“I do not want to be a harbinger of bad news, nor a premonition of doom, but this has me grimly worried for the folks in Tokyo. May we actually see a real TM8.0 even before the show is over? Is the show itself a sign? It seems very much coincidental that we are seeing a series about a quake (based on actual statistics, facts and representations at that) and then we have all these quakes occurring together in one shot.”
Another week, another half hour of trying desperately to stay awake through Tokyo Magnitude 8.0. All the previous criticisms I’ve made before about the lack of scope and the uninteresting characters still stand, but at least in the first four episodes the plot seemed to be progressing. This week nothing happened. The characters spend the entire episode holed up in a school, where they meet an old guy and his wife who will never appear again and enjoy the fruits of socialism. They couldn’t even be bothered to narrowly dodge some falling debris. Even if I liked the series I would characterize episode five as a ‘rare miss’. I don’t know why I put myself through the effort of watching this show except that the critical response, such as it is, from the blogosphere is incredibly positive for reasons I don’t at all understand. Feel free to enlighten me.
Vroom vroom sscchhhhnnnnnnnggg!
Look everybody, it’s our favorite earthquake disaster anime!
Not much to say since nothing happened in the first episode until the earthquake at the end. Despite that, this isn’t necessarily a negative like Canaan because Tokyo is at least trying to establish the mood and provide contrast (supposedly for Mirai before and after the disaster) while Canaan was just pointless chatter until the action. Still, since the first episode was so slow, I can only give initial impressions.
