Space-Time Traveler - Time Stranger (時空の旅人 -Time Stranger-)

New Calendar Year 392

Neo Tokyo

CHERRY BLOSSOM PETALS BLOWN FROM THE VASE OF DARKNESS

Toki no Tabibito: Time Stranger

Damn, what's with this?

Even you, Nobucho, you can't do as well as you do in Rugby.

Hey Shinichi, would you please type this for 50 yen a line?

Present Time

Tokyo

Teko, all the goals I'm making are for you.

Do you know that all the tries I make are for you?

What?

That's right, it was a UFO!

It was only for a moment, but definitely above Teko's head.

Hey, is that your excuse for losing the game?

You don't believe me do you?

Yes, I do. I believe you.

You!

Hey! It's Teko.

Hi!

Hey, hey, Nobucho.

Did you wait long?

No, I just arrived.

Oh shoot. Wait a second, I need to go buy some cigarettes.

Sure.

Hi, Teko.

Hi.

This is a nice car.

It's my big brother's.

Oh, that cameraman?

Yes, It's used for his business. Oh, Nobucho.

Hi!

Sorry you lost the game, but you have the fall season coming up.

Yeah.

Try, try.

Say, are you going anywhere?

I'm going to the outdoor shooting with my brother.

Eh? What's he taking with him?

Cherry blossoms and a beautiful girl.

Beautiful girl?! Wow! What's she like?

I can't really say myself.

Eh?

Hey you, can't you even apologize?!

Sensei!

Hey, who are you?

What have you done?

Give me a reasonable explanation for this!

Explain! You bastard! At least answer me!

Hey you! Stop that machine! I said stop it!

You people there, go back, stay still.

What's happening?

What's this?

What's going on?

What is this place?

Where are we?

We have slipped into the wrong time point.

This can't be.

Hey, where are we?

I can't tell, the automatic time adjustment equipment has shifted.

Time point?

What's that?

Are you talking about a designated point in time?

That's right.

Impossible.

What?

So what does that mean?

We have... time slipped.

Time slipped?

Then this time point is...

Stop! Stop the car!

Sensei!

What's wrong?!

Yes, I have definately seen this before.

If the story of the time slip is true...

...then we're at the worst time in history.

Tell us what you mean.

Do you know what that is?

What is that?

I wonder what it is!

That's the B-29.

The B-29 'Superfortress', a heavy bomber first used by the US in 1944. With a ten man crew and a wingspan of over 40m, it was the largest WW2 aircraft, and was used extensively against Japanese cities.

Showa Era Year 20 (1945) March 9th

Tokyo

On March 9th, 334 B-29s dropped incendiary bombs on Tokyo, over a hundred thousand people are estimated to have died in the firestorm.

Aim!

Target altitude 8000.

There are some people over there.

Yeah, let's go.

Target locked.

FIRE!

Aim more precisely.

Excuse me.

Who are you? Why are you not taking cover?

There's a shelter over there.

Wh - What month and year is it today?

You idiot! Leave here!

It's dangerous here. Let's go back to the car.

Hurry! Hurry! Hurry!

Wait!

What are you, you don't even have name plates on!

You're not even wearing an air raid hood.

And your not even wearing gators. Our homeland is in danger!

What do you think you're doing?! You should be ashamed!

With weak men like you, Japan will lose!

That's right! Japan will lose.

What was that?!

What is that clown costume you're wearing?

Are you an enemy spy?!

Gimme a break! What the hell?!

Hey everyone, this way! What are you doing? Hey everyone, hurry up!

Japan will never lose!

We will fight until the last Japanese is killed!

Japan is immortal!

He is still chasing us! What a persistent guy.

You idiot, why did you run away from the car?

What the hell?! You were the one who ran first.

Don't do that!

Water...

Are you OK?

These are the refugees.

The air raids have been continuous for the last month.

Even though they survived and came here...

...they will die from their burns and hunger.

Die!

Everyone run!

Don't be slow, soon this place will be surrounded by fire!

That way! Hurry!

Don't let go!

There is only one way out, can you do it?

Even if I say no, it won't make a difference.

You did it.

Alright.

Let's hurry.

They sure are late.

Oh, here they come! Hurry! Hurry!

Are we ready?!

Uh...

Hurry up and go.

OK, we're ready.

Please tell me your name?

What? I can't hear you.

Oh, this!

I experienced it when I was a boy.

It was not a dream, we were in the middle of the battlefield.

Showa 20 B-29's massacred thousands of Tokyo citizens...

...and we were in the middle of that famous Tokyo raid.

It seems that we can not deny that we have done a time slip.

In my era, a time slip is nothing special.

What is your name?

Agino Jiro.

Agino Jiro, from what time have you come?

I came from the New Calendar Year 392

I hate my time and tried to escape.

But I was found and my machine was destroyed.

Therefore I needed to borrow a vehicle from your time...

...and attached a time synchronization system to it.

You didn't borrow it, you stole it!

What would've happened to us if we were killed in the raid?

Of course you would die.

Then what will happen in our time?

A history, in which you don't exist, will continue.

I don't believe it.

Anyway, let's go back to our time.

We can't.

What?

We can't.

Our energy is about to run out.

Huh? We've landed, now we can go home.

What's this?

What's going on?

You did it! Nice work, Jiro.

By the way, can we go back to our time?

This time synchronization equipment can only travel to the past.

What?!

Why is that?!

So I wouldn't change my mind about leaving my time...

...I stole a machine that only travels to the past.

I don't believe this.

Stop!

Over there!

DANGO

How can you be hungry at a time like this? You're so carefree.

It's OK to be hungry now.

Hey Jiro, make sure you repair the machine.

Yeah, do that.

Excuse us please!

Good afternoon.

Are there any cute girls to serve us?

Anyway, food! Food! Food is more important.

OUCH! What do you think you're doing?!

Robber!

What's wrong?

Get out of here!

No! No! .

Wait a second!

You've got us wrong!

You cluts!

Hey wait a minute Granny.

You wait!

I said wait, don't you understand?! .