From: upham@cs.ubc.ca (Derek Upham)
Subject: Re: Demon City Shinjuku
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 92 01:08:40 GMT

donnell@shark.micro.umn.edu (Your Heinous) writes:

>Does anybody have any information on Demon City Shinjuku?
>...
>A plot synopsis is what I dream of, but any info would be appreciated!

What follows is a post I made a couple of months back, giving a
partial synopsis.  ``Shortly'' seems to have been a rather long time...

}pac@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Purdue Animation Club) writes:
}>In reference to the title of this post, is the "Shinjuku" anime in
}>question *Demon City Shinjuku*? [. . .]  If so, does anyone have a
}>synopsis for this?  Watched it several times, but I still can't make
}>out the characters' relationships to one another, nor the particulars
}>of the story.
}
}Yes, that's "Demon City Shinjuku".  I can give you a brief description
}(to set up the story) from memory; I don't anticipate any spoilers.
}An extended (and probably more accurate) one will have to wait until I
}can watch the OAV again.  Most of this was explained to me by my
}friend Christi, the worlds biggest Mephisto fan (but her Japanese was
}a bit rusty---be warned).
}
}  The OAV opens with two men swordfighting on the roofs above
}  Shinjuku.  One of the men, a blond guy, shows a remarkable
}  resistance to sword thrusts.  The other man does not; after losing
}  an arm, a leg, and his sword, he proceeds to lose his life.  The
}  blond man, Lebbie Lar, then causes earthquakes, fires, and assorted
}  phenomena, culminating with a large pentacle spanning the city.
}
}  [Opening credits.  Caption:  `Ten years later']
}
}  A man in his late teens, Kyoya-san, sits in a small diner, eating
}  ramen and watching the televised landing of a space shuttle.  On
}  board, the television anchor states, are a diplomat and his
}  daughter, who hope to negotiate with the ruler of Shinjuku, Lebbie
}  Lar.  As the diplomat reaches the bottom of the landing stairs and
}  begins accepting a bouquet of flowers, Kyoya screams for him to
}  stop.  Kyoya can only watch helplessly as the bouquet explodes with
}  thorn-covered vines, engulfing the diplomat.  The background flares
}  to white, then fades.
}
}  Cut to a kendo academy, where Kyoya is teaching basic techniques to
}  a group of young boys.  After his class leaves, Kyoya begins to
}  practice his Art.  He levitates a semi-circle of six aluminum cans,
}  then lets them drop, slashing at them with his bokuto.  Five of the
}  cans are sliced in half, but the sixth rolls off into a corner...
}  underneath a small, glowing figure, hovering in mid-air.
}
}  This gnomish man says that he is a spiritualist; he and Kyoya's
}  father worked together, until the latter died at the hands of Lebbie
}  Lar.  Now Kyoya must take up his father's responsibilities by help-
}  ing the diplomat's daughter, Sayoko, enter Shinjuku and turn Lebbie
}  Lar from his plan to unleash a horde of demons upon the world.
}
}  Kyoya refuses.
}
}  Later that night, as he rides his bicycle home, Sayoko confronts him
}  in an empty playground.  She asks him to reconsider, but Kyoya will
}  hear nothing of it.  She replies, matter-of-factly, that she will
}  have to do it alone, then, and begins walking away.  Kyoya calls
}  after her, asking how she intends to stay alive in Shinjuku, and she
}  answers "I have quick feet".
}
}I think that's all for now.  It gives at least a partial idea of
}what's going on.  The rest will follow shortly (I hope).  If anyone
}knows Mephisto's motivation, drop me a line.  All I know for certain
}is he mumbles something about "Pandora" at various points in the OAV.

One of these evenings...

                                        ``Space station laser ring!''

Derek

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Derek Lynn Upham                               University of British Columbia
upham@cs.ubc.ca                                   Computer Science Department
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