[quote=@Aix] A lot of current Japanese fantasy fiction seem to be a mix of modern day and medieval fantasy, generally explained by magic significantly raising the quality of life. Major examples of this that come to mind are Fairy Tail and Re:Zero. [/quote] Would you really consider re:zero modern? I mean, it starts off in modern Japan, yes and there is a phone, but besides that there's nothing related to modern day at all. I'm talking about modern or like maybe a little bit in the past technology preset in the world that is mostly medieval. Not sure much about Fairy Tail, since I've only seen one episode. [quote=@Dinh AaronMk] The idea of mixing the medieval ages and the present is pretty incompatible. Why bother stabbing shit with a sword when you can shoot it from a half mile away? Why put a guy on horse-back to deliver a message when it's quicker to call the person up on the telephone? [/quote] "Why stab shit with a sword when you can shoot from a half mile away?" I never said there had to be guns, just any modern technology, computers for example. It doesn't have to be completely modern. Plus why stab shit with a sword when you can get a bow and shoot shit from a half mile away? [quote=@BrokenPromise] If we're going to be super duper technical... While Steampunk is considered a sub-genre of science fiction, it often takes place in an alternate past where industrial steam powered machinery progressed a lot further and became mainstream. So it's not science fiction because it takes place in the future, but because these worlds rely on steam powered machinery that never existed. Science fiction is actually defined by the scientific advancements of it's world, which are [i]usually[/i] in the distant future. As for a modern/Sci-fi/Fantasy mix, the closest things I can think of is [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_realism]Magic Realism[/url]. As Aix said, the Japanese love to do modern fantasy. It's hard to look at an anime list and not see at least one like that. [/quote] I personally do not understand what steampunk is, I just get from what I've seen that it is past/future mix. Is a modern/future/past even possible to do? I understand that there are a lot of modern fantasy, but not in the way that I am thinking of.