5 Centimeters per Second
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| I just finished watching it. Well anyway, I like this movie very much, but somehow I can't give it a 10. After watching through the end, this movie made my chest heavy. I don't know why, but it's as if i can't feel anything for the next 15 minutes or so. I just lie down at those 15 minutes and in the end, decided to comment at MAL. I do love the story, and I do prefer this no-so-happy ending. It should have been a masterpiece, but i just can't accept it as such. Am I the minority on this? |
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| I liked it. The animation quality was brilliant and I like the types of scenes where few words are said and all the emotion comes from the scenery. |
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| Just bought the blu-ray edition off Amazon.jp It was surprisingly cheap. Including shipping, the movie cost $56 And I'll be getting it within this week, or early next week. |
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forgottensorrows said: Man, watching this has left me somewhat depressed; I don't easily get saddened from watching an anime, but the fact that the two couldn't stay together makes me feel like something is ripping my heart from the inside. I really liked the two as a couple but the time slowly pulled them away. It was a pity they couldn't stay together. Even a few months after watching it, the ending still hurts me in away; though it doesn't make me cry or anything, just the thought is so sad. I felt the same way after watching this, it was such a beautiful anime with such a depressing(sad) ending. I could be doing anything and thinking about this anime would put me in a somber mood. I guess that's a good thing on behalf of the creator though, getting people emotionally connected, and getting people to remember the work. |
Trineas said: Well, a very nice Movie, I'm glad I watched it. A simple, yet beatiful story due the simply amazing animations and details, of course I wished for a more heartwarming ending, but I'm still in the end l, a spoiled brat :D Definetly a must-watch for everyone. 10/10 (: |
| If you can't beat 'em, try again. |
| Wow just experienced a beautiful masterpiece. With regards to the ending, I can come to terms with it. As its been stated when he walks away from the tracks at the end looking up at the sky with a smile on his face it's the moment he has finally after all this time moved on. He knew he could finally let go when she didn't wait for him. |
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| My sense of taste seems to differ greatly from the majority. The 1st and 2nd episode was nice but not spectacular with a touch of loneliness and a dark atmosphere which suits me very well. For me, it was a pretty dark, a long distance relationship with depressive elements which some may find repulsive. I was planning to rate it as 7-8 when the 3rd episode came along. The 3rd episode was really the episode that changed my 7-8 rating to a perfect 10. The depression, loneliness, sadness, all the negative elements of life was beautifully portrayed in the 3rd episode. People with introverted tendencies, the philosophically inclined, as well as those having existential depression will truly see the 3rd episode as an absolute masterpiece and also as one to contemplate about. I see many people talking about distance and about its portrayal in the movie but in my opinion the real portrayal is the loneliness and cruelty of the real world, which is of course expressed by a long-distance love story between the two main characters. At any rate, this movie is a masterpiece, irrevocable. |
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| I really enjoyed and loved this anime. 5/5 definitely. One of the only times I cried in an anime, but I'm proud of it haha [/shot] It seems like it can happen to anyone, and it kind of reminds me of my past, which made me like it even more. I rewatch this movie every month or so and I still love it :D |
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| I loved it, it was short and sweet. |
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| Hey I just recently finished this absolutely beautiful movie. I cannot imagine how much effort Makoto put into the animation... the vibrance colours, extreme amount of of details (the reflections in the puddles etc. looks stunning), the great use of lens flare... the movie is a work of art. salim271 said: One huge question that is still bugging me. I know why Tohno was content in the end after the trains passed and Akari wasnt there... but why did Akari leave??? My own interpretation of this is that Akari really does move on (its important to know that this was an important part of the story..If it was reality, I too would've stayed to see a friend that I have lost for so many years... but if the movie did not do this it wouldn't have the same melancholy feel that it intends to produce). We know that Akari I tend to answer wall-of-text questions with wall-of-text answers :P I totally agree that the movie could easily have been a happy ending, but I felt that the ending of 5cm per Second was the best because it doesn't follow any cliched romance endings. I tend to like very sad endings as it leaves a deeper impact on me afterwards. |
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 It's PHP... Awesome... |
HalcyonDays23 said: My own interpretation of this is that Akari really does move on (its important to know that this was an important part of the story..If it was reality, I too would've stayed to see a friend that I have lost for so many years... but if the movie did not do this it wouldn't have the same melancholy feel that it intends to produce). We know that Akari Very well put. It was so emotional and beautiful. I dont really like sad endings as I always cry lol but it doesnt change the fact that I think this was a masterpeice 10/10 I feel sorry for Takaki, he was such a nice guy and deep down was always sad and missing Akari. Life sure sucks doesn't it :'( |
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| Just rewatched this after 4 years. It was exactly as beautiful. |
| --- >:( Some anime music quizzes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pYobZAizmg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYBtCR7itV4 |
| Such a tragic story... he doesnt even know shes engaged.. That was powerful but not tear jerking like Clannad. |
| I didn't get too much from the show, some sad parts I guess - there wasn't any great character/relationship development I felt, so you couldn't really sympathise. Maybe I am just too spoilt from the Clannad series (Epic series...). I know it isn't too long of a film, maybe it could have done with a few more scenes, meh. I felt the whole film to be slightly empty, you know what I mean? |
| that last ep was, kinda short :( i was expecting more |
| Having just finished the movie I can't seem to understand why I am not enjoying as everyone else is. Best thing I can easily see from here is the beautiful animation here. I was gawking at how marvelous the whole thing looked especially the night sky in cosmonaut. However, afterwards, I honestly don't see what's so impressive about it otherwise. The first chapter's story I was completely fine as it does tell us a tragic tale of separation and longing between the two characters and just how messed up life can be sometimes. I actually quite enjoyed the cosmonaut chapter maybe because I enjoyed Kanae's character and perspective. I liked how you see herself developing her courage and even resolving herself not to confess as she realized as how she had no chance with him. I think the reason why I didn't really enjoy it as I had liked is the lack of character growth and perspective I saw. I mean I can understand Tohno's wish to stay close to Akari throughout the story but I just felt that there just wasn't really anything there besides that. I couldn't truly see him or Akari as an individual character. The ending also felt like it was rushed. I certainly see the lesson in how life just sucks and how distance can really affect a relationship but I don't think it was exactly concluded very well like something was missing. I'm not asking for a concrete happy ending but still. Overall, art is just godly, story didn't grab me as much as I had hoped, and besides Kanae I just couldn't come to like or relate myself to the characters. If someone can convince me to like this more than I do now then please do so. But for now I say it's a good attempt and give it a 7. |
| Oh, I'd already seen the first part. Well, first things first, I can't even imagine anime nowadays with this detailed artwork. That's just... a thing of the past, I guess. ┐(￣ー￣)┌ Beginning of part 3, god I want his monitor, it's slightly bigger than my biggest one D: It's 32" isn't it? Tch, mine's only 26" D: Stupid comments aside, I usually don't find these kind of sad stories very sad at all, I just laugh it off as a director trying to invoke feelings that don't exist. However, I must say that I did actually find this somewhat sad. Which makes it my... uhm... 3rd anime (or 4th) which I've actually felt a bit down after watching. |
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| too bad Takaki is not with Akari in the end.... |
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| Beautiful animation. The art was alright. The music was suitable and pleasant. However, the ending lacked a proper closure. Overall it was a good treat for the eyes. |
| Empty. Sorry guys, but just because Makoto has learned enough to manipulate emotions doesn't mean he has anything interesting to say. I say this as a guy who loves melodrama: nothing pisses me off more than a director trying to make me feel sad. Great melodramatic shows are ones that reflect something from the director. You can feel his tortured soul through the directing. You can tell that Shinji from Evangelion represents the director's thoughts, you can tell that in Samurai X it was a true and honest love that was destroyed, you can relate to the sick obsession in Cossette no Shouzou even though it's beyond any feeling you could have. This movie was just bullshit. There was nothing to relate to, the characters were all caricatures. There was love, all we saw was a hastily drawn sketch. There were no thoughts that the director had, besides the same damn thing he said in Voices (except for the 10% that was different, by bad!) Nothing was real, nothing was thoughtful, nothing was novel, everything was simply drenched in baseless melancholy in a cynical attempt to produce tears. If you couldn't guess from my complaints, I despised the first part, was okay with the second part, and also liked the third part as a slightly more sophisticated ending. I did enjoy the art to a degree, but at the same time it sort of felt old-hat to me. I mean, really, what separated this from The Place Promised in our Early Days (artwise)? I sort of felt like I was supposed to be impressed at how high resolution it was, but apart from the admittedly impressive use of colors I didn't really feel anything except for the stupid distance motif he's been beating us over the head with for the last few movies. Overall, it just feels like Shinkai's repeating a successful formula without moving on or evolving his storytelling techniques one bit. Sorry to be such a downer guys |
| “Money can't buy dere” |
| Wow, this movie was amazing The animation was wonderful The backgrounds were breath-taking It put me in a state of pure nostalgia... |
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| are you kidding me? so much hype about this movie and somehow i feel a bit disappointed. i'm alright with the first two parts but the last one was just plain......lame (please don't lynch me!!) i get the part about distance part but still!!!! |
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| I think for the time, the movie is good. But, it is rather simple story, nothing to really understand or ponder over - so it is a shame you don't really feel emotional for the characters etc, due to lack of development and hence you don't really care. I am surprised at how much this is said to have affectedpeople,make them cry etc- I would say I ameasyto betouched by animes/movies, but I didn't feel anythg for this. It isn't even a bit complicated, it is really very straight forward, so I can't even think "Maybe I'll be more affectedbyit watching it second time" like "Air". Oh well. |
| Honestly it was fine. The end was a little disappointing but I suppose that is how life is at times. The animation was the only amazing thing, for me, in this series. Overall, gave this series a 7/10. |
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| *Breathe* Well just finished watching this... Loved the story and everything, well thought, no stupid things, everything perfect, 10/10. But with the ending... I really can't stand this ending, to me it felt that we didn't get anywhere since the first episode. Anyways that is my opinion at the moment, the ending really disappointed me, but I still gave a 7/10 overall, in my opinion it could have been much better, but, meh who cares? |
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| (sigh) They got me I cried at the first episode when they finally meet each other. I don't know should I be sad or happy. In the second episode is too bad for Kanae (sigh again) I'm really into this anime. I think he knew that she likes him (Touno) The last one was really short but they got me again I thought that I'm not going to cry but I did (T_T) it is because of the music (I think) In the end she got married... well as you can see she was wearing a ring. If you look from far this show isn't really special, the story is short but for me it's great. This anime is really for me I love drama, romance like that. The art was marvelous. I'll give 10 out 10 (maybe it's overrated) OmegaJudgement said: I accepted that with you 'bout lung cancer xDSo now he doesn't have Akari or Kanae and is going to die a lonely death from lung cancer (smoking kills!) |
| Tch, Main character and character development do not commutate, it's sad to see that every girl that he had met b4 grew up and continued with theri lives but he didn't, but oh well life sometimes is like that 7\10 overall |
| Interesting... I'll definitely have to watch it again. I actually felt like I was moving away from the characters and caring about them less and less as the movie went on (FRIDGE FUCKING LOGIC - THAT'S THE POINT OF THE WHOLE MOVIE)! Part 1 - PURE anxiety during the entire train trip. Elation when they finally met! Part 2 - Just... a wave of hopelessness and despair passed through me when we found out what he was doing with his cell phone... - Expected the inevitability of Kanae's feelings... doesn't make it less sad. Teared up a little at the end. Part 3 - The majority of this part made me feel miserable... - Not sure if what I felt when I saw the ring was betrayal or just my acceptance of her moving on being the most realistic thing to happen... Like someone in the first few pages said, this movie almost felt like it was portraying its content TOO much like real life... - The first train crossing scene made me panic, it looked like they would walk right by without recognizing each other :*( - I suppose one could say it had a content ending? It's as if I, as a member of the audience, accepted the progress of the plot, but I still felt like something was missing. I think I feel a longing for Takaki and Akari to have developed their feelings... I feel bereaved of the intense potential that those two had together... - This movie exemplifies the bittersweet theme of time-lost love and how the characters finally part from their past. Overall - My initial response was 9/10. The conflict is as follows: Pro: Animation, backgrounds, and music were all incredible. Easily some of the best I've seen. Con: It condensed ten years into one hour. While I was able to relate to the characters, it wasn't to the extent I had hoped, or, unfortunately, expected. I'll certainly rewatch this and consider feedback from external sources. Oh yeah, and I've been made aware of my soft-piano-solo-bgm weakness. Thanks a lot Clannad... |
wheresthehandleApr 19, 2011 11:29 PM
| Don't forget. Always, somewhere, someone is fighting for you. As long as you remember her, you are not alone. |
| Im gonna kill myself -.-... This is just a miserable movie, al the character are miserable... ITS ALL SADNESS! 9/10... Awesome movie, but its just incredibly sad... |
| To be honest, I have such mixed feelings about this one, and I'm kind of regretful I watched it. When I first heard about this I heard people say it's bittersweet so I put it off, but finally decided it was time, but... fuck man... Words cannot really describe my reaction to this, but I'll try my best. Really hit home of how reality is, when I try so hard to forget about it.. That childhood friends are only in memory, we have to let go of the past and move on, and that nothing stays constant... it's always changing.. In part 3 when we see Akari again and her saying she was getting married, I thought it was to Takaki and was happy.... Then I see Takaki in a dump and living his life without passion, energy, or even life itself..The song starts and I'm going wtf?.. And then I see flashbacks and AKARI IS WITH ANOTHER FUCKING PRICK? My God... Confusion and rage consumed me... ...I was like.. What the FUCK at the end.. I'm a guy who enjoys happy fairy tale endings so this was a major bitch slap to the face saying "This is reality".. God damn that was depressing..I think the main reason I feel so.. fucked over inside is that, it shows exactly how reality would have been... but at the same time... this sense of betrayal by the movie... with my expectations and desires for them to get back together again... were shattered and played with.. as if to shit on me and say, "THIS IS HOW REALITY IS.".... I can't believe that Akari just moved on like that and plays it off that she didn't feel like they've gotten even 1 cm closer in those 1k+ mails.. WHAT THE SHIT. I understand, distance does without a doubt, changes us over time. But the extent of it is questionable under the circumstances. They were intimate as you could ever be and I could see the passion and love they had for each other from the first part. But the story says "FUCK YOU" and decides that time/distance makes one of the two completely hung up on the past and without a reason to live and the other forget about it completely and live on with it as a nostalgic happy memory. I'm just pissed off that Takaki was shown to be wallowing in his misery, ruining his life, and with no one special in his life, while Akari could give two shits less about him, is getting happily married, and probably doesn't even remember Takaki's name. That's what punches me in the gut more than this portrayal of how life is... The unfair treatment of our main leads... Fuck this man.. I am going to have to try hard to forget this backstabbing sonofabitch movie and the biggest bitchslap to my face I've ever gotten. |
neverLampMay 2, 2011 12:01 AM
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| I got this recommended to me when I asked for something sad. It definitely delivered. It was very realistic, I really had a strong dislike towards the train sequence due to how accurately it portrayed the anxiety of being late to such an important even, and the fear of the other person long gone by then, leaving you completely alone at the place you've never been to, with hardly any other passing spirits in your surroundings... I greatly appreciated the second part with its shift of focus, hope everything turned out good for Sumida, liked her character a lot. The ending was in my opinion a bit rushed, it could have used a fourth episode, the third one focusing on showing how miserable Touno's life got, and the fourth depicting him finally leaving his dream behind to salvage whatever he can from the rest of his life. All in all, it was a great watch and I will definitely sit down for it again in the future. I'm giving it an 8/10. |
| i haven't even fully understand the story yet i feel sooo sad |
| I regret spending 10 pounds on this trite. It was supposed to feel all artistic and romantic but the plot was just so unimaginative and the characters had barely anything interesting with them other than describing the scenery and the situation in detail. All I can say is that the background art is well done, but nothing's going to save this from being a snorefest. 1/10. |
| first and last episodes were good, but i feel that the second episode was unnecessary it should have explored the two main's relationship instead of introducing a new character, i mean come on its an hour long movie and you spend about a third of it telling the story of an irrelevant character?. also i didnt like the fact that they didnt show what happened between the two of them inorder to cause their break up.... it just showed them lovey dovey in the first episode and then boom they no longer speak to each other, and am left thinking what the hell just happend? |
| Depressing. As. Hell. |
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| This is one of the few series that I absolutely loathe but respect at the same time. I, as well as many of you, can probably strongly relate in our hatred for the ending. But as much as I want to bash the ending, bash the story, or just bash, to me, this series definitely did one thing great: strike the viewers strongly and deeply. And that's what I think separates good anime and bad anime. Hey, I may not like the story all that much, the characters all that much, the art that much, or the music all that much, but if I am able to relate with the characters, to fully empathize with their every pain and struggle, that's one hell of a feeling, and definitely deserving props in my book. Thanks CoMix Wave, I'll be crying myself to sleep tonight. |
| Really beautiful movie, I almost cried in the end. Sad end. :( Graphics were amazing, I love the backgrounds and the song in the last episode was great too. But sometimes it was a little bit boring. |
| Best anime movie I've ever seen. And that was even with the horrendous quality of the video on Crunchyroll. I'll have to buy the DVD once I'm able to. So much *real* emotion in this. Doesn't help that I could completely relate with a lot of this... ;_; AAAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH |
| Movie was quite good.Though its nothing compared to the manga. |
| I definitely have superpowers. I can feel it in my balls. |
| ... I heard this was supposed to be a good anime. Damn is it just me or is this anime just really hard to get into. Can someone give me a summary since i couldn't really understand much of what was going on |
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luffyfan said: ... I heard this was supposed to be a good anime. Damn is it just me or is this anime just really hard to get into. Can someone give me a summary since i couldn't really understand much of what was going on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Centimeters_Per_Second#Plot |
| I definitely have superpowers. I can feel it in my balls. |
| I thought it was a pretty good movie. Everything was really interesting except for the ending. A bit dissapointing because we never really had much of a resolve. I wonder what happened to Sumida Kanae though. All I really know is that she failed to confess to Tohno and that was that. |
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