History Anime / TokyoMagnitude8

* AnAesop: Appreciate what you have now, because who knows how long you'll have them.

* AdultFear:
** The siblings' parents let them go to a robot exhibit alone and one of the worst scenarios possible happens. They don't even know if the kids are alive, and even if they are, they're probably alone.
** The multiple times Yuuki and Mirai get separated. In the first episode in particular, Mirai let her brother go to the bathroom alone just before the earthquake happened. She couldn't find him and risked her life looking for him. He ended up fine, though he was stuck under rubble with a woman on an evacuated level of the museum; if Mirai and Mari hadn't found them it's unknown how long they would have been there or if they would have survived.
** Mari seems positive and calm most of the time however in episode six she becomes distressed over the thought of her family being dead or injured. In a later episode it is even worse when she truly believes they are dead.

* EarthquakeEpisode: helps provide the premise

* RealityEnsues: It turns out [[spoiler:taking a large bump to the head is actually really, really bad for you and can kill you.]]

* WhamShot: The flashback at the end of Episode 10, when Mirai remembers seeing [[spoiler:the doctors give Yuuki a [[CharacterDeath black]] UsefulNotes/{{Triage}} tag.]]

* TimeSkip: One month in the second half of episode 11.

''Tokyo Magnitude 8.0'' started running in July 2009 with 11 episodes, with direction by Masaki Tachibana (''Anime/MoribitoGuardianOfTheSpirit'') and music from Kou Ootani (''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheColossus'', ''Anime/HaibaneRenmei''). It succeeded ''Anime/EdenOfTheEast'' in Fuji Television's ''Creator/{{noitaminA}}'' late-night timeslot.

* ConspicuousCG: The rescue-bots. Also some of the people walking by in the backgrounds, if you look carefully.

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[[caption-width-right:300:Mari, Mirai, and Yuuki]]

* GuardianEntity: [[spoiler:Yuuki. Although given the show's otherwise realistic tone one can assume Mirai's subconscious is doing all the work, her hallucination of her brother is really helpful and drives all the positive developments in the rest of the series]]

* ShoutOuts: One of Yuuki's nicknames for Mirai is [[Manga/SgtFrog "frog alien"]].

* InvisibleToNormals: [[spoiler:After Yuuki's death]] Mirai can still interact with him, possibly because he is a hallucination. The story goes out of it's way to make this seem to not be the case by having him "run off" the second he would have interacted with anyone other than Mirai. After several hints that [[spoiler:Yuuki is dead]], it's shown that this trope is in play when a perspective switch to a minor character reveals that Mirai is talking to empty air.

* MeaningfulName: "Mirai" means "future;" "Yuuki" means "courage."

''Tokyo Magnitude 8.0'' started running in July 2009, with direction by Masaki Tachibana (''Anime/MoribitoGuardianOfTheSpirit'') and music from Kou Ootani (''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheColossus'', ''Anime/HaibaneRenmei''). It succeeded ''Anime/EdenOfTheEast'' in Fuji Television's ''Creator/{{noitaminA}}'' late-night timeslot.

* WhamShot:
** The flashback at the end of Episode 10, when Mirai remembers seeing [[spoiler:the doctors give Yuuki a [[CharacterDeath black]] UsefulNotes/{{Triage}} tag.]]

** The multiple times Yuuki and Mirai get separated. In the first episode in particular, Mirai let her brother go to the bathroom alone just before the earthquake happened. She couldn't find him and risked her life looking for him. He ended up fine, though he was stuck under rubble with a woman on an evacuated level of the mueseum; if Mirai and Mari hadn't found them it's unknown how long they would have been there or if they would have survived.

'''Beware''': most spoilers present in this page ''will'' ruin your experience of the series if you haven't seen it yet.

* InvisibleToNormals: [[spoiler:After Yuuki's death]] Mirai can still interact with him, possibly because he is a hallucination. The story goes out of it's way to make this seem to not be the case by having him "run off" the second he would have interacted with anyone other than Mirai. After several hints that [[spoiler:Yuuki is dead]], it's shown that this trope is in play when a perspective switch to a minor character reveals that Miria is talking to empty air.