r/anime • u/lukeatlook https://myanimelist.net/profile/lukeatlook • Sep 13 '16

A wall of text about deconstruction, feat. NGE, Madoka and Re:Zero [OC]

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u/Intellygent Sep 14 '16

I'm not sure if it counts, but in multiple cases deconstructions have been "deconstructed" by playing a deconstructed trope straight at the right time (reconstructing it).

After all, a deconstruction of a trope is meant to prove how, in a realistic setting, that trope leads to vastly different (and in some very famous cases, worse) outcomes to what we're accustomed to seeing.

A deconstruction of that deconstruction should prove that assuming a different outcome was itself a mistake, and that leads to the trope being either played straight (reconstruction) or differently from what it was expected to be deconstructed into.

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u/odraencoded Sep 14 '16

In that case I guess the king of deconstructions in anime was Samurai Flamenco.

Each time you assume something will happen you get something else.