[Anime] 5cm per second, a chain of short stories about their distance...

Probably won't be much longer wait for an english sub then. Didn't even notice that it was vietnamese though.

It stopped at about 38 percent for me so I'll just delete this one and wait a little longer then.

I had no idea this had even come out, been waiting for Hellsing too get subbed for so long that I completely forgot about this.

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So basically this is a 3-part miniseries about two kids who happen to be "star-crossed lovers"?

I saw the first part and was pleasantly entertained. What a great little animation. So much detail too. Amazing.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Well, glad I finally checked this out. The visuals were awesome indeed!! o_O

I downloaded KissSub's version just an hour ago and it was a great watch, I swear this guy's visual presentation is just great. The story was simple and yet totally enjoyable without being wishy-washy. I really can't wait for the other chapters to be released!

Are the other chapters related to each other in terms of the characters or are they completely different stories?

Good show!




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Completely agree. To call the visuals awesome would be a complete understatement when it comes to describing Makoto Shinkai's talent.

After finishing the first episode, I can't help but feel that I've seen this somewhere before, namely in Voices of a Distant Star (Hoshi no Koe), only this time, the story takes place in the modern world rather than the future. Still, it's a good episode for when you're just feeling like a short visual vignette with enough monologue and flashbacks to develop the story further.

I am curious whether the director will try to branch off the well-worn path that he's gone on ever since he made Voices of a Distant Star. Based on the synopsys I've read of The Place Promised in Our Early Days, I assume that its main theme also involves love reaching across great distances.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Well, the DVD's come out in Japan, and ADV licensed it - causing some groups (like Triad) to drop the whole project. Anyone know if there's any group at all doing the DVD? I've yet to see the whole movie.

Edit: I spoke to soon. Just found a sub released yesterday :O

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Can't wait until this comes out on DVD (hopefully in some kind of package along with Voices of a Distant Star and BtC). It's too bad th at they currently have no plans to distribute this in a HD format, though, since Makoto Shinkai is one animator whose work definitely deserves the upgrade.

I downloaded the sub the other week because I couldn't wait until December (when the R1 DVD comes out) and man, what a trip. I don't know if I love Shinkai or hate him. His works are so staggeringly beautiful, and yet he somehow always ends with an extremely bittersweet ending. 5cm is no exception to the formula, and the effect is probably greater due to the fact that the story is grounded in reality -- no mechas or flying ships in this one.

I've heard Shinkai is currently writing a novel explaining in more depth what happens to all the characters... hopefully it'll be translated somewhere.

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Got my DVD about 2 hrs ago and already finished watching
Dang, its just so beautiful, his artwork! Love the music too

Planning to watch Disc 2 - Special Features soon (After work).

Saka: There are currently a novel, manga and special fan-disk in the making (news about 2 month back in new-akiba.com). I think there will be higher chance of the manga being translated rather than the novel it self >_<

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Goddamn it!

I finally got to see the DVD here in HK (AVP-Asia Video ~ English/Chinese subtitles) and I am pissed. The artwork is staggeringly awesome (don't know if watching it on my PS3 and HDTV had anything to do with that) and as previously mentioned, bittersweet in terms of the story.

I just hate the end, it literally had me going WTF?!

spoilers, man....

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I really thought that Takaki and Akari would get back together in the end. I was fucking wishing it to happen every inch of the way as soon as chapter one came to a close. Instead I see Akari engaged and returning to Tokyo to be with her fiancee and what seems to be Takaki's life literally going down the toilet. Man, Makoto Shinkai seriously smacked me in the head with that one...

The images that accompanied the song was beautiful though. At least we see how each got on with their lives since they parted ways at the end of chapter one. Seeing how they couldn't keep up with their letter-writing had me feeling some sense of inevitability, but I still had to force myself to believe that they pretty much broke away from each other...

Akari was left happy but Takaki was lost. That last part where they almost meet at the train crossing tore my heart out. Shit....

......depressed.......LOL....

It was an awesome movie though. I truly loved the artwork, it was so beautiful. Too bad the interview wasn't subtitled though, I would've liked to have known how he felt about doing such moving stories.

Anybody else love it? Hate it?




Jam it back in, in the dark.

I loved it but the end was just depressing.

I was hoping for more

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Ending was depressing, but it wasn't cliche, which was something I really loved about it. It shows you that distance in a relationship does actually take effect and that things don't always work out nicely even with strong feelings for each other.


In other news, those jerks at ADV seemed to have delayed the release date, last time I check they announced it for the end of 2007.....

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Here's a video I found on youtube, it's the song from 5cm per second, One More Time, One More Chance.

The video is a little different from the actual footage in the third part of the movie: for one it's much longer; and the ending is different and uses footage not in the film (at least I don't remember that part ever being in the movie).

Heh, kind'a got my hopes up for an alternate ending or something....

YouTube Video

Might be spoilerific for those who haven't seen the movie.

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This is a masterpiece. As much as I love observing the world and it's beauty I loved how it's portrayed in this small series of 3 parts. It just shows how big the world is and how close relationships and feelings may age/change in the distance from the one you love. The animation is stunningly beautiful and I have never seen anything like it before. It's certainly one series where just a picture says more than a thousand words, and I like that's for the most part how they've kept it, letting the amazing backgrounds and music speak. I think the beautiful animation plays it's part in showing how to treasure the moments of your life and just the small (and sometimes amazing) things around us that we see every day.

The ending was sad but I think it was good that they had a more realistic closure to their relationship. However, I don't think I would have minded a cliché ending to this series because it's just so sad how he's left there all alone, still wishing to meet the girl that he has loved for such a long time. In any case, it was a beautiful story and I can't wait to see more stuff like this from the creator of this series Makoto Shinkai.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Here's a question for you guys. Just wondering what your opinions could be regarding this other small thing that bothered me about the ending....

Spoiler:

.....did Akari deliberately not stick around at the end? Seems kind'a fucked up to suggest this I know, but hear me out....

The first time that scene plays, when Takaki and the then unknown woman pass each other by on the train tracks, you only see Takaki have a reaction. When the trains have passed and you see no one on the other side, you too are left wondering if that woman could possibly have been Akari (at this point we weren't aware of Akari's whereabouts until a little later).

The second time that scene plays during the song, One More Time, One More Chance, you know the woman is Akari as you see her on the balcony watering her plants, seeing the cherry blossoms flying in the wind, then leaving her home to go to the place she used to frequent with Takaki. When they pass each other at the tracks, you see them both have a reaction when passing....

However, only Takaki stayed to see if the woman was Akari or not. Just as the trains approached, you can see that Akari also started to turn towards Takaki - so I'm sure she wanted to see who he was. Why did she suddenly decide not to bother? Could she have been afraid that it was him, and didn't know how she should react? Could she have thought that suddenly having him back in her life could jeopardise the happy life she's built for herself? What do you all think?

Would like to hear your opinions if you have any. Of course, the movie was great and I suppose there's no need to ruin it with silly needs of justification on character's behaviours and whatnot.....still.....it bugs me.....




What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

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Well, I think that she really did leave there deliberately more or less. She might have recognized that it could have been him, but then shrugging it off like "It couldn't have been him" and then left, OR she could have been 99% sure and left because she didn't want to remember. Having a happy life she just didn't want to ruin anything and took the easy way out of it. It's not like I think I'd do anything different though. I think it'd only bring pain/insecurity and second thoughts if I meet one of the greatest loves in my life while being happy with someone other.

But I guess since they were so small and they had been away from each other for so long maybe it couldn't have left too much of a lasting impression on them, I mean, watching the end now again I could see Takaki smile while walking away from the railway crossing. It's possible he only went back to the places of his childhood just for nostalgia and felt happy thinking about it. It's great to see that he's walking away smiling, probably willing to move on.

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Oh, in the end I thought it was just a nostalgia thing on Takaki's part, just reminiscing about Akari, that her actual physical presence isn't there.

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Thanks for posting that video hikarub. It was so much more positive than the movie's final cuts, haha. I remember being depressed for days after viewing the entire movie... Watching The Place Promised in Our Early Days shortly afterwards did not help either - most of Shinkai's movies seem to have a theme of distance, isolation and the melancholy associated with it.

This particular line from the latter movie hit me like a brick at the time:

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Every time I get to my room and shut the door, I feel a stabbing pain in my heart as if all the bones in my body are breaking through my skin. And I wonder when it was that I became burdened with something like this. I was living alone, and the nights felt long. When I couldn’t find anything to occupy my time, I would walk to the nearby station and pretend I was waiting for someone. When I got tired of that, I walked back to my room as slowly as possible. I had friends at high school, but I found that other than when I was wearing my uniform, I really didn’t want to be around them. Come to think of it, in a city of more than thirty million people, there wasn’t a single person I wanted to see or talk to.

Lets see, about the ending of 5cm...

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I remember they both stopped on their tracks and started turning towards each other as the train came by. So Akari did indeed feel something, perhaps sensing his presence; but she no longer had a reason to wait and see if that person really was him, since she has long since moved on with her life. There wasn't anything she could gain by finding him again - perhaps she just wanted him to remain a memory, a cherished moment of her childhood that can never be gotten back.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Interesting thoughts there. I like the way you guys think. Incidently, are there any girls here? I wonder if we would share the same sentiments regarding this movie...

About Takaki...

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....when he smiled at the end, I was kind'a thinking he too had smiled only because of the nostalgia. Maybe he thought it was her but seeing no one there at the end, thought it was just his imagination and turned around and walked on. I'd like to think that just thinking about it made him a little happier. Of course he didn't know if it was really her or not, only we the audience knew for a fact. Thinking about the ending now makes it a little less depressing I guess.

Nonetheless, a great movie. I wonder when the manga and novel mentioned earlier will be released? Would love to get a look at those.




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Originally Posted by Greykin

In other news, those jerks at ADV seemed to have delayed the release date, last time I check they announced it for the end of 2007.....

You're right. The U.S. release got delayed until March 4, 2008.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

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I suppose they "met" at the cherry blossom tree at the end as they promised, even if she wasn't there physically.

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