

I assume if you're reading this, you probably, at some point, watched this
obscure anime about a middle-aged magical girl who is basically afraid to grow
up and even after marriage won't kiss anyone for fear of losing her powers
(even though she sleeps with them, apparently). I'll
[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oku-
sama_wa_Mah%C5%8D_Sh%C5%8Djo:_Bewitched_Agnes) this page about the show which
aired in 2005 and had the same director as Azumanga Daioh and same character
designer as Revolutionary Girl Utena, but I don't know if I can be any more
clear than the title - are the people (other than the magical girls) including
the protagonist all fake?

The place they live in, Wonderland, is clearly stated to be a false world
created by magic, but the first episode has Tatsumi, the male lead, move to
Wonderland (which is on the surface a normal coastal town) from somewhere that
looked like a normal city. Moreover, he already had a job lined up there. Also
in episode 8, it's clearly expressed that if Wonderland is changed due to the
transfer of guardianship to a new "administrator", one of the female (middle-
aged magical girl) lead's friends, another middle-aged _former_ magical girl's
young daughter will disappear, along with the rest of the town.

It may be impossible to know, but if anyone has any insight, it would be great
to know if all the people in town, including the male lead, are all fake
magically created people - because it does not seem that the world
(dimension?) the magical girls come from - Realm - has any sort of governance
over what we consider to be the reality of our (the reader's / viewer's)
world, so it is implied that "wonderland" is simply an oasis town of sorts
created for unknown reasons, by way of magic, where these people of
undetermined origin live and go about their lives in the midst of retired (and
not so retired) magical girls.

It has me wondering if this is just a super janky plot, or if there is
something going on in the Japanese dialogue that I'm not following. Either way
thanks for taking this trip back almost 20 years into obscurity to try and
help me understand what in the heck is going on with this show.


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In Okusama wa Mahou Shoujo, is everyone in Wonderland who is not a witch, including Tatsumi, a fake (magically created being)?