I bought Animage's latest issue just to read Despera. It contains the introduction and a short description of the three creators, plus a prologue of the story on the next page. My Japanese is novice at beat, anyone can translate more clearly what it says?
Prologue goes something like this:
- The story introduces the main character, Ain, and an unnamed man residing in the basement of the Ryōunkaku, a famous 12-storey landmark in Asakusa district of Tokyo (this landmark is damaged during the 1923 Kanto earthquake and subsequently demolished soon after).
- Ain spends her time building all kinds of weird devices, including a number of cathode ray tube displays (in 1922, cathodes have only just became a commercial product).
- The unnamed man, who's sort of a friend to Ain, claims to be able to see the future by looking into the cathode ray tubes.
- Einstein's relativity theory is briefly discussed between the two.