Mononoke Sharing is all about a girl living with Youkai and Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid is about dragons who come from a world where almost other monster, god, or demon (pretty much everything except for Mermaids, as Elma is not familar with them) you could imagine lives (possibly Beast Men as well depending on whether or not Frau Rabbit takes place there). Most of the works Cool-Kyou Shinsha writes appear to be Slice of Life stories set in the real world but they all are part of The 'Verse, and at least two of them delve into the supernatural.Then there are the people known as "Gemstones" who are born with unique powers naturally and belong to neither side, and whatever Aiwass is.magic, angels, Gods and legendary weapons from every known mythology and religion, vampires, and magical Church Militant organizations (one of which includes a Japanese-Anglican, katana-wielding Saint). And the majority of its residents are superpowered schoolkids, who treat such things as part of everyday life. This is due to the fact that the setting, Academy City, is 20 to 30 years ahead of the rest of the world in technological development. The "Science Side" alone includes Psychic Powers, Humongous Mecha, Cyborgs, Artificial Humans, clones, genetically modified Talking Animals, and weapons straight out of science fiction.Just to name a few there are ghosts, ghouls, zombies, goblins, krakens, classical demons, dolls, death angels. Basically most demons are present in the region from which their myth come from. The term "demon" is used to refer to all the supernatural beings whether they are malevolent or not. In Blue Exorcist every mythical creature from every religion or every folklore is a demon from Gehenna.Not to be confused with the literal fictional kitchen sinks. Of course, tends to result in Pals with Jesus and Monster Roommate after a while. If Jesus, Then Aliens is the logic used creating this world. May combine with Crapsack World if the Fantasy Kitchen Sink has elements of the Darker and Edgier. If the fantasy elements are used to explain how reality really works, it leads to discovering the Magical Underpinnings of Reality.Ĭompare Conspiracy Kitchen Sink, Sci-Fi Kitchen Sink, All Myths Are True, Crossover Cosmology, World of Weirdness, World of Mysteries, Domino Revelation and Anachronism Stew. Inevitably results in at least one character who's Seen It All. The opposite of Meta Origin, in which all of the supernatural elements of a setting come from the same single origin or event. If the Science Fiction series does have bona fide magic, like Star Wars, it's Science Fantasy. There are Psychic Powers, but they are given a pseudoscientific Technobabble explanation. For example, the Mage Species never accidentally erase the memories of the supernatural of, say, someone who's secretly a Ninja or vice versa no matter how indiscriminate either are at enforcing the Masquerade.Ĭompare this to, for instance, the various Star Trek and Stargate-verse series, or Babylon 5, where the "magical" aspects are Applied Phlebotinum or the Sufficiently Advanced Alien. ![]() but so are The Fair Folk, the Body Snatchers, and the Time Travelers and their plans don't have any connection with each other. The Ancient Conspiracy really are behind everything. Occasionally, they do interact in the form of a Monster Mash. It's as if there are a bunch of disconnected secret worlds lurking under and above the surface of the real world and the heroes are the only ones who go between them. ![]() The alien bounty hunters do not run into the vampires, the angels, or the superhuman (non-alien involvement) mutants only the main characters. There's no overlap between the different genre creatures. In general when you have a Fantasy Kitchen Sink, the premise is mostly used for Monster of the Week plots - where there's one Myth Arc that focuses on a fantastic element and a bunch of totally unrelated sub-arcs about various lesser creatures or beings. Generally a sure sign of it is when creatures from typically different genres (Sci-Fi, Horror, and Fantasy) all exist within the same world with individual origins of their own, each implausible in their own way - leading up to a long series of suspensions of disbelief rather than just one. So not only are there really dragons, there are fairies, ghosts, vampires, werewolves, mummies, zombies, aliens, robots, time travelers, espers, angels, demons, gods, eldritch abominations, precursors, magic, and so on. What happens when All Myths Are True is turned Up to Eleven? You get a Fantasy Kitchen Sink! Everything is true, even if it comes from vastly different origins.
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