ナショナルジオグラフィックのインスタグラム(natgeo) - 7月2日 21時46分

photo by @dguttenfelder | words by @neilshea13 — You’ve been waiting for this. Suit up, sit down, engines on. In a cartoon skin you’ll cruise the neon dream of Tokyo a few inches off the pavement, head level with the wheels of passing trucks. It costs less than a hundred bucks. Takes an hour or two. Probably you’ve wanted to do this for a long time, maybe without knowing—to bash through this city, indestructible, invincible, even a little kawaii. To dye your hair blue, green or purple, do battle with a tentacled demon and finish your run with beers and a bowl of ramen. How much of your imagination do you owe to Tokyo, anyway? How many games, movies, monsters and heroes rolled out of Japan’s cramped studios and into your childhood? Giant robots, Hello Kittys, Power Rangers, dragon balls. You learn a lot about a person based on the mecha they remember—Gai-King, Gundam, Voltron, the Evas. Or the way their afternoons vanished into Sailor Moon or Super Mario Bros., Naruto, Pokemon, Tetris* on a Game Boy. This country’s culture flows deep and swift through our memories, and its roar—the bleeps and burps, one-ups and game-overs—has become our background noise, like apps we never closed, like TVs left on till dawn. In the stories we saw Tokyo fall and burn a thousand times and each morning rise again from the ashes, resetting the stage. So when you arrive here it will be a kind of homecoming. Signs and symbols may seem foreign at first but relax, get in the car. You’ll know what to do. You’ve been training for years and years.

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