12 Days of Anime #4: ‘Worlds’ in Flip Flappers

One incredible feature of our personhood is how we, as people, are not tied down to any particular ‘world’. Though we accept that there must be a singular world at some level, we as subjective and complex individuals also accept there are many important and different lenses through which we experience it. Fiction is one such brand of lenses. Stories can entertain, provoke, and inspire people, despite the fact the events described in them are, strictly speaking, not real. The ideas, beliefs and examinations in such fiction are ultimately communicated in such a fashion to be palatable. There is value in dry textbooks describing the world. There is also value in fantasy fiction describing a fake world. Flip Flappers is no exception to this.

(slightly nsfw images below the cut, courtesy of the Adolscence of Utena)