After rumors being spread around for several weeks now, Australian anime publisher Siren Visual have recently announced that they have acquired the rights to the 2009 noitaminA anime series Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 which they intend to release at an unspecified time in 2013.
This is an 11-episode series co-produced by the studios Bones and Kinema Citrus and currently seems to be an English-language exclusive to the company.
The premise of the project is the 70% possibility that a magnitude 7.0 earthquake will occur in Tokyo in the next 30 years. The anime depicts what would happen if an 8.0 earthquake took place.
The story centers on Mirai, a middle school freshman girl who goes to Tokyo’s artificial Odaiba Island for a robot exhibition with her brother Yuuki at the start of summer vacation. A powerful tremor emanates from an ocean trench, the famed Tokyo Tower and Rainbow Bridge crumble and fall, and the landscape of Tokyo changes in an instant. With the help of a motorcycle delivery woman named Mari who they meet on Odaiba, Mirai and Yuuki strive to head back to their Setagaya home in western Tokyo.
