Monster Magnitude: 9 (2010)

Monster Magnitude: 9 Air date July 7 - September 29, 2010 Producer(s) Takuma Tosaka, Hironori Miyagawa Production company MM9 Production Committee, MBS (executive); General Entertainment Channel(s) Mainichi Broadcasting System (MBS) Genre(s) Tokusatsu, kaiju Episodes 13

“	You can live as if nothing is a miracle, or everything is a miracle.	„
	— Series tagline

Monster Magnitude: 9 (MM9-MONSTER MAGNITUDE- (エム・エム・ナイン),   Emu Emu Nain) is a Japanese tokusatsu kaiju series co-produced by the MM9 Production Committee and Mainichi Broadcasting System (MBS). It ran from July 7 to September 29 of 2010 on MBS, with streaming made available through a dedicated iPad application. Helmed by Shinji Higuchi, the series is based loosely on the novel MM9 by Hiroshi Yamamoto.

Episodes

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Air date
1	"[[]]"	Tomoyuki Furumaya	Kazunori Ito	07/07
2	"[[]]"			07/14
3	"[[]]"	Ataru Oikawa		07/21
4	"[[]]"			07/28
5	"[[]]"	Kiyotaka Taguchi	Kiyotaka Taguchi Shinji Higuchi Kazunori Ito	08/04
6	"O mio babbino caro"	Shinji Higuchi	Kazunori Ito	08/11
7	"[[]]"	Takuma Tosaka		08/18
8	"[[]]"			08/25
9	"Close contact! Japan Meteorological Agency Peculiar Biological Countermeasures Division 24:00"	Kiyotaka Taguchi	Kiyotaka Taguchi	09/01
10	"[[]]"	Ataru Oikawa	Kazunori Ito	09/08
11	"Each Christmas Eve"	Tomoyuki Furumaya		09/15
12	"M, fetal movement"	Shinji Higuchi		09/22
13	"End and beginning"			09/29

Staff

Staff role on the left, staff member's name on the right.

• Directed by   Shinji Higuchi
• Episode directors   Tomoyuki Furumaya, Ataru Oikawa, Takuma Tosaka, Kiyotaka Taguchi
• Written by   Kazunori Ito, Kiyotaka Taguchi, Shinji Higuchi
• Based on the novel MM9 by   Hiroshi Yamamoto
• Produced by   Takuma Tosaka, Hironori Miyagawa
• Music by   Tsuneyoshi Saito
• Cinematography by   Nobuhisa Hirata
• Edited by   Soichi Ueno
• Production design by   Atsuo Hirai
• 1st assistant director   Katsumi Hosaka
• Director of special effects   Kiyotaka Taguchi
• VFX supervisor   Atsuki Sato

Cast

Actor's name on the left, character played on the right.

• Anna Ishibashi   as   Sakura Fujisawa, Mobile Operation Team
• Machiko Ono   as   Mari Mikazuki, Mobile Operation Team
• Issei Takahashi   as   Ryo Haida, Mobile Operation Team leader
• Yasuhi Nakamura   as   Koichiro Morihashi, Information Analysis Team operator
• Satoru Matsuo   as   Toshio Yamagiwa, Information Analysis Team operator
• Sarutoki Minagawa   as   Yojiro Muromachi, Monsterological Measures Department chief
• Takako Kato   as   Yuri Anno, mathematician at Jonan University
• Yutaka Matsushige   as   Shoichi Kurihama, MMD director
• Masato Kono   as   Omura, MMD spokesman
• Makoto Awane   as   Yoshinari Yotsumoto, director of the Surveillance & Research Division of the Tsukuba Meteorological Research Institute's Monsterological Department
• Hiroyuki Hirayama   as   Makoto Himuro, temporary transfer from the Defense Policy Division of the Ministry of Defense's Defense Policy Bureau
• Ai Hashimoto   as   Akitsu Futara, student at Sakuragaoka Junior High School with supernatural powers

Appearances

Monsters (M) and Supernatural Beings (S)

• Akitsu Futara
• Konjac Rock
• Shippon
• Zamegon
• Nu-san
• Batabata-san
• Megadrake
• Skywalker
• Fuldonera

Weapons, vehicles, races, and organizations

• Japan Meteorologica Agency
  • Monsterological Measures Department
    • Mobile Operation Team (MOT)
    • Information Analysis Team (IAT)
• Tsukuba Meteorological Research Institute
  • Monsterological Department
    • Surveillance & Research Division
• Ministry of Defense
  • Defense Policy Bureau
    • Defense Policy Division

Video releases

King Records DVD (2010) [Volume 1]

• Discs: 2
• Audio: Japanese
• Notes: Limited edition. Includes episodes 1-6.

King Records DVD (2010) [Volume 2]

• Discs: 2
• Audio: Japanese
• Notes: Limited edition. Includes episodes 7-13.

External links

• Official website
• Series page on the MBS website
• Official Twitter account (inactive)

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