History GenreSavvy / AnimeAndManga

* ''Manga/{{Kannagi}}'': Akiba Meguru, being a "self-conscious akiba-freak", is GenreSavvy to the extreme, even recognizing that Mikuriya Jin for what he is:

* In ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'' {{Prequel}} ''Jack'' there's Lantern. [[spoiler: Really [[SamusIsAGirl school girl Uruka Minami]], she soaks herself in human blood prior to visiting a Salon she knows is run by a Ghoul, in order to trick his sense of smell. She then uses him to get close to Arima and Fura. She also refuses to attack either of them directly until she feels she knows their true strengths, using her position close to them to send them after other ghouls instead to test this.]] Not only are they genre savvy, but it's safe to say that they're also a full-blown ChessMaster.

* ''Anime/DragonballSuper'': During a {{Crossover}} episode with ''Manga/DrSlump'', Vegeta gets into a fight with [[RobotGirl Arale]]. He quickly realizes that he's up against a "gag manga character" and that strength means nothing next to the RuleOfFunny. So he resorts to using gag techniques himself to fight back. He still loses, and at the end of the episode declares he's never fighting a gag character again.

'''Hagemaru''': I can do anything, I'm the hero of this series!

* ''IkkiTousen'': The series is basically "''RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms'', {{Gender Flip}}ped and as a HighSchoolAU". Well, the teenage fighters ''know'' they're the reincarnations of these heroes, and several of them use such knowledge to their advantage as they fight their ways in the story, searching for a way to either [[BecauseDestinySaysSo fulfill]] or [[ScrewDestiny screw]] their fates. Even the ''IdiotHero'' Hakufu shows savviness in these regards.

'''Hagemaru''': I can do anything, I'm the hero of this series!
* In ''Anime/SwordArtOnline'''s second season, one of the dungeons holds a female in a cage asking to be rescued. All but one of the characters immediately conclude that "[[Main/ObviousTrap It's a Trap]]." [[spoiler: [[Main/SubvertedTrope It turns out to not be a trap.]]]]

* In ''Anime/SwordArtOnline Sword Art Online II'', one of the dungeons holds a female in a cage asking to be rescued. All but one of the characters immediately conclude that "[[Main/ObviousTrap It's a Trap]]." [[spoiler: [[Main/SubvertedTrope It turns out to not be a trap.]]]]

* In [[Anime/SwordArtOnline Sword Art Online II]], one of the dungeons holds a female in a cage asking to be rescued. All but one of the characters immediately conclude that "[[Main/ObviousTrap It's a Trap]]." [[spoiler: [[Main/SubvertedTrope It turns out to not be a trap.]]]]

'''Hagemaru''': I can do anything, I'm the hero of this series!

* ''InazumaEleven'': The anime tends to portray Megane this way sometimes, although he usually fails at trying to use it to his advantage. On one occasion, he starts with an annoyed rant in the middle of a soccer match, and gets even more annoyed when an opponent tries to steal the ball from him in mid-speech, because [[TalkingIsAFreeAction Talking Is Supposed To Be A Free Action]].
-->'''Megane:''' How dare you attack in the middle of a stirring lecture or a fusion! As a robot otaku, you fail!

* ''{{Anime/Pokemon}}'': In addition to frequent MediumAwareness, Team Rocket are particularly genre savvy, especially regarding their own role. They know they are the bad guys, they know they are there to harass the good guys, and they know they suck at it. Why do they go on? Because it's what they do.
* ''SchoolRumble'': Akira is the only one who actually understands the LoveDodecahedron, even using that knowledge to manipulate people. As demonstrated in the BeachEpisode, where a naked Harima winds up grappling a bikini-clad Eri, not only is Akira fully aware that it's NotWhatItLooksLike instead of jumping to the obvious conclusion, she is also capable of explaining in ''great'' detail exactly what happened.

* ''Tsurupika Hagemaru-kun'': Hagemaru suffers from this and MediumAwareness.

'''Hagemaru''': I can do anything, I'm the hero of this series!
* ''Manga/ViolinistOfHameln'': The demon generals immediate orders after conquering a country are:
-->'''Hell King Bass:''' Kill all the women and children in case one of the women gives birth to a child and he grows up to be a hero or something.\\
'''Dragon King Drum:''' Ain't that always a bitch?
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* ''Manga/{{Bizenghast}}'': Edaniel comes to after being knocked out, and looks for the others, who have managed to get lost. Edaniel claims that he "knew this would happen."
-->Might be meta knowledge, might be real world experience
* ''Manga/BlueDragon'': Zola. In the second episode, after she effortlessly destroys several dozen enemy robots, the remaining ones begin [[CombiningMecha combining]] into [[HumongousMecha a single much larger robot]]. Zola notes that it would be stupid of her to wait for them to finish, and successfully attacks before the TransformationSequence is finished.

* ''[[{{Eyeshield21}} Eyeshield 21]]'':
** Shin leaves the Deimon-Kyoshin game early when Deimon was behind because he knew Eyeshield 21 would use some crazy technique to win it all like he has done so many times before.
** Kid likes to quote, [[TemptingFate "Something bad will happen after something so good"]] and vice versa. It ''always'' happens.
* ''Manga/FairyTail''
** Happy fancies himself very genre savvy about the comedy genre, often predicting the outcome of various gags…only to be proven only ''partially'' correct.
** At one point, Natsu, Happy, Grey and Erza are looking for Lucy and search her house. Grey reaches her bathroom and has an ImagineSpot of him [[AccidentalPervert walking in on her in the bath, complete with getting called a pervert and having something thrown at his face.]] His response? "It was bound to happen sooner or later."
* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'': Roy Mustang, who knows HowToSurviveAWarMovie, loses his cool in a flashback to the Ishvalan War when his buddy Maes gets all excited about a letter from his girlfriend Gracia. Maes survives the war, though he does not [[FatalFamilyPhoto learn from his mistakes]].
* ''{{Genshiken}}'': Most of the characters are major, ''major'' otaku and therefore genre savvy, but share Konata's affliction of being unable to tell exactly what kind of anime they're in. Most of the guys seem to [[VisualNovelShot visualise life as a dating sim]], and beat themselves up about it when they realise it.

* ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'':
** The show has NoFourthWall, meaning that this shows up a ''lot.'' Almost everyone is GenreSavvy about the fact that they're in a shounen anime/manga and what that usually entails. Key word: ''usually''.
** The trick is, [[WrongGenreSavvy they don't know they're in a]] ''[[WrongGenreSavvy parody.]]''

* ''TheLuciferAndBiscuitHammer'':

* ''MahouSenseiNegima''

* ''ViolinistOfHameln'': The demon generals immediate orders after conquering a country are:

* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Ginjou knows what the expected stereotypes are for {{shounen}} villains and therefore deliberately invokes them to make Ichigo feels as though his life is on the line to [[TrainingFromHell obtain the power-up]] he desperately needs. Afterwards, Ginjou jokes that he'd make a very clichéd villain.

* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Ginjou knows what the expected stereotypes are for {{shounen}} villains and therefore deliberately invokes them to make Ichigo feels as though his life is on the line to [[TrainingFromHell obtain the power-up]] he desperately needs.

* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
** Ginjou knows what the expected stereotypes are for {{shounen}} villains and therefore deliberately invokes them to make Ichigo feels as though his life is on the line to [[TrainingFromHell obtain the power-up]] he desperately needs.
** Ichigo is well aware the villains regard him as a good candidate for the BreakingSpeech. He's sick to the back teeth of it and isn't beyond telling them so. The anime tends to combine this with NoFourthWall for certain {{filler}} episodes by putting Ichigo into the role of OnlySaneMan for comedy purposes. He can tell what's going to happen based on the genre and sometimes even questions who on earth has been writing the episode.

* In ''Animation/GuardianFairyMichel'', Salome is this at times; she hangs onto hostages and once sealed a tower they were climbing in case Kim showed up.

'''Dragon King Drum:''' Ain't that always a bitch?

* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'':
** Various characters point out certain things, including making references to dating sims when talking about Touma's harem, among other ways.
* ''Manga/{{Bizenghast}}'':
** Edaniel comes to after being knocked out, and looks for the others, who have managed to get lost. Edaniel claims that he "knew this would happen."
--->Might be meta knowledge, might be real world experience

* ''Manga/BlueDragon'':
** Zola. In the second episode, after she effortlessly destroys several dozen enemy robots, the remaining ones begin [[CombiningMecha combining]] into [[HumongousMecha a single much larger robot]]. Zola notes that it would be stupid of her to wait for them to finish, and successfully attacks before the TransformationSequence is finished.

* ''Manga/DeadlineSummonner'':
** Mamoru Onodera, the main character, was a video game obsessed Otaku before getting sucked into an RPG. He is very much aware of how the world works and how to avoid getting seriously injured and/or killed. [[IronButtMonkey Not that the universe]] [[ButThouMust allows him to, though.]]

* ''{{Genshiken}}'':
** Most of the characters are major, ''major'' otaku and therefore genre savvy, but share Konata's affliction of being unable to tell exactly what kind of anime they're in. Most of the guys seem to [[VisualNovelShot visualise life as a dating sim]], and beat themselves up about it when they realise it.

* ''IkkiTousen'':
** The series is basically "''RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms'', {{Gender Flip}}ped and as a HighSchoolAU". Well, the teenage fighters ''know'' they're the reincarnations of these heroes, and several of them use such knowledge to their advantage as they fight their ways in the story, searching for a way to either [[BecauseDestinySaysSo fulfill]] or [[ScrewDestiny screw]] their fates. Even the ''IdiotHero'' Hakufu shows savviness in these regards.
* ''InazumaEleven'':
** The anime tends to portray Megane this way sometimes, although he usually fails at trying to use it to his advantage. On one occasion, he starts with an annoyed rant in the middle of a soccer match, and gets even more annoyed when an opponent tries to steal the ball from him in mid-speech, because [[TalkingIsAFreeAction Talking Is Supposed To Be A Free Action]].

* ''Manga/{{Kannagi}}'':
** Akiba Meguru, being a "self-conscious akiba-freak", is GenreSavvy to the extreme, even recognizing that Mikuriya Jin for what he is:

* ''Manga/LuckyStar'':
** Konata is Genre Savvy to the point of being a trope-fixated {{Cloudcuckoolander}}. She recognizes tropes and conventions... [[WrongGenreSavvy but never seems to be able to tell which actually apply to her own genre]]. Sometimes she gets it right, but other times, she applies tropes that are spectacularly wrong for her situation, referencing DatingSim event flags or deciding the dentist sounds like a classic mecha anime.

*** This comes up again (much) later on. In chapter 245 she shows that even a "side-character" can be incredibly important when she [[spoiler: [[Awesome/MahouSenseiNegima keeps Negi from getting blackmailed into slavery by Tosaka]] by [[HeroicSacrifice offering herself]] [[TakeMeInstead in his place.]] ]]
*** Not to mention that [[spoiler: the sole reason that Negi is even able to get back up after Jack Rakan pounded him is because [[HeroicResolve he promised her he would win]] and he's ''[[{{Determinator}} going]]'' to win. That's pretty important.]]

*** Shinza says the same thing about himself after he narrowly escapes being arrested and is nearly sliced in half inside his hiding place. "Good thing I'm the comic relief!"
* ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'':
** Houshakuji Renge is an {{Otaku}} example. All of the other main characters (except Haruhi), as well, to the extent of deliberately playing up their specialized {{bishonen}} stereotypes to please their [[FanGirl customers]].
* ''{{Anime/Pokemon}}''
** In addition to frequent MediumAwareness, Team Rocket are particularly genre savvy, especially regarding their own role. They know they are the bad guys, they know they are there to harass the good guys, and they know they suck at it. Why do they go on? Because it's what they do.
* ''SchoolRumble''
** Akira is the only one who actually understands the LoveDodecahedron, even using that knowledge to manipulate people. As demonstrated in the BeachEpisode, where a naked Harima winds up grappling a bikini-clad Eri, not only is Akira fully aware that it's NotWhatItLooksLike instead of jumping to the obvious conclusion, she is also capable of explaining in ''great'' detail exactly what happened.

* ''Tsurupika Hagemaru-kun''
** Hagemaru suffers from this and MediumAwareness.

* ''ViolinistOfHameln'':
** The demon generals immediate orders after conquering a country are:

* ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'':
** In the arc where Urd is split into her Goddess and [[EvilTwin Demon]] selves, Skuld shows a bit of Savvy when Demon Urd mixes the two of them up and tries to play SpotTheImposter. It doesn't work, because Skuld wrote an identifier on Goddess Urd's backside before they even found the other: this was totally ''not'' just for {{Fanservice}}.
* ''Manga/AxisPowersHetalia'':
** During the 2011 Christmas Event, [[MoeAnthropomorphism Cuba]] seems to be the first one to realize that countries are being kidnapped one by one and that the best thing to do is to [[NeverSplitTheParty stick together]]. He then takes a turn into WrongGenreSavvy by trying to convince England that he can do OffScreenTeleportation.
* ''{{Bizenghast}}'':

* ''Manga/BlackLagoon'':
** Rotton the Wizard actually has the sense to wear some body armor (and a groin protector) when pursuing Roberta. Despite being a JokeCharacter, he ends up being the only merc to walk away on his own power from the Greenback Jane arc siege.
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
** Creator/TiteKubo has a reputation for characters ambushing opponents in an attempt to strike the back of the neck. He addresses this habit directly when Ichigo tries it on Aizen. All he hits is an automatically-activated shield prompting Aizen to explain that he never enters battle without protecting such an obvious weak spot.
** When Urahara appears to explode Aizen to death, Ichigo's attempt to congratulate him is halted by Urahara himself. Urahara explains that while it might be cute to think Aizen has died and therefore relax, he's not an ordinary monster and will very shortly return. He's right.

* ''BlueDragon'':

* ''CodeGeass'':
** By the series' end, Kallen's become familiar enough with Lelouch's LargeHam tactics to know that, if he says a cool-sounding philosophical line while making a dramatic gesture with his hands, it means he's about to do something incredibly improbable to screw over his enemies.

* ''Manga/DeadlineSummonner''

* ''Manga/DeathNote''
** VillainProtagonist Light Yagami:
-->"No, I can't develop feelings for her. [[LoveMakesYouDumb That's how most idiots screw up]]."
** He is also well aware of INeverSaidItWasPoison tactics, and is extremely careful with how he acts and what he says, managing to avoid every trap question L throws his way.
*** The only thing that stops him from being victorious is that he's ''not'' savvy enough to suppress his arrogance.
* ''DragonBall Z'':
** Kid Buu might count as well while almost every major villain in Dragon Ball Z threatens to blow up the Planet they're on to kill the heroes, Buu is the only one who actually does it before fighting the heroes and without announcing first. The "might" comes from the fact that Kid Buu seems to be lacking in intellect; he just goes off of his chaotic instincts of destroying everything he sees.
** Because he was made up of the cells of Vegeta and other pure blooded Saiyans such as Goku, Raditz and Nappa, Cell knew that Vegeta's greatest weakness is his pride and that a Saiyan would be willing to go to great lengths for good battle because they love a challenge and love to fight. Semi-Perfect Cell then uses that weakness to manipulate Vegeta by telling him that if he had the chance to reach his perfect form he would become a worthy adversary, and he claims that Vegeta would be no match for him. [[spoiler: Vegeta falls for it and helps Cell achieve his perfect form]].
** In a filler scene in the Cell arc, Goku is on the hunt for the dragonballs again, and finds one of them held by his old foe Mercenary Tao. Tao knows full well he doesn't have a prayer of defeating Goku in a fight... but he ''does'' know that Goku [[IdiotHero isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer]]. So he makes a deal: if Goku can figure out a few wire puzzles before dawn of the next day, he gets the dragonball. Goku, [[HonorBeforeReason good sport that he is]], accepts, while Tao uses the opportunity to get as far away as possible just in case he lost his bet. Unfortunately for Tao, Goku is able to undo the wire puzzles in time, and thanks to his new instant transmission ability, takes the dragonball anyway.
** And of course, Goku himself shows a moment of this when he asks Gohan to fight Cell in his place, solely to let his ''own son'' get backed into a corner and invoke UnstoppableRage since Gohan's rampages are among the scariest in the whole story. [[WhatTheHellHero Piccolo is quick to point out how dangerous and cruel this is]], and Goku goes MyGodWhatHaveIDone upon realising the implications.

* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist''
** Edward Elric shows great perception throughout the manga, like realizing that he can imitate the [[MisappliedPhlebotinum attack of the enemy]] or realizing that pressing the enemy's ''BerserkButton'' actually helps in a battle, or that a shadow monster doesn't exist without light, etc.
** Got a villain who can transmute his skin into an invulnerable material? [[spoiler: No problem! Transmute that armor-skin into something else, and THEN stab him!]]
** In the same manga (and Brotherhood anime), Roy Mustang, who knows HowToSurviveAWarMovie, loses his cool in a flashback to the Ishvalan War when his buddy Maes gets all excited about a letter from his girlfriend Gracia. Maes survives the war, though he does not [[FatalFamilyPhoto learn from his mistakes]].
* ''Anime/GaoGaiGar'':
** Both heroes and villains show various moments of Genre Savviness that it seems like they were trying to outdo each other! Guy punches a Zondar in the face a moment after it regenerates its face instead of staring at it in shock, numerous Zondar tend to try to attack Guy during his TransformationSequence, 3G's had backup protocols for lack of the Final Fusion program, etc.

* ''{{GoLion}}''
** The first [[MonsterOfTheWeek Beast Fighter]] fought (what Americans would know as ''{{Voltron}}'') was extremely GenreSavvy, being the only monster in the series that was smart enough to attack the separate lion robots before they could combine.
* ''Anime/GundamBuildFighters''
** One of the protagonists' {{Mid Season Upgrade}}s is a beam absorption shield that does pretty much exactly what it sounds like. It gets used in one battle in the World Tournament to great effect... and then never really gets a chance to shine again because ''all'' of their opponents either stop using beam weapons against them or make it a priority to destroy the shield first. As one would expect of world-class competitors.

* ''InazumaEleven'':

* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure''
** Dio Brando from Part 3 gets into DangerouslyGenreSavvy territory, as he usually does not take chances when it comes to his known weaknesses (he's a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]], after all). For example, instead of throwing one knife (which he knows the hero can block), Dio [[TimeStandsStill stops time]] and throws about 10 to 20 knives in succession so that he can't possibly block them all. After that, the scene plays out like this: Jotaro is lying on the ground, apparently dead. Dio first listens for breathing. Then he moves closer and listens for a heartbeat. Jotaro first holds his breath, and then uses his Stand to ''keep his own heart from beating''. So then Dio decides to grab a stop sign from the street corner and ''decapitate'' Jotaro, just to be sure. And later, just to be really, ''really'' sure, he drops a steamroller on him. Is it any wonder that this guy is one of the most beloved anime villains of all time?
** On the heroic side, Jotaro shows signs of this during the battle against Akira Otoishi. He forces his opponent to switch to plan B by correctly guessing his entire strategy before they even started fighting, including any bluffs and gambits that Akira might employ given the current situation.
** Every time something strange happens around them, Jotaro and co immediately jump to the conclusion that it must be an enemy Stand. They're always right.
** Another BigBad, Yoshikage Kira, is DangerouslyGenreSavvy to the point where he's downright ''paranoid''!
** You'd expect that fictional Nazis, after having found a millenia-old super-vampire, would immediately attempt to bend it to their will, only to suffer horrible {{Karmic Death}}s. Instead, they realize that said vampire is far beyond their control, and lock it up while they research and experiment to find a way to ''kill'' it...only to suffer horrible deaths anyway.
** At the beginning of ''Battle Tendency,'' Speedwagon finds [[SealedEvilInACan one of the Pillar Men, surrounded by stone masks, trapped and comatose, but still alive.]] He calls his most powerful friend, Straights, to the site because he has no interest in studying it or its origins but only wants Straights to kill it before it wakes up. [[spoiler:A sound plan, if not for Straights betraying him.]]
* ''JunjouRomantica''
** Misaki Takahashi, to his eternal despair. He knows very well what Usami would want as a present.
-->'''Usami''': "You."
-->'''Misaki''': (internally) "I knew it was me!"
* ''{{Kannagi}}'':

* ''Anime/KillLaKill'':
** Ryuko realizes before her fight with Hoka that he's the AwesomenessByAnalysis kind of combatant who would analyze her moves to figure out how to dodge them, and thus adopts a more reckless and unpredictable style to try and throw him off.

* ''Anime/LupinIIITravelsOfMarcoPoloAnotherPage'':
** Zenigata utilizes serial fiction genre savviness. When Lupin is captured, he attempts to rip off the mask to reveal it isn't Lupin, because Lupin isn't that easy to catch. Subverted when it turns out to actually be Lupin. And then played straight again when Lupin breaks himself and Bao Long out of prison.
* ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha''
** Hayate Yagami not only JumpedAtTheCall after witnessing the Wolkenritter and hearing their story, but she designed their costume-like [[ImpossiblyCoolClothes Barrier Jackets]]. Having people recognizable as family probably helped too (she's an orphan).

* ''Anime/MaisonIkkoku'':
** Normally, Kyoko tends to think the worst of Godai when it comes to other women. The exception being schoolgirl Ibuki Yagami, who has an (unreturned) crush on Godai-sensei. Nothing that she tries fazes Kyoko the least (Godai isn't so lucky). Kyoko's late husband was one of her teachers and she knows that story inside and out.
* ''Anime/MazingerZ'':
** TheProfessor Gennosuke Yumi was pretty GenreSavvy. For example, he made sure they got spare parts for Mazinger-Z ready to be used in case of an emergency (during one battle Mazinger had lost his fists and they launched spare {{Rocket Punch}}es at its location to help Kouji). In another episode three workers of the Institute disappeared but he did not really believe they were dead because [[NeverFoundTheBody their bodies were not found]]. And he memorized the plans for the [[MidSeasonUpgrade Jet Scrander]] in case of they were stolen (and indeed, they were).
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
** Pain is most certainly this. Unlike every other villain in the entire manga, he doesn't take the time to explain or brag about all of his abilities, drastically improving his effectiveness. Several people die just trying to figure out what he can do. It isn't until his abilities are discovered through old fashioned trial and error that anyone is even slightly effective against him.
* ''Oh! Edo Rocket''

* ''OnePiece'':
** Zoro and Nami were this in the [[Recap/OnePieceWhiskeyPeakArc Whiskey Peak arc]]. They were suspicious of the townspeople of Whiskey Peak and why they were so friendly and accommodating to any arriving pirate crew, so they faked being drunk (helped by their inhumanly high alcohol tolerance) to see what the townspeople were up to. And they were right; the townspeople were [[BountyHunter Bounty Hunters]] waiting to trap unsuspecting pirates. In contrast, Luffy, Usopp and Sanji [[GenreBlind didn't suspect a thing.]]
** LawfulGood antagonist Smoker is this, shown at the very latest during his first post-TimeSkip appearance. When a group of pirates that came up from Fishman Island mention that they were held prisoner by a group of evil pirates, but were saved thanks to another group of pirates, Smoker knows before they even tell him that it was the Straw Hats. That could be attributed to the fact that he knew they were back and knew of their current position, but the next action of his is this trope to a T: there are three possible islands that the Straw Hats could go to upon leaving Fishman Island. Smoker goes to wait for them at the most dangerous one, because he knows that that's where Luffy will go.
* ''OuranHighSchoolHostClub''

** Pokémon Hunter J could be this. She's the only villain that hasn't been arrested or beaten voluntarily. In the two-parter Riolu episode, she is removed from the plot after delivering her quarry, then, when Ash and Company show up, she tells her henchman that they have their money, and they depart, leaving the client to be arrested.
*** She's also one of the few villains of the show to use the expedient of attacking the KidWithTheLeash, rather than the {{mons}} themselves. This forces them to scramble for defense and throws them off their game. She is furthermore completely unaverse to directly trying to ''kill'' Ash.
** In one episode, an [[InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals Officer Jenny]] manages to instantly defeat the poacher that, earlier, has beat Team Rocket to a pulp...by having her Growlithe steal the poacher's Pokéball containing his Tyranitar, completely bypassing the need for a Pokémon battle. A ''very'' rare occurrence in the anime.
** In addition to frequent MediumAwareness, Team Rocket are particularly genre savvy, especially regarding their own role. They know they are the bad guys, they know they are there to harass the good guys, and they know they suck at it. Why do they go on? Because it's what they do.
* ''PokemonSpecial'':
** A particular Galactic mook notes the fact that anyone who comes across a Pokedex will play a key role in a major, region-wide battle involving legendary Pokemon. In other words, he knows who the main characters are in the story.
*** Subverted, though. Said Galactic Mook is [[spoiler:under control from Sird, who has fought and seen fights with the Pokedex holders and knows that they are often involved a lot.]] That said, this makes [[spoiler: Sird]] very GenreSavvy [[spoiler: herself]].
* ''Reiko the Zombie Shop'':
** The titular character Reiko Himezono is genre savvy in that she's very competent at her job and is intimately familiar with the things that could go wrong, such as a resurrected zombie going berserk if the person responsible for their death is nearby, knowing that said zombie would not attack a complete stranger for no reason, and carrying around a tape recorder with pre-recorded chants with her if something goes wrong. The latter proves handy when [[spoiler: she crosses paths with psychotic child murderer Saki Yurikawa and has her throat slit. Reiko anticipated something like that would happen and switched on a recording of her standard resurrection chant beforehand, zombifying herself in order to personally deal with Yurikawa. She gets better in the next volume, though.]]

* ''SpiritedAway'':
** It could be chalked up as childish fear, but Chihiro immediately knows that something is wrong with the abandoned amusement park she and her parents had stumbled upon, as well as eating food that doesn't belong to them.
* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'':
** Rossiu was '''very''' savvy as the rest of the cast fell for the [[SchmuckBait hot]] [[SchmuckBanquet springs]] [[WhatAnIdiot trap]].
** Simon becomes rather Genre Savvy in the last two arcs, recognizing that they've always snatched victory at the last second from the jaws of defeat merely by being sheer bloody-minded {{Determinator}}s, in stark contrast to Rossiu who thinks things like "plans" and "logic" have any effect in a universe governed by the RuleOfCool. Kamina has the same mindset before Simon, but this is less to do with being Genre Savvy than it does Kamina being the kind to charge in without a plan. Fanboys try to ignore [[TheWorfEffect all the times this didn't really work]].
* ''TheLuciferAndBiscuitHammer'':
** Amamiya Yuuhi displayed a large amount of dating sim genre savviness on multiple occasions. One occasion during which he specifically chose to walk in on Asahina changing, knowing this type of situation usually engenders "special events".
** At another time, instead of opening the door onto a changing girl, he felt accomplished instead, by having a girl walk in on him naked as a "special event"
** Sami also remarks, at a certain point when Yuuhi suddenly grabs her face in during a dream that, had this been a romantic comedy, he'd have grabbed her boobs instead of her head.
** During the final fight of the manga, [[spoiler:Mikazuki]] realizes that final dramatic fights must be ended with a one-on-one CrossCounter or a SingleStrokeBattle or similarly dramatic mutual 'final technique', and charges up for [[CallingYourAttacks a final super punch with a ludicrously long and awesome name]]. [[spoiler:When Yuuhi moves in to oblige him, Mikazuki kicks him in the face instead and wins the match.]]

'''Dragon King Drum:''' Ain't that always a bitch?
* ''Anime/YuGiOhCapsuleMonsters'':
** Téa is well aware that the group often runs into trouble, and hopes things will be normal on their vacation. They aren't.
* ''Anime/YuGiOhGX''
** The dubbed version often has Adrian Gecko (Amon Garam) poke fun at show as a whole and [[MetaGuy point out how ridiculous some of the game mechanics are]] in his duel with Chazz Princeton (Jun Manjoume):
-->'''Adrian''': I activate my trap cards!
-->'''Chazz''': What, but how!?
-->'''Adrian''': Simple, I call out their names dramatically and they rise up!
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* ''Tsurupika Hagemaru-kun''
** Hagemaru suffers from this and MediumAwareness.
-->'''Hagemaru''': Hey, Kaka, don't sneeze like this while you're naked or the censor guys will cut the scene!\\
'''Hagemaru''': I can do anything, I'm the hero of this series!
* Normally, Kyoko in ''Anime/MaisonIkkoku'' tends to think the worst of Godai when it comes to other women. The exception being schoolgirl Ibuki Yagami, who has an (unreturned) crush on Godai-sensei. Nothing that she tries fazes Kyoko the least (Godai isn't so lucky). Kyoko's late husband was one of her teachers and she knows that story inside and out.
* Akira of ''SchoolRumble'' is the only one who actually understands the LoveDodecahedron, even using that knowledge to manipulate people. As demonstrated in the BeachEpisode, where a naked Harima winds up grappling a bikini-clad Eri, not only is Akira fully aware that it's NotWhatItLooksLike instead of jumping to the obvious conclusion, she is also capable of explaining in ''great'' detail exactly what happened.
* Houshakuji Renge from ''OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' is an {{Otaku}} example. All of the other main characters (except Haruhi), as well, to the extent of deliberately playing up their specialized {{bishonen}} stereotypes to please their [[FanGirl customers]].

* Shows up a ''lot'' in ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'', which has NoFourthWall. Almost everyone is GenreSavvy about the fact that they're in a shounen anime/manga and what that usually entails. Key word: ''usually''.
** The trick is, [[WrongGenreSavvy they don't know they're in a]] ''[[WrongGenreSavvy parody.]]''
* Zola in ''BlueDragon''. In the second episode, after she effortlessly destroys several dozen enemy robots, the remaining ones begin [[CombiningMecha combining]] into [[HumongousMecha a single much larger robot]]. Zola notes that it would be stupid of her to wait for them to finish, and successfully attacks before the TransformationSequence is finished.
* Keima of ''Manga/TheWorldGodOnlyKnows'' is an internet-famous genius when it comes to {{Dating Sim}}s, so when Hell has a problem with evil spirits hiding inside schoolgirls--where making them fall in love is the only way to exorcise them -- they call ''him''. And despite Keima's dislike of real girls, ''it works''.
** You can tell from early on when he's able to point out the local rich girl is a {{tsundere}} because she has [[{{Tsurime Eyes}} cat eyes]], [[HairColors light hair]], a visible forehead and [[GirlishPigtails twintails.]] He's a little disappointed that she's not short to make it perfect, but then Elsee points out she's also wearing high heels.
** [[spoiler:"A stranger appearing in a time of crisis is 100% SUSPICIOUS!!"]]
* Hayate Yagami in ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' not only JumpedAtTheCall after witnessing the Wolkenritter and hearing their story, but she designed their costume-like [[ImpossiblyCoolClothes Barrier Jackets]]. Having people recognizable as family probably helped too (she's an orphan).
* Simon of ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' becomes rather Genre Savvy in the last two arcs, recognizing that they've always snatched victory at the last second from the jaws of defeat merely by being sheer bloody-minded {{Determinator}}s, in stark contrast to Rossiu who thinks things like "plans" and "logic" have any effect in a universe governed by the RuleOfCool. Kamina has the same mindset before Simon, but this is less to do with being Genre Savvy than it does Kamina being the kind to charge in without a plan. Fanboys try to ignore [[TheWorfEffect all the times this didn't really work]].

* ''IkkiTousen'' is basically "''RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms'', {{Gender Flip}}ped and as a HighSchoolAU". Well, the teenage fighters ''know'' they're the reincarnations of these heroes, and several of them use such knowledge to their advantage as they fight their ways in the story, searching for a way to either [[BecauseDestinySaysSo fulfill]] or [[ScrewDestiny screw]] their fates. Even the ''IdiotHero'' Hakufu shows savviness in these regards.
* In ''{{Kannagi}}'', Akiba Meguru, being a "self-conscious akiba-freak", is GenreSavvy to the extreme, even recognizing that Mikuriya Jin for what he is:
--> 'If this is a comic, you are the main character!'
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
** Creator/TiteKubo has a reputation for characters ambushing opponents in an attempt to strike the back of the neck. He addresses this habit directly when Ichigo tries it on Aizen. All he hits is an automatically-activated shield prompting Aizen to explain that he never enters battle without protecting such an obvious weak spot.
** When Urahara appears to explode Aizen to death, Ichigo's attempt to congratulate him is halted by Urahara himself. Urahara explains that while it might be cute to think Aizen has died and therefore relax, he's not an ordinary monster and will very shortly return. He's right.
** Ginjou knows what the expected stereotypes are for {{shounen}} villains and therefore deliberately invokes them to make Ichigo feels as though his life is on the line to [[TrainingFromHell obtain the power-up]] he desperately needs.
** Ichigo is well aware the villains regard him as a good candidate for the BreakingSpeech. He's sick to the back teeth of it and isn't beyond telling them so. The anime tends to combine this with NoFourthWall for certain {{filler}} episodes by putting Ichigo into the role of OnlySaneMan for comedy purposes. He can tell what's going to happen based on the genre and sometimes even questions who on earth has been writing the episode.
* In ''{{Bizenghast}}'', Edaniel comes to after being knocked out, and looks for the others, who have managed to get lost. Edaniel claims that he "knew this would happen."
* The first [[MonsterOfTheWeek Beast Fighter]] fought in ''{{GoLion}}'' (what Americans would know as ''{{Voltron}}'') was extremely GenreSavvy, being the only monster in the series that was smart enough to attack the separate lion robots before they could combine.
* Pokémon Hunter J from ''{{Anime/Pokemon}}'' could be this. She's the only villain that hasn't been arrested or beaten voluntarily. In the two-parter Riolu episode, she is removed from the plot after delivering her quarry, then, when Ash and Company show up, she tells her henchman that they have their money, and they depart, leaving the client to be arrested.
** She's also one of the few villains of the show to use the expedient of attacking the KidWithTheLeash, rather than the {{mons}} themselves. This forces them to scramble for defense and throws them off their game. She is furthermore completely unaverse to directly trying to ''kill'' Ash.
** In one episode, an [[InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals Officer Jenny]] manages to instantly defeat the poacher that, earlier, has beat Team Rocket to a pulp...by having her Growlithe steal the poacher's Pokéball containing his Tyranitar, completely bypassing the need for a Pokémon battle. A ''very'' rare occurrence in the anime.
** In addition to frequent MediumAwareness, Team Rocket are particularly genre savvy, especially regarding their own role. They know they are the bad guys, they know they are there to harass the good guys, and they know they suck at it. Why do they go on? Because it's what they do.
* In ''PokemonSpecial'', a particular Galactic mook notes the fact that anyone who comes across a Pokedex will play a key role in a major, region-wide battle involving legendary Pokemon. In other words, he knows who the main characters are in the story.
** Subverted, though. Said Galactic Mook is [[spoiler:under control from Sird, who has fought and seen fights with the Pokedex holders and knows that they are often involved a lot.]] That said, this makes [[spoiler: Sird]] very GenreSavvy [[spoiler: herself]].
* The dubbed version of ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'' often has Adrian Gecko (Amon Garam) poke fun at show as a whole and [[MetaGuy point out how ridiculous some of the game mechanics are]] in his duel with Chazz Princeton (Jun Manjoume):

* Pain in ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' is most certainly this. Unlike every other villain in the entire manga, he doesn't take the time to explain or brag about all of his abilities, drastically improving his effectiveness. Several people die just trying to figure out what he can do. It isn't until his abilities are discovered through old fashioned trial and error that anyone is even slightly effective against him.
* Happy in ''Manga/FairyTail'' fancies himself very genre savvy about the comedy genre, often predicting the outcome of various gags only to be proven only ''partially'' correct.
** At one point, Natsu, Happy, Grey and Erza are looking for Lucy and search her house. Grey reaches her bathroom and has an ImagineSpot of him [[AccidentalPervert walking in on her in the bath, complete with getting called a pervert and having something thrown at his face.]] His response? "It was bound to happen sooner or later."
* Kid Buu in ''DragonBall Z'' might count as well while almost every major villain in Dragon Ball Z threatens to blow up the Planet they're on to kill the heroes, Buu is the only one who actually does it before fighting the heroes and without announcing first.
** Because he was made up of the cells of Vegeta and other pure blooded Saiyans such as Goku, Raditz and Nappa, Cell knew that Vegeta's greatest weakness is his pride and that a Saiyan would be willing to go to great lengths for good battle because they love a challenge and love to fight. Semi-Perfect Cell then uses that weakness to manipulate Vegeta by telling him that if he had the chance to reach his perfect form he would become a worthy adversary, and he claims that Vegeta would be no match for him. [[spoiler: Vegeta falls for it and helps Cell achieve his perfect form]].
** In a filler scene in the Cell arc, Goku is on the hunt for the dragonballs again, and finds one of them held by his old foe Mercenary Tao. Tao knows full well he doesn't have a prayer of defeating Goku in a fight... but he ''does'' know that Goku [[IdiotHero isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer]]. So he makes a deal: if Goku can figure out a few wire puzzles before dawn of the next day, he gets the dragonball. Goku, [[HonorBeforeReason good sport that he is]], accepts, while Tao uses the opportunity to get as far away as possible just in case he lost his bet. Unfortunately for Tao, Goku is able to undo the wire puzzles in time, and thanks to his new instant transmission ability, takes the dragonball anyway.
** And of course, Goku himself shows a moment of this when he asks Gohan to fight Cell in his place, solely to let his ''own son'' get backed into a corner and invoke UnstoppableRage since Gohan's rampages are among the scariest in the whole story. [[WhatTheHellHero Piccolo is quick to point out how dangerous and cruel this is]], and Goku goes MyGodWhatHaveIDone upon realising the implications.
* In the arc of ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'' where Urd is split into her Goddess and [[EvilTwin Demon]] selves, Skuld shows a bit of Savvy when Demon Urd mixes the two of them up and tries to play SpotTheImposter. It doesn't work, because Skuld wrote an identifier on Goddess Urd's backside before they even found the other: this was totally ''not'' just for {{Fanservice}}.
* Various characters in ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' point out certain things, including making references to dating sims when talking about Touma's harem, among other ways.
* By the end of ''CodeGeass'' Kallen's become familiar enough with Lelouch's LargeHam tactics to know that, if he says a cool-sounding philosophical line while making a dramatic gesture with his hands, it means he's about to do something incredibly improbable to screw over his enemies.
* Reiko Himezono, the titular character of ''Reiko the Zombie Shop''. Genre savvy in that she's very competent at her job and is intimately familiar with the things that could go wrong, such as a resurrected zombie going berserk if the person responsible for their death is nearby, knowing that said zombie would not attack a complete stranger for no reason, and carrying around a tape recorder with pre-recorded chants with her if something goes wrong. The latter proves handy when [[spoiler: she crosses paths with psychotic child murderer Saki Yurikawa and has her throat slit. Reiko anticipated something like that would happen and switched on a recording of her standard resurrection chant beforehand, zombifying herself in order to personally deal with Yurikawa. She gets better in the next volume, though.]]
* ''ViolinistOfHameln'':
** The demon generals immediate orders after conquering a country are:
-->'''Hell King Bass:''' Kill all the women and children in case one of the women gives birth to a child and he grows up to be a hero or something.\\
'''Dragon King Drum:''' Ain't that always a bitch?
* The ''InazumaEleven'' anime tends to portray Megane this way sometimes, although he usually fails at trying to use it to his advantage. On one occasion, he starts with an annoyed rant in the middle of a soccer match, and gets even more annoyed when an opponent tries to steal the ball from him in mid-speech, because [[TalkingIsAFreeAction Talking Is Supposed To Be A Free Action]].
-->'''Megane:''' How dare you attack in the middle of a stirring lecture or a fusion! As a robot otaku, you fail!
* In ''SpiritedAway'', it could be chalked up as childish fear but Chihiro immediately knows that something is wrong with the abandoned amusement park she and her parents had stumbled upon, as well as eating food that doesn't belong to them.
* ''Manga/DailyLivesOfHighSchoolBoys''
** Hidenori is quite savvy in gaming tropes, and in some cases, tropes in anime storytelling (such as ComicBookTime or LateForSchool).
** Yanagin at least aware of gender perceptions as portrayed during the [[TurnOfTheMillennium previous decade]]'s fiction.
** Yanagin's sempai, at the very least, knowing most girls in [[TurnOfTheMillennium last decade]]'s fiction are {{ditz}}y to an extreme.
* ''[[{{Eyeshield21}} Eyeshield 21]]'' has Shin leaving the Deimon-Kyoshin game early when Deimon was behind because he knew Eyeshield 21 would use some crazy technique to win it all like he has done so many times before.
** Kid likes to quote, [[TemptingFate "Something bad will happen after something so good"]] and vice versa. It ''always'' happens.
* ''OnePiece'':
** Zoro and Nami were this in the [[Recap/OnePieceWhiskeyPeakArc Whiskey Peak arc]]. They were suspicious of the townspeople of Whiskey Peak and why they were so friendly and accommodating to any arriving pirate crew, so they faked being drunk (helped by their inhumanly high alcohol tolerance) to see what the townspeople were up to. And they were right; the townspeople were [[BountyHunter Bounty Hunters]] waiting to trap unsuspecting pirates. In contrast, Luffy, Usopp and Sanji [[GenreBlind didn't suspect a thing.]]
** LawfulGood antagonist Smoker is this, shown at the very latest during his first post-TimeSkip appearance. When a group of pirates that came up from Fishman Island mention that they were held prisoner by a group of evil pirates, but were saved thanks to another group of pirates, Smoker knows before they even tell him that it was the Straw Hats. That could be attributed to the fact that he knew they were back and knew of their current position, but the next action of his is this trope to a T: there are three possible islands that the Straw Hats could go to upon leaving Fishman Island. Smoker goes to wait for them at the most dangerous one, because he knows that that's where Luffy will go.
* During the 2011 Christmas Event, [[MoeAnthropomorphism Cuba]] of Manga/AxisPowersHetalia seems to be the first one to realize that countries are being kidnapped one by one and that the best thing to do is to [[NeverSplitTheParty stick together]]. He then takes a turn into WrongGenreSavvy by trying to convince England that he can do OffScreenTeleportation.
* ''TheLuciferAndBiscuitHammer'':
** Amamiya Yuuhi displayed a large amount of dating sim genre savviness on multiple occasions. One occasion during which he specifically chose to walk in on Asahina changing, knowing this type of situation usually engenders "special events".
** At another time, instead of opening the door onto a changing girl, he felt accomplished instead, by having a girl walk in on him naked as a "special event"
** Sami also remarks, at a certain point when Yuuhi suddenly grabs her face in during a dream that, had this been a romantic comedy, he'd have grabbed her boobs instead of her head.
** During the final fight of the manga, [[spoiler:Mikazuki]] realizes that final dramatic fights must be ended with a one-on-one CrossCounter or a SingleStrokeBattle or similarly dramatic mutual 'final technique', and charges up for [[CallingYourAttacks a final super punch with a ludicrously long and awesome name]]. [[spoiler:When Yuuhi moves in to oblige him, Mikazuki kicks him in the face instead and wins the match.]]
* ''Anime/YuGiOhCapsuleMonsters'':
** Téa is well aware that the group often runs into trouble, and hopes things will be normal on their vacation.

* In ''Tsurupika Hagemaru-kun'', Hagemaru suffers from this and MediumAwareness.
-->'''Hagemaru''': Hey, Kaka, don't sneeze like this while you're naked or the censor guys will cut the scene!\\
'''Hagemaru''': I can do anything, I'm the hero of this series!
* ''Anime/MazingerZ'': TheProfessor Gennosuke Yumi was pretty GenreSavvy. For example, he made sure they got spare parts for Mazinger-Z ready to be used in case of an emergency (during one battle Mazinger had lost his fists and they launched spare {{Rocket Punch}}es at its location to help Kouji). In another episode three workers of the Institute disappeared but he did not really believe they were dead because [[NeverFoundTheBody their bodies were not found]]. And he memorized the plans for the [[MidSeasonUpgrade Jet Scrander]] in case of they were stolen (and indeed, they were).
* ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'':
** The title character sees ''everything'' in terms of [[TheCatalogue TV and anime tropes]], even where they might not otherwise have been. She borders between being a [[WrongGenreSavvy wrong]] and being an accurate GenreSavvy. Since she is an [[spoiler: all-powerful RealityWarper]] with unstoppable willpower, she actually ''makes'' herself become accurate.
** Koizumi himself is a GenreSavvy character too, using it to his advantage to convince Haruhi of certain things. Sometimes it does work, sometimes it backfires at him.
** Kyon also is a pretty GenreSavvy guy, usually expressing it with [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] [[MetaGuy remarks]].
* Normally, Kyoko in ''Anime/MaisonIkkoku'' tends to think the worst of Godai when it comes to other women. The exception being schoolgirl Ibuki Yagami, who has an (unreturned) crush on Godai-sensei. Nothing that she tries fazes Kyoko the least (Godai isn't so lucky). Kyoko's late husband was one of her teachers and she knows that story inside and out.
* Misaki Takahashi of ''JunjouRomantica'', to his eternal despair. He knows very well what Usami would want as a present.
-->'''Usami''': "You."
-->'''Misaki''': (internally) "I knew it was me!"
* Akira of ''SchoolRumble'' is the only one who actually understands the LoveDodecahedron, even using that knowledge to manipulate people. As demonstrated in the BeachEpisode, where a naked Harima winds up grappling a bikini-clad Eri, not only is Akira fully aware that it's NotWhatItLooksLike instead of jumping to the obvious conclusion, she is also capable of explaining in ''great'' detail exactly what happened.
* Light Yagami from ''Manga/DeathNote''.

* Konata of ''Manga/LuckyStar'' is Genre Savvy to the point of being a trope-fixated {{Cloudcuckoolander}}. She recognizes tropes and conventions... [[WrongGenreSavvy but never seems to be able to tell which actually apply to her own genre]]. Sometimes she gets it right, but other times, she applies tropes that are spectacularly wrong for her situation, referencing DatingSim event flags or deciding the dentist sounds like a classic mecha anime.
* Houshakuji Renge from ''OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' is an {{Otaku}} example. All of the other main characters (except Haruhi), as well, to the extent of deliberately playing up their specialized {{bishonen}} stereotypes to please their [[FanGirl customers]].
* Because the show has {{No Fourth Wall}},some of the characters in ''Oh! Edo Rocket'' are {{genre savvy}}.
** Ex: In the English version, there is a point where Tetsuju falls off a hovering space ship and crashes to the floor of a rocky canyon. Sora then assures Seikichi, "Don't worry, he'll be fine. He's the [[PluckyComicRelief comic relief]]!"
*** Shinza says the same thing about himself after he narrowly escapes being arrested and is nearly sliced in half inside his hiding place. "Good thing I'm the comic relief!"
* In ''MahouSenseiNegima'', the [[CastHerd "library girls"]], quite understandably, read a lot of books... which means they're quite willing to accept the idea that their teacher is secretly a wizard. In particular, Paru (Saotome Haruna, herself supposed to be an amateur manga artist!) is all too willing to participate in cliche storylines.
-->'''Paru''': But mostly I want to help because IT SOUNDS LIKE A BLAST!
** But then, one character is GenreSavvy enough to freak out when she realizes that she's in a LoveTriangle, and those ''never'' end well... (especially not in Japanese literature!)
** In a curious and almost tragic use of this trope, Ako expresses her lack of self-confidence and feeling of being "ordinary" by saying she's literally "just a supporting character". Negi, of course, tries to reassure her that she ''is'' important... but in the context of the manga as a whole, ''[[BrokenAesop she's exactly right about her lack of importance]]''. At least so far...
*** This comes up again (much) later on. In chapter 245 she shows that even a "side-character" can be incredibly important when she [[spoiler: [[Awesome/MahouSenseiNegima keeps Negi from getting blackmailed into slavery by Tosaka]] by [[HeroicSacrifice offering herself]] [[TakeMeInstead in his place.]] ]]
*** Not to mention that [[spoiler: the sole reason that Negi is even able to get back up after Jack Rakan pounded him is because [[HeroicResolve he promised her he would win]] and he's ''[[{{Determinator}} going]]'' to win. That's pretty important.]]
** Also, [[OnlySaneMan Chisame]] often points out, that in this World of Magic, [[ValuesDissonance not everything]] [[GrayAndGrayMorality is shining and clean]], and often worried about Negi's obsession with Nagi, who ends the war, [[spoiler:and effectively ruining [[AristocratsAreEvil some people's]] [[WarForFunAndProfit plans]]]], and often worrying if Negi had [[ParentalAbandonment troubling parents]]. [[spoiler:She's right about all that.]]
* Shows up a ''lot'' in ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'', which has NoFourthWall. Almost everyone is GenreSavvy about the fact that they're in a shounen anime/manga and what that usually entails. Key word: ''usually''.
** The trick is, [[WrongGenreSavvy they don't know they're in a]] ''[[WrongGenreSavvy parody.]]''
* Most of the characters in ''{{Genshiken}}'' are major, ''major'' otaku and therefore genre savvy, but share Konata's affliction of being unable to tell exactly what kind of anime they're in. Most of the guys seem to [[VisualNovelShot visualise life as a dating sim]], and beat themselves up about it when they realise it.
* Zola in ''BlueDragon''. In the second episode, after she effortlessly destroys several dozen enemy robots, the remaining ones begin [[CombiningMecha combining]] into [[HumongousMecha a single much larger robot]]. Zola notes that it would be stupid of her to wait for them to finish, and successfully attacks before the TransformationSequence is finished.

* In ''ViolinistOfHameln'', the demon generals immediate orders after conquering a country are:

* Amamiya Yuuhi from ''TheLuciferAndBiscuitHammer'' displayed a large amount of dating sim genre savviness on multiple occasions. One occasion during which he specifically chose to walk in on Asahina changing, knowing this type of situation usually engenders "special events".
** At another time, instead of opening the door onto a changing girl, he felt accomplished instead, by having a girl walk in on him naked as a "special event"
** Sami also remarks, at a certain point when Yuuhi suddenly grabs her face in during a dream that, had this been a romantic comedy, he'd have grabbed her boobs instead of her head.
** During the final fight of the manga, [[spoiler:Mikazuki]] realizes that final dramatic fights must be ended with a one-on-one CrossCounter or a SingleStrokeBattle or similarly dramatic mutual 'final technique', and charges up for [[CallingYourAttacks a final super punch with a ludicrously long and awesome name]]. [[spoiler:When Yuuhi moves in to oblige him, Mikazuki kicks him in the face instead and wins the match.]]

* Zoro and Nami during the [[Recap/OnePieceWhiskeyPeakArc Whiskey Peak arc]] in ''OnePiece were this''. They were suspicious of the townspeople of Whiskey Peak and why they were so friendly and accommodating to any arriving pirate crew, so they faked being drunk (helped by their inhumanly high alcohol tolerance) to see what the townspeople were up to. And they were right; the townspeople were [[BountyHunter Bounty Hunters]] waiting to trap unsuspecting pirates. In contrast, Luffy, Usopp and Sanji [[GenreBlind didn't suspect a thing.]]

* Rotton the Wizard in ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' actually has the sense to wear some body armor (and a groin protector) when pursuing Roberta. Despite being a JokeCharacter, he ends up being the only merc to walk away on his own power from the Greenback Jane arc siege.
* Mamoru Onodera, the main character of ''Manga/DeadlineSummonner'' was a video game obsessed Otaku before getting sucked into an RPG. He is very much aware of how the world works and how to avoid getting seriously injured and/or killed. [[IronButtMonkey Not that the universe]] [[ButThouMust allows him to, though.]]
* Both heroes and villains of ''Anime/GaoGaiGar'' shows various moments of Genre Savviness that it seems like they were trying to outdo each other! Guy punches a Zondar in the face a moment after it regenerates its face instead of staring at it in shock, numerous Zondar tend to try to attack Guy during his TransformationSequence, 3G's had backup protocols for lack of the Final Fusion program, etc.
* ''Anime/LupinIIITravelsOfMarcoPoloAnotherPage'' has Zenigata utilizing serial fiction genre savviness. When Lupin is captured, he attempts to rip off the mask to reveal it isn't Lupin, because Lupin isn't that easy to catch. Subverted when it turns out to actually be Lupin. And then played straight again when Lupin breaks himself and Bao Long out of prison.
* Ryuko in ''Anime/KillLaKill'' realizes before her fight with Hoka that he's the AwesomenessByAnalysis kind of combatant who would analyze her moves to figure out how to dodge them, and thus adopts a more reckless and unpredictable style to try and throw him off.
* In ''Anime/GundamBuildFighters'', one of the protagonists' {{Mid Season Upgrade}}s is a beam absorption shield that does pretty much exactly what it sounds like. It gets used in one battle in the World Tournament to great effect... and then never really gets a chance to shine again because ''all'' of their opponents either stop using beam weapons against them or make it a priority to destroy the shield first. As one would expect of world-class competitors.
* In ''Anime/YuGiOhCapsuleMonsters'', Tea is well aware that the group often runs into trouble, and hopes things will be normal on their vacation.

-->'''Hagemaru''': Hey, Kaka, don't sneeze like this while you're naked or the censor guys will cut the scene!
--->'''Hagemaru''': I can do anything, I'm the hero of this series!
--->Note - These lines are from the Hindi version

* The title character of ''SuzumiyaHaruhi'' sees ''everything'' in terms of [[TheCatalogue TV and anime tropes]], even where they might not otherwise have been. She borders between being a [[WrongGenreSavvy wrong]] and being an accurate GenreSavvy. Since she is an [[spoiler: all-powerful RealityWarper]] with unstoppable willpower, she actually ''makes'' herself become accurate.

* In ''Manga/DetectiveConan'', it is well known that [[Manga/MagicKaito Kaitou KID]] has no problem with [[MuggedForDisguise knocking out men and stealing their clothing to disguise himself as them]] but won't steal the clothing off a woman, preferring to simply get copies of their clothes. As such, Tomoko Suzuki orders custom made, original dresses from another country for herself, her daughter, and her daughter's best friend and has the dresses delivered the day of the heist, ensuring that Kid won't have time to replicate the clothing. Thus, as long as the women are wearing these dresses, everyone will know that they can't be KID in disguise. [[spoiler: A solid plan, but too bad she gets OutGambitted, as KID already made a deal with Sonoko; she willingly gives him her dress and pretends that she was knocked out.]]