Morganni Wrote:Well, what I'm thinking is that the backstories *aren't* real, but that doesn't mean the mission isn't real. Most teenagers can't handle being told that the fate of the world may depend on their efforts without at least a bit of lead-in.If the mission is real, that means that A: the enemy is real, and has to come from someplace, have some background, and B: the magical powers and artifacts and what-have-you being used by the magical girls are also real, and likewise have to come from somewhere. That's part of what I was getting at with the term "legacies".
Your argument (on further detail) is a bit more persuasive and plausible than I first thought, however - and in further however, if we're going to continue to discuss this we should probably do it in a different thread, as it's rather offtopic in this one.