by The foreshadowing in the title is so excellent.
I want to watch so many anime, but many people don’t know what to watch and can’t choose one. Let’s look at three works that follow the classic pattern, which will draw you in with an unexpected twist in the first episode.
“Incompetent Nana” “Incompetent Nana” (original story: Ruth Boy, illustration: Furuyaan) has been published in Monthly Shonen Gangan (Square Enix) since 2016.
This serialized work was made into a TV anime in October 2020. Nanao Nakajima attends a school on an isolated island that gathers boys and girls with unique abilities to raise and train them to fight monsters called “enemies of humanity.” Even at home, he cannot demonstrate his strength and is called an “incompetent person.”
Nanao meets Nana Hiiragi, a transfer student who can read people’s minds. Her cheerfulness encourages her to open up to him gradually. One day, Nanao saves his classmates from an out-of-control student using his power to “incapacitate others” and is brought into the spotlight by everyone.
However, at the end of the first episode, Nanao is suddenly pushed off a cliff by Nana. Nana, whose attitude suddenly changes, tells him that he is a human with no abilities and that the students at the school, including Nanao, who fight against the “enemy of humanity,” are the ones who are fighting against the “enemy of humanity.” I told him the truth that he is the enemy of the incompetent. This was the beginning of “Incompetent Nana” in the truest sense.
This work is not about how a person with special abilities rises to the top but rather a battle between people with unique skills and people with no abilities who aim to eliminate them. On social media, some people said, “I think it’s the best of the genre that overturns stereotypes,” many people seemed to find it refreshing that it wasn’t just a story about the growth of a hero. “[Oshi no Ko]” The TV anime “[Oshi no Ko]” (original story: Akasaka Aka, illustration: Yokoyari Mengo), which created a feverish boom in the world with the theme song “Idol” by YOASOBI, is based on the original work in 2020.
This work has been serialized in “Weekly Young Jump” (Shueisha) since 2013. Goro Amemiya (Goro), an obstetrician and gynecologist who appears in the first episode, is an ardent idol otaku and spends his days obsessed with the absolute idol “Ai Hoshino.” Still, one day, he encounters Ai Hoshino, who is supposed to be an idol. He visits the hospital where Goro works as a pregnant woman.
Although we were shocked by this unexpected turn of events, we accepted Ai’s strong determination to “not disclose her pregnancy and continue to lie as an idol” and decided to support her. However, just as Ai is about to give birth, she is pushed off a cliff by a man who “knows about her pregnancy,” when she wakes up, she has been reincarnated as Ai’s twin babies (Aqua Hoshino). Goro (now referred to as Aqua) accepts his fate and enjoys the life of a “favorite child” with his twin, Ruby Hoshino, who is also reincarnated.
However, at the end of the first episode, Ai is stabbed to death by a stalker who suddenly comes to her home. Aqua, who believes that the culprit is in the entertainment industry based on the situation, decides to aim for the entertainment industry as an actor to take revenge.
Many fans were probably shocked by the development in which the two characters who were thought to be the main characters died in the first episode. On social media, people expressed their surprise at the gap between the image imagined from the title and the visuals of the work, saying, “Isn’t this an anime about cute girls cackling?”
