Super-Frog

"Super-Frog Saves Tokyo" is closer to the fantastic than supernatural on the spectrum because the reader is constantly questioning whether the frog is real or a figment of Mr. Katagiri's imagination. There are moments of proof that Frog is real, like when he frightens Katagiri's toughest client into paying back his loan on time. Yet the story allows its reader to believe that the whole event could be Katagiri's dream. Supernatural events definitely happened in his dream but the battle could have been just a dream or Katagiri could have truly did help Frog defeat the giant worm in his sleep. Often when arguing that a story is uncanny one can say that the main character was just insane or the entire event was a dream, so the idea that Katagiri helped Frog in his dream is interesting. The argument for the supernatural in this story does not argue with the fact that the events happened in a dream. Another contradictory point is that Frog tells Katagiri that no one else can see him, this fact is usually proof that the character is not sane but since the issue is addressed it allows the story to still be supernatural.