Two words to encourage you to watch this OVA: Makoto Shinkai.
Everyone knows: Makoto is a wizard, which turns affection in anime.
Creator of the beautiful Kotonoha no Niwa and Byousoku 5 Centimeter, Makoto brings us this little 6min OVA, much more sensitive and touching than other great titles out there.
Dareka in Manazashi tells us a bit of Aya, a girl who lives alone and who now had a bad day at work. Tired, she just wants to get home and collapse in bed. She is surprised by a call from his father, who wants to have dinner with her. But her day was so overwhelming that she just wants to be alone and invents a story to no go see him. In here, the narrator shows a bit of Aya's relationship with his family from the beginning until now, and shows that she really has left behind the choices they have made, as well as his father.
I will not comment much about this OVA, but recommend everyone to attend it. With beautiful music in the background, Dareka Manazashi goes deep in the soul of those who have left home to build their own lives: the challenges, loneliness, and the price we pay for fighting for our dreams. Everything in just 6 minutes.
Beautiful.
