It does subversion well. It sets up common tropes that you'd expect to see in a fairy tale and turns them on their head in clever and satisfying ways. As opposed to the common: "You're stupid and bad for expecting reasonable and understandable returns for our setups!"
I haven't read/seen it, but I've heard Ranking of Kings (Ou-sama Ranking) is pretty good.
I should check it out now.
It's a good manga that reads like a classical children's fairy tale
It does subversion well. It sets up common tropes that you'd expect to see in a fairy tale and turns them on their head in clever and satisfying ways. As opposed to the common: "You're stupid and bad for expecting reasonable and understandable returns for our setups!"
Ah, yes, the Brian Clevinger method. In his words, "The best jokes are the ones played on the reader."
Like a queen dowager stepmother who loves her stepson just as much as her own biological son.