Many of these also stop appearing just as suddenly as they were introduced. It introduces many plot elements out of nowhere. Digimon Adventure 02 suffers from this.Which is probably for the best, making it into its own form of riddle. Darker than Black does this for both of its seasons, then leaves most of it completely unexplained.As the fandom says "everything we learn raised 6 more questions". The more D.Gray-Man's plot progresses, the more complicated it gets with the new reveals only complicating what is already known.Fans were frustrated by all the things left unexplained, including the nature of Suzaku's superhuman abilities, C.C.'s life before the show started, and Kallen's backstory (and her dead brother who might not be dead after all). Code Geass ran into this problem due to the last-minute changes and rushed production of its second season.It was dropped after that in favour of the main plot and hasn't been revisited since. Why Kaoru's dislike of Ichigo culminated in a scene full of darkness and shadow where he was spying on Ichigo and Ikumi's conversation through his bedroom door.The mysterious research Szayel was engaged in that both Aizen and Mayuri seemed to find so fascinating (which included two mysterious bodies that were finally identified as former Privaron Espada, Dordoni and Cirucci after nearly 290 chapters).Orihime has a couple of unresolved references, including the implication that she can do something to destroy the Hougyouku and that Aizen did something to her that essentially made her his emotional prisoner.Bleach has a couple of examples of this, though the final story arc had many of the major loose ends tied up at a surprising pace.This wasn't meant to happen the series was forced to end its Myth Arc earlier than planned. The Big O: Although the series explains quite a few things in the last few episodes, none of the fundamental reasons behind these other reasons are ever given.They're still positive examples of this trope. This is in part because their storytelling makes a mockery of chronology and in part because they are both adaptations of ongoing light novels (though the extra episodes clear up some lingering questions). Baccano! and Durarara!! both fall into this, though they tie up most of their loose ends. But the satisfaction when a Kudzu Plot comes together well is a rare and special enough event that many of the works that did do it well are considered some of the greatest works of fiction in human history. That said, they are extremely hard to execute well and many authors fail or create them by accident. A good way to keep such plots in line is with an overarching Driving Question. the characters don't understand everything, so why should the reader?). An author may do this deliberately to confuse the audience or add an air of chaos or mystery to the story ( i.e. However, Tropes Are Not Bad even though a story may be confusing or intricate, a Kudzu Plot can be well executed and rewarding in the hands of a skillful author. Also, because of the First Law of Metafictional Thermodynamics, there's only a limited amount of energy in any given plot to go around to all the little plot threads, so the more plot threads there are, the less attention will be devoted to any of them. It's a common result of very heavily planned and lengthy Myth Arcs if a writer can't adequately resolve everything he's set up, it will become too difficult for him to resolve everything to the audience's satisfaction. This can also happen multiple times within the same story. A story arc may be resolved, but it will usually create more unanswered questions in the process. A Kudzu Plot occurs when a story leaves so many tangled Plot Threads that it's extremely difficult to follow and ridiculously complicated.
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