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In all the manga that I have read and anime I have watched, the protagonist
always appears in the first chapter of manga or first episode of an anime.

Most of the time without reading the plot we can tell who is the protagonist
after watching only a few episodes.

So my question:

Has it ever happened that there any anime or manga where:

  1. The character who we think is the protagonist turns into a supporting character and another character turn into the protagonist

  2. The protagonist appears or debuts later than 1 or 2 chapters or episodes.

But not including where the protagonist dies and there arises another
protagonist.

And while providing an example try to mention which type of plot as mentioned
above


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Change of protagonist or late entry of protagonist


Yes, there are. TV Tropes refers to this as a [Decoy
Protagonist](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DecoyProtagonist),
although TV Tropes' definition generally seems to refer to when the apparent
main character gets killed early on in the series. Some examples of this may
include _Gurren Lagann_ , _Yuru-Yuri_ , and _Bokurano_ (I took these straight
from the examples page and have not actually watched the latter two).


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When I read this question, I remember the shojo manga [From Eroica with
Love](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Eroica_with_Love).

In first 3 chapters in volume 1, the main protagonist is the girl who have
psychic ability. The main plot is "Psychic children team VS the phantom
thief". But after 3 episode, the author found other character (Major of NATO)
got more interest from reader. Then the author changed plot of follow episode
(latest books is volume 39 and still continue) to "NATO vs KGB", and never
seen psychic children.

I think such a radical change is easy to happen in manga series, because the
author writes each episode every week (or month) based on reader's feedback.
For example, Jump manga is easy to change to fight manga. Dragon ball changed
from adventure to fighting. Yuyu-hakusyo changed from detective to fighting.

Next example is [Boogiepop
series](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogiepop_series). Each story of this
series has different protagonist. all protagonist meet the boogiepop, but each
protagonist has different understanding about it.

Such a change of observing point is also common (as same as novel). For
example each episode of [The Twelve
Kingdoms](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twelve_Kingdoms) has different
protagonist for each "Kingdom".


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**"Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni"** does exactly this. The first main character
(Keiichi) is still alive but the series completely shifts focus later on to
one of the supporting characters which turns out to be the one the whole story
have been circulating around the whole time. I won't say who because I would
spoil it.


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