EPISODE 19: FUTURE

2027Text: Kurando Furuya, Hitoshi Odajima, Tomoki Kurokawa

2027 - Future
Graphic design: Hisashi Okawa

Who has ever imagined such 2020’s? Every edgy part has been chipped off, it seems like everything has settled nicely. Only the edge thing is what parents say. I’m going to quite the part time job by tomorrow and will escape. And then I will head to the sea. From there I will transfer to a cruiser heading to the Pacific Ocean. An extravagant life on a tropical island. Having enormous amount of champagne, I will go to sleep with a woman. And, surrounded by shells I will sleep at the bottom of the sea. Oh, this is something like I’ve seen on MTV.

Does the 20 years later I’ve imagined in the past seem something like this gloomy? Did I pay the rent of this month? Has the utility charge been deducted this month? Why should I pay utility charge in the first place? A gray rat puts a tap by the doorway and leaves. I feel like as if I’m watching the banned David Lynch film. I want a machine which I can dream a perfect dream. I want someone to let me out of the gloomy room. Please change the scene.

Text: Kurando Furuya, Hitoshi Odajima, Tomoki Kurokawa
Translation: Mariko Takei
Photos: Kurando Furuya, Hitoshi Odajima, Tomoki Kurokawa

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