The nature of surrealism branched off since the Pacific War and Fukuzawa's influence. One path that artists have taken is borderline commercializing surrealism and making it widely appealing to a broader audience.

The works of Naohisa Inoue are wider spread than audiences realize, as he has worked as a background painter for Studio Ghibli films. His most expressive and imaginative work is in the film "Whisper of the Heart", feauturing pastel-colored and whimsical landscapes that differ only slightly from reality. Supernatural creatures integrate quietly into the sparkling mountains and seashore, while celestial bodies hang low in the sky.

Inoue is intent on making his work acceptable to a broader audience, packaging his landscapes into a single mystical world: Iblard (pronounced e-ballade).

Inoue's website, iblard.com, contains an introduction that invites viewers to browse galleries and see a comprehensive take on this single world. He acknowledges that the landscapes shift and change unexpectedly, which makes it unique and exciting.

His enthusiasm for his landscapes is punctuated by his incorporation of "reality": he insists that Iblard can be experienced in real life, whenever a particularly moving sunset or cityscape seems "out of this world".

Inoue then invites his viewers to become "Iblarders", and to begin transforming one's surroundings into scenes that resemble his fantastical landscapes. He cites that legendary director Hayao Miyazaki is also an Iblarder, as it is a way of perceiving and interacting with one's environment. Inoue packages his surrealist work into an accessible and appealing package that affects the way viewers consider reality.