The Wanderer Wrote:The reason I think having that many be genuine is implausible is because it would mean that all of those multifarious, and probably contradictory, backstories would also have to be valid. There can't be that many genuine ancient, forgotten magical kingdoms or other legacies, after all. (Well, yes, there can, but you almost have to design the world around it.)Thus the plot of Hybrid Theory Book 2.
The reason why I think the consequences would be that noticeable is - well, be honest, how many magical-girl enemies can you think of whose efforts wouldn't have been that noticeable, before long, in the absence of effective opposition? And even if some of them wouldn't be noticeable, I do not find it remotely plausible that all of them would be that subtle for that long. (Even looking at the classic example of Sailor Moon, Jadeite did some fairly noticeable things before the end of his term, rather more so IIRC in the manga than the anime.) It only takes one serious to-hell-with-secrecy offensive from a single bad guy to get people thinking that maybe wholesale suppression of magical girls isn't the greatest idea... and it hardly seems likely, to me, that only one baddie's efforts would be noticeable that way.
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