"Tokyo Rising" by Lynne Hawkinson

Strange Horizons Fiction: Tokyo Rising, by Lynne Hawkinson

This is the Tokyo viewed through the distorted lens of an American anime/daikaiju fan. Anything with Godzilla and Mothra in it is good in my book. This is a bit surrealistic though, which makes me feel a bit adrift when I read it. Reality is never certain here. The human story of Kai and his daughter is interesting, but the resolution, the price, isn't much of a price at all. Spoilers behind the cut.

The cost for Hana to come back is the destruction of Tokyo/Bay City again, right? But Tokyo's been destroyed so many times, that doesn't feel like a loss. I thought it was be a cost for Kai, but the ending line makes it clear to me that Kai and his daughter survive together.

I still liked this piece, but the price part is troubling me.