Tokyo Magnitude 8.0

Subject: Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 Sun Jul 25, 2010 3:13 pm

Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 (東京マグニチュード8.0 Tōkyō Magunichūdo 8.0) is a Japanese anime television series that premiered on Fuji TV's noitaminA timeslot on July 9, 2009, where it ended its original run on September 17. Directed by Masaki Tachibana and written by Natsuko Takahashi, it is an original series that is being co-produced by Bones and Kinema Citrus. The 11-episode series centres around two young siblings, Mirai and Yūki, and the single mother Mari who the two meet in the aftermath of a major earthquake hitting the Japanese capital, placed in the near future (2012).[1][2] It has won the Excellence Prize in the Animation category at Japan's Media Arts Festival in 2009.

Plot
After a massive earthquake in Tokyo 25 km under the sea at a magnitude of 8.0, siblings Mirai and Yūki, who were visiting a robot exhibition in Odaiba at the beginning of their summer vacation, struggle to reach their parents in their house in Setagaya assisted by a female motorcycle courier named Mari, who is striving to reach her own daughter and mother in Sangenjaya. While taking the journey home they encounter many problems caused by the earthquake, and meet others who have lost beloved ones due to the catastrophe.

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