Kusomoto, a brilliant female test pilot, In the inaugural exhibition of the advanced personal battle tank, the MADOX, she humiliates macho tank driver Lt. Kilgore. Kilgore vows vengeance and gets his chance when the army misplaces the prototype in Tokyo. The MADOX is discovered by engineering student Sujimoto Kouji, who fails to read the manual completely and ends up racing around Tokyo locked in a machine he doesn't quite understand how to operate. Guess who gets the duty of finding the now-missing MADOX? Kouji is a loser. If he is late for his date, the relationship between him and his girlfriend is finished. His current outfit redefines the phrase "overdressed." To top it all off, Kilgore wants him to be late—as in "the late Kouji!"