CATDOLL: Japanese college students voted "One Piece" as the anime with the strongest foreshadowing, and it is indeed powerful!

Anime works and literary works are essentially the same, relying on interesting plots and flesh-and-blood protagonists to attract readers and viewers. Good foreshadowing is very important to the advancement of the plot. Many anime works with longer serialization time do this very well. Of course, many animations are not lacking in such "magic twists". Now a Japanese media has conducted a survey among college students, asking them to choose the anime works that they think have the most powerful foreshadowing. Let's take a look at the results.

Japanese college students think that foreshadowing is the most powerful in animation and comics:

1. One Piece

“We can dig out subtle clues from the past.” (senior male)

“It connects smoothly with the past.” (senior male)

"There are a lot of old foreshadowings." (Junior male)

"The foreshadowing is so powerful." (senior female student)

2. Puella Magi Madoka Magica

“My friends are full of praise for this.” (Junior male)

"I can catch up to the end." (Freshman boy)

"The story is very grand." (Sophomore girl)

"Unlike other stories, the outcome is hard to predict." (Junior female student)

3. Detective Conan

“Sometimes I can reason seriously.” (Freshman girl)

"The plot is beyond the readers' imagination." (College girl)

"There are too many foreshadowings and the story is too scattered. It's time to tidy up the foreshadowing occasionally." (senior female student)

"Although these are daily events, the Black Organization will occasionally appear online." (Senior female student)

4. Steins;Gate

“I didn’t quite understand it at first, but in the end I could even connect with OP.” (Male student in junior college)

"I was shocked after watching the finale." (Sophomore girl)

"There are a lot of things in the OP lyrics that expose him." (senior male)

"I finally understood it after reading it a few times." (senior male)

“It was only at the end that I connected the entire story for the first time. I was very moved.” (Graduate student girl)

5. Attack on Titan

“The foreshadowing on the surface is quite different from the story plot, which makes people very interested.” (senior male)

“We are all giants!” (Junior female student)

"The setting is so profound." (senior female student)

"It's a good story!" (College girl)

In addition to the five works mentioned most often, others nominated works such as "Neon Genesis Evangelion", "Assassination Classroom", "Tokyo Ghoul", "The Town Where Only I Am Missing", "Majin Detective Brain Eater Nero", "Hunter x Hunter", and "Parasyte". These anime works do have imaginative worldview settings, and many subtle foreshadowings are revealed to make everyone suddenly realize. In fact, there are definitely more anime works with strong foreshadowing. If you think there are some good works, please share them and discuss them together.