However, some anime shows become more predictable and stale as trends become more popular.

These ten shows never go the way the audience thinks, making them valuable anime in today’s landscape.

After aliens took over Edo Japan, the past and future combined to create a technologically advanced feudal Japan.

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Fans must always be on guard because they never know whenGintamawill switch between comedy, action, or drama.

After Titans destroy his village, Eren Yaeger joins the Survey Crops to enact revenge.

However, it is a dark series that subverts expectations to deliver a psychological story.

Luffy at Impel Down and Alliance Arrives

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Odokawa is a walrus taxi driver who makes it his business to keep out of other people’s business.

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Gintoki, Kondo, and two others sitting on a toilet without toilet paper in Gintama.

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Eren and Reiner share a tense and emotional exchange in Attack on Titan Season 4, Episode 5, ‘Declaration of War.

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Madoka in front of shatted glass from Puella Magi Madoka Magica.

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A group of anthropomorphic animals on a street in the anime The Odd Taxi.

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Light and Ryuk from Death Note standing next to each other

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Two men from Code Geass outside with a blue sky.

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Penguin holding an umbrella in Mawaru Penguindrum

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3 characters with egg on their head whilst a girl with blue hair stares at them in Nichijou: My Ordinary life

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Nichijou (2011)

Police officer and superhero posing in Samurai Flamenco

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