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Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 : Season 1
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Air date: 09 Jul '09 - 11 episodesTokyo Magnitude 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 co-produced by Bones and Kinema Citrus. The 11-episode series centres around 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. 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, set to be released on April 2013.
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List of Episodes (11)
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Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 (2009)
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1. Odaiba Sinks
09 Jul '09Mirai Onosawa and her younger brother Yuki are visiting a robot exposition at Odaiba, Tokyo, when a massive earthquake strikes the city.
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2. Broken World
16 Jul '09Mirai looks desperately for Yuki after the earthquake inside a colapsing building along Mari Kusanabe, a female motociclist courier who offered herself to help her.
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3. Burning Bridge
23 Jul '09Mirai, Yuki and Mari decide to reach their homes together, but just after starting their journey, they find that there are far more dangers in the colapsing city than they imagined.
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4. Their Promise
30 Jul '09Having finally left Odaiba, the trio find a place to gather supplies and prepare theirselves for their long walk, but after having a discussion, Mirai and Yuki stray from Mari and end up in serious trouble.
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5. The School's Lament
06 Aug '09Mirai and company take shelter at her school's premises 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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6. Abandoning Choices
13 Aug '09The group reaches Mari's workplace, where she loses conciousness because of amenia. During that time the kids are suddenly frightened by Aya, a colleague of Mari, who noisily enters the building carrying a baseball bat.
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7. Summer Evening Twilight
20 Aug '09Rescue robots fill the scene, fascinating Y?ki 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 Y?ki.
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8. Pure White Morning
27 Aug '09Y?ki collapses suddenly and is taken to the hospital, where Mirai agonizes over her brother's fate.
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9. Goodbye to Today
03 Sep '09Mari finally reaches her home, only to find out that her house was destroyed and the fate of her mother and daughter remains unknown. Mirai and Y?ki decides to help and discover that there is a near by elementry that is caring for the resident. On arrival Mari believes that two unknown bodies were those of her mother and daughter, thus mourning for a period of time. But Y?ki, who believes that Mari mother and daughter are still alive, convince his sister to help look for them. Mari's daughter is
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10. Hey, Big Sister
10 Sep '09Mirai and Y?ki are talking in the truck on the way back to their hometown, when Yuuki brings up the subject about his death. She tells him to stop talking about this nonsense, and that she and her parents would cry if he actually died. Once they arrive in their hometown, she sees Mayu, one of her friends from school. They chat, and Mayu tells her that her parents are staying in the nearby elementary school. Her dad is also being hospitalized due to an injury he sustained at work when the earthqu
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11. To Yuuki ...
17 Sep '09Mirai "escorts" Y?ki back home, and is reunited with her mother and father. One month later, Tokyo is well into recovery and reconstruction, but it is still clear that the city has been permanently changed. Mari visits Mirai, and returns her cell phone and Y?ki's backpack. Mirai goes though her e-mail inbox, and finds a message from Y?ki (sent from Mari's phone some time before he died) hoping that he can get a phone soon too so he can talk to his sister whenever they are not together. Mirai giv
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