As she looked, she observed the disparities in this world.
Many countries had no or few aliens. Some countries were actively hostile towards nonhumans. Some countries accepted their alien heritage with few qualms. Some were less so.
Because of this, the aliens tended to congregate in countries where there was more acceptance of them. Which brought benefits to those countries. Those hostile towards magic, aliens, magic aliens, espers, and so on - tended to be less developed as well as breeding cases which proved their point. Supervillains, monsters, and so on and so forth.
Watching girls in a NORMAL high school in Japan playing soccer that involved powerarmor was... well... odd.
Normal cars scooted about on the road, their drivers casting envious glances skyward as others utilized lev-boards or flying carpets or hoverjets or gravbikes to get around. She saw glimpses of this amongst the mega-towers of Berlin, London, New Yorke, and Tokyo.
In those same cities she saw toadlike beings working street-vendor stalls. She viewed oni in Oslo, kenku in Katmandu, pixies in Paris, and nekomata in New Amsterdam. She glimpsed wolfmen in Wyoming, selkie in Seattle, kirin in Korea (South Korea, the North had a firm anti-alien anti-magical stance), and minotauri in Mexico.
Just as there were 'Chinatowns' where Chinese gathered, there were alien enclaves where members of a particular species (and their mixed bloods) tended to gather. Juraians were down in Okayama, for example. The whole area had a rustic pre-modern feel to it. There was an Elftown in Dublin, and a district known colloquially as 'the Shanties' outside San Francisco where Mausians had worked for generations.
Finally she found Ranma, and discovered that:
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