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** Also, it was made clear that ships have been mysteriously disappearing in the Florian Triangle since long before Thriller Bark.

*** This particular revelation is accompanied by a shot of an enormous shadow with glowing eyes in the fog behind Thriller Bark, something that still gives this troper the creeps to this day.

* ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'' '''sort''' of counts. {{spoiler|Oyashiro-sama's curse is neither supernatural nor the product of a conspiracy by a [[Town with a Dark Secret]] -- it's a ''disease''. But despite that, magic still exists, and so does Oyashiro-sama.}}

* ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'' '''sort''' of counts. {{spoiler|Oyashiro-sama's curse is neither supernatural nor the product of a conspiracy by a [[Town with a Dark Secret]]: it's a ''disease''. But despite that, magic still exists, and so does Oyashiro-sama.}}

* A weirdly inverted version in ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'': While the witches and their magic ''seem'' to be blatantly real, if Battler can explain all the deaths away as the work of normal humans, he'll Do In The Wizard and [[Retcon]] them away.

* ''[[Witch Hunter Robin]]'' ends with this, explaining all magical powers to be a result of genetic breeding from the original witch. Which is still really magic at its core, just mixed with science.

** In a similar vein, Ellis of ''[[El Cazador de la Bruja]]'' turns out to be the product of a project to genetically engineer witches, but these witch powers are genuinely supernatural in nature. The main characters also meet a psychic girl and a harvest spirit disguised as a deceased writer along their journey, without any "rational" explanation given.

* In the manga version of ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'', demons are {{spoiler|really aliens who crash-landed in the Atlantic Ocean and are now living underwater in their mothership. So a lot of what seems 'magical' about them is really [[Bizarre Alien Biology]] or extremely advanced technology.}} However, this doesn't completely explain away their more supernatural powers, and there's still plenty of other magical and supernatural elements that are never explained away with science. The reason why this happened, according to [[Word of God|the mangaka]] at an anime con in Seattle, is that he was criticized during the manga's run [[Critical Research Failure|for not having the demons be accurate to Christian mythology]], so he pulled an [[Author's Saving Throw]]. Also, the anime adaptation ''didn't'' do this and played the supernatural elements straight the whole way through.

* In the manga version of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', the [[Fan Nickname|moon cats]] Luna and Artemis, who previously seemed to be just another magical element inherited from the ruined Moon Kingdom, are revealed to be from planet Mau, which seems to explain their ability to talk (and turn human). This being ''Sailor Moon'', there's still plenty of magic behind almost any "aliens" that appear in the story, but it was still a noticeable [[Retcon]]~~—an~~ earlier side story ''The Lover of Princess Kaguya'' (basis for the ''Sailor Moon S'' [[Non-Serial Movie]]) where Luna falls in love with a human man has her lamenting being "just a cat"; while it seems to be implied that the cats ''can't'' randomly turn human at will, in this story Luna doesn't seem to be aware that she has a human form and only achieves it because of the Ginzuishou power.

* In the manga version of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', the [[Fan Nickname|moon cats]] Luna and Artemis, who previously seemed to be just another magical element inherited from the ruined Moon Kingdom, are revealed to be from planet Mau, which seems to explain their ability to talk (and turn human). This being ''Sailor Moon'', there's still plenty of magic behind almost any "aliens" that appear in the story, but it was still a noticeable [[Retcon]] — an earlier side story ''The Lover of Princess Kaguya'' (basis for the ''Sailor Moon S'' [[Non-Serial Movie]]) where Luna falls in love with a human man has her lamenting being "just a cat"; while it seems to be implied that the cats ''can't'' randomly turn human at will, in this story Luna doesn't seem to be aware that she has a human form and only achieves it because of the Ginzuishou power.

** Also, the Moon Kingdom was a powerful and unique piece of mythopoeia, and its Senshi were originally almost deities—their official group title is "Soldiers of the Four Guardian Gods". The last series replaces this with there being Senshi ''all over the Galaxy''. It doesn't provide a scientific explanation, but since it destroys the poetic elements of the story, it counts.

* ''[[Madoka Magica]]'': {{spoiler|[[Unreliable Narrator|Kyuubey claims to be]] from a race of [[Sufficiently Advanced ~~Aliens~~]]}}. Magic is still magic, though, more or less.

* ''[[Madoka Magica]]'': {{spoiler|[[Unreliable Narrator|Kyuubey claims to be]] from a race of [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien]]s}}. Magic is still magic, though, more or less.

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