Serval said:
AbyssalDaemon said:
Bounded Fields, and other mental affecting magic would probably for the scouting of Shin-Tokyo, and that's just the basic stuff and not the crap that Atlas can pull out. Though it's debatable how much of a damn that the Mage Association, Church or any other of the groups in the shadows would care about being discreet in such a situation given that just might cause them to pull out their versions of <a href='http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Quotes/GodzillaThreshold' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Code Ragnarok</a> protocols...
Mental affecting magic would work on digital recordings? Guess magic beats technology every time.
Wouldn't a Magic organization attack upon a populated city be kind of a declaration of war?
At least one mage has the magical equivalent of Wireless Internet Connection that doubles as Mind Reader. Basically, a combination of Yue and Nodoka's Artifacts from Negima.
She also uses a gun.
In other words, it's not so much magic versus technology as it is thaumaturgy + magitech versus technology.
A Magical Organization attacking a city being a declaration of war depends on a lot of things, such as;
1. Does the Magical Organization
own the city? Cause they sometimes do.
2. Is the Magical Organization an outside organization or does its members actually live and function in the city? Because that's more akin to Civil War or an insurrection.
3. Is the Magical Organization supported by the Government? Cause they sometimes are.
4. Is the Magical Organization capable of pulling off a city-wide massacre and then sweeping it under the rug? Cause they sometimes are. (Gas explosions, lol)
5. Does the Magical Organization use or hire modern military power? Cause even the oldest families know how to call for more dakka.
Given that it's in Japan, the most likely effect is that the territory is already claimed by a Far Eastern Magical Organization, and most of the political fighting will be between the the Clocktower and that organization, with any actual combat being "off the record", as it were.
For example, one can have the fights being streamed online in real time. That should expose Magic, right?
But then the Magic Association floods the media about a new movie, the Japanese Government releases a statement about levying fines for improper procedures, the organized criminals in the area (usually under the Demon Clans'/Psychic Clans' control) start going after every media outlet to shut it up, and the Church condemns the new movie as "heresy" the same way they did to Dan Brown's films.
By the time the bureaucracy is through, most people would just think it's a hoax, a publicity stunt, or a movie.