Haruki Murakami and filling the void with imagination

In "Honey Pie" Junpei is a victim of unrequited love. In "Super Frog Save Tokyo", Katagiri is a victim of his own imagination, and in "Ufo in Kushiro", Komura is a victim of abandonment. All three men are depicted as to not having any other family members that they closely and comfortably interact with. In this way, their imagination fills their void of that missing person. I found this aspect more of fantastic than supernatural, because these stories did not creep me out, but it intrigued me how their thoughts and imaginations are extended into their new sense of reality. they are extended to the point where they start interacting with them. Especially in the case of Frog and Katagiri, it reminded me a lot of a film, Donnie Darko, in which a large demonic bunny is a figment of Donnie's imagination and he has this whole elaborate dream of doing all these crimes in his town and not getting caught. In a way, it was like how Katagiri has Frog, telling him to save Tokyo and just end up a silent hero. I guess these bouts of active imaginations are these characters' ways of seeking a sense of attachment to something to keep them grounded into the reality after something shocking has occurred to them. When things suddenly shake up the norm in our lives, it is a tendency to want to get back to stability.