...ideas and concepts of the supernatural are-at one level-surprisingly uniform across different cultures, and this, of course, facilitates the transmission of tales about the supernatural (cf. Deciding the answer and the appropriate action to those four Fs has been crucial to the reproduction of the human species for millennia. ...it is no surprise, seen from the perspective of evolution history, that these concerns are important to contemporary humans. ...anime often deals with unlikely characters, most importantly children in 'un-childlike' situations. ...cognition and culture, or nature and nurture, are not opposing forces, and should not be pitted against each other; they are interlocking features of universal mankind.