Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 (Season 1)

Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 (2009) is a Japanese anime series you can watch online on iFILM. The premise is a single Sunday morning: a magnitude 8.0 tremor hits the Kanto region, Tokyo Tower comes down, Rainbow Bridge collapses, and the city stops being navigable.

Thirteen-year-old Mirai and her younger brother Yuuki were on Odaiba Island for a robot exhibition when it happened. Their walk home to Setagaya, across a broken city, is what the series is about. A motorcycle courier named Mari Kusaka helps them through. Director Masahiko Watanabe keeps the tone in disaster realism rather than action — slow, attentive, loaded with the small human weight of a catastrophe. Stream Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 online on iFILM.