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| ShortSummary = Mirai Onozawa and her younger brother Yūki are visiting a robot exposition at Odaiba, Tokyo, when a massive earthquake strikes the city.
| ShortSummary = Mirai Onozawa and her younger brother Yūki visit a robot exposition at Odaiba, Tokyo when a massive earthquake strikes the city.
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| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|7|16}}
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|7|16}}
| ShortSummary = After the earthquake Mirai looks desperately for Yūki inside a collapsing building along with Mari Kusakabe, a female motorcycle courier who offered to help her.
| ShortSummary = After the earthquake, Mirai desperately looks for Yūki inside a collapsing building along with Mari Kusakabe, a female motorcycle courier who offered to help her.
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| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|7|30}}
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|7|30}}
| ShortSummary = Having finally left Odaiba, the trio finds a place to gather supplies and prepare themselves for their long walk, but after having a discussion, Mirai and Yūki stray away from Mari and end up in serious trouble.
| ShortSummary = Having finally left Odaiba, the trio finds a place to gather supplies and prepare themselves for their long walk, but after having an argument, Mirai and Yūki stray away from Mari and end up in serious trouble as another aftershock hits.
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| ShortSummary = The group takes shelter at her school's premises during the night, but their stay there becomes far from peaceful as they are constantly plagued by aftershocks and depressed by the sight of those who lost their relatives to the earthquake.
| ShortSummary = The group takes shelter on the premises of Mirai's school during the night, but their stay becomes far from peaceful as they are constantly plagued by aftershocks and depressed by the sight of those who lost their relatives to the earthquake.
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| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|8|13}}
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| ShortSummary = The group reaches Mari's workplace, where she loses consciousness because of anemia. During that time the kids are suddenly frightened by Aya, a colleague of Mari, who noisily enters the building carrying a baseball bat.
| ShortSummary = The group reaches Mari's workplace, where she loses consciousness because of anemia. While tending to her, a stranger enters the building.
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| WrittenBy = Hiroko Kazui
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| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|8|20}}
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| ShortSummary = Rescue robots fill the scene, fascinating Yūki and leading him to meet a new friend, who shares his interest and is the same age as Mirai. However the journey so far seems to have taken its toll on Yūki.
| ShortSummary = Rescue robots help recover survivors, fascinating Yūki and leading him to meet a new friend, who shares his interests. However the journey so far seems to have taken its toll on Yūki.
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| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|8|27}}
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|8|27}}
| ShortSummary = Yūki collapses suddenly and is taken to the hospital.
| ShortSummary = Yūki collapses suddenly and is taken to the hospital. Mirai and Mari spend a long night waiting for news of his condition.
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| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|9|3}}
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| ShortSummary = Mari finally reaches her home to find it was destroyed. Mirai and Yūki learn that residents are being cared for at a nearby elementary school. There, they find two unknown bodies that Mari believes are her mother and daughter, and mourns their deaths. However, Yūki believes they are still alive and with his sister, helps finds Mari's daughter at another school. After reuniting with her daughter, Mari finds her mother at a local hospital. Mirai and Yūki leave to continue their search for their parents. Mirai leaves Mari a note to thank her for all she did for them, stating that she hopes they will meet again. Confused and surprised, Mari says "Yūki and I?"
| ShortSummary = Mari finally reaches her home to find it destroyed. Upon learning that neighborhood residents were evacuated to a nearby elementary school, the trio heads there to search for Mari's daughter and mother. Afterward, Mirai and Yūki come to a decision about their journey home.
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| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|9|10}}
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| ShortSummary = Yūki and Mirai catch a ride home and Yūki tries to talk to her about something important. Mirai is reunited with a friend that gives her news about her parents, but has to keep dealing with Yūki running off by himself. Yūki finally finds the words to tell Mirai what she needs to hear.
| ShortSummary = While on a truck going towards their hometown, Yūki tries to talk to Mirai about the possibility of him dying, but she tells him to quit talking nonsense as it would make her furious, very worried and very upset within shame of sadness if he died, along with their parents. In their home town, Mirai runs into a friend some school who tells her that her parents are staying at one of the school shelters, and that her father was hospitalized from an injury. Yūki runs off when Mirai runs into his best friend Itsuki. Itsuki takes her to her parents, but finds that her mom has gone back to the house to get clothes for her father. Outside, they see the ''marronier'' Yūki and Itsuki had planted before the earthquake. Itsuki and Mirai return to his house to get a journal he wanted to give Yūki, while Yūki continues to avoid being seen by Itsuki. Half the house collapses while they are there. At the end of the episode, Yūki finally is able to tell Mirai that he died at the hospital earlier.
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| ShortSummary = Mirai and Yūki return home where Mirai is reunited with her parents and Yūki's spirit leaves. One month later, Tokyo is continuing to recover from the earthquake. Mari visits Mirai who returns her cell phone and Yūki's backpack. Mirai finds an email from Yūki that he sent before his death from Mari's phone saying that he hoped he could get a phone too so they could talk even when they were apart. Mirai gives her mother the present Yūki had purchased for her for the birthday. While watering the tree Yūki planted, Mirai resolves to move on with her life, knowing that Yūki will always be in her heart.
| ShortSummary = Mirai is reunited with her parents and Yūki says goodbye. A month later, Mari comes to visit and gives her the backpack she left behind at the hospital, containing two gifts: the one she and Yūki bought for their mother and an unexpected gift from Yūki to Mirai.
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Tokyo Magnitude 8.0
Title card depicting Tokyo Tower in ruins.
東京マグニチュード8.0
(Tōkyō Magunichūdo 8.0)
GenreDisaster
Anime television series
Directed byMasaki Tachibana
Produced by
  • Noriko Ozaki
  • Yūichirō Matsuya
Written by
  • Natsuko Takahashi
  • Kazuya Murata[a]
Music byKow Otani
StudioBones
Kinema Citrus
Licensed by
Original networkFNS (Fuji TV (Noitamina))
English network
Original run July 9, 2009 – September 17, 2009
Episodes11 (List of episodes)

Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 (Japanese: 東京マグニチュード8.0, Hepburn: Tōkyō Magunichūdo 8.0) is a Japanese anime television series produced by Fuji TV, Asmik Ace, Sony Music Entertainment Japan, Dentsu, Bones, and Kinema Citrus. It first aired on Fuji TV's noitamina timeslot on July 9, 2009, running for 11 episodes until September 17. The anime was directed by Masaki Tachibana, with Natsuko Takahashi handling series composition, Atsuko Nozaki designing the characters and Kow Otani composing the music. The series centers on two young siblings, Mirai and Yūki, and 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 won the Excellence Prize in the Animation category at Japan's Media Arts Festival in 2009. It was announced that the series has been licensed for a release in North America by Maiden Japan released on April 2013.[3]

Plot

After a massive earthquake in Tokyo 25 km under the sea at a magnitude of 8.0, two young 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. Together, the three of them brave the partly ruined city and try their best to make it home safely.

Characters

  • Mirai Onozawa (小野沢 未来, Onozawa Mirai) is a 7th grader who attends Rika Girls Academy, a prestigious and selective middle school. At the beginning of the series, she is unsure of what she wants to become later in life, but starts to change this outlook after the earthquake. Voiced by: Satomi Hanamura (Japanese); Luci Christian (English)[4]
  • Yūki Onozawa (小野沢 悠貴, Onozawa Yūki) is a 3rd grader and enthusiastic about robots. He has a somewhat distant relationship with his sister, and does not like to let others know when he is tired or ill. Voiced by: Yumiko Kobayashi (Japanese); Tiffany Grant (English)[4]
  • Mari Kusakabe (日下部 真理, Kusakabe Mari) is a motorcycle courier who assists Mirai and Yūki reach their parents' home after the earthquake happens. They make a promise to reach their home together. Voiced by: Yūko Kaida (Japanese); Shelley Calene-Black (English)[4]
  • Seiji Onozawa (小野沢 誠司, Onozawa Seiji), Mirai and Yūki's father, is injured while at work when the earthquake occurs. Voiced by: Hiroshi Naka (Japanese); David Matranga (English)
  • Masami Onozawa (小野沢 雅美, Onozawa Masami) is Mirai and Yūki's mother. The earthquake occurs on her birthday. Voiced by: Kikuko Inoue (Japanese); Maggie Flecknoe (English)
  • Mayu (まゆ) is one of Mirai's friends from school. She is seen taking care of her younger siblings while her mother is in a nearby hospital. Voiced by: Eri Kitamura (Japanese); Nancy Novotny (English)
  • Yuka (ゆか) is Mirai's other friend from school. Because of her laziness she tends to do poorly in her studies. Voiced by: Aki Toyosaki (Japanese); Carli Mosier (English)
  • Risa (りさ) another classmate of Mirai's. She comes from a rich family and owns a summer house in Canada that was built by her father. Voiced by: Aya Endō (Japanese); Allison Sumrall (English)
  • Itsuki (五木) is Yuki's best friend who is in the same class as him. Before the earthquake, he and Yuki along with their school teacher planted a tree in their school's yard. Voiced by: Miyuki Sawashiro (Japanese); Shannon Emerick (English)
  • Hina Kusakabe (日下部 ひな, Kusakabe Hina) is Mari's daughter age 3 to 5 years old. While Hina's mother was out searching for her, she was staying with her grandmother during the earthquake. Voiced by: Megumi Yamaguchi (Japanese); Nancy Novotny (English)
  • Kento Nonomiya (野宮 健人, Nonomiya Kento) is a middle school boy who becomes friends with Mirai in episode 7. Just like Yuki he is a big fan of robots. Voiced by: Shinya Hamazoe (Japanese); Greg Ayres (English)

Development and production

The series was first announced at the 2009 Tokyo Anime Fair, denoting that it would replace Eden of the East in Fuji TV's noitamina well-rated anime timeblock and would be co-produced by Bones and Kinema Citrus.[1][2] The series' setting is based upon the prediction that there is 70% or higher chance of an earthquake measuring 7.0 magnitude on the Richter scale hitting Tokyo in the next 30 years, with the series illustrating the consequences of a magnitude 8.0 earthquake affecting the city.[1][2] Bones stated that it would try to realistically depict the after-effects of such a situation and that it would collect and tabulate research on previous earthquakes and interview individuals who were affected by them.[1][2]

The series features the efforts of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, Japan Coast Guard, Tokyo Fire Department and Tokyo Disaster Medical Assistance Team in assisting recovery efforts after the initial earthquake and its recurring aftershocks. FNN newscaster Christel Takigawa also features as a guest, reporting on the earthquake and assuming the role of a "navigator" during the series.[5]

Media

The series uses two pieces of theme music. "Your Song" (キミノウタ, Kimi no Uta) by Abingdon Boys School is used for the opening theme, while "M/elody" by Shion Tsuji is used for the ending. This series was broadcast only in Italy on Italian television channel Rai 4 on August 22, 2011 and ended September 5, 2011 for a time ranging from 10.45am and 11.00am.

Episode list

# Title Directed by Written by Original air date
1"Odaiba Sinks"
Transliteration: "Odaiba, shizumu" (Japanese: お台場、沈む)		Fumiya HōjōNatsuko TakahashiJuly 9, 2009 (2009-07-09)
Mirai Onozawa and her younger brother Yūki visit a robot exposition at Odaiba, Tokyo when a massive earthquake strikes the city.
2"The World is Broken"
Transliteration: "Kowareru, sekai" (Japanese: 壊れる、世界)		Daisuke TokutsuchiNatsuko Takahashi
Yōichi Katō		July 16, 2009 (2009-07-16)
After the earthquake, Mirai desperately looks for Yūki inside a collapsing building along with Mari Kusakabe, a female motorcycle courier who offered to help her.
3"Burning Bridge"
Transliteration: "Moeru, hashi" (Japanese: 燃える、橋)		Hideki ItōNatsuko TakahashiJuly 23, 2009 (2009-07-23)
Mirai, Yūki and Mari decide to reach their homes together, but just after starting their journey, they find that there are far more dangers in the collapsing city than they imagined.
4"The Promise Between the Three"
Transliteration: "Sannin no, yakusoku" (Japanese: 三人の、約束)		Yasuhiro GeshiNatsuko Takahashi
Hiroko Kazui		July 30, 2009 (2009-07-30)
Having finally left Odaiba, the trio finds a place to gather supplies and prepare themselves for their long walk, but after having an argument, Mirai and Yūki stray away from Mari and end up in serious trouble as another aftershock hits.
5"The School is Wailing"
Transliteration: "Dōkoku no, manabiya" (Japanese: 慟哭の、学び舎)		Daisuke TokutsuchiNatsuko TakahashiAugust 6, 2009 (2009-08-06)
The group takes shelter on the premises of Mirai's school during the night, but their stay becomes far from peaceful as they are constantly plagued by aftershocks and depressed by the sight of those who lost their relatives to the earthquake.
6"Choice to Abandon"
Transliteration: "Misuteru, sentaku" (Japanese: 見捨てる、選択)		Nobukage KimuraYōichi KatōAugust 13, 2009 (2009-08-13)
The group reaches Mari's workplace, where she loses consciousness because of anemia. While tending to her, a stranger enters the building.
7"Summer's Dusk"
Transliteration: "Natsu no yūgure" (Japanese: 夏の夕暮れ)		Fumiya HōjōHiroko KazuiAugust 20, 2009 (2009-08-20)
Rescue robots help recover survivors, fascinating Yūki and leading him to meet a new friend, who shares his interests. However the journey so far seems to have taken its toll on Yūki.
8"Pure White Morning"
Transliteration: "Masshiro na asa" (Japanese: まっしろな朝)		Shinobu Sasaki
Hajime Yabana		Natsuko TakahashiAugust 27, 2009 (2009-08-27)
Yūki collapses suddenly and is taken to the hospital. Mirai and Mari spend a long night waiting for news of his condition.
9"Farewell, Today"
Transliteration: "Kyō, sayonara" (Japanese: 今日、さよなら)		Hideki ItōNatsuko TakahashiSeptember 3, 2009 (2009-09-03)
Mari finally reaches her home to find it destroyed. Upon learning that neighborhood residents were evacuated to a nearby elementary school, the trio heads there to search for Mari's daughter and mother. Afterward, Mirai and Yūki come to a decision about their journey home.
10"Mirai, You Know..."
Transliteration: "Onee-chan, ano ne..." (Japanese: おねえちゃん、あのね)		Masahiko WatanabeNatsuko TakahashiSeptember 10, 2009 (2009-09-10)
Yūki and Mirai catch a ride home and Yūki tries to talk to her about something important. Mirai is reunited with a friend that gives her news about her parents, but has to keep dealing with Yūki running off by himself. Yūki finally finds the words to tell Mirai what she needs to hear.
11"Dear Yūki..."
Transliteration: "Yūki e..." (Japanese: 悠貴へ…)		Kazuya NomuraNatsuko TakahashiSeptember 17, 2009 (2009-09-17)
Mirai is reunited with her parents and Yūki says goodbye. A month later, Mari comes to visit and gives her the backpack she left behind at the hospital, containing two gifts: the one she and Yūki bought for their mother and an unexpected gift from Yūki to Mirai.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Credited as 構成.

References

  1. ^ a b c d "東京マグニチュード８.０』2009年7月より"ノイタミナ"他にて放送！". Saishin Anime Jōhō. 2009-03-18. Archived from the original on 2009-03-21. Retrieved 2009-03-18.
  2. ^ a b c d "Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 Anime to Air in Japan in July". Anime News Network. 2009-03-17. Retrieved 2009-03-18.
  3. ^ "Crunchyroll – Maiden Japan Licenses "Tokyo Magnitude 8.0"". Retrieved 2013-01-09.
  4. ^ a b c "Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 Blu-Ray". Anime News Network. Retrieved 2019-09-16.
  5. ^ 滝川クリステル ：アニメに登場　大地震を「まっすぐ」伝える　フジ「東京マグニチュード８．０」, MANTAN WEB, June 18, 2009
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