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More than the [[Fantastic Comedy]] (which is still predominantly normal), the complete mesh of fantastic elements into a universe nonetheless treated as mundane for the most part. It is not ruled by [[Willing Suspension of Disbelief|suspension of disbelief]] since the fantastic elements are presented in a [[Magic A Is Magic A|logical fashion]]; the audience does not demand a plausible explanation.

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* ''[[Spice and Wolf]]'': He is a travelling merchant, she is a Wolf harvest goddess, together they ... trade goods with other people.

* ''[[Itoshi no Kana]]'' is about a young man moving in a haunted house, which is haunted by the ghost of a young girl. Within a few pages, they're a couple. The reader is then presented with such exquisite scenes as the girl touching beer to cool it, entering a wall when they have a fight, entering a [http://everyday.3yen.com/2005-12-14/ufo-catchers/ UFO catcher] to assist her boyfriend with the catch and so forth.

* ''[[Patlabor]]'': It's a cop show with [[Instant Awesome Just Add Mecha|giant robots]].

* ''[[Patlabor]]'': It's a cop show with [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Mecha|giant robots]].

* ''[[Kamichu]]'''s main character is most definitely a goddess. She is worshipped and given full honors wherever she goes and even visits the realm of the gods for official god-functions. However, she has a relatively normal school life for most of the series (even a romance!) and her transition to divinity has remarkably little impact on the rest of the townspeople.

* ''[[Love Hina]]'' is an [[Unwanted Harem]] [[Romantic Comedy]] series about a manager of a girl's dorm studying to get into Tokyo University. This doesn't stop flying turtles, [[Ki Attacks]], [[Humongous Mecha]], and [[Magical Girl|Magical Girls]] from showing up.

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** One should also remember [[Law of Conservation of Normality]], though this only seems to crop up when the webcomic starts up being mundane, and then takes a turn for the weird.

* [[Pessimistic Sense of Inadequacy]] has magic as normal, but normally weak, with magic users registered, people crossing over from other worlds, strange characters, characters who know they're characters, ancient artifacts, etc, all in a world with malls, shopping, just an "ordinary day" (name of a story arc), etc.

* ''[[~~Pv P~~]]'' is another good example, with Skull the Troll being treated as any other character in what is supposedly an office drama about a gaming magazine. His super-intelligent cat may or may not also count.

* ''[[PvP]]'' is another good example, with Skull the Troll being treated as any other character in what is supposedly an office drama about a gaming magazine. His super-intelligent cat may or may not also count.

* ''[[So Damn Bright]]'' is a comedy about a group of cynical college drop outs. So far, so normal. The catch is, one of the characters is a fairy. As in, she has visible fairy wings growing out of her back. Fairies are entrenched enough in the culture that there are [[Red Scare]]-era educational films about their biology, and a dating service asks right after sexual preference whether someone would be comfortable with a fae/"anthro" partner. Several other fairies have also been spotted in the background doing a number of mundane activities such as drinking in a bar.

* ''[[Shortpacked (Webcomic)|Shortpacked]]'' still has the alien invasion backstory from ''[[Its Walky]]'' firmly intact, but most of the time it's just semi-real tales out of retail with the weirdness just out of frame. Except for the talking car working in the stockroom. He doesn't fit out of the frame.

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