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

lol, Dattebayo released a sub of this as a prank - under the name of Naruto Shippuuden 5CM v2. It wasn't their work - credits within went to http://www.bikasuishin.org/

I'm glad they posted it though - wouldn't have found out about this otherwise. I'd recognized the style as something I'd seen from various pictures of the Place Promised in Our Early Days, but to see it animated is really something. As of this moment, I'll be waiting for the other 2 episodes to come out - this is GOLD!


PS: Chato, are you trying to give people seizures with that avatar?? @_@

Jam it back in, in the dark.

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

How ya doing, buddy?

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:

Spoiler:

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...

Spoiler:

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.

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