While kind of terrible, it's terrible in an often hilarious way.
The Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt episode "Ghost: The Phantom of Daten City" is often considered to be a stealth parody, though young teenage fangirls often take the episode rather seriously.He seems to enjoy messing with his audience, although the show is still considered serious by many. The author also said in an interview that he was really only considering putting in one or two canon pairings, and soon after put two minor characters in a relationship. The idea that the Grim Reaper is scary is thrown out the window, and a blatantly obvious love interest is thrown in and shoved in the face of the audience, but nothing happens. Black*Star and Tsubaki are widely considered to be expies of Naruto and Hinata, many of Maka's lines can be taken directly from Ed, and Soul has an interesting resemblance in backstory to Gokudera. While Soul Eater can be taken at face value, it is quite likely that it is simply a long joke about Shōnen stereotypes.The Stealth Parody interpretation makes a lot of sense. Tsugumi Ohba comes off as a living super computer who knows every single manga trope inside and out. Despite being a dark crime thriller with a megalomaniacal mass-murderer for a protagonist, when you get down to it it contains all the basic elements of a typical shonen series, albeit in forms twisted nearly beyond recognition: a young, justice-loving Chaste Hero (a narcissistic Knight Templar with delusions of godhood) who discovers magical powers ( a notebook that can be used to instantly murder anybody) and gains a Fairy Companion (an amoral embodiment of death), makes a Worthy Opponent rival ( a detective trying to apprehend him for his crimes) and picks up a persistent Genki Girl love interest (a vapid pop idol who's fanatically obsessed with him and, despite barely knowing him, is instantly willing to kill for, die for and marry him). Some have speculated that Death Note is this for Shōnen tropes.Of note is that the feeling is arguably mutual between the siblings in question and that the sister is encouraging the brother's pervertedness, even if it's not targeted at her. Everything in this show is obviously over-the-top that it plays with typical tropes seen in these shows. I Dont Like You at All, Big Brother!! is a Stealth Parody for the BrotherSister Incest subgenre of ecchi anime.Combined with Norio Wakamoto's voice acting, this eventually led them to making the "Rocketmoto" sequence during a climatic part of the story, which the staff also approved due to its comedy value. For example, the creators used the Britannia Emperor's larger-than-life character design in the show because it was hilarious for them.
When you listen to the audio commentaries and other additional materials for the series you begin to realize that the Code Geass staff had a lot of fun working on this production, coming up with all manner of crazy ideas and in-jokes, suggesting they weren't above liberally combining Rule of Cool and Rule of Funny for the sake of increasing entertainment value. The villains all dress in ridiculous outfits, guards tend to menace people with spears, and the series appears to have been written for a young William Shatner and Brian Blessed. Code Geass: At first glance, it's kind of hard to tell if Okouchi and Taniguchi were serious.Hayate the Combat Butler does this to Harem Genre tropes and virtually any series it happens to Shout-Out to.Strawberry Panic!, which loves taking shots at everything and anything related to Yuri Genre works, but amusingly can still be taken as a serious piece too.The finale is the most over-the-top use of The Power of Love ever, and has an entry on this site's Awesome page. In the end, it was so ridiculous that it goes from Narm to Narm Charm. For example, he hated the ring he has Domon bounce off the damn thing. So he wrote everyone in an over-the-top manner, with Domon being a Jerkass who does things like sucker punching his opponent to announce that he wants to fight and mocks some of the plans Bandai came up with. Mobile Fighter G Gundam: The director hated being forced to include a ridiculous, borderline racist plot.