Alt titles: Byousoku 5 Centimeter

Year: 2007

Dubbed

Movie

Cat.: Drama, Romance, Slow-paced, Melancholy

Summary:

Although today Tono Takaki and Shinohara Akari live far apart due to a family move shortly after elementary school, they were once two shy young students brought together by their shared differences from their peers. It is because of this that the two built a bond of closeness between them that still survives through their continued correspondence, even over such a distance. Secretly they both fear the loss of this bond over time, and for this reason they arrange a meeting between just the two of them. The journeys both of them take in their minds and in their lives create an atmosphere of intense emotional upheaval, but also a sense of peace. It is a twist of fate and a series of decisions that put the two in place to carry what they choose of their pasts into the future they will create for themselves.

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The only reason I watched this, is because I've only ever heard good things about it and I wanted to see for myself. Its a three part story, when they are middle school, high school, then sometime after college. The art was amazing at times seeming real, the story was meaningful and at times poetic, but God was it boring!

I've seen slow paced animes where just about nothing happens for hours worth of episodes, but this was just to much. It just flat-lined from start to finish. I in a way felt like I was being punished while watching, it seemed like the movie could have been like 3 hours long, but it was just over an hour. And the voice of Tono is the same one who voiced Tomoya from Clannad, David Matranga. Both Tono and Tomoya have the same type of feel about them.

I give it a 2 out of 5. (mostly for the art)