
The premise of the project is the 70% possibility that a magnitude 7.0 earthquake will occur in Tokyo in the next 30 years. The anime depicts what would happen if an 8.0 earthquake took place.
The story centers on Mirai, a middle school freshman girl who goes to Tokyo’s artificial Odaiba Island for a robot exhibition with her brother Yuuki at the start of summer vacation. A powerful tremor emanates from an ocean trench, the famed Tokyo Tower and Rainbow Bridge crumble and fall, and the landscape of Tokyo changes in an instant. With the help of a motorcycle delivery woman named Mari who they meet on Odaiba, Mirai and Yuuki strive to head back to their Setagaya home in western Tokyo.
The premise of the project is the 70% possibility that a magnitude 7.0 earthquake will occur in Tokyo in the next 30 years. The anime depicts what would happen if an 8.0 earthquake took place.
The story centers on Mirai, a middle school freshman girl who goes to Tokyo’s artificial Odaiba Island for a robot exhibition with her brother Yuuki at the start of summer vacation. A powerful tremor emanates from an ocean trench, the famed Tokyo Tower and Rainbow Bridge crumble and fall, and the landscape of Tokyo changes in an instant. With the help of a motorcycle delivery woman named Mari who they meet on Odaiba, Mirai and Yuuki strive to head back to their Setagaya home in western Tokyo.
Depressing and heartbreaking, yet fresh and inspired. The absolute best anime Noitamina made and a favorite of mine.
Reality Deftly Handled
As the world quakes with a disastrous aftermath, a story of humanity slowly seeps out through the rubbles of reality...
At the very least, it manages to tell a competent survival story.
Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 has 11 episodes.
As of now, Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 has finished.
Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 aired from July 10, 2009 to September 18, 2009.
Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 is a TV series with episodes around 22 minutes long, originally from Japan.
Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 premiered in Summer 2009.