Anime 2030 Game Log

Our heroes back ground.

Anya Rodchenko – was born in a small rural area of Canada 2014. Her home was a fortified camp a short distance from the town of Sackville. Life in Canada after the EMP of 2012 was never quite what it had been. Although some technology was rapidly restored, many areas of life took on a pattern that was pre-modern, late 1800s. In particular the car as an individual all pervasive device and the long distance trucking industry were abandoned. For young Anya surviving in the wilderness, working on the farm and training to fight for the freedom of the local community from outside domination were her world.

Things changed a lot in 2024 when uncle Stone joined the UN-Space Force. Everyone knew about the alien ship crash of 2015, but it seemed distant and unimportant. That is until Stone’s visit home after his three month training. Although he gave away no secrets, he did stress how important it was that people get ready to defend Earth from the aliens. Thus by the time she was 11, Anya had in mind her future as a space marine.

Anya arrives in Osaka, three weeks after her father Ivan came over to set up his shop; one week before school starts its new year. It was a total culture shock to her. Not only was Japan a foreign country, Osaka was a huge city of millions. Although she had prepared for it, learned to speak the language, etc, nothing could prevent the amazement she felt when she arrived.

Her birthday present this year was not a gun, as it usually was; it was a classic motor bike. So she spends most of that first week updating her driving license. Of course other paperwork had to be done in connection with the school and the embassy. Although she wanted a license to carry a gun, all she could get was a permit to transport a weapon ( in a locked box ) from point A to B.

So there Anya was the night before the first day of school, excited yet felling a bit home sick for the open green lands of her home.

Emiko Aoki - was born in 2018 in the slums of Osaka, Japan. Her mother died when she was young and she soon found herself living in the Uji no-habitation zone. By age 10 she had gathered a few other street kids around her to form a small gang her “hand”. They worked odd jobs and did small crimes to get pocket money. They scavenged for other tings they needed. Life was hard on the streets but Aoki was one smart cookie.

The “hand” include; the twins Yasushi (boy) and Rei (girl) Kawano, Tsuyoshi Takaki the street fighter, and little Miki Wada who has her own special power.

Things changed a year ago when she found a special deck of tarot cards. She always had something mystical about her, most people simply thought of it as good luck. But with the cards she could work some real magic, although controlling it was difficult.

She would still be on the streets if not for a chance encounter with a cop and his partner, who could sense magical powers. On behalf of the government, they offered her entry to an elite school, but she agreed only if her friends were taken care of too. So it was that

Aoki moved into her new apartment with her “hand” two weeks before the start of school. Their newly appointed guardian, an officer in the Osaka PD, took some time off work and ran around enrolling the kids in near by schools. Although he did not think she was ready for high school, her entrance tests and the examiners did.

The street kids got a crash course in normal life, they got a nice place to live and pocket money for food, it was like a dream come true, but none of them really believe it was going to last. Although Aoki took up the role as a dutiful adopted daughter, she had her own set of plans for escaping with her “hand” if things got really weird.

 

Kimi Matsumoto - born in 2015, a descendant of the great female general Katsumi in the time of Emperor Ojin, was a very average shrine maiden living a quiet life with her family, until she found a mystical amulet. It had been put away and forgotten at the shrine managed by the Tanaka family. Then as fate would have it, one summer’s day as Kimi’s family was visiting she picked it up and tried it on; to everyone’s shock she could not remove it.

It was shortly after this, that a group of Master Monks came to examine her and the amulet. They told her of the new path that she must walk. She was now bonded to the spirit of her ancestor that lay within the artifact. Some of the Masters wanted to send her into seclusion; others had a more progressive plan. Eventually it was decided, Kimi would attend an elite high school with the aim of better controlling the power that was linked to her; a power that caused the monks both fear and hope.

The Master Monk who would act as her guardian in Osaka explained most of the situation to her and her parents. The spirit of Katsumi – Akroma as she was known, could be a powerful force for the good of Japan, but she could also be a force of destruction. Legends tell that she had acted increasingly erratic in her duty as protector of the Emperor, killing any whom she suspected of trouble making, including Shinto monks. Because Akroma is bound to Kimi, she is the best if not only person to control her.

All this was some heavy weight for Kimi but she was not one to refuse her duty. On the bright side, going to school would mean a renewal of the friendship she had with Shin, of the Tanaka family, who had been like a brother to her.

Sainen Hatorri - had been planning for this moment for almost a year. Although he was over two thousand years old and had lived many interesting lives, he now looked like a teenager and was about to integrate himself into the modern world. It was a daunting task even for him.

After living quietly in isolation, under the Buddhist monetary he had founded some a hundred years ago, Sainen suddenly realized the world was moving much faster than ever before. The nuclear bombs that fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki came as a total shock to him. After a thousand years with hardly any change in the tech level, atomic weapons were being used.

After WW2, he went on a brief fact finding mission to examine the world as it now stood, entering the Cold War. It seemed inevitable that a full nuclear war would soon happen, so back into hiding he went. He put his resources towards building a very deep base to withstand WW3 and support him in the post war nuclear waste land. 

Although there was a WW3, a bit later than expected, it did not turn out half as bad as his predictions had indicated. Humanity had survived the 2012-2015 global conflict. But more critically they had encountered aliens. Something deep down told Sainen that isolation was a luxury that could no longer be afforded.

The dangers loomed large and something had to be done. The world was not ready for an alien invasion, even after 15 years of effort. So it was off to the elite high school, which his research showed was the best place to meet young people with powers and the idealism that could change the world.

As a right hand man he chooses Somni, a Buddhist monk with extraordinary healing abilities.  

( Let me know if there are any important errors or omissions, I will update the text )