Process: Realism vs. Imaginary

[Crash Ichimonji]

I was wondering about how everyone feels about a process's catalyst/cause being made to be realistic versus just leaving it as a mysterious/magical thing.

WARNING: SPOILERS BELOW FOR JITENSHA'S "MY PET GIRLFRIEND"





For example, in the My Pet Girlfriend series we have Daisy's TF-powder that just suddenly turns people into animals and a counter-formula powder that turns them back to humans (and the exact way they were as humans too). While I have no complaints with the cause of all this, let's face it: it's not a 'scientific' idea, being more akin to 'magic dust'.

Is that something that irks anyone or would turn them off in reading a process story? Like I said in the TF section I'd like to make an illustrated story, but I'm worried my plot-devices for making people transform might be too 'magic' and less 'scientific' despite it being something of a scifi story.

What's everyone's feelings on this as far as how a process occurs? Be it BE, AR, AP, TF, SW, GTS, TG, etc. ?