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* ''[[Dragon Ball]]''. People forget that it was originally a parody of earlier martial arts manga, and for good reason considering that once it became ''[[Dragonball Z]]'', it got so cliched that [[Seinfeld Is Unfunny|it actually became the basis for every cliché in martial arts manga since.]] (It's easier to come to terms with this fact once you accept both shows as being two entirely unrelated works.)
* ''[[Love Hina]]'' starts mocking the harem genre hard, inserting audience surrogate Keitaro in a female dorm inhabitated by character prototypes from diverse dating games, in an onsen (making every early episode an onsen episode). It goes so far into comedy land that one wonders if the romantic plot will ever resolve or is it going to go for a [[Tenchi Solution]]. But when it wants to get serious it gets serious.
** Like ''DBZ'', ''Love Hina'' essentially became so earnest in the tropes it was trying to parody that it became the basis for stereotypes about [[Harem Anime]] (and kicked off a ton of [[Follow the Leader]] series that only enhanced this perception).
* ''[[Martian Successor Nadesico]]'' is this for [[Humongous Mecha]] shows. For every over-the-top [[Unwanted Harem]] scene or bizarre character or situation, there's also [[Mood Whiplash|real, serious drama]] (often when those over-the-top characters get killed). Even the [[Show Within a Show]] ''[[Gekiganger 3]]'' goes from a silly [[Homage]] of [[Super Robot]] shows to a real problem in the show's universe. It's bad enough that the protagonist explicitly states the [[An Aesop|Aesop]] in the final episode just to be sure everyone's on the same page: [[MST3K Mantra|stop taking anime so goddamn seriously]].
* ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'' parodies romance anime but has strong romantic storylines as well.
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* ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' is an arguable example; it could be interpreted as an [[Affectionate Parody]] of the [[Super Robot]] genre just because it's so gosh darn over-the-top, but the trouble is most [[Super Robot]] anime are already so over-the-top it ends up being seen mainly as... a [[Super Robot]] anime.
** The beginning of it feels like [[Affectionate Parody]]. It loses pretty much all semblance of parody after the [[Time Skip]]. The base is broken over which period is the best.
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