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Siren Visual acquires Tokyo Magnitude 8.0
posted on by Jon Hayward
Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 shows what would theoretically happen to Tokyo in the event of a powerful earthquake. In 2012 Mirai is visiting Tokyo's artificial Odaiba island with her brother Yuuki, however while they are on the island a powerful tremor ing 8.0 on the JMA scale emanates from an ocean trench. Tokyo begins to crumble, Tokyo Tower and Rainbow Bridge are among the first to fall. The series follows Mirai and Yuuki as they make their way through the ruined city to their parents in Setagaya.
This 11 episode series was originally created for Atsuko Nozaki (The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky).
While the series was originally released in 2009, in 2011 repeats of the show were replaced with other programming on Animax due to the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in March of that year.
dub and subtitles and Bluray is currently unconfirmed. The scheduled release date is the 21st of March 2013.
Thanks to Elio from Siren Visual for confirming the details of Tokyo Magnitude 8.0's release.
