I also think a large part of it is animation, too. Large part of technology can seem magic-like in animation (especially Japanese style), but films and other me

I also think a large part of it is animation, too. Large part of technology can seem magic-like in animation (especially Japanese style), but films and other media make it difficult (tech is too real). I grew up on Japanese animation, and the fights are much more fantastical than not. But action films of Hollywood portray more of what reality is like, which can seem less magic-like and just plain gruesome (even when it is romanticized). I also think this is why Japanese animation, when they are translated into the more real, film territory, enter uncanny valley. Some things must remain magical in the form that they were conceived in.