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Tokyo Magnitude 8.0

Anime · 2009

There is an estimated 70% or higher possibility that a magnitude 7.0 earthquake will occur in Tokyo in the next 30 years. In 2012, Mirai, a middle school freshman girl, goes to Tokyo’s artificial Odaiba Island for a robot exhibition with her brother Yuuki at the start of summer vacation. A powerful tremor registering 8.0 on the JMA scale emanates from an ocean trench, the famed Tokyo Tower and Rainbow Bridge crumble and fall, and the landscape of Tokyo changes in seconds. 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.

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The sides of Tokyo Magnitude 8.0

  • A massive earthquake in Tokyo
  • A girl and her little brother trying to get home
  • A courier mother who walks with them

Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 is good for you if…

  • you like being moved to tears by a story of siblings.
  • you like a sulky teenager learning what her family means to her.
  • you like a long walk home through a broken city.

Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 is bad for you if…

  • you can't take grief and loss on screen.
  • you don't watch anime.
  • you want a disaster story full of rescues and explosions.

About: family · loss · growing up

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