Sometimes it’s fun to deconstruct the bizarre “physics” of anime, which violate the laws of the universe we live in yet add a lot of fun to the genre. Of course anime is rife with various sight gags such as the giant “sweat drop” that appears over the head of a character who’s upset, or tsundere girls who throw male characters into the sky so high they become tiny points of light. Anime of the 80s and 90s employed a complex system of gags involving female characters who would pull 100-ton “Hyperspace Hammers” out of nowhere to hit male characters who were being ecchi, and fans naturally created complex models describing the alternate dimension of “hammerspace” and how it might function. Just as hair comes in any color of the rainbow, with “Japanese” characters somehow sporting pink, blue, green and blonde hair, there are hair styles that defy reality, like the recent rise in “drill hair” which in some cases spins when the character gets mad. Sometimes the unique physical laws found in anime are more subtle. Since emotion must always be communicated to viewers, the eyes of characters with glasses are usually visible to us even when viewed from the side, thanks to one of Albert Einstein’s lesser-known theories, the Third Principle of Moe Meganekko Light Bending.
Anime often creates its own physics models.
