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This is indeed a great show. After three episodes, I think it to be one of the 2008’s highlights. Eve no jikan is beautifully and atmospherically animated, with nice voices, interesting characters and relationships, and a developing plot. The story, which involved humans living with androids, wasn’t the most original in the world,but it didn’t make this anime any less attractive.

Eve no Jikan is directed by Yasuhiro Yoshiura, who is often compared to Makoto Shinkai in terms of how well his short animations look. This time in his latest work Eve no jikan, Yasuhiro Yoshiura once again proved his artistic talent. The ... anime certainly did look amazing. The digital painting in this anime has always fascinated me, and the backgrounds done were astonishing to look at. The compositions of the story were brilliantly presented, as well as the camera-like imitation they used in the animation.

Yasuhiro Yoshiura seems to have a certain emotion of the lights. He does have a stunningly gorgeous means to use the light to enhance the atmosphere of the scenes. The pavonine sunray penetrated into the ordinary room, small door to Time of Eve vestured by the sunburst, the gentle lights impression in the Café bar filling the scenes with fancy, true emotion, feeling of life and wonder.

If you are kind of jaded and bored with some harem/shounen/shoujo/mecha animes, Eve no Jikan is like a breath of fresh air and you can’t miss it.

5 Centimeters per Second is masterpiece of gentle, unassuming perfection. The whole movie is beginning with the lyrical image of cherry blossoms falling at five centimeters a second, followed by a breathtakingly vivid tableua, Makoto Shinkai tells a story about love and distance.

The film is consisted of three wonderful pieces, that are separate, yet connected. It is depicting the life and growth of the main character Takaki. Although he meets others, Takaki's love always belongs to the girl who was his only good friend in the elementary school. A quiet film meditating on love,relationship, time and distance leads you to the human's enigmatic emotional world.

To ... some degree, Shinkai is doing the same thing by using his basic idea and slightly manipulating it to get something different. You can dislike this approach and claim that it's just the same thing over and over, but to do so is to miss the point badly. By finding beautys in everyday objects and moments Shinkai reveals that he is a great master of animation and haunting beautiful storytelling. The film perfectly captures the essence of futility in the daily life, the harsh indifference of pure love and the inevitable estrangement between people who care for each other, due to the inexorable lapse of time, chance, and distance. The simple but poetic dialogue delivered the feeling of agonizing impatience and desperation of first loves and long distance relationships to the audience. Shinkai has finally honed his style enough.

The music made by Tenmon is outstanding. He perfectly catches the feelings, which Shikai wants to express and uses simples notes to create a melancholy atmosphere. The ending theme song "One more time, one more chance" by Masayoshi Yamazaki probably the most suitable song for the movie. It is a quite old song but together with the different pieces of Takaki's memories, the song just brings soulshaking experience to you.

Well if you want to take a look at something which is abstracted from the life, I recommend to watch this stunningly gorgeous film on a rainy day in a relaxed mood. You will fall in love with it. :)

Castle in the sky is the third film made by Hayao Miyazaki, who I've come to believe is one of the most masterful storytellers. The story is based on the Laputa of Gulliver's Travels, a floating city of scientists and ideologist, which is a legend, a dream of explorers. The young miner Pazu in the story has a goal, which is to find Laputa just as his father did before. And one day, a girl Sheeta who is wearing a magical necklace drifting down from the sky into Pazu's arms, their adventure begins.

The movie has a touch of magic and science fiction. Much ... of the film takes place in the air. Miyazaki does have a brilliant means to deal with the scenes in the sky. The huge military dirigible floating in the sky, air pirates fly in unwieldy flying machine, Pazu and Sheeta travels in tractive kite filling the scenes with action, adventure, battles and wonder.

Some political statement is implied in Miyazaki's animation with a fantasy, giving deeper meaning to his story. In Castle in the sky, environmentalism has been the central to the film. The landscape is overexploited. The towns and valleys look dirty and in great need of heal while the floating island Laputa is so beautiful and peaceful. There is an underlining message about the environment as well as the need for balance with the earth. But that seldom appears in the ordinary old stories that make it a delight to watch.

The music of the film is fascinating.Composer Hisaishi made the music contain a little sense of melancholy in a nursery rhyme flavor. The melody is clean and pure just like the laputa in the magical story, so mysterious and untouchable. Hisaishi and Miyazaki reached the best connection in the music creation. The commemoration of the past and the call for the love is perfectly delivered by the simple notes.

The opening theme music and its chorus version The Girl Who Fell from the Sky will surprise you with its great penetration. The amazing charm, which Hisaishi’s music bring even overflow the Miyazaki’s animation and create a unprecedented imaginary world for the audience. The symphony version of the theme music, comparatively speaking, is more like a great piece of fantasy anthology. The violin entered with a slow and melancholy tone then turned sweet and joyful. Followed by the piano, the music immediately sublimates a surge of power, which simply shakes the soul. The rhythm repeats and becomes more and more powerful. It is so well-timed that the music could easily enhance the atmosphere of the whole movie and arouse the resonance between the audience and the story.

Anyway it's worthy to spend 2 hours to watch this film. It will be a fantastic experience and hope you really enjoy it. ^^