Story & Characters
Such a wonderful story, I recommend it so much, it's shocking, and heart warming, you can see people very different
among them, with something in common: trying to get back home, you see the kindness, bravery, bitterness, innocence,
sadness it's full of surprises, I'll give you an advice, when you watch it don't try to make conclusions
just let the story go, that way you can be even more surprised.
It's sad that at the beginning of the story, they explain you that they was waiting for something like this, but in
30 years, not two =( and of course, it's a drama story, but there're tender and happy moments too.
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even when they are just a few
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it's a good story
because, sadly, it doesn't end with a complete happy ending, someone has to die so the family can get along again,
it's so sad, but I guess that's what they call "a person's mission here on earth" when you
accomplish your mission you have to go, but you leave something good with your existence, I cried A LOT when that person
dies
Don't rate the story before you finish the anime, there are many things you can find, you'll be able to know
the character better and prove that the story has a very realistic human feeling, it makes you feel that it is something
that can happen any time in any place, and makes you want to see inside yourself, to check if everything is ok with
ourselves and people around us, specially or friends and family.
Enjoy it while watching, not judge it but till the end, because everything changes in every episode
I really suggest you to give it a chance, because it is an anime with just a few episodes, episodes that are full of
emotions, and makes you want to know what happen next to the little kids and the kind woman who are with them.
Rating: 10
Art
The art is simple, (when it comes to characters) but you don't notice that, because the story is strong.
the backgrounds are more detailed though, and they show us an exceptional destruction, reflecting even more the drama
and the tragedy in the story. As well the youth of the main characters, that reflects the innocence, and childish
behavior of them.
The Art remember me a little of azumanga, and as we know it's a comedy, so maybe many people could feel that ruins
the mood in Tokyo Magnitude 8.0, but please don't think too much about the art, which is simple, but we have to see
it together with the other elements such music, story, message.
Rating: 8
Sound
It fitted perfect with each situation, I loved the music. Many times its music awakes feelings in the person who watches
this anime, for example, if it's the 2nd time watching this anime, even if you're not watching, music hits you
and makes you remember the strong moments, so that helps the story to stay with you forever. The voices were great,
kind, bitter, playful, sad, desperate... and they were perfect for the age of the characters, not too old, not too
young, but perfect.
[spoiler]the music in the scene when there are many images of yuuki, almost at the end, makes me cry so badly it was so
sad I wasn't watching -the second time I watched it- but even so I could feel the sadness in that moment, how a
good little boy had gone forever the sadness of the whole family, and the change was about to come in mirai's
family and herself /spoiler]
Rating: 10
Presentation
you can feel the drama, pressure, bitterness, sadness, fear, of the characters, you know that all the story is about
something serious, and the art, which some people call childish, is because is telling us a story where most of main
characters are young: kids and teenagers. So it reflects every element perfectly.
Rating: 10
Final Verdict
9.6667 (excellent)
Reviewed by nievedeichigo, Mar 29, 2011
