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Tokyo Magnitude 8.0

Other Titles: 東京マグニチュード8.0

Genre(s): Coming of Age, Seinen, Tragedy

Type: TV

Episode: 11

Rate: 9.22 (Rated by 108 Members)

Aired: Jul 9, 2009 to Sep 17, 2009

Synopsis

The premise of the story is the 70% or higher possibility that a magnitude 7.0 earthquake will occur in Tokyo in the next 30 years. The story depicts what would happen if a 8.0 earthquake tooks 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.

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