Any similarity with the literary theory are purely coincidental. The way I use deconstruction here is that a characteristic of a certain character is chosen, then triggered until it’s overloaded and the character bursts, forced to show a new side of theirs. With the preparations for the school festival, Kaname gets overworked with his double role as class rep and student council president. Chizuru’s and Yuuki’s usual hijinks only worsen his situation. He gets swept away by the myriads of responsibilities he’s taken on himself. When he finally gets some time to reflect on it, he finds out that it’s sometimes better to just let things flow and enjoy it.
Kimi to Boku likes this way of developing characters. The best example is in episode two, where Shun and Masaki give each other that treatment. Shun is a nice person, Masaki is a tsundere. The development starts when he helps her and brings out her tsuntsun. She plays pranks on him until he snaps and calls her out on it. This in turn brings her over the threshold and lets her release the deredere. Shun can be loud, Masaki can be nice and everything’s right.
Now what’s so good about this sort of character development? One rule of thumb in writing is that you have to torture your characters. In this case, Kaname gets tortured by the defining trait of his archetype. Exactly this kind of torture differentiates him away from the archetype and makes the archetype what it is: the origin, the base, the idea that connects. You burn fire with lava until it’s dead.
Inflating the Tokidoki Balloon 