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

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.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Spoiler:

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.

There's nowhere I can't reach.