Light Hi-Fi - Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 (Japanese: 東京マグニチュード8.0 Hepburn: Tōkyō Magunichūdo 8.0) is a Japanese anime television series that pre...
Light Hi-Fi - Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 (Japanese: 東京マグニチュード8.0 Hepburn: Tōkyō Magunichūdo 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 on 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 (2012). 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 by Maiden Japan released on April 2013.
After a massive earthquake in Tokyo 25 km under the sea at a magnitude of 8.0, two young siblings Mirai and Yūki, who were visiting a robot exhibition in Odaiba at the beginning of their summer vacation, struggle to reach their parents in their house in Setagaya, assisted by a female motorcycle courier named Mari, who is striving to reach her own daughter and mother in Sangenjaya. Together, the three brave the ruined city and try their best to make it home safely.
After a massive earthquake in Tokyo 25 km under the sea at a magnitude of 8.0, two young siblings Mirai and Yūki, who were visiting a robot exhibition in Odaiba at the beginning of their summer vacation, struggle to reach their parents in their house in Setagaya, assisted by a female motorcycle courier named Mari, who is striving to reach her own daughter and mother in Sangenjaya. Together, the three brave the ruined city and try their best to make it home safely.
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- Episode 1 Odaiba Sinks (Odaiba, Shizumu)
- Mirai Onozawa and her younger brother Yūki are visiting a robot exposition at Odaiba, Tokyo, when a massive earthquake strikes the city.
- Episode 2 The World is Broken (Kowareru, Sekai)
- After the earthquake Mirai looks desperately for Yūki inside a collapsing building along with Mari Kusakabe, a female motorcycle courier who offered to help her.
- Episode 3 Burning Bridge (Moeru, Hashi)
- Mirai, Yūki and Mari decide to reach their homes together, but just after starting their journey, they find that there are far more dangers in the collapsing city than they imagined.
- Episode 4 The Promise Between the Three (Sannin no, Yakusoku)
- Having finally left Odaiba, the trio finds a place to gather supplies and prepare themselves for their long walk, but after having a discussion, Mirai and Yūki stray away from Mari and end up in serious trouble.
- Episode 5 The School is Wailing (Dōkoku no, Manabiya)
- The group takes shelter at her school's premises during the night, but their stay there 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.
- Episode 6 Choice to Abandon (Misuteru, Sentaku)
- The group reaches Mari's workplace, where she loses consciousness because of anemia. During that time the kids are suddenly frightened by Aya, a colleague of Mari, who noisily enters the building carrying a baseball bat.
- Episode 7 Summer's Dusk (Natsu no Yūgure)
- Rescue robots fill the scene, fascinating Yūki 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 Yūki.
- Episode 8 Pure White Morning (Masshiro na Asa)
- Yūki collapses suddenly and is taken to the hospital, where Mirai agonizes over her brother's death.
- Episode 9 Farewell, Today (Kyō, Sayonara)
- Mari finally reaches her home to find it was destroyed. Mirai and Yūki learn that residents are being cared for at a nearby elementary school. There, they find two unknown bodies that Mari believes are her mother and daughter, and mourns their deaths. However, Yūki believes they are still alive and with his sister, helps finds Mari's daughter at another school. After reuniting with her daughter, Mari finds her mother at a local hospital. Mirai and Yūki leave to continue their search for their parents. Mirai leaves Mari a note to thank her for all she did for them, stating that she hopes they will meet again. Confused and surprised, Mari says "Yūki and I?".
- Episode 10 Mirai, You Know... (Onee-chan, ano ne...)
- While on a truck going towards their hometown, Yūki tries to talk to Mirai about his death, but she tells him to quit talking nonsense as it would make her furious, very worried and very upset within shame of sadness if he died. In their home town, Mirai runs into a friend some school who tells her that her parents are staying at one of the school shelters, and that her father was hospitalized from an injury. Yūki runs off when Mirai runs into his best friend Itsuki. Itsuki takes her to her parents, but finds that her mom has gone back to the house to get clothes for her father. Outside, they see the marronier Yūki and Itsuki had planted before the earthquake. Itsuki and Mirai return to his house to get a journal he wanted to give Yūki, while Yūki continues to avoid being seen by Itsuki. Half the house collapses while they are there. At the end of the episode, Yūki finally is able to tell Mirai that he died at the hospital earlier.
- Episode 11 Dear Yūki... (Yūki e...)
- Mirai and Yūki return home where Mirai is reunited with her parents and Yūki's spirit leaves. One month later, Tokyo is continuing to recover from the earthquake. Mari visits Mirai who returns her cell phone and Yūki's backpack. Mirai finds an email from Yūki that he sent before his death from Mari's phone saying that he hoped he could get a phone too so they could talk even when they were apart. Mirai gives her mother the present Yūki had purchased for her for the birthday. While watering the tree Yūki planted, Mirai resolves to move on with her life, knowing that Yūki will always be in her heart.
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