From this high up, Odaiba's artificiality is obvious: It's all angles and sharp lines, the islands that make it up a mix of rectangles and triangles. And Taichi gestures at a much further off set of buildings on a far more distant artificial island, a cluster of glass and metal, which is presumably the Academy.

"It'd probably be cooler without all the monster attacks," Taichi says. "But then, Yama tells me that supervillains keep popping up in your city, and that's not much better."


Yamato chuckles, shaking his head. "Yeah, no mountain lions here. If you're desperate for predatory animals, though, I can always take you to the old Ishida territory in Shimane. There's bears there." Beat. "And, er, not much else, it's pretty quiet and dead."