Shingu is weird. The year is 2070. The story opens with an alien artifact hovering over a city. Nobody is panicking; an old man and a young man sit on top of a nearby building and make droll comments about whatever the alien is up to. Apparently information gathering. Then a giant robot appears from a hole in the sky. The robot is decorated with those diamond paper streamers that the Japanese use for magic. The robot sucks the life force out of the alien and disappears.

We then cut to a middle school where the young man from before is a new transfer student wearing a school uniform that no one has worn since the 20th century. He is Muryou. The Narrator is the class rep, Hajime. He sees Muryou and a Student Council VP having a telekinetic fight of the school roof . After this, it seems to get into a school rivalry show, only the entire school council has these strange powers. As Hajime discovers, one of the School Council members turns into the robot we saw at the beginning of the show (I think either the robot or the powers are Shingu). And Muryou is there to protect the council members, because of a promise his grandfather made long ago.

Several of the council members want to kill Hajime or erase his memory since he has discovered the secrets they so openly flaunted. Evidently the original citizens of the city know all about these secret powers but Hajime, who only moved here four years ago, is an outsider. But the elders decide to indoctrinate Hajime into the big secret and show him the universe and explain the Galactic Federation that is monitoring the Earth. I think that this city is like the primary meeting point for Earth and the Federation (which is why the citizens weren’t panicking to see an Alien Artifact hovering around. Or, they are just too jaded about life , the universe and everything to even bother with alien spaceships.) The Federation is still trying to determine if the Earth is mature enough to join the Federation. Meanwhile, a race that isn’t really a part of the Federation is trying to find out what secret weapon Earth has that is causing the Federation to restrict access to Earth.

Hajime accepts this indoctrination without any problems, other than feeling slightly tired for a while. This raises eyebrows since everyone else that is so indoctrinated is usually knocked out for weeks and maybe they die. Could Hajime be the next step of Human Evolution? I don’t know and I’m not in a big hurry to find out. The stories are basically school rivalry retreads and I don’t want to sit through them waiting to find out what is going on with the Federation.

I’ll give Shingu a 5 out of ten.