Negima: Hour 200

[Bob Schroeck]

I was thinking a bit more about this over the past few minutes. We shouldn't be too surprised at the idea -- we already knew that the magical world was an artificial construct, remember? We just sort of assumed that the inhabitants were "real people", despite the fact that 99% of the races and creatures we've seen clearly don't exist on earth. Given that there are some earlier shoutouts and references to The Matrix earlier in the story, I'm beginning to wonder if, along with everything else, Akamatsu is giving us a deconstruction of the modern Harry Potter style of urban fantasy, in which a magical world secretly exists alongside an ignorant mundane world, which by rights shouldn't be able to miss it given all the freaking huge magical creatures and constructions it has. And that the great disaster Chao mentioned was the shutdown of the Magetrix, leaving her with just "ordinary" Mars to live on in the far future.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.