What movies, books or tv shows are meant to spoof/parody a particular genre while actually being a great example of the genre?
The 3 that come to mind for me are Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The Princess Bride. All three are poking fun at their respective genres but also are great examples of the genre. I'm curious if Lemmy has other such examples.
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Konosuba. It's a parody of the Isekai Anime genre. And holy shit is it funny 🤌🏼.
Isekai refers to the trope in many popular anime where the main character or MC (majorly a male, also majorly either socially awkward, inept or both) either dies in the real world and somehow gets reincarnated/transported, or plays a VR game or reads a book that sucks them into that world.
These shows tend to have many recurring cliches; a harem of attractive women that all want the attention of the MC, MC being essentially OP at whatever fantasy world skill structure exists, shitloads of fan service (mostly overly sexual portrayal of the women in those worlds, but also random and long action sequences), overly complicated rules that they will somehow obey and many many more. I'll be here all year listing each trope.
But Konosuba mocks the concept of the Isekai genre, and actively makes sure to do something that wouldn't occur in a typical show.
What ended up happening was that in their quest to make the perfect parody, they ended up striking gold, and created one of the best Isekai shows. All because they wanted to make fun of that exact genre.
It's not even like they "became the very thing they swore to destroy", since the show doesn't at all take itself too seriously...
There's 2 seasons, a movie and a spin-off prequel that follows one of the main characters and leads upto the first episode of the main story. All of which is amazing and insanely hilarious.
100% recommended.
Hate to break it to you, but Konosuba isn't a parody, it's just a comedy isekai.
My initial reaction to this response.
But then I checked on Anilist:
(Idk how to add images or gifs to a comment response so I'm just gonna tell you what it says)
Idk man. Anilist seems to think it is 94% Satire and 90% Parody.
Have you even seen what people write on anilist, MAL, etc.? Hell, even just social media in general. I don't trust the general polulace to understand nuanced differences like that
But, are tags crowdsourced? I believe only reviews and ratings are crowdsourced. Everything else is managed by the Anilist team, right?
I checked right now, but I can't really see an option to change the tags on a particular show... I checked on my smartphone via browser, so I might be wrong. Will check from my laptop in a bit.
Also, where did you get the information that it isn't a parody, if not from these sites?
Crunchyroll doesn't list it as a Parody, so you might be right. But they also don't have Parody as a genre, so that doesn't really hold any value.
Note: I'm having a genuine discussion. I don't want this to seem like a debate or an argument. It's just me and commenter OP having a normal conversation in a regular tone.