Re: Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 anyone wathed/watching?

[Nick]

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On Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:39:56 -0400, in rec.arts.anime.misc, Inu-Yasha
<tomco...@cfl.rr.com> wrote:

>I just started watching when on a whim I checked ANN to see what it was
>about, expecting it to be some action anime using the expression
>Magnitude 8.0 ti emphasize the power of the action going on. Imagine my
>surprise when I found out it's a story of survivors of an earthquake in
>the area of Tokyo.

I read a two-volume manga last summer, 'Metro Survive', about people trapped
underground in a subway station after an earthquake in Tokyo.

I thought it was a pretty good story, but there's a fair amount of the dark
side of human nature involved: they're trapped for a while with not much
food, which leads to a major struggle between the 'good guys' who try to
keep everybody working together and the 'thugs' who just want to look out
for themselves at the other's expense.

Dark and at times heart wrenching, but it has a decent ending and I enjoyed
it; it was definitely worth reading.

Note: don't get the wrong idea from the cover art; it's not a sexy story.
The girl on the cover is in the story, but the art is just eye candy and not
an indication of the content.

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