Armored vehicles, carrying members of the AD Police, the Special Crimes Control Unit, are gathering at an expressway interchange, drawn like moths to a flame. But these women all have an additional identity.Īs the curtain of night falls, a show has begun in a dark corner of the city. And there is Nene, a member of the AD Police. There is Sylia, and her little brother, Mackie, who, having inherited their father's bequest, own a fashion building. There is Priss, a rock singer who belts out songs on a stage where light and sound mix and mingle. ah, yes, for youth, there has been no change, even now, in Tokyo's standing as "the city of great possibilities." Even now, clumps of office buildings, with rooftop-mounted independent photovoltaic collectors, await the sun's first rays, and the start of another day in MegaTokyo.Īnd youth. A gigantic tidal power plant has been established at Chibajuukuuri, and the world's first solar power plants have been founded at Yokosukachuu and Mashino City, supplying this megalopolis with the electricity it consumes. Presently, the capital is a city of confusion, in the midst of recovering from the ruins, physical and political, which were the result of the colossal earthquake.Ĭars running on gasohol (a mixture of gasoline and ethanol) and battery cars (electrically-powered automobiles) crowd the streets, and a scar of the earthquake remains: a huge fault running through Tokyo, 50 meters wide at its widest point, separating the city into East and West. The Second Great Kanto Earthquake, only seven years before, dealt the city a devastating blow, and the new waterborne city coming into existence in Tokyo Harbor, was abandoned just as construction was beginning, and has since become a ghost town. The time is the year 2032! Tokyo, the world's most overcrowded city - the heart of industry, culture, information, and conflict. Surely, Tokyo is rushing towards tomorrow, the future, and furthermore is transforming itself into a gigantic integrated city.Īnd it is MegaTokyo, the future, some fifty years from the present, which is the setting for this story. The Tokyo Bay Causeway the information/ communications network base, expected to be built on Section 13, reclaimed from Tokyo Bay, and requiring an outlay of 130 Billon Yen a project, set for completion between 2000-2029, calling for a colossal waterborne city and the well-known "Futureport 21" Project these gigantic projects for Tokyo's reconstruction, advocated by JAPIC (the Japan Project Industrial Committee), are all butting heads with one another, competing for resources. Some say it is already terribly overcrowded - but the overwhelming crush of humanity that each day floods into the city is but a taste of what is to come. But each time, Tokyo rose again from the ashes.Īnd so we have present-day Greater Tokyo, the political and economic heart of Japan. The city was completely destroyed in the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, and the Carpet-bombing of Tokyo at the end of World War II, as its name suggests, reduced the city to a smoking pile of rubble. Even from the viewpoint of world history, there are few cities as prone to disaster as Tokyo.
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