"Let me guess, this is all a big secret you have to keep from outsiders?" Hokuto asked. It wasn't something she personally had experience with (considering when a boy she'd never met before started invading her dreams, she'd cheerfully told her family about her new friend without hiding a thing), but she'd read enough stories to have an idea how these things usually went.

Seriously, thanks to anime, all this was a lot less confusing than it should have been... and now she really wondered why so many kids' shows around this had everyone so shocked. Sure, it was a new experience, but it wasn't like modern-day Japanese kids would never have heard about other dimensions even if they thought it wasn't for real.