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REVIEW: Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 Blu-Ray

walw6pK4Alo wrote:

As I remember it, no one immediately knew or guessed that revelation as the show was airing. The idea did develop after a few more episodes once the pattern was noticed, but it wasn't instant. Had you known about before going in, in any capacity whatsoever?

I watched it while it was airing and figured it out immediately. spoiler[I work in nursing so maybe that makes me a little more in-tune to this type of thing. Things were way to critical and urgent for him to just recover suddenly. This isn't some shonen action series where characters can be back in fighting form in a few hours. Plus the way people regarded her and not him with so much concern pretty much clenched it.]

But the twist did nothing but piss me off. spoiler[It's a show about a quake, how hard is it to drop something on a little boy? Nope, we're going to give him some sort of unnamed deadly ailment completely unrelated to the quake. Killing him wasn't an issue, but doing it in such a random way completely ruined the series for me. Seriously, pre-death I would have given it an A, but post death it became a generous C. I was so angry at the writers for using such a cheap trick to keep the drama going that it killed my interest in the series. Since everything in the second half revolved around that awfully written death I could stay interested.]

This would have been an amazing movie or short OAV series, but the writers clearly ran out of idea on how to keep the TV series going for 11 episodes.

Emerje

Wow. I never thought I'd see the day where a Sentai dub was praised. Perhaps it's the lack of a certain Mr Foster that makes the dub work.

v1cious wrote:

walw6pK4Alo wrote: As I remember it, no one immediately knew or guessed that revelation as the show was airing. The idea did develop after a few more episodes once the pattern was noticed, but it wasn't instant. Had you known about before going in, in any capacity whatsoever? I didn't, and I caught the twist from the get-go. I mean it was a dead giveaway when spoiler[you see Mirai's breakdown in the hospital]. This was my big problem with the show. It was good, but that whole thing could've been resolved in two episodes tops.

I watched the show every week while it was still airing in Japan, so I didn't have any beforehand knowledge about what was going to happen either. I started suspecting spoiler[Yuuki was a hallucination because his supposed recovery was too miraculous to be true, and that suspicion became certainty once I realized Mirai was the only person who talked and interacted with him.]