Hello! I'm curious to know if you know scenes from anime, video games etc ... where something happens that makes several characters act strangely or alters their minds and despite multiple occurrences of this and the billion of proofs something weird is going on, everyone thinks all of that is just normal.

An example that comes to my mind is ep 20e of saiki kusuo no psi-nan where the author mind alters the whole world to be obsessed by number 100 and no body notices anything weird except the main character after a moment.

The first example that comes to my mind is an episode of a show called Haven.

The show takes place in an isolated town where everyone secretly has a supernatural ability based on a traumatic event in their past. In this particular episode, a woman with a Christmas related trauma manifests her ability, causing everyone in town to develop obsessive and dangerous levels of holiday spirit while believing that Christmas was just a few days away. It was early August at the time.

Main character Audrey, who's power is immunity to everyone else's powers, was the only one not affected, but any attempt she makes to point out what's happening or get people to focus on the task at hand is brushed of with the excuse that she's just being a Scrooge.

Just remembered another example from the SCP Foundation.

SCP-6421 is a cognitohazardous political ad found on posters and billboards all over Chile. Anyone who sees it becomes completely convinced that Spider-Man is the country's current president.

Those affected still recognize the authority of the actual president, and still realize that Spider-Man is both a foreign national and a fictional character, but don't consider any of that to be relevant.

I looked it up and find it hilarious it actually is an SCP.

I think this is close. A music video goes viral that makes all that watch it love it and starts to sing as if they were in a musical. No one who watched the video thinks this is odd.

youtu.be/yY2-WgtAyUc?si=HWcMZDSAI-uEvroH

Thanks a lot! That was def interesting! I love when stuff like that spreads and people think it's normal. Actually there is an anime who is entirely that: princess tutu. In this anime unusual things happen like anthros animal speaking and all but people are mind alter to think it's normal. in fact it's at the scale of the town and any stranger who penetrates the town is either turned into a an anthro or something else or stays normal but in both cases they'll be mind alter to think it's normal

Just remembered another example from the SCP Foundation.

"SCP-6421 is a cognitohazardous political ad found on posters and billboards all over Chile. Anyone who sees it becomes completely convinced that Spider-Man is the country's current president.

Those affected still recognize the authority of the actual president, and still realize that Spider-Man is both a foreign national and a fictional character, but don't consider any of that to be relevant."

that's why I love SCPs sometimes ^^

I love it when stuff like that becomes viral. it reminds me of comics gen 13. The issues 44 and 45 from 1995 features a stupid songs that quickly becomes addictive to everyone and it receives rewards as "poetry" and all

In episode 78 of yu gi oh go rush some sort of reality warping happened. Stuff became weird: people changed visually, one of the MC's voice changed, a girl had weird stuff on her glass, someone's name changed, a dog became a lama of some sort, people use squids instead of ties, people use kettles instead of basketballs to play basket, a space ship became a bird, people go for a walk with toilet paper instead of dogs, a young girl has gorilla arms, a guitarist uses drum instead of her guitar, people's tears come from their ears instead of their eyes, an always wet character became dried etc ...

And nobody notices anything is weird due to the mind alteration related to that reality warping. Except the main character who slowly manages to notice all abnormal things. It takes some time for victims to notice it and the mind alteration at the scale of victims is stopped once they understand it's abnormal.

Apparently things still stay weird at the scale of the city in ep 79 since the situation is not entirely solved.

If you want altered perception, you can't beat Spellbinder from Batman Beyond. In the episode that introduced him, he had a teenage girl steal from her parents thinking she was having a jungle adventure where she retrieving an artifact from a temple. He had an auctioneer steal a priceless dress thinking that he was in a war and dragging a wounded buddy to safety. He made a bride tear off her jewelry thinking they were insects.

Thanks a lot! That'd def an excellent ep ^^. Now I regret not watching batman beyond before ^^