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1907: Thanks to the plans of urban developers, Tokyo is slowly but steadily
becoming a Megalopolis - much to the dismay of General Kato, who plans to
ressurect the demon god Masakado to lay ruins to the city. But the demon god
lies sleeping, & to awake him, Kato needs amedium, which he finds in
Yukari, a woman who had a near-death experience when, as a kid, her brother
tried to strangle her ... & her brother now is Tatsumiya, financial advisor
of the city's Megalopolis-project, & he is strangely detached from his
sister's problems.
Yukari's clumsy boyfriend, the intellectual Nurataki on the other hand calls
in the sage & mystic to safeguard Yukari against Kato, & it all
culminates in a magic duel between him & Kato, who has just planted a demon
seed in Yukari's womb & tries to wake Masakado. In the duel, Hirai gives
his life but Kato doesn't manage to awake Masakado ...
Later, when Yukari is in hospital, her brother rapes her.
The same night the emperor dies, & in the turmoil that follows his
death, the plans to make Tokyo a megalopolis are shelved ... much to
Tatsumiya's dismay.
Years later, Kato tries again to awake Masakado, this time using Yukiko -
Yukari's daughter, fathered by either Kato or Tatsumiya - as his medium.
Again a magic duel is fought over the girl's soul, this time between Kato
& Kamo, master Hirai's student. Kamo has to bravely give his life, &
this time Kato manages to awake Masakado, but after being woken up after 2.000
years of sleep, he gets a litle grumpy in the morning & kills Kato, as well
as laying Tokyo to runs ... in the 1923 earthquake.
Yet again later: The plans top make Tokyo a megalopolis are reassumed thanks
to the genius of Eiji Shibusawa, who sees the key to making Tokyo a megalopolis
in building a subway system. But building the subway is soon obvershadowed by a
series of cave-ins, too many to still have natural causes, so a Feng-Shui
master Kuroda is called in, who soon finds out the cave-ins are caugth by an
undergrond dragon - actually a kind of demon who Masakado & Kato - who has
returned as a demon - are fighting over, & the dragon can't be defeated by
a human ... however the city's digging robot might do the trick ...
Tatsumiya has since married Keiko, not knowing that she is a follower of the
deceased Hirai & has actually married him to safeguard Yukari &
especially Yukiko - much to the dismay of Tatsumiya, who actually thinks Yukiko
is devil's spawn, having her procreated himself with his sister Yukari (but in
all fairness, the girl might also have been fathered by Kato).
Yukiko is once again abducted by Kato though, who sees in her - once the
means of waking up Kato - the means of Kato's demise as well, but then Keiko
challenges him to a duel over the girl's soul - right when the others put the
digging robot into action against the dragon, & in the end both the dragon
& Kato are defeated & Yukiko is freed ...
But Kato hasn't given up his evil schemes, especially since it turns out
that he only failed because Yukiko wasn't his flesh-&-blood after all (but
Tatsumiya's), & now he uses the control he still has over Yukari to make
her influence her daughter Yukiko - a child progeny - to solve a formula of how
to pull the moon out of its orbit & have it smash Tokyo ... which Kato then
puts into action. But he hasn't taken into account opposition from Keiko &
Feng-Shui master Kuroda, who finally meet & immediately team up to figure
the only way to stop Kato is to kill him for good - a mission Keiko takesupon
herself even if it might mean her own death. With Kuroda's knowledge of
Feng-Shui Kato is soon found out, & even Masakado, dark guardian god of
Tokyo, sends his help to defeat Kato for good.
In the end though, Keiko alone sends him to hell, bare of all weapons or
even cloths, when she turns out to be the Goddess of Mercy who defeats her
opponent not with violence but with love ... but she too perishes in the battle
that is ended with a soft hug ...
Very stylishly done supernatural mystery, told in four seperate episodes
(which I have summed up into one synopsis because they were all interwoven to a
point where anythng else wouldn't have made sense). The attraction of this
anime however doesn't lie so much in the magic duels at the end of each episode
- which come across a bit corny anyways - but in its carefully built
mystery-plot, that - despite much supernatural mumbo-jumbo - does make sense in
its own context & creates a world of evil & unease all of its own,
especially when its referring to real events (like the death of the tenno or
the Tokyo earthquake).
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