Like the plots of much Japanese commercial animation, Shûkan Shinchô's 2005 theme was apocalypse or, to be more precise, apoco-ellipsis-one apocalypse trailing off into the next.
Now go on the kind of vacation more suitable for your hipper lifestyle." This made it all the more surprising to find out that the theme of near-future Japan would have nothing at all to do with the sex, fashion, and travel predilections of beautiful celebrities and powerful politicians. For example, its 2004 theme was "cool Okinawa," which was pitched as the new groovy vacation spot for twentysomethings with disposable wealth: "Your parents forced (kyôsei shita) you to go to Hawai'i when you were a kid. In past summer vacation specials, the celebrity-focused weekly tended to feature consumerist topics more appropriate to kick off summer vacations in the former center of postmodern capitalism. Japan's third-largest weekly magazine, Shûkan Shinchô, published its 2005 annual summer vacation issue on June 30 with the theme "near-future Japan"-shinmirai Nihon.
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