History WrongGenreSavvy / AnimeAndManga

** Not even Kurosaki, Kaito, and Reiji are safe from this: While they correctly knew that they're in a DarkerAndEdgier anime, the problem is the former two thought they're [[AntiHero Anti-Heroes]] in UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks story and the latter thinks he's in a GeniusThriller {{Seinen}} anime where being a [[BattleOfWits quick-witted]] {{Chessmaster}} is a prerequisite for winning.

* [[NaiveEverygirl Shirley Fenette]] from ''Anime/CodeGeass'' thinks she's the idealistic heroine of a teen love story, when the story she's in is about as far away from that as can be. She tragically continues to believe this is the case even as the story around her gets darker. Though how tragic it gets [[AdaptationDeviation depends on which version of the series.]]
* In ''Anime/DeathNote'', Light believes he's TheChosenOne who was selected to save the world due to being [[UnscrupulousHero the only one willing to do what it takes]] despite the being who gave him his powers [[IRejectYourReality explicitly telling him otherwise]]. In truth he's a [[{{Narcissist}} narcissistic]] VillainProtagonist who quickly reveals his only real goals are taking over the world and killing anyone he doesn't like.

-->'''Kaname:''' Oh, ''please.'' I've seen ''Film/TheHuntForRedOctober''. Captains are tough old bastards like Sean Connery. [[BridgeBunnies You're one of those people who read telegrams or something.]]

** Fujio's behavior matches the protagonist of a fitness based manga, ala ''Manga/HowHeavyAreTheDumbBellsYouLift''.

* In ''Anime/DeathNote'', Light believes he's TheChosenOne who was selected to save the world due to being [[UnscrupulousHero the only one willing to do what it takes]] despite the being who gave him his powers [[IRejectYourReality explicitly telling him otherwise]]. In truth he's a [[AGodIAm narcissistic]] VillainProtagonist who quickly reveals his only real goals are taking over the world and killing anyone he doesn't like.

* In an episode of ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesSunAndMoon'', Lillie and Gladion go through a temple together and Lillie twice makes a mistake about the genre she is in, by expecting puzzles where there are none. At the entrance to the temple she sees three statues and three symbols on the wall behind the statues and she incorrectly guesses that [[StockVideoGamePuzzle the door is unlocked by moving each statue to the correct symbol]], apparently thinking by AdventureGame logic. Gladion stops her and shows her that, 1, the door isn't locked and, 2, moving the statues sets off a [[SpikesOfDoom spike trap]]. Later they come to a gap without a bridge, and Lille guesses based on books she read that there is [[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade an invisible bridge that she tries to reveal by throwing sand on it]]. Gladion tells her that there is not an invisible bridge and has Silvally jump across the gap while carrying them, then explains that there was a bridge but it fell down, which Lillie didn't recognize the remains of.

** [[StacysMom Tsuki Uzaki]] is under the impression that she (and to a lesser extent Hana) is the heroine of an H-manga or a particuarly racy soap opera. This is born out of an extreme misunderstanding that Sakurai lusts after her and wants to bed mother and daughter both. The really crazy part is that it's ambiguous how receptive she'd be to the idea if that was the case.

* ''LightNovel/LordElMelloiIICaseFiles'': Flat Escardos is a fan of ''Literature/SherlockHolmes''. He automatically assumes that since Lord El Melloi II/Waver Velvet is a detective, then he must be a secret Baritsu master like Holmes and assumes he will act like Holmes in certain situations. In reality, Waver is non-athletic and has no fighting prowess, leaves all the fighting to his sidekick Gray, and is nothing like Holmes.

* Sayaka of ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' thinks she's in a typical MagicalGirl show where ThePowerOfLove and JusticeWillPrevail are the key status quo [[spoiler:while ignoring the fact that she's in a Creator/GenUrobuchi story and failing to realize that she's the modern day DarkerAndEdgier version on Hans Christian Andersen's ''Literature/TheLittleMermaid'', which ultimately costed both her life ''and'' humanity due to foolishly accepting the DealWithTheDevil]]. At least she ''did'' [[CharacterDevelopment learn her lesson and smartened up]] during the events of ''[[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion Rebellion]]''.

* Konata from ''Anime/LuckyStar'' plays so much {{eroge}}, she thinks that she's living in one -- despite this being a SliceOfLife SchoolgirlSeries. She sometimes changes the game genre she believes she is in depending of the situation, but still does not get it right, and whatever genre it is, she will usually explicitly reference the tropes and mechanics of that genre, or even a specific work that's inspiring her -- she justifies laying a bar of soap down on the floor of a bath with claims that she's setting up the event flags for a special scene.

* ''Anime/MagikaSwordsmanAndSummoner'': Charlotte "Lotte" Lieben Frau is a sheltered princess from a small country in Europe who comes to Japan. Her whole understanding of Japan comes from watching anime, so she constantly tries to invoke anime tropes like SkinshipGrope and kisses people she just met because that's what people do in her anime. Other characters constantly inform her that is not how it works in real life.

* ''LightNovel/MagikaSwordsmanAndSummoner'': Charlotte "Lotte" Lieben Frau is a sheltered princess from a small country in Europe who comes to Japan. Her whole understanding of Japan comes from watching anime, so she constantly tries to invoke anime tropes like SkinshipGrope and kisses people she just met because that's what people do in her anime. Other characters constantly inform her that is not how it works in real life.

* In ''Anime/DeathNote'',Light believes he's TheChosenOne who was selected to save the world due to being [[UnscrupulousHero the only one willing to do what it takes]] despite the being who gave him his powers [[IRejectYourReality explicitly telling him otherwise]]. In truth he's a [[AGodIAm narcissistic]] VillainProtagonist who quickly reveals his only real goals are taking over the world and killing anyone he doesn't like.

* ''LightNovel/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'': Mahiro, who is an avid fan of the Franchise/CthulhuMythos, resists Nyarko's advances partly because he assumes she is exactly like her infamous namesake and is just trying to drive him insane ForTheLulz. He would be a lot happier and more mellow if he realized that he is in a ReferenceOverdosed screwball RomanticComedy and that Nyarko actually is in love with him (and is ''far'' nicer than Lovecraft's Nyarlathotep).

* Rossiu Adai in ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' is the strategic commander of Humanity post-timeskip. He often tries to improve mankind's chances of survival by making cold, calculated and overall logical decisions. Such a morally dubious character would be right at home in, say, the world of ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' Sadly, he exists in a world that runs on HotBlooded "[[BeyondTheImpossible Kick-logic-to-the-curb-and-do-the-impossible]]" philosophy of a SuperRobotGenre. Basically, every plan Rossiu has is hard countered by the illogical Anti-Spirals.
* ''Manga/TheWorldGodOnlyKnows'':
** Keima gets all his experience from {{Dating Sim}}s, so he falls into this when he gets into situations outside his experience. For example, Haqua is a {{tsundere}} who is obviously in love with him, but in Dating Sims, the girl pursuing the boy is a trap for a BadEnd, and must be avoided at all costs, so he barely even notices.
** His misplaced experience also kicked off the entire plot. He unquestioningly accepts a DealWithTheDevil to "capture girls" because he does not know demons exist and does not think anyone would ask him to go after ''real'' girls, so he assumes that someone is challenging him to beat a DatingSim.

* ''LightNovel/CheatMagicianLifeThatStartedFromBeingJudgedUseless'': Princess Camilla Rosenberg of a medieval fantasy world does a summoning ritual and gets several students and teachers from the modern world. The school bully, Funayama, attempts to boss everyone around, thinking he's in a straight forward Isekai story where he was summoned to be a legendary hero. The princess and her guards shut him down quickly. She didn't summon them to be heroes, she's ''conscripting them'' into her army as sacrificial lambs so that she doesn't have to risk her own people, and if they refuse, they die. [[TooDumbToLive He doesn't take the hint]] and keeps complaining and making demands, leading the guards to kill him.

* In one of the later chapters of ''Anime/MyHeroAcademia'', All For One dismisses Jiro and Tsukuyomi as [[RedShirt side characters who exist to die horribly to show how scary the Demon Lord is]]. He is immediately proven wrong because despite the series' reputation as a paint-by-numbers Shonen Battle Manga, it's more accurate to call it a Japanese take on the American Superhero Comic and somewhat of a love letter to the genre. And in superhero comics, such displays of arrogance by the villain almost ''never'' go unpunished for long.

* ''LightNovel/ReZero'': Subaru Natsuki is a fan of anime and video games who gets sent to a fantasy world. He automatically assumes that he's in a straight forward Isekai story where he will become a popular hero who gets all sorts of cool powers and wins over all the girls. Unfortunately for him, the only power he gets is [[SaveScumming Return By Death]], which requires him to die to activate. He gets killed over and over again and no matter how hard he tries and trains, although he picks up a few fighting skills, he is still an ordinary human and no match any of this world's fighters in a straight fight. It is not until he finally stops trying to save people or the world by himself and uses the knowledge he gained from his do-overs to gather and coordinate allies that he gets results and wins over a few girls, and even then he is not very popular.
* ''LightNovel/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'': When the four Cardinal Heroes are summoned to the fantasy world, the Sword, Spear, and Bow Heroes automatically assume they are in a video game world due to it operating on [[RPGMechanicsVerse RPG Mechanics]]: where there are no consequences and everyone else is a mindless NPC. The three also constantly follow the tropes of their favorite video games, which leads to them making a lot of stupid mistakes and getting a lot of people killed. [[OnlySaneMan The Shield Hero]] constantly tries to drill into their heads [[NotAGame that this world is actually very real]] and that they need to be more realistic and practical with how they operate in it.

* ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'': Being an action movie buff, Kaname Chidori generally knows what sort of war antics she's going to fall into as part of her friendship with Sousuke. However, she does not quite appear to realize she's in an action ''anime'', so she still gets blindsided by the more anime-esque aspects of her new life. For example, upon first meeting the captain of ''Tuatha De Danaan'', a [[{{Moe}} painfully cute]] [[ImprobableAge teenage girl]], she has this to say:

* In ''Anime/DigimonTamers'', by the time of the Deva arc, the Tamers choose to not have their Digimon invoke their CannibalismSuperpower of absorbing the data of Digimon they defeated, under the belief that Digimon would reconfigure like in the show they've watched[[note]]i.e ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' and ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02''[[/note]]. Turns out that in ''this'' incarnation, Digimon don't have ResurrectiveImmortality and any that are deleted are DeaderThanDead. Because of this, Catsuramon is disgusted that the data of the Devas defeated by the Tamers was discarded like it was nothing but refuse.
* ''Manga/DigimonVTamer01'' is a setting where ComicBooksAreReal. Specifically, Yagami Taichi has a 100% win record in virtual pet battles, so Lord [=HolyAngemon=] brought him into the Digimon World in hopes Taichi and his monster Zeromaru would be unstoppable there too. Turns out that not only have they been winning in spite of Taichi's poor understanding of virtual pet mechanics, but that the experience Taichi does have largely does not apply. Fortunately, Taichi is a [[TheStrategist perceptive strategist]] who [[AwesomeByAnalysis quickly adapts]] and then [[TaughtByExperience refines his tactics]], while Zeromaru will [[{{Determinator}} fight to his last breath]]. Playing even more into this is that Zeromaru is a fan of Shonen Jump manga comics like ''Manga/OnePiece'' and thus believes anything that cannot be overcome through [[BatManGambit clever plans]] can by gotten by with TrainingFromHell. Several characters mock them for their failure to grasp the importance of EvolutionaryLevels, something Taichi makes light of long after the point he should have really learned his lesson. It isn't until Gabo hammers in how the higher level monster pretty much ''always'' has an inherent advantage ''[[CharacterDevelopment after]]'' Gabo comes to respect Taichi and Zero that Taichi finally realizes how vulnerable Zero is.

* Force [=BUILD DiVERS=] in ''Anime/GundamBuildDiversReRise'' believe that Eldora is just a part of the Gunpla Battle Nexus Online MMO, treat the Eldorans as normal [=NPCs=] and aiding the resistance against the One Eyes as just game missions. Sadly, this isn't a video game, they've wandered right into an ''actual Gundam'' series and they don't find that out until it's too late.
* Minor antagonists Carta Issue and Iok Kujan from Seasons 1 and 2 respectively of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamIronBloodedOrphans'' fall heavily into this trope with the former behaving like a {{Franchise/Pokemon}} character instead of a military officer and that the people of Tekkadan are honorable like she is, and the latter is a LeeroyJenkins that his subordinates look up to and styles himself as an ultimate hero which wouldn't be out of place in a SuperRobotGenre show like [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Gurren Lagann]]. Unfortunately for them, they actually exist in a brutal RealRobotGenre, and the ChildSoldiers who make up Tekkadan are major [[CombatPragmatist Combat Pragmatists]] that will play ''[[SnipingTheCockpit every]]'' [[TalkToTheFist underhanded]] [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique trick]] in the book just to survive. [[spoiler:Naturally, both of them do not survive to the end of their seasons and are ultimately killed by Tekkadans' Gundam Pilots.]]

* Konata from ''Anime/LuckyStar'' plays so much {{eroge}}, she thinks that she's living in one -- despite this being a SliceOfLife SchoolgirlSeries. She sometimes changes the game genre she believes she is in depending of the situation, but still does not get it right, and whatever genre it is, she will usually explicitly reference the tropes and mechanics of that genre, or even a specific work that's inspiring her -- she justifies laying a bar of soap down on the floor of a bath with claims that she's setting up the event flags for a special scene.
* ''LightNovel/MagikaSwordsmanAndSummoner'': Charlotte "Lotte" Lieben Frau is a sheltered princess from a small country in Europe who comes to Japan. Her whole understanding of Japan comes from watching anime, so she constantly tries to invoke anime tropes like SkinshipGrope and kisses people she just met because that's what people do in her anime. Other characters constantly inform her that is not how it works in real life.

* ''LightNovel/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom'' has Catarina properly recognize that she is in an [[RomanceGame otome game]] after recalling her past life, and holds the role of the villainous bitch who gets in the heroine's way and is meant to meet a horrible death or exile at the end of the game. Her mistake is assuming that she's ''stuck'' as the DesignatedVillain when, in actuality, she became the protagonist of what is now a romantic harem comedy as soon as she regained her memories and began acting as a friendly goofball (i.e., the polar opposite of [[{{Jerkass}} her intended characterization]]). As a result, not only are her several (ridiculous) countermeasures rendered pointless by the time the game proper begins, but she's left wondering why all her friends -- including the intended heroine -- are constantly giving her presents and saying how much they care about her.

* Rossiu Adai in ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' is the strategic commander of Humanity post-timeskip. He often tries to improve mankind's chances of survival by making cold, calculated and overall logical decisions. Such a morally dubious character would be right at home in, say, the world of ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' Sadly, he exists in a world that runs on HotBlooded "Kick logic to the curb and do the impossible" philosophy. Basically every plan he has is hard countered by the illogical Anti-Spirals.

* ''LightNovel/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'': When the four Cardinal Heroes are summoned to the fantasy world, the Sword, Spear, and Bow Heroes automatically assume they are in a video game world where there are no consequences and everyone else is a mindless NPC. The three also constantly follow the tropes of their favorite video games, which leads to them making a lot of stupid mistakes and getting a lot of people killed. The Shield Hero constantly tries to drill into their heads that this world is real and that they need to be more realistic and practical.