It won the Award for Best Animated Feature Film at the 2007 Asia Pacific Screen Awards. Tamako Love Story, on the other hand, is about the love between two neighbors who see each other everyday. The film was Japan's fourth most popular Blu-ray film in 2008. Depressed, Takaki quits his job as he is unable to cope with his feelings for Akari.
A light novel of the movie was also released. It never follows a strict storyline, but between the interactions on the screen and well-timed shots of lonely landscapes, everything is as clear as night and day". It’s easy to say drama and romance, but neither are depicted like traditional anime of those genres. The photographs in the novel were also taken by Shinkai.
, The novel version of 5 Centimeters per Second, licensed by Media Factory, was released on 16 November 2007 in Japan. A desire for something that is lost or far away, I’ve definitely felt that before. Since the characters are so undefined, empathizing with what happens to them becomes extremely easy. Characters He receives a call from his current girlfriend but does not answer which signifies the end of the relationship. Some may feel as if it just ends without resolving anything, but if one considers Takaki's few lines of narration in part two, how that part ends, and how everything fits together, it becomes clearer that actually resolving things was never the point. One which can support sticks up to eight centimeters long and one up to 11. Entertainment has re-dubbed the entire film at the request of its original Japanese distributor, and the new dub was first streamed via Crunchyroll as part of their Day of Makoto Shinkai on 28 February 2009. Her sister is a teacher at the school and she owns a dog.
Takaki Toono and Akari Shinohara are childhood friends, but circumstances beyond their control … But it’s a beautiful movie, something realistic and something people could relate to. , Natsuki Imai, a Japanese television and film director known for her 2007 film Koizora, views 5 Centimeters per Second as a film "completely for adults even though it is an anime". As a result, they form a strong bond which is shown when they speak to each other using their given names without any form of honorifics as that is a sign of deep friendship and familiarity in Japan. Some people may be dissatisfied at how the plot isn’t completely fluid from one part to the next or the ending. As the two finally meet late that night and share their first kiss, Takaki realizes they will never be together. Either is fine here, as far as English voices go, the dub here is very good and didn’t blemish the beauty of this movie. Especially in that part, but also in the previous bit, it shows that in real life things don’t go the way you want. Takaki still longs for Akari to the detriment of his lifestyle.