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NEWS: Maiden Japan Licenses Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 TV Anime

mdo7, are you sure that the series is using the Shindo Scale? Because if it is, and the equivalent is 9.5-10 on the MMS, then the quake would be the largest earthquake ever recorded in human history and completely flatten the entire city.

Unless someone can actually point out to me the specific instance where the Shindo Scale is mentioned in the show, I will continue to believe in the much more likely scenario of an 8.0 on the MMS.

I believe that in the show all they said was "magnitude of 8.0". They didn't specify which scale they were using. mdo7, you assume that the show used the Shindo Scale because that's what Japanese use, ignoring that the Japanese frequently use the internationally-recognised MMS as it allows for direct comparison with other quakes and to normalise earthquake standards. The MMS scale was used in the big 2011 quake for instance.

Besides, the Shindo Scale does not even measure the actual strength of the earthquake, only the apparent strength and damage which are highly subjective based on where you are in relation to the quake. This should have been obvious based on the very article you linked to. The MMS scale would still be needed to assess how strong the quake actually was.

tangytangerine wrote:

penguintruth wrote: What sort of company name is "Maiden Japan"? Maiden... made in... made in Japan. Ah. It's basically a label under Section 23 that releases titles with strong female characters in the show.

Well, it's technically Switchblade Pictures' anime label (Switchblade is a J-Horror label under Section 23). But yeah, they do kinda stick with female-driven shows.

Experts predictions my a**, an 8.0 quake spoiler[making the Tokyo Tower collapse]? The 3/11 was 9-ish and it didn't cause half the destruction the show "predicted".[/spoiler]

CrowLia wrote:

Experts predictions my a**, an 8.0 quake spoiler[making the Tokyo Tower collapse]? The 3/11 was 9-ish and it didn't cause half the destruction the show "predicted".[/spoiler]

dtm already touched on this, but I have to emphasize something that a lot of people seem to overlook about earthquakes: the magnitude at the epicenter is not the same magnitude that hits everywhere else.

Tokyo was never hit by a 9.0. The shocks felt in Tokyo were magnitude 5~6, due to the distance from the epicenter. Also, the magnitudes are logarithmic in strength. An 8.0 in Tokyo would be between 1,000 and 31,000 times more powerful than what they experienced on March 11th. While I can't say for certain if an 8.0 would indeed spoiler[destroy Tokyo Tower], I definitely also can't say that it wouldn't. The comparatively tiny 5.0~6.0 quake that did hit Tokyo was already enough to cause bring down several buildings, cause fires, liquefy the ground and, yes, even cause structural damage to Tokyo Tower. But the difference between that quake and an 8.0 actually centered in Tokyo is like comparing a rainstorm to a hurricane. An 8.0 would absolutely devastate Tokyo.


@aklaft and mdo7: The 8.0 in the title is referring to the MMS/Richter scale, not the JMA Shindo scale. For starters, the Shindo scale only goes to 7, which is all-encompassing. There is no "off the scale", as the 7 already denotes "and above", and also already implies total devastation. Second, the Shindo scale is denoted in whole numbers instead of decimal fractions (IE, "7", not "7.0"), with magnitude 5 and 6 each being divided into two categories.

@ikillchicken: While I can understand you feelings, for me it's entirely the opposite. Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 is a show that I never got around to back when it came out, but now I have a new-found interest in the show precisely because I did experience the March 11th earthquake.

The first R1 licensing announcement of the year (I believe) and a very welcome one, imo. Loved this title and can't wait to see it on my HDTV.

Maiden Japan has not released anything on BD yet, so it'll probably be the same with this. Plus, the only title it has released with a dub is Vampire Princess Miyu which is a license rescue with a pre-existing dub, so I wouldn't count on there being one for 8.0.

Doesn't matter that much to me, I'm just jazzed to have the chance to own it.

eta: oops, guess I should have read the article first. Nice to see MJ getting into the BD/hybrid biz.

Dual audio? Blu-ray? Please take my money. I thought this wasn't even going to get a release at all.

Now is anyone ANYONE going to release DENNOU COIL???

@ Chrno2 - I think most of us are assuming bilingual refers to an English dub. Section 23 (of which Maiden Japan is a part) has never released a sub-only BD yet, so I think we are safe in assuming there will be an English dub.

Chrno2 wrote:

Now is anyone ANYONE going to release DENNOU COIL???

It's been released in Australasia; I bought my copy using a gift voucher I got for Christmas. If you have a region-free DVD player you could always import it.