90% of the time they're a cheap, desperate way to put the artifice of "drama" at the start of a story that has no inherent conflict at the start and unintentionally spoils the build of a story by making the audience just "wait" for it to get back. 10% they're clever misdirectionhttps://twitter.com/fletchersque/status/1367051456025681921 …
i've literally been writing a giant series on getting into anime for a year!