The Mighty Boosh might be considered magical realism, but either way, my take is I can handle magic being commonplace in fiction as long as it isn't excessively gamified and especially if it isn't metagamified.
Capitalist realism is bleak enough. Turning magic into an exploitable resource with predictable returns has a similar bleakness for me and I generally don't enjoy fiction with too much of that.
The Mighty Boosh might be considered magical realism, but either way, my take is I can handle magic being commonplace in fiction as long as it isn't excessively gamified and especially if it isn't metagamified.
Capitalist realism is bleak enough. Turning magic into an exploitable resource with predictable returns has a similar bleakness for me and I generally don't enjoy fiction with too much of that.