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n July 1988, Tokyo is destroyed by a psychic singularity, initiating World War III. By 2019, the city has been rebuilt as Neo-Tokyo, and sedition and gang violence have grown. One night, Shōtarō Kaneda has his gang, the Capsules, battle their rivals, the Clowns. During the brawl, Kaneda's friend, Tetsuo Shima, crashes to avoid Takashi, a psychic esper who fled from a secret government laboratory. Colonel Shikishima of the Japan Self-Defense Forces, assisted by esper Masaru, escorts Takashi home and hospitalizes Tetsuo. When Kaneda and his gang are interrogated, he encounters Kei, a terrorist belonging to a local resistance, and arranges for her release alongside the Capsules.