How come there·s Apocalyptic Ruins in so many Magical Girl anime?

MaritLage

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is it just me or do a lot of kids television shows feature Apocalyptic Ruins? Like everytime the Negaverse takes over reality in Sailor Moon , every time the Problem Triplets take over reality in Futari wa Pretty Cure , the whole storyline to Girls Frontline is about that .

and it·s not just Girls· anime either . Biker Mice was apocalyptic in 1993 , Adventure Time was apocalyptic in 2013 .

Why do places always look wrecked in kids· shows? Ka
 
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MaritLage

MaritLage

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Anyway , here·s my dream journals for the past week , since Ev showed me Made in Abyss .

Relics
"Each character can equip up to two Relics at a time. Relics provide benefits like ability bonuses or status effects."
-FF6 Tutorial


2022 Jn 03 , 06:52 AM
Dreamt that Krasi came to me personally and stood shoulder-to-shoulder with me .

2022 Jn 03 , 06:00 PM
Dreamt that people over-cloned Rico after confusing Riko#Treila for Neith#Rico , trying to use Safe Identity clones to set policy .

2022 Jn 04 , 01:11 AM
Dreamt of Hell , of ERrors , and Nightmarês .

2022 Jn 05 , 01:58 AM
Dreamt that time had been folded so i went back and checked the cables to see if Ev showed up in the previous iteration either . They didn·t .

2022 Jn 05 , 08:15 PM
Dreamt that people started up the Dream Factory Campus again , were cataloguing artifacts , and were using Kalos for artifact identification .

2022 Jn 06 , 11:18 PM
Dreamt that i was exploring an entire Sangvis base while it was going through a Phyrexian Reprocessor .

2022 Jn 07 , 06:08 AM
Dreamt of an ostensibly innocuous house that had bipods and tripods built into secret compartments everywhere .

2022 Jn 07 , 08:00 PM
Dreamt of a streak of laboratories and relic digs from across time , and the many talkative nymphs it would take .

2022 Jn 07 , 10:33 PM
Dreamt that i had an Ion Cannon that could incinerate entire families , and that people kept trying to set it off intentionally , just to study its effective range .

2022 Jn 08 , 05:13 AM
Dreamt of complexity maps , heat maps , and people pretending to be my friend to get free relic identifications .

2022 Jn 08 09:00 AM
Dreamt that people were following me around looking for free handouts .


Hm , i wonder what went wrong .
 
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MaritLage

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2022 Jn 08 , 10:51 PM
Dreamt that people built a replica of the entire city so they could move pieces around a board .

2022 Jn 09 , 06:30 PM
Dreamt that people opened up a fresh new Dreamdance hard drive to cope with all the data .

2022 Jn 10 , 01:37 AM
Dreamt that a fresh new band of adventurers came to the Dream Ruins and i led them to their deaths .

2022 Jn 12 , 11:03 PM
Dreamt that people built so many replicas of the Dream Factory that we could reach far enough to psychically phone call them .

2022 Jn 13 , 11:21 PM
Dreamt that i was being followed around by Yamuna Privilegeika .

2022 Jn 14 , 22:42
Dreamt that people posing as my family were following me around again .

yu can really see how , to the numb humans , it looks like there isn·t an insane amount of harassment going on .
 
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MaritLage

MaritLage

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2022 Jn 15 , 07:30 AM
dreamt that i had a kennel full of kids to take care of and most of them didn·t make it . and the rest of them were very apologetic , except for one .

2022 Jn 16 , 06:37 AM
dreamt that people kept trying to figure out how to run the machine without getting caught overturning it .

2022 Jn 16 , 07:16 PM
dreamt of bungalow houses on a Treasure Farm Adventure of my own life that infuriated me so thoroughly that i screamed at the people that made it until their instruments broke and the containment feild cracked and shattered .

2022 Jn 17 , 07:30 AM
dreamt that i had to justify closing the air vents on a trillion people .

2022 Jn 17 , 07:47 PM
after i woke up , Neon rimmed the edges of everything i looked at . edges would suddenly crackle with matte electric blue . the back of my hand , the door in neon fuschia , or however you spell that color of purple .

2022 Jn 17 , 11:55 PM
i definitely dreamt . it·s on the other side of the World , sed i definitely dreamt . impressions like bright white lines like lightning bolts held fast in time .

2022 Jn 18 , 11:49 PM
dreamt of strange stick people , people forming inconsequential formations , behaving in non-human patterns . dreamt of a school in New York , and some figure that called itself Riko constantly trying to pry my jaws open , as if it would leap down my throat itself if they had to . there were four presents up on a shelf , and i kept trying to share them , yet seems-like-Kyo kept insisting that prying peoples· jaws open and sticking their fingers in yr mouth was the true way to maximize genetic strength .

2022 Jn 20 , 02:18 AM
dreamt of a revolving door sex orgy between really really paranoid people . they used the whole floor of a house to make some giant SnakesAndLadders game . i started giving it out to whomever , tho when i went down on some typical M4-type bleb , he got too paranoid his daughter might see . given that yesterday we announced to the world that we had contacted intelligence communities about the illegal underground AdrenoChrome farms , it·s most likely this is a side-effect of people switching around deeds and hosts like they were deck chairs on the Titanic .

2022 Jn 20 , 11:38 PM
dreamt that Crimson Snapjaws kept trying to pull me apart . we were in the ruins again . it is difficult to remember non-human experiences in a human body . my right leg kept drifting up and floating in the air . we were in our alcove when police barged in to arrest us for trespassing . it wasn·t exactly the same as our alcove , it was bigger , more like a walk-in pantry . there were two others in the apartment . one of them was an Ev clone . using a pair of double-scissors , she clipped the hard wire that controlled the life support and artificial gravity , allowing us to escape . this dream was extremely deeply buried and almost impossible to retrieve .

Yu can really get a sense for how this kind of non-supervisable harassment goes on at literally all hours of the day and night .
 

Loco del Lápiz

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Errrr... no idea about this dream journal thing...

As for the apocalyptic setting in media, I guess it helps raise the stakes?
Like, it helps visualize what would happen if the heroes fail. The ruins, being a representation of old civilizations fallen, perhaps taken down by the evil the protagonists have to fight.
 
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MaritLage

MaritLage

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whoooaaa we just found out that the plot of Doki Doki Panic (1986__America as Super Mario Bros. 2 for the NES) is almost identical . there·s a dream factory and the people of Mu got usurped by this big toad named Wart . we totally used to dream that we·d be doing our thing at the Dream Factory and then this big ******* would come in and wreck it over and over again .

like , every single night .

and now we dream of the empty ruins of the same factory .

with some stuff tho i think part of the appeal of post-apoc is that yu can blow up the background scenery without causing a ruckus . in some stuff .
 

Loco del Lápiz

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And that's why you dream about this stuff? Fascinating.

So yeah, collateral damage that doesn't involve people is also a reason why many climatic battles take place in apocalyptic ruins. Showing the characters' power without causing casualties among civilians or questoning if the heroes could avoid said damage.
 
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MaritLage

MaritLage

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we found a anime from before 2000 called Those Who Hunt Elves . it·s an isekai yet they have a tank . very amusing seeing Tank vs. Blunderbus .
 
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MaritLage

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2022 Jn 22 , 06:42 AM
The lastest from Cybertron . News Article: the 1:30 Break-In Specialist . Seen here defending the honor of her pot plants from the likes of Nathan and Co., who would try to take them all away . A showdown of mist-shrouded supercooled halogen lamps and glass cabinets full of 1920s-style apothecaries . somebody tried to pull the Copyright Gambit on me , attempting to lay claim to my things , my songs , my signature , and my sword . if yu want to see the secret relit renovated Mallsoft concourse with floors so polished yu could skate on them , lock yourself into a battle of All-or-Nothing with "The Stunkosaurus©" himself so they can create imaginary space cops to mete out exaggerated punishments through corrupt Mallsoft© security guard police . More at 11! .
 
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MaritLage

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2022 Jn 22 , 11:22 PM
dreamt of a massive house party that went on and on and on . theoretically , after a house party , the best friends stay behind to clean up the place , yet what do you do when the partygoers never leave? Ka . there were whole classes (Again?!) , on topics like How to Use a Hookshot or How to Clone Your Best Friend . somebody printed a clone of me that was supposed to be divergent enough to be distinct , yet when i sat next to them , they mirrored all my ideosynchracies , including learned behaviors . by the end of the dream , the house was trashed , and the responsible of us were being forced to keep cleaning continually , to cope with the fact that the humans just would not pick up after themselves .

2022 Jn 23 , 07:30 AM
dreamt that people were trying to coax my power level up to as close just below the compressor line as they possibly could without me being able to remember it . dreamt of a car ride hurtling down the highway so fast that when the door swung open on its own i had to rescue three separate piles of things from falling out and balance them on my other hands and knees just to reach the doorknob to shut the door . then we went to a recording studio that was so overpacked it was like a convention center . three people stepped up to a display about lichens and tried to flash state police badges made of paper and cardboard . the convention center didn·t know any better , yet Krasi was one of the scientists on the exhibit , and demanded that they couldn·t remove it because fructose lichen was sensitive to pollution and they wanted to take the samples to their truck in the parking lot .
 
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MaritLage

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2022 Jn 23 , 0458 PM
dreamt that we went to hell with Index-chan .

2022 Jn 24 , 0700 AM
dreamt that i was in a jungle basin and had to fight my way out . two long ceiling tiles , caked thick with biomatr .

2022 Jn 25 , 0035 AM
dreamt that i was exploring yet another set piece on the Dream Factory Campus , this time in the form of an art gallery . then , a free-for-all melee that was like video games in real life . i was designing maps that had drops of grenades that looked like the alien eggs in Made in Abyss , piled in clusters of four at each starting point , and everybody got assault rifles of AK47-grade or better . i tried a grenade at some point and hit a couple people , and then at another point where i managed to lob one right into a multi-unit melee . when it exploded , Kalos said MASSIVE DAMAGE , like a video game . i was pleased with myself tho Kelsey wasn·t impressed . afterwards , that i was living in New York with Kelsey , who had pink hair , and that we were packing for a trip . i had boight her a bunch of stuff that cost all my cash , then she said something about why she wasn·t being given strawberry ice cream right right now , so i asked a friend if they had five bucks and they did , so i got her one . it came in a freeze-dried yogurt tube and i had the first bite and gave her the rest . when i finally got to packing , all my stuff from bedsheets to clothes were army green camouflage . i packed my blanket first , in lieu of a sleeping bag , and then looked at the pile of things on my bed to see what i could bring with me .

2022 Jn 25 , 0707 AM
dreamt that we were being judged on the quality of our words , and that somebody kept jumping in to write my lines for me , without knowing how or why .

2022 Jn 25 09:40 PM
dreamt that i was raising Anya-chan with Jiji-san , and doing a pretty fekkin good job of being both a mother and catching all the coded symbols Jiji-san was signalling to me . somebody tried to claim that Anya had cancer , which didn·t sit right with me . there was a neighborhood party at our house , and whew did people like to smoke . the hardest part was keeping our proprietary REDACTED a secret , this one sus-as-fuck "friend of the family" kept trying to extract MegaManX bosses from me . even in a dream world , i could tell that the "penguins" Anya loved were TXL7s .

2022 Jn 26 , 0952 PM
dreamt of a Theater of Combat , a whole City devoted to a machine gun free-for-all . when i ducked into some crumbling ruins and angled my firearm over the side , it worked by a mechanism of LaserQuest-type guider lasers .

2022 Jn 27 , 0041 AM
was dreaming a nearly-identical dream , except it was happening in a private AI mansion , which means somebody was trying to scrape my dreams for free combat data . woke up to the sound of men screaming at each other to call the police . the dream fighting has spilled into the actual apartment building in the real world .

2022 Jn 27 , 0720 AM
more of the same .

2022 Jn 28 , 0029 AM
dreamt of a building where i had to fight Adam one-on-one . he was physically larger than me and it was extremely difficult getting him the hell out of my bedroom , which was my first-floor apartment from the MudHouse . some force tried to use the "drop your weapons! he·s your friend!" programme on me , the best it could get was to make me diplomatically say "i don·t HATE him , per se" and stop attacking the exhaustingly larget target until my friends could aid me on getting him the fuck out .

2022 Jn 28 , 1400 PM
dreamt that somebody tried to "Du" an entire second planet , attempting to recreate every single detail about Terra Sol-3 down to the exact some people in the exact same genetic bloodlines and that i had managed to travel there .

2022 Jn 29 , 1130 PM
dreamt that i walked into the kitchen of the MudHouse and found Lo sitting at the table . i was freezing cold , then i noticed she had the oven on an was warming up . i made a noise that sounded like a burst of broadband screech , then went to the fridge for something to eat .

"Better get another car out there , we got another 1061 ."
 
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MaritLage

MaritLage

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so , the Dream Factory dreams started up again on the day that Made in Abyss - Binary Star Falling into Darkness was announced , and when the Made in Abyss anime S02E01 was announced a week ago before , that was when these dreams about a ruins full of lost relics really went full-swing .

we are not at liberty to reveal our sources , however we can say two things with certainty at this point .

· there are definitely 2 or more Teams racing to scrape everyone·s dreams dry before the other can get to them,

· it has taken some brutal maneouvering , however we are as of tonight (45m ago before) on track to our Emergency Designs which we drafted during Strixhaven .
 

Loco del Lápiz

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Errrr... so, does this dream journal project of yours have anything to do with the theme of the thread? You know, the "apocalyptic settings in magical girls", because so far, this thread has just become your dream journal... and thats... all?
 

Gossik

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Errrr... so, does this dream journal project of yours have anything to do with the theme of the thread? You know, the "apocalyptic settings in magical girls", because so far, this thread has just become your dream journal... and thats... all?
Sorry if it's a dumb question but ehh.. what's a dream journal?
 
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MaritLage

MaritLage

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Well , yeah . In the Catholic Order that i·m a Nun with , we track character archetypes across media .

There·s

· The Duo (Blond Long-Hair Girl & Robot-Boy) ,
· The Trio (Irritating Woman with Large Goon and Small Goon)
· The Four of Us (HaHa, NaNa, HaNa, NaHa)
· The Gemstone Pentet (Black Diamond, White Diamond, Silicodiamond, Sapphire, Ruby)

and basically these archetypes have been recurrent characters for the past 40 years (since Aura Battler Dunbine (1983) , the first Isekai) .

Basically , ever since Made in Abyss (The Duo) S02 came out three months ago , i·ve been having these dreams non-stop, day or night, bedroom or living room, sometimes two or three times a day . And in these dreams , everything is WRECKED , and i keep seeing The Four of Us , almost never all at the same time , usually one at a time , sneaking into this place or breaking into that .

Maybe this is all hard to explain . In our Order , we believe that dreams are signs from God , or whatever you want to call a Higher Creative Intelligence . For these dreams to be going on , not just once or thrice but once or thrice a day , for ninety days , and for all of them to be foretellings of brutal conflict and apocalyptic wasteland , is , uh , significant .

So i looked at some of the anime these characters are in , and it·s like ,

· Pretty Cure (Every time a big bad comes out everything turns to desolate empty cities)
· Biker Mice (Loads of apocalypse)
· Gunslinger Girl (War-torn child soldiers)
· Aura Battler Dunbine (Constant war)
· Prima Doll (More war-torn child soldiers)
· El (Nuclear Apocalypse by 2030)
· Sailor Moon (Every time a big bad comes out everything turns to desolate empty cities)
· Girls Frontline (War-torn apocalyptic 2062)
· Luminous Witches (More child soldiers)
· Simoun (Two nations in unstoppable tragic war)
· School-Live! (Four surviving children in a zombie apocalypse)

and it·s like ... what the aich-ee-double-hockey-sticks is up with these anime , which are all clearly marketed to girls , from 40 years ago to just this season right now , that there is so much war-torn wasteland? Ka . some of these are about Magical Tactical Dolls , and those ones are sort of understandable , but , Sailor Moon? Ka . Pretty Cure? Ka . like , Nagisa and Honoka take on the Devil himself in the land of Gehenna (literally H*ll) . And win !

Like i said , our order isn·t just Religious , we have a Spiritual, Mystical side as well . We believe in dreams as the power of prophecy ... and the background of real life and the background of anime and the background of the dream plane are all forecasting Upcoming Devastation .

In our Order , we believe that Magical Girls are real . That Nuns have always been Mahou Shoujo , and we·ve been quietly fighting the forces of darkness since the time of the Elder Testament , since the days of David and Jonathan 4000 years ago . As an institution , we believe that Magical Girls are real . And we are going to need all of our strength and literally for realsies The Power of Friendship if we are going to survive the coming century .