

Some anime OPs have small pieces of future episodes in them. How do they
include these?

Do the drawers create these segments before everything else then when they
create the actual episodes they simply include them, or do they create every
episode in advance and only air them after they're done?


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"Preview" images in anime OPs


I suspect there is more than one place such images are drawn from. Most anime
series come from some source -- manga, visual novel, video game, etc. So if
the team building the OP sees something they think will fit well, it is
already there, and just needs to be redrawn in anime form.

The YouTube channel _Mother's Basement_ has an ongoing series called _What's
in an OP_ (and _What's in an ED_ ) where he analyzes the OP or ED of a given
series. In his [OP analysis of _Mob Psycho
100_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDXo56WeZbA), he mentions several scenes
that were from the manga and never even appeared in the anime. The images were
just colored a bit with minimal artistic changes.

Other series are anime originals; the anime **is** the source material. The
team may have the plot written out and story-boarded. A scene from a story
board might be redrawn and added to the OP just as if it had come from a
manga.

At least recently, some series have their episodes broadcast almost as soon as
they are done, or even before. For example, I read on various boards that
episodes of _Yuri on Ice_ were being aired so quickly that what Crunchyroll
got was not even the final episode version. So for that series at least, the
animators would not have been able to access scenes from future episodes to
throw into the OP. (Of course, its OP and ED were such that they did not need
those kinds of scenes.)


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