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It's Godzilla for hire.
Piro speaks:
Actually, this discussion is very amusing - because the concept of what's real and
what isnt in the MT universe is a little different than what you normally find in your
standard anime/manga.
One of the key elements to the concepts behind MT is that your reality is based on
how you percieve things. Your brain takes in very limited information thry your
senses, put it together as best it can, tinged with preconceptions and
expectations of 'normalcy'. You could almost say we are expanding upon the 'if a
tree falls in a forest and no one hears it fall, did it really fall?' to 'if a Totoro lands
in a tree in the forest, but no one sees it, does that mean the Totoro doesnt
exist?"
Anyways, don't bet the farm on what's real and what isnt yet. Every story, no
matter how realistic, happens in a 'fantasy' world. Americans have this somewhat
candied view of what Tokyo and life in japan is like because of anime. No matter
how real a anime or manga is, our perception of it is going to be far different than
someone who lives there.