening changed to show the characters' various wardrobe changes.
• In K-On!, upon the addition of Azusa to the Light Music Club, she is super-imposed into several scenes, as well as her very own character introduction, in the OP. Yet strangely, the keyword here is 'several', since she doesn't appear together with the other 4 club members in all the scenes where all the other 4 club members are present. Also, the opening theme song is modified slightly, with additional guitar bits and one more backing vocal mixed in.
• Laid-Back Camp: Rin's gradual warming up to Nadeshiko can be seen in the opening credits through her messages with Nadeshiko. From episodes one to seven, Rin's reply is "No". Episode eight to eleven has her respond "I'll consider it", and in the finale, she answers, "sure".
• Little Busters!: Near the beginning of the first set of credits, there's a shot of each of the childhood friends standing together. In episode 15, after the last main character finally joins the Little Busters for real, the shot is changed to one of all of the characters standing together. Also, while the original credits were pretty upbeat, the new credits add in some darker shots of Kud and Haruka looking sad, reflecting the way the story starts off seeming bright and happy and then slowly goes downhill.

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• The opening of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's ends with shots of the various Devices used in the season. When the last episode rolls around, we see the Durandal and Schwertkreuz take the places of S2U and the Book of Darkness in the opening due to the events of the previous episode.
• Magical Girl Raising Project: Swim Swim's silhouette is initially pure black instead for her eyes in the opening for the first episode of the anime adaptation, gradually revealing her features and attire more clearly as the series goes on.
• In the penultimate episode of Magic of Stella, the characters' RPG-style stat screens in the intro change to show them "levelling up". Comically, one of Yumine's stat levels changes to an incomprehensibly long hexadecimcal value.
• In Season 2, Episode 10 of Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury, the intro changes to include a shot of Aerial docked into Quiet Zero. In Episode 11 it changes again to include a shot of Schwartzette, and Suletta piloting Calibarn instead of Aerial.
• Moldiver replaces the central figure in its credits once it becomes clear in the story who the real hero is.
• Monster uses what seems to be illustrations from a children's picture book for the first ending theme. These gradually change over the course of the series. The series remix album contains what appears to be a reading of the actual story.
• Monster Girl Doctor, changes Illy's appearance in the opening after she molts into her adult feathers and becomes more colorful.
• In Monster Musume, the final episode adds Lala to the final shot of the harem cuddling Kimihito in bed. Kimihito's expression also changes from stunned to serene, showing how he's gotten used to having the girls around. Comparing the original shot◊ to the one in the final episode◊ also reveals a conspicuous Animation Bump, just like the rest of the episode.
• The first ending to My Bride is a Mermaid consists of a still shot of the characters in a karaoke booth that gradually zooms out. It starts out with only a few characters but gets increasingly crowded as more and more characters are introduced in the series and subsequently added to the mayhem. The ending was also reused for the series' final episode, and added in everyone who had been introduced since the original ending theme had last been used.
• The first two endings of My Hero Academia have a small change after a few episodes each. Both times, the change involves school uniforms: in the first ending Izuku changes from his middle school uniform to the Yuuei one, while in the second one everyone starts wearing summer uniforms (no jacket and short-sleeved shirt).
• The first season of My Wife is the Student Council President did this with the opening and closing credits. The opening featured a short message that was shown in a different language each time, as well as two brief montage sequences, one briefly recapping the previous episode and one showing a glimpse of what's to come in this episode. The end credits depicted Ui running through a generic platform game level, with each episode's sequence roughly following on from the previous one.
• Naruto is particularly fond of this in its many openings.
  • The fourth opening changed midway through to include characters from the Search for Tsunade arc- for example, the wall painting also includes Anko (who'd debuted in the Chunin Exam arcs), Shizune and Tsunade, while the action shots include the jonin instructors fighting Itachi and Kisame, as well as Naruto fighting Kabuto. The first version ends with Naruto throwing a punch, while the second version shows him using the Rasengan.
  • The fifth opening changes midway through, swapping out the dead Jirobo and Kidomaru for Kimimaro, showing the Sand Siblings among the main characters' allies, and instead of showing Lee and Guy crying together, shows them training, since Lee's surgery was successful.
  • The first opening for Shippuden changed after the reintroductions of Team Guy and the Sand Shinobi, as well as the introduction of Chiyo. The fourth opening recycled scenes from the third for a while until that season's Big Bad was ready to make her entrance.
  • Technically, the scenes from when Asuma, Shikamaru, Izumo and Kotetsu fight Hidan and Kakuzu in the third opening were most likely supposed to be originally part of the fourth opening, given that they flow better with the fourth song and the animation, and were included to show that the show had moved past the filler arc.
  • The fourth opening also changes midway through, replacing the aforementioned fights with Hidan and Kakuzu with fights against the villains of the Three-Tails arc.
  • Later, the second version of the fifth Shippuden opening transitions from Orochimaru staring at Sasuke as the curse mark spreads at him to Sasuke killing Orochimaru after he does, and includes the members of Team Snake.
    • Cartoon Network/Toonami's openings did not follow this format, and always kept the first step of the Evolving Credits as the opening for that season.
• NEEDLESS has a small one in the second intro — a shot of Simeon's fourth strongest removing their mask cuts away before you get to see the face until the big reveal happens a few episodes later.
• The anime of Negima! Magister Negi Magi does this with the opening. Apart from the song change every 5 episodes or so, the girl's bathing suits occasionally change colours. Negima!? plays the trope straight in the ending. The further the show goes, the more characters appear at the bottom-right and play music instruments. When Setsuna joins in, she sleeps in halfway into the song, only to wake near the end and become red like a hummer out of shame.
• In the first season of Nisekoi, Tsugumi and Marika are only shown in silhouette (though their hair decorations are detailed) in the opening until their introduction. The pan of the main cast across a starry field also adds more characters as they're introduced.
• In each of its four seasons, Ojamajo Doremi updated its opening (and changed its eyecatches) midway through the season to reflect changes from about that point in the storyline.
• One Piece:
  • The So Bad, It's Good 4Kids opening updated the song every time a new character was introduced in the crew. By the time Chopper was in, there was almost no space in the song for another character (as the last verse said "Sanji is cooking, Chopper is doctoring"). For the very few 4Kids episodes that had Robin in the crew, all they did was add a shot of Robin into it and reverted the song back to version one.
  • Oddly, most of the openings from the original Japanese version have never done this, even when they got horribly out of date. The second intro, for example, continued featuring only five members in the crew for dozens of episodes after they had added two more (Vivi and Chopper.) What's odd is that an evolved version of the second opening featuring the two of them (along with characters from the Alabasta storyline) does exist, but it never aired on television: it was only used as the intro to a PlayStation game.
  • And then they went ahead and inverted this trope with the third intro, which spoils the fact that Vivi leaves the crew and Robin joins them a good 10 or so episodes before this happens. Somewhat justified in that most Japanese fans already knew this was coming from reading the manga, though.
  • One Piece finally acted on this trope with the thirteenth opening, One Day, which, after Blackbeard's new crewmembers were revealed, they are all briefly shown alongside him.
  • The 19th opening also makes use of this trope, obscuring Edward Weevil from the Seven Warlords of the Sea shot before his proper introduction in an episode. After Raizou the ninja's first episode, he starts appearing in the Wano warriors shot as well.
    • Also, Zunisha (the elephant that carries Zou) gradually becomes more visible.
  • Opening 20 has a sequence where Sanji wears a long red cape that flows in the wind. After three episodes, it is changed so that the cape becomes a frame for brief scenes of Sanji and Luffy's fight. This opening also shadows the portraits of the ministers Katakuri, Smoothie, Compote, Daifuku and Oven until their debut on the show.
  • Opening 21 also did this, shadowing characters with major moments namely Carrot's Su Long transformation, Katakuri's mouth, Luffy's Snakeman form, and Big Mom looking slim until they appeared in the show proper.
• Outlaw Star has a subtle change starting with episode 18: The shot of the three female leads on a bed, instead of having them all facing different directions, shows Aisha and Suzuka holding Melfina, who's looking at the camera and smiling.
• Penguin Musume, a web anime, deserves a mention for having its opening evolve weekly. What started off as simple Flash animation eventually evolved into an opening with actual animation and some pretty nifty battle sequences.
• Persona 4: The Animation has one of its credits animations, starting from the second episode. The credits sequence involves several Persona cards that are glowing white on one side. As the show progresses, the Tarot symbols start appearing instead of the blank space.
• Zig-zagged by Persona 5: The Animation. The first opening shows the first six Phantom Thieves right off the bat, including Makoto, who doesn't awaken her Persona until just before the switch to the second intro. The second opening doesn't include Futaba and Haru until after their awakenings, but Haru does get added to the closing sequence an episode early, since she's already technically a Phantom Thief at that point.
• The Pet Girl of Sakurasou: As of Episode 9, Ryuunosuke becomes more visible in the opening (changing from being seated and hiding behind his laptop with a bucket on his head to standing up and not moving during the clapping sequence) and replaces Maid in the ending, on top of being added to said ending's running sequence.
• ED example: Gainax anime Petite Princess Yucie changes scenes of the ending sequence to showcase the full cast of all the candidate girls finally revealed, also changing the lyrics a bit. It reverted back to the original sequence with Yucie solo in a very particular episode foreshadowing Yucie's memories becoming lost in the final episode as the girls wish to cease existence, leaving her alone, for her sake. Of course, they all get better in the end thanks to the magical Sparkling Stream of Tears and The Power of Friendship.
• Planetes uses this trope extensively, always according to the mood and current plotline. For instance, showing different secondary cast members (or, in one case, in different clothes to show their changing allegiances,) showing an explosion on the moon, a floating compass, or progressively adding color to a sequence that starts out in black and white. Most tellingly, Hachimaki's encounter with his somber "Astronaut" persona during the Opening Sequence becomes increasingly important and denotes his current state of mind.
• Isla's expression at the very end of Plastic Memories' intro sequence changes from episode to episode to reflect the current state of her relationship with Tsukasa. It's subtle at first, but becomes more noticeable later on, and leads to a massive Tear Jerker in the last episode where she smiles at Tsukasa while starting to cry, in acknowledgement of her impending shutdown.
• Pokémon: The Series:
  • Most late openings and endings of have had updates to reflect any changes to a main character's current team, making this a case of literally evolving credits.
  • Additionally, high-ranking opponents in later seasons, such as Gym Leaders and the Elite Four, are shown in silhouette until Ash manages to meet and overcome them.
  • The best example of this was the fourth Advanced Generation opening, Battle Frontier. Each of the Frontier Brains were shadowed in the opening, becoming unshadowed when Ash meets them. This also carried over into the next opening, Spurt!, where the remaining Brains were unshadowed upon appearing. A small gallery of the times the Battle Frontier opening updated its animation can be found here
  • The "Battle Frontier" opening also updated its animation not to reflect on the current team, but serve as a Dualvertisement for Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team, as there is one shot that mimic that game's cover art. This is notable becase the anime rarely promotes spin-offs, if at all.
  • Best Wishes tops all of them; it features Pikachu running around a black and white field past many Pokemon in silhouette; after those Pokemon are seen in the show, the Pokemon are revealed in the opening.
• Prétear's symbolic Anime Theme Song's standards are met in the final few episodes where the opening was touched up a bit, adding sound effects, and replacing one scene at a very specific part during the Theme Tune revealing Mikage to become the Princess of Disaster and her ultimate connection with Himeno, as the former Pretear herself.
• Very common in the Pretty Cure franchise:
  • The second half of Futari wa Pretty Cure had the ending changed to feature the new Quirky Miniboss Squad instead of the old one and to include Pollun along with Mipple and Mepple.
  • Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash★Star's opening changed to include Cure Bright and Cure Windy.
  • Yes! Pretty Cure 5 added Milk and her upgrades after they appeared.
  • Fresh Pretty Cure!'s opening added Cure Passion and remixed the theme.
  • HeartCatch Pretty Cure! had three openings, the second adding Cure Sunshine and the third added not just Cure Moonlight, but Coupe in the battle scene as well.
  • Suite Pretty Cure ♪ adds Cure Beat and, like Fresh, remixed the theme.
  • Doki Doki! PreCure adds Cure Ace. Similarly, Glitter Force Doki Doki also added Glitter Ace to its intro.
  • Go! Princess Pretty Cure has some element of the opening changed or updated nearly every episode to reflect previous events. The halfway point has the most noticeable overhaul, with the addition of Cure Scarlet and the switch to the song's second verse.
  • Maho Girls Pretty Cure! adds Cure Felice and, again, remixes the theme.
  • KiraKira★Pretty Cure à la Mode opening adds Cure Parfait.
  • HuGtto! Pretty Cure adds Cure Amour and Cure Machiere. In addition, as virtually all of the villains except Listol have undergone a Heel–Face Turn by the halfway point, they are replaced by another group of villains.
  • Hirogaru Sky! Pretty Cure adds Cure Wing and Cure Butterfly's civilian forms into several shots and also change the general shown to whoever is the active one is.
• Being by Studio SHAFT, it shouldn't be much of a surprise that Puella Magi Madoka Magica does this. Mostly pretty small changes, though. The only one the average viewer is likely to catch is Kyouko and Homura finally being added to the group shot in episode 10.
• The first version of the opening for Puzzle and Dragons X has Ace and Lance doing a Team Power Walk. The second version includes Sonia, Garnet, and Charo. By Episode 10, Tiger is included.
  • The new version of the second opening in Episode 33 implies a Darker and Edgier tone.
• The Quintessential Quintuplets: While the opening remains the same, Season 2's ending from episode 6 onwards shows Nino with short hair, reflecting her Important Haircut that marks her Character Development.
• In the opening sequence of the Humongous Mecha anime RahXephon, the title mecha was shown as a silhouette with glowing eyes until a few episodes in. It changes again around halfway through the series to reflect the results of the Mid-Season Upgrade and a few other plot developments.
• Reborn! (2004) switched up its first opening early on in its run, replacing the goofy antics of baby Lambo and I-Pin with action shots of Tsuna fighting against the Kokuyo trio — a sign that things were going to get more serious.
• Played with for the posters of the Rebuild of Evangelion series, with each poster appearing almost exactly the same, except with each new poster, new characters are added. For example, the poster for Evangelion 1.0 features Shinji, Rei, Toji, Kensuke, Hikari, and Kaworu. The poster for Evangelion 2.0 features everyone from the first poster, plus Asuka and Mari.
• The opening of RO-KYU-BU! SS changes the numbers of the fifth graders twice, reflecting how they are standing in the season. For example, Mimi starts out with the number 33, but when the Fifth-Grader Team is complete, the opening changes her number to 4 and then later to 10 after the fifth graders and sixth graders unite together.
• The anime adaptation of Run with the Wind changes some of the visuals of its second ending after Episode 17. Initially, there are Deliberately Monochrome shots of the Kansei University track team members looking pensive and troubled. From Episode 18 onwards, this is replaced by shots of the characters all facing the sun with confident looks on their faces, and it's all in full color. This is the episode where the team begins their long-awaited Hakone Ekiden race.
• Sailor Moon:
  • A classic example is the original anime, where the early opening only showed three Senshi (before the other two were introduced). The original Japanese edition even had two subtypes of that first opening: before Sailor Mercury was introduced, it had minor differences like the color of the inside of Tuxedo's cape and the three Senshi not removing the veils. From episode 27 onwards a completely different opening was used, now including all five girls, as well as a completely different ending, complete with a new theme.
  • Sailor Moon R did the complete opening replacement as well, introducing Chibiusa and the Black Moon Clan halfway through. (Interestingly, the two openings do not correspond to the two story arcs of the season in terms of timing, the switch occurs way after Chibiusa's initial appearance.)
  • Sailor Moon S, SuperS and Stars do a less radical version of this trope, only altering part of the same opening sequence to introduce new characters. S pulled off three versions of the credits, first introducing Uranus and Neptune after they stopped hiding, and later adding Chibimoon, Hotaru and Super Sailor Moon. SuperS replaced the Amazon Trio with the Amazones' Quartet once the latter group took over the task. Stars showed Sailor Starlights as silhouettes until the end of the first arc, which focused on wrapping up the plot of SuperS; along with Starlights, the second version of the opening introduces Galaxia.
  • Sadly, the Geneon uncut DVD release of S and SuperS ignores this and uses the final versions of the opening sequences from the start, spoiling future characters' appearances. Stars was spared due to never getting an official release.
  • Sailor Moon Crystal's intro changed slightly starting with Episode 15, to reflect the new Black Moon arc. The Dark Kingdom members were replaced with the Black Moon members, and a shot of Queen Serenity in the Moon Castle was replaced with shots of Chibi-Usa and Sailor Pluto.
• The opening animation for (Zoku) Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei starts off as projected black-and-white film and gradually gets darker and lower-quality. Floating kanji and a border are also added to the falling sequence. Near the end of the series, the opening gains color during the falling sequence, but the film tears on the projector before getting any farther. The last episode finally has the entire opening in full, gaudy Technicolor with added animation.
• School-Live! changes several times. In the first episode the school is shown intact, with no references to the true nature of unfolding events. From episode 2, there is progressively more damage and disturbing imagery. Episode 8 makes it less of a case of Bait-and-Switch Credits by adding zombies into certain scenes. It also puts Taroumaru on a leash in a certain scene, changes Kei in the intro, changes the photographs shown at the end, changes the background when Yuki is running to show everything is run-down, changes the color of the sky to a darker tone in several sceneshas some transition changes, and removes Megu-nee from the intro after The Reveal that she has been Dead All Along along with putting a grave where she normally is. Episode 10 changes it further. Taromaru has been almost entirely removed from the intro as he is now a zombie and at the logo he is the only one walking very slowly and uncharacteristically unexcitable at that. Megu-nee's scene is changed again to show her as a zombie.
• s-CRY-ed does this so much that there is perhaps one case of the title sequence being re-used without changes in the whole 26-episode series. (Apart from spoiler-based changes, there is also sepia-fading of deceased characters and 3 different main versions for three different verses of the theme tune depending on which of the main characters had the story focus that episode.) The Special Edition DVD set has the option to watch just the opening sequence of each episode.
• Seiyu's Life! combines the ending with recap, trailer, and karaoke sing along for a verse of other Anime opening and ending songs.
• Every episode of Shimoneta adds more characters to Ayame's dance. From episode 4 onwards, the shadow figure during the credits is revealed to be Anna. Additionally, the third "bubble" filter picture in the credits changes to whichever character was introduced in that episode.
• In Shirobako, the second ending credits has five versions, each of which adds an additional member of the main quintet to the final illustration.
• Sketchbook changes part of the OP and ED depending on the primary cast of the episode.
• The third-to-last shot of Space Patrol Luluco's opening changes between seasons (read: every three episodes). In first season it's just Luluco. The second season adds Midori and Nova. The third season has all three of them in their uniforms. The fourth season adds Lalaco standing on some junk and Hisho wheeling around Over Justice, with Luluco removed entirely for episode 11. Each season also changes the color of the text and the speed lines (Red → Green → Blue → Yellow ).
• Every few episodes of SSSS.GRIDMAN, the opening scenes change.
  • Starting from Episode 2, the Neon Genesis group, their forms, and the opening's ending sequence are included.
  • Anosilius the 2nd appears just before the chorus episode 4 onwards.
  • Gridknight replaces the Neon Genesis group in their part after the chorus, and the dropped utility knife is bloodied following Episode 10.
• The final episodes of The Girl Who Leapt Through Space involve Leopard gaining the final parts needed to bring him to full strength. The openings of these last episodes, as a result, show Leopard with these upgrades attached in the final seconds.
• A few things in The World is Still Beautiful's opening changes as episodes progress:
  • It initially just features Nike wandering around a seemingly empty royal palace. Each episode after that adds more people to the opening — starting with Livius and Neil — after the episode they're introduced.
  • Starting from Episode 4, Nike wears one of her frilly princess dresses instead of her usual casual pink dress, probably to indicate she's grown accustomed to her new home.
  • After Bardouin becomes a fixed character, he is also added in the scene where Livius has his Glowing Eyes Of Doom, to indicate he too also became a bit more cynical after Sheila's death and the war.
• The opening of Steins;Gate evolves a few episodes from the end of the series, with the lyrics changing to match the change in plot. The animation also has very subtle differences, only noticeable if one really focuses.
• The opening of Stella Women’s Academy, High School Division Class C³ changes a few episodes in to reflect Yura's Important Haircut and her new, more outgoing personality.
• In Sword Art Online II, episode 6 changes the close-up on Death Gun's pistol to a close-up of his wrist, which bears the Laughing Coffin logo.
  • The second opening of Sword Art Online II starts with a focus on "Caliber" characters, it evolves midway to focus on "Mother's Rosario" characters.
  • The second opening of Sword Art Online: Alicization evolves to focus on which enemies Kirito & Eugeo will be facing as they climb the Central Cathedral. The first version features Deusolbert, Fanatio, Alice and Bercouli. The second version features the Sword Golem and Quinella.
  • The first opening of War of Underworld evolves to show Asuna with her Stacia avatar, showing her in the battle with a few different characters amongst the Knights of Integrity. Meanwhile, the second opening evolves first to show Kirito's Super Natural Gold Eyes (coinciding with the episode where he finally wakes up from his coma), and later to show Gabriel's One-Winged Angel form in better detail (the first two versions only showed him as a shadow silhouette, while the final one shows him with Tron Lines).
• takt op. Destiny: The closing credits depict Takt and Anna on a road trip with Cosette. Around episode 8, which deals with Takt and Anna dealing with the loss of Cosette, Cosette is replaced with Destiny.
• The opening to Tenchi Muyo! GXP shows four characters as silhouettes. The first three are obviously Tenchi, Ryoko, and Ayeka from the original series, who are revealed in the openings of the two episodes that feature them. The fourth is a new character who is revealed after her first appearance in the second half of the series.
• In Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, the initial opening and the post-Time Skip opening. The latter changes the first verses of the theme song; the former, meanwhile, replaces Kamina with Nia after his death, and shows Simon tying a Red Armband of Leadership on his arm.
• The Idolmaster: All the ending sequences are completely different.
• Tokyo Mew Mew is a strange case. It does get an update after all five girls become Mew Mews, but it's really only some minor animation details and clips of their attacks that change. What's more, the original opening was fairly spoilerific itself: it revealed who Ichigo's teammates would be, the first villain Kisshu and that he kisses Ichigo.
• The many Japanese Transformers shows are fond of this trend, updating whenever new characters are shown in the series, and typically having at least two opening videos per series.
  • Special recognition goes to the Galaxy Force series, which in addition to constantly evolving opening credits as new characters get added to the cast also features evolving end credits throughout the series. The first half frames clips from the episode just shown as flashbacks of one of the main characters, while the second half shows all the cast with characters who have yet to show up shown in silhouette only.
  • Also, the Japanese opening for Transformers: Animated, in which in the first opening, we see Megatron in his Cybertron mode attacking the Autobots with the help of the Starscream clones, while in the second, they now use the second verse of the opening theme song not to mention the fact that the aforementioned animation with Cybertron-mode Megatron and the Starscream clones has been replaced with a new animation showing Megatron in his Earth mode attacking the Autobots with the help of two Soundwaves (the second Soundwave is a different color), two Blackouts (the second Blackout is supposed to represent Grindor), and Swindle.
  • They're basically a reversal of the usual intent of this trope. Instead of revealing characters one by one, characters who won't be seen for a very long time appear, and some one-shot characters are given screentime to make you think they were as important as Prime himself. Both openings are a thing of beauty, with catchy songs, but they're on crack when held up against the actual events of the show.
  • Just to go into the already-mentioned examples: the black-and-red Soundwave represents the real Soundwave's virtual world avatar, not another character. Also, Grindor is not in TFA at all ^note Okay, long after the fact, a Grinder (with an E) who is colored nothing like Blackout (unlike Blackout's 100% identical twin in the opening) does appear in a card game. and the two Blackouts are perfectly identical (unlike movie Grindor, a blue-gray repaint of movie Blackout) so he is a second Blackout, not Grindor. In the actual show, Blackout appears for all of 20 seconds in the opening scenes of the third season premiere. He gets one line. He doesn't even appear in the virtual world alongside most of the rest of his team. Also, Swindle is a solo operator who'll sell arms to anyone, and is only considered a Decepticon because his toy's gotta be sold as something, and he sure ain't no Autobot, and makes little sense as someone to have alongside Megs. This is by no means the full extent.
• The first 17 episodes of Trigun have a frame showing the writing "-WANTED- Vash The Stampede 60,000,000 $$". From episode 18 onward, after the Fifth Moon Incident and Vash's reclassification as a "human Act of God", it's instead replaced with "-EMERGENCY- Evacuation order! Humanoid Typhoon is coming".
  • On a smaller note, every single episode has a specific part in the opening showcasing animation footage from the episode itself, teasing its contents.
• Tsukuyomi: Moon Phase's Nekomimi Mode OP changes slightly with every episode, including one where Hazuki just plain isn't present at all.
• Umineko: When They Cry's credits change the initial portrait in the opening every five or so episodes to reflect the change in arcs. And then the third arc started, and the opening underwent a much larger transformation.
• Vampire Knight's first season does this twice despite the fact that it only runs for 13 episodes: the first revision of the opening titles introduces Kurenai Maria, a second introduces her true form as Hio Shizuka.
• The parts of the Vandread opening that weren't clips from the upcoming episode; dead characters disappeared from the sequence, and if a character's appearance changed in the series, it would change in the opening soon after. Also, certain spoiler-ish aspects were obscured in the opening, only to be revealed once the plot got to them.
• Weirdly subverted in the closing credits of Vision of Escaflowne. For most of the series there is a shot of Hitomi and Allen kissing during the closing credits, however once they kiss in the actual show the shot disappears. (This may not hold true for the official American release as it seems to have just picked one version of the credits and stuck it on to every episode. The original VHS American release only use one version, but the DVD's use both.)
• Vividred Operation's opening credits feature a montage of the girls' transformation sequences, with each girl's sequence being added the episode after their debut: Aoi in Episode 3, Wakaba in Episode 4, and Himawari in Episode 5.
• Both season of Wagnaria!! have characters added to the opening during the episode they appear in. For the first season, it was just Yamada, but for the second season Haruna, Youhei and Mizuki Mashiba and Kirio are all added to the opening by the seventh episode.
• In Welcome to the Ballroom's closing credits, Tatara is shown dancing on his own in the first four episodes. Starting in episode 5, after he's partnered with Mako, he's shown dancing with her instead.
• In Witchcraft Works, as new characters are introduced, they get added to the scenery that strolls past about halfway through the song. Some of them join the Tower witches, while others join the Workshop witches group, depending on their affiliation.
• End credits in Wolf's Rain have a white wolf running through landscape that changes slightly with each episode. The last one is particularly interesting.
• In the third season of The World God Only Knows, the ending theme is sung by the girl who is revealed to be having one of the Goddess (except for Tenri which is already revealed on the Tenri Arc OVA) in that episode (except for Episodes 1,7 and 8 which have no ending themes and Episode 9 which has a different ending theme altogether).
• In the third season of Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories each episode has an additional creepy head added to the end credits.
• The second opening of Your Lie in April changed a bit of its lyrics after episode 17 before the reff part. From boku wa ame kimi wa taiyou te o tsunagou ^note I'm the rain, you're the sun, so let's join hands to nee, ima kono isshun o dakishimeyou ^note hey, let's hold tight this moment. Not only lyrics, but some scenery also changed. They are including:
  • The changed lyrics parts initially features Kousei, Tsubaki, and Watari playing together, but after episode 17, it features Takeshi and Emi smiled at the sky.
  • The scene while Kousei playing piano and Kaori playing violin accompanied by flying birds changed into scenery of Kousei and Kaori double riding bike together.
  • The scenery while both of them playing in the reff part of opening changed from sunny sky with white cloud into clear night full of twinkling and falling stars.
• In one opening of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX each of the main character's name and image is shown along with a grid of cards in the background. Some are face down with the face up ones being the cards they used. More gets flipped up as they use new cards in the show. One part of the opening also shows a brief preview of the duel from the episode.
• The first opening of Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL does this during the part of Yuma being joined by his friends during a walk. Initially it just Kotori and Tetsuo (ENG: Bronk). After the episodes that introduced them, Takashi (ENG: Casell), Tokunosuke (ENG: Flip) and Cathy are shown joining in as well.
• The Second opening of Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds changes in episode 48, to reflect Aki and Jack's designated Signer opponents and Ruka receiving Ancient Fairy Dragon.
• The opening credits for Yuri!!! on Ice start off almost entirely monochrome in episode 1. With every episode, though, a few more colour splashes are added, and by the time episode 10 rolls around, the opening credits are almost entirely in full colour. Episode 12, additionally, credit the song as "History Makers", because all three characters make history in Barcelona: Yuri gains his first silver Grand Prix medal and breaks Victor's world record for the free skate, Yurio wins gold in his first ever Grand Prix Final as a senior and and breaks Victor's world record for the short program, and Victor makes the monumental decision to simultaneously compete and coach Yuri even though other people deem it unlikely that he would be able to return at all.
• While YuYu Hakusho keeps the same song for the entire run, the Japanese version changes at some point during the Chapter Black saga, and instead of showing Yusuke and his companions fighting random demons, shows shots of them fighting Sensui, some of their new powers (Kurama's yoko form, Kuwabara's Jigentoh, and Hiei's Dragon of the Darkness Flame), and a few new characters, but this opening isn't shown in the English version of the show. The opening changes slightly for the Three Kings Saga in both versions, as it shows Yusuke falling out of Raizen's tower, Yomi and Mukuro, and some of the former Dark Tournament contestants.
• Yuki Yuna is a Hero's intro constantly changes with almost each episode. Some changes are major, including adding Karin into the intro and showing Togo's Magical Girl transformation to avoid a Spoiler Opening, but others are minor, like the flowers in the intro changing to reflect on the characters' Mankai progress at the start of the episode.

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