Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 (TV Series)
2009 · Series · 23 min. · Japan
The premise of the project is the 70% or higher possibility that a magnitude 7.0 earthquake will occur in Tokyo in the next 30 years. The anime will depict what would happen if an 8.0 earthquake took place. The story will center on Mirai, a middle school freshman girl who goes to Tokyo’s artificial Odaiba Island for a robot exhibition with her brother Yutaka 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 Yutaka strive to head back to their Setagaya home in western Tokyo.
Direction Masaki Tachibana · Daisuke Tokutsuchi · Fumiya Kitajou · Hideki Ito · Yasuhiro Shimoji · Masahiko Watanabe · Kazuya Nomura
Soundtrack Kô Ôtani
Screenplay Natsuko Takahashi · Hiroko Kazui · Yoichi Kato
Cinematography Yôichi Ôgami
Original title Tôkyô Magunichûdo 8.0 (Tokyo Magnitude 8.0) (TV Series)
7.3
425 votes (FilmAffinity)
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