2011-03-14, 09:44 | Link #1262 |
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I don't want to be a douche, but my feelings about this anime remain the same as those of two years ago: I loathed the cheap, bait-and-switch tactic used for contrived dramatic effect, and I still do today.
The dramatic device severely cheapened the impact of the tragedy for me because it was so jarringly unrealistic compared to the events portrayed in the earlier part of the series. If Yuuki had to die, there could have been so many other ways to do it realistically, other than the "I-see-dead-people" routine. That aside, words fail to encompass the enormity of the crisis faced by Japan at the moment. I can only maintain respectful silence and hope, from the bottom of my heart, for things to return to normal as soon as possible. |
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2011-03-18, 08:32 | Link #1264 |
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I could not stop thinking about this series as this is going on right now. To think that the 9.0 off the coast of Sendai could hit Tokyo, it makes me sick to my stomach.
where are the red crab robots to help out daiichi and the rest of fukushima? i wish they existed. love u tokyo, get well soon |
2011-03-19, 03:29 | Link #1265 | |
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But I also tend to agree with TRL that it kind of derailed an otherwise compelling story, in my view because they stretched it for the rest of the series. Suddenly it stopped being about the experience of a disaster and tripped into a psych drama about denial.
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2011-03-19, 11:00 | Link #1267 |
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I happened to be writing about the Kantou quake elsewhere this morning and went back to review my and drobertbaker's postings on the reality of the death toll in TM8.0. The anime posited 180,000 deaths, far above any estimates of the toll from this earthquake. It also appears that the tsunami was at least as responsible for fatalities as the quake itself.
Now one might usually ignore such discrepancies in an entertainment program, but the producers repeatedly told us how they had carefully modeled the show on research and simulations. One other issue that came up concerned funerary customs and cremation. Some commentators here discussed whether Spoiler for just in case:
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2011-03-19, 12:19 | Link #1268 |
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Seiji Sensei, I think if this quake had an epicenter of say, 40 miles from Tokyo instead of the 250 miles or so it was, 180,000 would have been a conservative number. And as I remember, the quake in the show supposedly was centered right in Tokyo Bay.
It seems disrespectful somehow to debate the merits of the plot twist in this show but since the topic was raised - in my view Vexx is correct, it derailed an otherwise promising story. His verbiage is a lot more charitable than I'd use, but I agree with the central point. If anyone wants to see how an anime tackles this kind of disaster the series is certainly worth watching - but for me, I'd probably bail after the first half.
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2011-03-19, 16:55 | Link #1269 | |
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TM8.0 never mentioned the possibility of tsunamis. A more difficult question concerns the requirements imposed on TEPCO. I've seen reports that the plants were designed to withstand quakes in the 7.5-8.0 range, considerably below the size of the 1923 Kantou quake. TEPCO had also considered the possibility of tsunami damage, but they underestimated the extent of possible damage and the sequence of events that actually took place. From the diagrams in that presentation, it looks like TEPCO was planning for tsunamis on the order of five meters high and thought doubling that was a sufficient safety margin (see p.15).
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2011-03-20, 02:57 | Link #1270 |
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Because of what happened, I suddenly thought of this series and decided to take a look at it. Just finished marathoning the entire series.
Furuichi was amazing. I really shed tears then. But the ending...wow, that sucks, really sucks. Instead of a journey home helping to bring things into perspective, the story just derailed there. Oh man... |
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This anime's ending is melodramatic, certainly. As a drama, it works. As a purported "simulation" of disaster, however, it failed miserably — and that was where the series lost me as an emotionally engaged viewer. |
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2011-03-22, 21:50 | Link #1273 |
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For people calling this series "predictable" I can't really agree. I honestly thought they might have written it as "the family members of both Mari AND the children died so after coming to realize this, the three form their own little family".
But I was way wrong! And I like it when anime goes "Guess what, your prediction didn't come true!" Though I think I might've preferred my idea over the true "Yuuki eventually died" ending. You can chalk me up with the ignorant masses who didn't understand he died in episode 8 until after a second watch. It was good that Mari's mother and Hina made it though. I really thought they were dead! I didn't find that scene so bait-and-switch. The area was large, there were TONS of people who died, so is it really so unbelievable victims of the same age and sex could be mistaken for the ones you're looking for? No way, I bet that happens A LOT. Likewise with the aftershocks and the kids getting separated. It was repetitive but real life is repetitive too. It just adds to the realism. I just finished watching this anime straight-through and it was very sad. Felt a little like (no a lot like) Grave of the Fireflies....but this was much more heartfelt and warming where GotF felt like nitty-gritty reality that said "This is life. It sucks and children DO die." Tokyo Magnitude says "This is life. It sucks and children DO die...but you need to be strong for the sake of your own future. Keep hanging in there." I prefer the latter message.
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2011-07-05, 18:30 | Link #1275 |
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I had this anime on my backlog long before the events that happen in Japan but decide bump it on my priority to-watch list afterward. I was pretty uneasy going in because I didn't know what to expect out of the series, especially considering the pre-episode warnings on how supposedly accurate this would be due to all the "research" done on earthquakes.
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