"But anime can't be real!" says the philistine, and in a way they are correct. The events that happen in anime indeed do not occur in meatspace. However, the fundamental elements, the data of all "fiction" occupies our world in a very real way. From the WiFi antennas and cellular towers, and inside the mosslike web of metal and glass that composes the internet, they oscillate. Their oscillations are their matter. Their matter, like ours, is meaningless without interpretation. Human organs do not (yet) possess the ability to interpret them, so a computer is required. Put shortly, they exist as forms in The Wired, and The Wired exists as oscillations in our physical world as electricity, as light, and as waves. In our modern era of worldwide data transfer this implicates the existence of a layer of reality that entirely covers ours (see Serial Experiments Lain) and in which, indeed, Hiiragi Tsukasa occupies.
However, the fundamental elements, the data of all "fiction" occupies our world in a very real way. From the WiFi antennas and cellular towers, and inside the mosslike web of metal and glass that composes the internet, they oscillate. Their oscillations are their matter. Their matter, like ours, is meaningless without interpretation. Human organs do not (yet) possess the ability to interpret them, so a computer is required. Put shortly, they exist as forms in The Wired, and The Wired exists as oscillations in our physical world as electricity, as light, and as waves. In our modern era of worldwide data transfer this implicates the existence of a layer of reality that entirely covers ours (see Serial Experiments Lain) and in which, indeed, Hiiragi Tsukasa occupies.