Tokyo Magnitude 8.0: Difference between revisions

* [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]]: The series falls mostly on the idealistic side, with a couple of exceptions -- Mirai constantly runs into criminally-insensitive strangers in early episodes, for instance.

* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: Several cliffhangers segue directly into the upbeat ED "M/elody", accompanied by pictures of the main cast happily walking through an intact city.

* [[Spoiler Opening|Spoiler Ending]]: {{spoiler|Subverted. The opening and ending show all of the main characters alive, which looks like a case of this for the first few episodes. They then proceed to become progressively less and less appropriate as the series enters its latter half.}}

* [[Survivor Guilt]]: Mirai is wracked with this, between seeing a classmate mourn her mother, listening to kindly old man Furuichi talk about his dead grandchildren, and {{spoiler|Yuuki's death (for which she blames herself, and her mother blames ''her''self)}}. At the end of episode 11, {{spoiler|she reaches [[Five Stages of Grief|the fifth stage]]}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Unreliable Narrator]]}}: From episode 8 on.

* [[Wham Episode]]: In episode 8, following an episode of lighter robot-oriented fare, {{spoiler|Yuuki suddenly collapses, he dies at a nearby hospital, and Mirai goes into intense denial, making herself believe that he's survived and is still with them}}. This is followed up in episode 10 when {{spoiler|Mirai (and likely also the viewer) finally ''realizes'' what happened in episode 8}}.

 

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