The Hypernatural and Supernatural in Madlax: Disrupted Genre Concepts, Manipulation of Perspectives, Intuition, Fictionality and Implicate Order in Anime

Abstract
A fictional work has various perspectives that are indispensable to construct a particular possible world. The reader is supposed to infer the principal mechanism that is associated with all the elements of the fictional world, together with the semantic extension behind individual events portrayed in it. In some speculative works those world axes can be quite different from ones that establish our own phenomenal world. But authors with very reflective turn sometimes attempt to create a peculiar fictional world that will not directly disclose its genre peculiarity, by means of presenting only limited number of information that may suggest the existence of world axes, in order to give the audience the feeling that they are witnessing just only partial phase of an unknown world. Such is the directing strategy adopted in the anime show, Madlax.
In Madlax, the audience has to gather information through the characteristic property of the minutely detailed descriptions portrayed just as coincidental phenomena. A fictional work has the creative demand to be adopted as constructing a peculiar “fictional meaning” through a series of events that scientific world view might just dispose of as “mere coincidences”. The claim of detecting the fundamental meaning that has been orchestrated in the contingency in fictional description, reversely suggests the existence of a comprehensive global solution formula to be accepted by introducing an unknown mechanism, that enables us to comprehend the organic continuum of the whole universe where matter and mind are inseparably linked.
But the fictional world Madlax presents, is densely organized with rich “hyper-real” concrete details, so as to avoid being determined mechanically as the semantic projection incorporated into existing conceptual category, and establishes the sense that the work must belong to some unknown category with the basic axes loaded with uncertainties of another possible world. The audience is forced to continue to check the fictional specific phenomena full of contaminants revealed one by one, without being able to corroborate the coordinate origin, in search of unified meaning all the way through. But one is never sure whether the show is attempting to present a meta subject overthrowing the conventional commitments of reading the implicit meaning in the work, or to establish another kind of meta subject in which integrated meaning construction of further high-dimensional perspective is to be disclosed.
In Madlax, genre axes are dislocated so as to annihilate the distinction of existence, phenomenon and individuality. This anime surprisingly innovates the motif of division of personality and generation of shadow adopted in many fantasy works since 19th century, in a manner very reflective of contemporary worldview infused with the ideas that construct the quantum mechanics.