I know, I talk a lot about anime in my blogs, but that’s really to the broad range of genres they use. The best example for this is in the anime The Irregular at Magic High School. In some ways, the use of technology gives the wizards a way to cast their spells faster, more accurate, and more powerful than traditional casting. Spells allow magicians, mages, magic casters, etc., to manipulate this energy through spells. You can call it mana, psions, or PPE (Potential Psychic Energy per Rifts), it’s still magic. Magic is, in all practical purposes, energy. The way to think about this is as a source of energy. That’s the type of genre convergence I like to see. It really covered all angles of magic/technology. I remember this picture in the player’s guide of an Elf, wearing cyber-punk tech, trying to hack into a computer. The backstory involved a post-apocalyptic Earth where the ley lines have unlocked dimensional rifts, the rebirth of magical creatures in our modern world, along with the reemergence of mysterious locations like Atlantis, Lemuria, and other mythical places. I remember an old Role Playing Game (RPG) I played back in the 80’s (no jokes or comments about my age please) called Rifts. I love to see magic used in this way, it really has a cyber-punk/steampunk feel to it. Knights and Magic, Tenchi Muyo: War on Geminar, The Irregular at Magic High School, and In Another World with my Smartphone, just to name a few. Anime has a penchant for using magic to power technology, i.e. Science or magic? Or both, for that matter.
It is even considered “one and the same” in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) as told in Thor.
I’ve seen this used on episodes of Star Trek, Doctor Who, and various other television shows and movies. The usual trope involves people using science in an under developed country which, to them, seems like magic. Science has been a question that fantasy and sci0fi writers have been pondering for quite a long time.
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