Commentary
If you aren't around my age and weren't a kid who enjoyed arcades and video games, you might not understand why I gleefully bring up the possibility of pizza as power ups.
Or maybe you do! Ninja Turtles have had many incarnations and many games, after all. Either way, random boxes of pizza found in the strangest of places and providing health and/or super moves are nostalgic for me, and I indulgently bring them up here.
Besides, it illustrates the idea of why someone might want the magic food by equating them to video game power ups. IT'S HELPFUL!
It takes energy to get energy
Fun fact: Digestion takes energy! Not so much energy that you burn off all the calories from a meal just by digesting it (with some possible exceptions), but it's not free. What happens with immortals is undoubtedly different in a lot of ways, but that aspect of it is likely still applicable.
Considering this, for a mortal, eating food conjured by immortals when hungry would probably be worse than eating nothing. Granted, someone used to magic energy might be able to convert it to usable physical energy, and...
Wait a minute. I think I just tripped over backwards into how anime martial arts are a thing. The physical augmentation side of it, anyway. Huh.
It's been suggested that writing out one's thoughts are helpful, and apparently, they are! Write yourselves some essays, everyone! You might have epiphanies!
But, of course, everything I say down here is only canon once it's also said up there in the comic itself. So maybe we've solved anime martial arts, maybe we haven't. And maybe Elliot, Nanase, and Ellen should have some magic pizza later and see what happens.
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