After the first two episodes of Tokyo Magnitude 8.0, this series is so far really shaping up to be an interesting series. We’ll have to see how the rest of the series goes now that we’ve had the big quake and the rest of the series will, presumably, be about Mari trying to help Mirai and Yuki trying to get back home.  Hopefully the show will also use this time to explore all the problems that Tokyo would face post-earthquake as well, though.

The character designs in this series are pretty simple, but I think still effective, and the storytelling has been pretty good, with the portrayal of the earthquake and the aftershocks being well done so far (and done at a personal level, so we have yet to see the true extent of the devastation). I think it’s too early to tell exactly how good this series is going to be, but it certainly looks like it’s going to be one of the more promising ones of the season.