He wakes but - but was it all really just a dream? Chaos Head opens with a destroyed city and the protagonist laying in a puddle.In flashbacks, Roger shows how this came to pass. The Big O, episode 7, opens with Angel and Roger trapped in an old office building on the bottom of the ocean.Bleach: The "Everything but the Rain" arc starts with a glimpse of a pivotal scene from the middle of the story ( Masaki introducing herself to Isshin as a Quincy) and then rewinds several hours to show what lead up to it.The anime Berserk (1997) follows the same progression by showing the Black Swordsman Arc in episode 1, and spending the rest of its 25 episodes on the Golden Age Arc. Then the Golden Age Arc (volumes 3 to 14) goes back in time and shows us the epic tragedy of how the brotherhood they forged on the battlefield was torn apart by Griffith's betrayal, with Griffith ascending to demonhood and Guts becoming He Who Fights Monsters. At the end of the Black Swordsman Arc we learn that the God Hand includes Guts' Arch-Nemesis Griffith, who used to be Guts' friend. At this point Guts is missing his right eye and left hand, and carries the cursed Brand of Sacrifice on his neck, which every night summons evil spirits to devour him. Berserk opens with the Black Swordsman Arc (volumes 1-3), introducing main character Guts as a vicious Nominal Hero on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge against the five evil deities called the God Hand, as well as their monstrous servants, the Apostles.The first episode of Baccano! starts at the end of its primary story (the 1931/Grand Punk Station arc) while the two Meta Guys look over the records of the massacre and start arguing over when the story is supposed to start.
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