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While Beastars is about anthropomorphic animals, there are still things that stand out as fantastic even for the world it's set in, like Legoshi instantly growing all his fur back after after eating a moth in its larval form, then having a dream sequence in which the moth blesses him with it's strength.

Compare/contrast with Like Reality, Unless Noted, as well as Low Fantasy. If the unnatural events happen in only a couple of episodes in an otherwise grounded series, like say a Dom Com, they can lead viewers to exclaiming How Unscientific!.įor when it's ambiguous, as in Kafka's The Metamorphosis where the protagonist has either actually turned into an insect or just gone insane, see Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane and Unreliable Narrator. (See Musical World Hypotheses for other interpretations.) Or the singing could be taken as just a symbolic representation of the characters thoughts and speeches and not at face value over what they actually said.

If the cop just goes through his life as a cop, but his partner is a vampire whose ID has "vampire" printed next to his eye color, who's greeted by cheerful children in the street who are more fascinated by his shiny badge than by his teeth, and who casually drinks blood in plain sight out of transfusion packs during coffee breaks, it's a case of Magic Realism.įrom another perspective, it is possible to interpret many non-fantasy musicals by definition as magical realism, since spontaneously breaking into song with invisible accompaniment gets taken as a perfectly normal thing, although there are a few exceptions where the incongruity is lampshaded, the most notable recent example being Enchanted.

If a cop's partner is very pale, very strong, generally acts odd, and come to think of it, he's never been seen in daylight, but the story focuses primarily on just a Police Procedural or the interpersonal relationships, it's Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane.If the existence of vampires doesn't shock anyone, but the fact that they're vampires is constantly being pointed out, it's Urban Fantasy.If most people do not believe in the existence of vampires, but the protagonists finally realize that they are real, it's Supernatural Fiction.Rule of thumb: Say there are vampires in New York. One Hundred Years of Solitude, Midnights Children, and Beloved are defining examples of magical realism. Also, the way that religious and horror fiction are distinct enough to be distinguished from fantasy even when they fit its basic definition of containing unscientific elements, the same is true for magical realism. The literary world outside of Latin America so closely associates the region with magical realism that the McOndo movement (for which see below) exists chiefly to prove that not everything literary that comes from Latin America involves magic and angels.

On the other hand, the inclusion of well-written magical realism into the canons of Lit Fic is historically well supported, as Latin America's major 20th-century authors mostly wrote in this genre.

"Magical realism" is sometimes misused to explain why a favorite work is literary fiction and thus somehow superior to genre fiction like Fantasy and Science Fiction. It has a connection to surrealism, dream logic, and poetry. Magical realism is a story that takes place in a realistic setting that is recognizable as the historical past or present. Or perhaps it's just a quirky vibe that infuses the environment ( Northern Exposure, Twin Peaks).

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Tchotchkes telling the heroine what to do ( Wonderfalls) or the ghost of your father showing up at odd intervals to offer personal and/or professional advice ( Due South). In Magic Realism, events just happen, as in dreams.