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To clarify a bit more, it might be worth spelling out what an ACTUAL satirization of Isekai would look like: it would look like a guy getting hit by truck-kun and going to the new world with expectations of being a hero and having sexy girl companions (this is why Konosuba is a straight up isekai; Kazuma is a hero surrounded with sexy girls. Him being Scumzuma and them being cats he has to herd doesn't change that), but finding himself persecuted as a weird foreigner, and at best becoming a peasant. It would have to actually destroy the wish fulfillment aspect of isekai and be miserable, but that's not very marketable. Most people THINK they want this because they view themselves as being sophisticated and above simple unsubversive and selfish joys (this is the real reason Mushoku Tensei makes certain posters seethe btw, the "it's pedo" thing is a cloak), but the reality is that this kind of show would do very poorly.
The equivalent for the soft seinen meme wouldn't be Hunter x Hunter, it would be a show where the super powered martial arts protagonist's life is put on a downward trajectory rather than an inspirational upwards trajectory, so as to subvert the power fantasy narrative of someone constantly overcoming challenges and developing more and more strength. In the first episode our protagonist would be trained up by his master, but in the second episode he gets the shit kicked out of him, is crippled for life and his master and family are killed, but he never gets revenge. The entire rest of the show is him living out a meager cowed existence, permanently owned by the antagonist who ruined his life simply because he was in the way. Again, people THINK they want to watch this kind of deconstruction, but nobody actually does. Instead they pretend that fun new twists on the same genre are fundamental subversions that are "not like your father's X". This is literally never true.
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