Miko/Playing With

Basic Trope: In traditional sense, a girl who tends a (Shinto) shrine and appeases the deities it houses.
 * Straight: Himiko, the girl who tends Asamiya, the local Shinto shrine in the neighborhood.
 * Exaggerated: Asamiya is as huge as Borobudur the Angkor Wat, it has thousands of believers, and Himiko is regarded as a living goddess.
 * Justified: Himiko's family has been tending the Asamiya since the antiquity.
 * Inverted: Himiko's big brother Masahiko, the kannushi (male Shinto priest) who tends Asamiya.
 * Himiko is an oni that destroys shrines on regular basis.
 * Patriarchs of Abrahamic religions (i.e. the Pope or the Ayatollah).
 * Subverted: Himiko isn't really a Miko, she's just a Cosplay Otaku Girl.
 * Double Subverted: But when she's at home, she's actually a Miko.
 * Parodied: "Magical Shrine Maiden Himiko! With the power of the gods, I shall cleanse thy impurities!"
 * Deconstructed: Himiko doesn't like being a Shrine Maiden. It's outdated, and most people see her as a weird oracle of some sort.
 * Reconstructed: The gods are highly responsive to prayers, so Himiko keeps the job.
 * Zig Zagged: Himiko isn't really a Miko, she's just a Cosplay Otaku Girl. But when she's at home, she's actually a Miko. Except that the "shrine" is a tourist attraction. But then, she is often Not Herself...
 * Averted: Despite having Shrines and Temples, not a single Miko is in sight. *sigh*
 * Enforced: The work panders to Otaku who has Miko fetish.
 * Lampshaded: ???
 * Invoked: Bob, visiting a Shinto shrine to find authentic Shrine Maiden "like in those Moe Moe animes".
 * Exploited: ???
 * Defied: The chief priest of Asamiya forbids women from tending the shrine.
 * Discussed: ???
 * Conversed: ???
 * Unintentional Troping: The clash between the old and the new is depicted when Himiko walk the streets of Tokyo in Miko attire.
 * Played For Laugh: Kathy, a Cosplay Otaku Girl from the USA, try being a Miko for a week.

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