A lot of the city got destroyed or rendered unlivable with the appearance of Hell's Gate, as well. Darker Than Black calls a scenario like this "the Tokyo Explosion," and groups attempting to cause or prevent it are behind most of the first season's plot.Many other sites in Tokyo still aren't finished being rebuilt even by the end of the series. However, the attack site had never been rebuilt. Subverted in Dai-Guard: Monsters known as Heterodynes (Not those Heterodynes) constantly attack parts of Tokyo its most famous case being a large scale attack twelve years prior.During the majority of the series, Tokyo is actually split between the rich "Settlement/Concession", where the Britannians live, and the run-down ghettos that were never really rebuilt where the "Numbers" are forced to reside.
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This doesn't even get into the destruction and occupation of the city before the series proper even begins.There's another battle there late in the second season, which ends with the utter annihilation of Tokyo using a quasi-nuke that literally vaporizes most of the city. The first season finale has a huge, decisive battle there, with massive collateral damage. The first battle of the series takes place in Shinjuku, which starts out as a massacre of civilians until Zero and the terrorists get involved.Interestingly in the 2040 series, the Earthquake that happened before the series was a man-made event meant as an attempt to prevent said runaway technology from running amok in the first place. The 2040 TV series then ruins it again with runaway technology. Both versions of Bubblegum Crisis level Tokyo with an earthquake before the action even begins.This culminates in episode 25, when most of the city is reduced to rubble and only restored by an apparent "End of the World" Special. And no one seems to care about the irreplaceable losses whenever another 5 square blocks get razed in what is apparently the last remaining city in the world. The Big O: While not Tokyo, Paradigm City regularly has large chunks of itself destroyed by fights amongst Humongous Mecha.Angel Sanctuary: Tokyo is destroyed in the third episode of the anime, and rather early on in the manga.All-Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku: Nuku-Nuku and Eimi demolish most of Nerima Ward during their first spat.The manga possibly does it a third time (though it hadn't even begun rebuilding from the second blast).