31 Days of Halloween 2009 - Doomed Megalopolis


Another fine entry in the grand tradition of supernaturally plagued alternate history Japan. This time, it's an odd one set in 1912, where the government is modernizing Tokyo to make it competitive with the rest of the world. Oh, yeah, and there's a sorcered named Kato who wants to destroy it all, using first the powers of a girl named Yukari, and when that doesn't work, her (and his) daughter Yukiko. Meanwhile, some onmyoji named Hisai is fairly ineffective at stopping it all, so it's up to a shrine maiden named Keiko to save the day.

This is another one of those films where there's a bit of squickiness to it - let's just say there's a brother that loves his sister a bit too much and leave it at that. But hey, you also get an underground dragon, the Great Kanto Earthquake, the spirit of a samurai named Taira no Masakado who'd actually rather not destroy the world if it's all the same, and a final plan to destroy Tokyo by using the moon's gravity in true supervillain style. It certainly makes more sense than the live-action version, and if you like alternate histories, it's a well-plotted one.

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