Making (Kamehameha) Waves

As a city as a whole, Tokyo's quite fond of publicity stunts, and twice as much so when they involve popular anime and manga series. In Shibuya, in an attempt to get the word out for the release of an upcoming Dragonball videogame, a Kamehameha machine has been set up for people to try out. The idea's simple enough, really. You can scan your toughest face, and the machine judges your "power level." Then, you go face to face with a friend and shoot laser beams from your hands at each other. Fun! You can see it in action right here.

Actually, maybe coinciding with the encroaching Valentine's day, most of the people lined up to try it were couples, if not good friends. For fear of wasting the time of the pairs in line I opted not to try it for myself. I'll surely get another chance, right? No? Yeah I don't think so either.