History Main / TokyoTower

* The tower is heavily damaged in a fight between ''Anime/SailorMoon'' and friends and one of the members of the third season's QuirkyMinibossSquad. In the first season's arcade game, one of the bosses flies to it in between phases.

* It also makes several appearances and makes a serious plot point as a fictional {{Expy}} called "Angel Tower" in ''Anime/TokyoGodfathers''.
* The tower is the site of yet another deadly battle in the first ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' movie.
** Then again, the only reason the tower is used is that it's ... a big transmitting tower that happens to be in the middle of mystic sites, but is itself not mystic or Jurai or anything other than a big metal thing. The heroes just use it as part of their scheme to turn BigBad Kain into SealedEvilInACan.
* The tower is the key to accessing deadly doomsday weapons on the moon base in ''Manga/PleaseSaveMyEarth''.

* In the anime ''Manga/SomedaysDreamers'', the Tokyo Tower is ''bent'' by a girl's magical powers. This was in a desperate attempt to impress someone, so she couldn't muster the power to fix it. Fortunately, her tutor apparently can, as the tower appears intact in subsequent episodes.
* Tokyo Tower is the site of a bombing attempt in one episode of ''Manga/CaseClosed'', and the scene of the climax of the 13th NonSerialMovie ''Raven Chaser''.
** Heck, it very nearly qualifies as a WeaponizedLandmark when [[spoiler: Conan takes out the Black Organization's helicopter by ''turning Tokyo Tower into a giant slingshot''.]]
** Speaking of Creator/GoshoAoyama, the BigBad of ''Manga/{{Yaiba}}'' blew up Tokyo tower as evidence of his power.
* The first Mew Aqua battle in ''Manga/TokyoMewMew'' takes place on Tokyo Tower.
* The titular character of the anime ''Manga/SamuraiDeeperKyo'' manages to actually [[spoiler: impale the main villain on a collapsing Tokyo Tower.]] Doubly impressive since the series takes place in 1603.
* During a series of real-world battles in ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'', one of the evil Digimon follows Sora and Mimi into Tokyo Tower. He manages to bend the top half of the tower before being defeated.

* In ''Manga/DetroitMetalCity'', DMC's fans overanalyze something Krauser says at the end of a concert, thinking it means to gather at the Tokyo Tower and chant his name. Negichi, as Krauser, goes to the Tower to make them stop. However, it ends with him ''raping'' the Tower. Naturally, the fans love it.
* The tower is seen in both the {{anime}} and live action {{film}} versions of ''Manga/DeathNote''.
* Lampshaded in ''Manga/SgtFrog'' - the Nishizawa Radio Tower may look nothing like the Tokyo Tower, but does all the things the Tokyo tower would in other anime, etc. One time Giroro gets warped into a post-apocalyptic wasteland, where he finds a derelict Nishizawa radio tower in ruins. [[spoiler:Turns out the tower was merely obsoleted and abandoned along with the surrounding land, and there's three other towers not far away that have also undergone this.]]
* In ''Anime/TransformersRobotsInDisguise'', X-Brawn drives to the top of the tower to chuck a bomb into space.
* It gets ''knocked into orbit'' along with a monster in ''Manga/SuperDreadnoughtGirl4946'', and manages to impale the monster when they hit the moon.
* The Tokyo Tower was seen in ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam'' being destroyed by Domon Kasshu to root out the Devil Gundam's minions, or rather the mind-controlled Shuffle Alliance members.

* In ''Manga/{{Gantz}}'', the tower can be seen from the apartment where Gantz gathers its latest "recruits".
* The early climax between Our Hero and the Big Bad (and literal dragon) Oynx in ''Literature/DragonCrisis'' occurs in a rebuilt/remodeled Tokyo Tower, just before reopening. Let's just say that the work will not meet the expected deadline....
* The ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' movie has the final battle with Vincent take place on top of what appears to be similar to the Tokyo Tower, although the movie is set on UsefulNotes/{{Mars}}.

* in ''Anime/ParanoiaAgent'', Maniwa perches on the tower while delivering an emergency message to Ikari in the final episode.
* In the very first episode of ''Anime/AgentAika'', the tower's tip is the only visible part remaining after most of Japan sank under the sea.

* One episode of ''Anime/OtogiZoshi'' revolves around events at Tokyo Tower and the nearby graveyard. One character claims that spirits from the graveyard can climb up the tower and interrupt TV broadcasts, showing the faces of the dead on TV. Hey, being on the Japanese equivalent of an IndianBurialGround could explain a lot about Tokyo Tower.
* In ''Anime/LycorisRecoil'', the [[MonumentalDamage remnants]] of Tokyo Tower serves as a key location, the BigBad having destroyed most of it a few years before the story began.

* In ''ComicBook/AstonishingXMen'' #36-37, a giant mind controlled dragon called Fin Fang Foom is sent to attack Tokyo as part of a distraction. One of the X-Men, called Armor, restrains Foom with the mangled metal of the Tokyo Tower.

* ''Series/MadanSenkiRyukendo'' has Akebono Tower which is obviously Tokyo Tower [[WeaponizedLandmark transformed]] into a MonsterOfTheWeek. Then exploded by the titular hero and reformed in the wrong location, where it will take a week to move it back to where it originally was.

* Franchise/UltraSeries
** ''Series/UltraQ'' sees Tokyo Tower employed as a WeaponisedLandmark in episode 19, firing X-channel light rays at Kemur Man to defeat him.
** In ''Series/ReturnOfUltraman'', the stag beetle kaiju Nokogirin destroys the Tokyo Tower during its fight with Ultraman Jack as an inadvertent result of Jack leaping out of the way of the DeathRay fired from the creature's horns.
** In ''Series/UltramanTaro'', the giant cicada kaiju King Zemira begins perching on Tokyo Tower and disrupting television and radio signals with its buzzing after being driven away from its hatch site by the people living in the housing developments over it.
** Features prominently in the finale of ''Series/UltramanOrb'' when Juggler reveals [[spoiler:Maga-Orochi is survived its first battle with Orb and is metamorphosing into Magata-no-Orochi underneath the Tokyo Tower,]] in order to dupe VTL into launching a missile at the tower that would feed the monster the energy it needed to finish its transformation.

* The setting of ''VideoGame/TheFinalFantasyLegend'' consists of four "worlds" connected by a huge tower, one of which (the "World of Ruins") resembles a devastated Tokyo cityscape, with the tower represented on the world map by a likeness of the Tokyo Tower. (So, the Tokyo Tower actually does "mark an inter-universal nexus" in this game.)

* A fan-made "if the UNIT era of ''Series/DoctorWho'' had been an anime" video inevitably had the Third Doctor and the Master having a sword fight on the top of Tokyo Tower.

* The tower is heavily damaged in a fight between ''Anime/SailorMoon'' and friends and one of the members of the third season's QuirkyMinibossSquad.

** Series/UltraQ'' has Tokyo Tower employed as a WeaponisedLandmark in episode 19, firing X-channel light rays at Kemur Man to defeat him.

** In the 1995 Heisei ''Film/{{Gamera}}'', the Gyaos deftly evades killer missiles, lets ''them'' take out Tokyo Tower, and proceeds to build its nest in the ruins, almost mocking its human prey. A year later in ''Film/Gamera2AdventOfLegion'', the nest's remains are still up there and the tower has yet to be repaired.
** ''Film/KingKongEscapes'' has Kong and his robotic duplicate climb Tokyo Tower during the film's climax. As you might guess, the tower snaps in two under their combined weight.

** In the 1995 Heisei ''Film/{{Gamera}}'', the Gyaos deftly evades killer missiles, lets ''them'' take out Tokyo Tower, and proceeds to build its nest in the ruins, almost mocking its human prey. A year later in ''Film/Gamera2AdventOfLegion'', the nest is still up there and the tower has yet to be repaired.

** An early chapter of ''Manga/TokyoBabylon'' had Subaru attempting to placate a spirit which had become bound to Tokyo Tower after committing suicide nearby. Tokyo Tower was the one place in Tokyo she liked, so that'ś where she went after death.

** In the 1995 Heisei ''Film/{{Gamera}}'', the Gyaos deftly evades killer missiles, lets ''them'' take out Tokyo Tower, and proceeds to build its nest in the ruins, almost mocking its human prey. A year later in ''Film/AdventOfLegion'', the nest is still up there and the tower has yet to be repaired.

** In the 1995 Heisei ''Film/{{Gamera}}'', the Gyaos deftly evades killer missiles, lets ''them'' take out Tokyo Tower, and proceeds to build its nest in the ruins, almost mocking its human prey. A year later in ''Film/GameraAdventOfLegion'', the nest is still up there and the tower has yet to be repaired.

** In the 1995 Heisei ''Film/{{Gamera}}'', the Gyaos deftly evades killer missiles, lets ''them'' take out Tokyo Tower, and proceeds to build its nest in the ruins, almost mocking its human prey.

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* The early climax between Our Hero and the Big Bad (and literal dragon) Oynx in ''LightNovel/DragonCrisis'' occurs in a rebuilt/remodeled Tokyo Tower, just before reopening. Let's just say that the work will not meet the expected deadline....

* In Episode 7 of ''LightNovel/ThePetGirlOfSakurasou'', Sorata, Mashiro, Nanami, and Yuuko visit the Skytree, though they don't go inside.

* In the WesternAnimation/{{Pixar Short|s}} ''Tokyo Mater'', Mater from ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'' is in a drift race to the top of Tokyo Tower.

One of the newest additions to the Tokyo skyline, it is a massive convention center that consists of four inverted, flat-tipped pyramids arranged in a square formation, sitting on top of pillars that the "tops" of the pyramids rest upon. It was originally designed to be one of the facilities that the 2020 Olympics events would take place in, but funding cuts nixed this idea; instead, it was to serve as the main broadcasting and press center for the 2020 Olympics...until said 2020 Olympics were cancelled due to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic. Amongst fans of anime and manga, it's best known for being the site of Comic Market, or "Comiket" for short, a major biannual festival for {{Doujinshi}} creators to sell their works.

* ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'' takes place in Inkopolis Plaza, which is [[NoCommunitiesWereHarmed very clearly inspired by]] Shibuya, Tokyo. As such, the area's major landmark is Inkopolis Tower, a neon-green {{Expy}} of the Tokyo Tower. Considering that the series takes place AfterTheEnd, there is a chance that Inkopolis could actually ''be'' Tokyo.

Since Tokyo Tower is not high enough to broadcast digital television signals over the same area, a new tower has been constructed: the "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Skytree Tokyo Skytree]]", which opened its doors in May 2012. At 634 meters it is nearly twice as tall as its illustrious predecessor, and even though it has not been around for nearly as long, it seems set to gradually take Tokyo Tower's place as an icon in anime.

* ''VideoGame/{{Drakengard}}'' infamous last ending ends with [[spoiler:the player seeing the reamins of Caim and Angelus skewered on the Tokyo Tower]].

* Features prominently in the finale of ''Series/UltramanOrb'' when Juggler reveals [[spoiler:Maga-Orochi is survived its first battle with Orb and is metamorphosing into Magata-no-Orochi underneath the Tokyo Tower,]] in order to dupe VTL into launching a missile at the tower that would feed the monster the energy it needed to finish its transformation.

Since Tokyo Tower is not high enough to broadcast digital television signals over the same area, a new tower has been constructed: the "Tokyo Skytree", which opened its doors in May 2012. At 634 meters it is nearly twice as tall as its illustrious predecessor, and even though it has not been around for nearly as long, it seems set to gradually take Tokyo Tower's place as an icon in anime.