Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 04
Sorry, I know I’m falling behind on this series, despite it being the only one I’m seriously blogging this season. Episode 5 is out already, but I haven’t seen it yet.
Also, someone needs to own up. Who was the one to tell the world to just break this time? But really, I guess we should have seen this coming. It wasn’t as large as the one depicted in TM 8.0, but I guess it will increase viewership. It’s like free advertising by mother nature.
There are a couple of things I noticed this episode. Chief among them being that Mirai has exceptional unluckiness. If something bad can happen at any one moment, it will happen to her. And it’ll be caused by some really annoying person too. What doesn’t help is her snotty twelve-year old attitude about everything. It’s exasperating watching Mirai go through her routine.
We’re again reminded of the horror of the situation when Mirai’s unluckiness strikes again and someone stomps on her foot while running past. About to argue, Mirai then realises they’re running to a van with some body bags inside.
You may be pissed off, but at least you’re not dead.
There isn’t much to report this episode, really. Mirai and Yuuki fight a bit, as brother and sister tend to do. Then they drop the bomb. A fricking huge one.
First it’s the Rainbow Bridge, now this?! Holy crap. Imagine the Eiffel Tower collapsing. Tokyo Tower is a few feet taller than the Eiffel Tower. This is on a massive scale. And Yuuki nearly gets crushed with debris. Again. They’re really trying to drive home the point here. You better not be standing around huge towers when the huge earthquake comes knocking.
It’s interesting they’ve decided to do this. Tachu Naito, the designer of the tower, said the tower could “withstand earthquakes with twice the intensity of the Great Kanto Earthquake, a [magnitude] 7.9.” It’s possible to hand-wave this away by saying that the main earthquake unseated the tower’s foundations and the sustained aftershocks were the final blow.
It does make you wonder if bones have erred on the side of “fiction” and “stories” rather than “tremendous amounts of research and verification.”
“Free advertising by mother nature” lol, amusing, though sad that the said advertisement is a calamity in itself :(
Speaking the the “Fall of Eiffel Tower”, that just reminded me of G.I.Joe, but that was just silly and not really related to this.
Seeing your reaction over episode 4, I’m pretty sure you’ll love episode 5 ^^
I was just being facetious talking about advertising by mother nature; it really is a sad thing to comprehend, but the timing was just too good to pass up.
You were right, I did enjoy episode five. More sad than shocking, but it had more effect in my opinion.