Are there any shows or manga that are deconstructions/subversion of genres and tropes but instead of the usual insufferable "humor" or edgy grimderp bullshit, the deconstruction/subversion is achieved through the making everything as banal as possible or with characters aware of the plot and refusing to play along with it? Things like:
>magical girl subversion but instead of edgy little girl death, the subversion is that the little mascot creature only gave them the ability to summon a transformation sequence and no real power beyond that, so anytime there's a monster attack they have to laboriously walk to wherever it is only to discover that the police or in some cases JSDF have already taking care of the problem and they aren't needed at all ever and the girls get sick of this while the mascot doesn't get the hint
>depressed schmuck hates his modern Japanese life and jumps in front of a truck, then he ends up getting reincarnated into a magical fantasy world and expects to use this as a chance to experience a more interesting and better life only to discover that this magical fantasy world is just modern Japan cosplaying as a D&D manual and there is fundamentally nothing different or any opportunity to become the world's greatest adventure hero like anyone else that gets reincarnated in a fantasy world
Are there any shows or manga that are deconstructions/subversion of genres and tropes but instead of the usual...
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Why would you want to read something purposefully made boring?
>Are there any shows or manga that are deconstructions
No.
I guess otome villainess series have a main character trying to avoid her bad endings. It has become it’s own cliche genre at this point though.
I don't know about a show or a manga, but there's an extra chapter of Kaguya sama that is exactly like you described.
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OP thinks it's clever to subvert the idea that fiction is entertaining.
Other concepts:
>Gender Bender but where the guy who is turned into a girl absolutely refuses to play along with any of the antics that the rest of the cast want him to get involved in and the entire story ends with him undoing the transformation and going on with his life while also cutting out absolutely everyone that wanted him to get involved with stupid antics
>SOL where the meme trap character is ignored by everyone until he gets depressed and abandons the crossdressing schtick, is suddenly voiced by a guy now, and finds out that everyone ignored him because they all thought his crossdressing was obnoxious and now that he stopped they'll finally consider acknowledging him as a person instead of the white plastic deck chair they saw him as before
>literally any interesting plot and set up in a school setting but we follow background characters that sit in the front corner of class by the door in a Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead arrangement while the exciting plot goes on in the background
Why would you want to watch something that's purposefully made to be violent and depressing?
Bokurano: Ours is a subversion of kids piloting mechs, but it depends on what you level of edgy is at least in terms of tolerance. It's more psychological horror. The kids have to take turns piloting a robot, in which they fight an alternate dimension earth, but the twist is of course it costs them their life. The subversion is of course, even though they really have no choice, they kinda do, but if they don't show up for the fight, and one of the chosen pilots isn't dead both universes are destroyed, so they have the weight of the world on their shoulders and everyone saying "go die for us". While some of the episodes are generic with the token "he refused to show up, so we had to kill them", there are a few gems.
Now that is the kind of banal I like. If only it was stretched out into an entire series.