{"id":1352,"date":"2008-04-13T14:02:23","date_gmt":"2008-04-13T19:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2008\/04\/13\/5-centimeters-per-second-anime-review\/"},"modified":"2008-06-15T21:29:44","modified_gmt":"2008-06-16T02:29:44","slug":"5-centimeters-per-second-anime-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2008\/04\/13\/5-centimeters-per-second-anime-review\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Centimeters Per Second&#8211;Anime Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/image\/stars\/35o5.gif\" alt=\"3.5 Stars\" \/><br \/>\nWhat would you get if you gave Makoto Shinkai, who created <a href=\"\/fun\/2008\/03\/27\/voices-of-a-distant-star\/\">Voices of a Distant Star<\/a> on his personal computer, enough money to hire a professional staff and make a theatrical feature? Apparently the answer is this movie, a gentle, wistful tale of young love and loneliness. Maybe this is the story that he was really trying to tell with VODS, now stripped of its science fiction elements and reduced to its bare essentials.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ItemList\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"Item\">Original Title<\/div>\n<div class=\"Description\"><em>Byousoku Go SENCHIMEETORU&#8211;a chain of short stories about their distance<\/em><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"Item\">Genres<\/div>\n<div class=\"Description\">Drama, Romance<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"Item\">Demographic<\/div>\n<div class=\"Description\">Seinen<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"Item\">Contents<\/div>\n<div class=\"Description\">A 60-minute movie in 3 parts<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"Item\">Languages<\/div>\n<div class=\"Description\">English, Japanese with subtitles<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"Item\">Director<\/div>\n<div class=\"Description\">Makoto Shinkai<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"Item\">Music<\/div>\n<div class=\"Description\">Tenmon<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"Item\">Character Design<\/div>\n<div class=\"Description\">Takayo Nishimura<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"Item\">Key Animation Director<\/div>\n<div class=\"Description\">Takayo Nishimura<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"Item\">Region 1 Publisher<\/div>\n<div class=\"Description\">ADV Films<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t really aimed at a mass audience, but it is thoughtful and well-made. One noticeable difference from <em>Voices of a Distant Star<\/em> is the quality of the animation. The animation in the earlier work was acceptable but not particularly outstanding. In <em>5 Centimeters Per Second<\/em> it is much better.<\/p>\n<h3>Parental Advisory<\/h3>\n<p>There is nothing here that I would consider inappropriate for children. However I suspect that most young children will hate it, and it&#8217;s not really intended for them.<\/p>\n<h3>Premise and Characters<\/h3>\n<p>In Part 1, 13 year old <strong>Takaki Toono<\/strong> wants to see <strong>Akari Shinohara<\/strong>, an old friend from elementary school who has moved from Tokyo to Tochigi Prefecture.<br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/takaki.png' alt='Takaki Toono' \/><\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/akari.png' alt='Akari Shinohara' \/><\/p>\n<p>He travels to visit her but is frustrated by a sudden snowstorm that threatens to halt the train service.<br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/takakitrain.png' alt='Takaki on a Train' \/><\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/takakitrainsnow.png' alt='Train in Snowstorm' \/><\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/akaristation.png' alt='Akari at the Train Station' \/><\/p>\n<p>In Part 2, set on the southern island of Tanegashima, high school student <strong>Kanae Sumita<\/strong> is frustrated by her attempts to learn to surf, and by her inability to work up enough courage to confess her feelings to a boy who fascinates her.<br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/kanae.png' alt='Kanae Sumita' \/><\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/kanaeclouds.png' alt='Kanae with Clouds' \/><\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/kanaeswimming.png' alt='Kanae Swimming' \/><\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/takakiwithbow.png' alt='Takaki with Bow' \/><\/p>\n<h3>Links<\/h3>\n<p>Wikipedia <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/5_Centimeters_Per_Second\">entry<\/a> (spoilers.)<\/p>\n<p>ANN Encyclopedia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=6696\">entry<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What would you get if you gave Makoto Shinkai, who created Voices of a Distant Star on his personal computer, enough money to hire a professional staff and make a&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2008\/04\/13\/5-centimeters-per-second-anime-review\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[83,84],"class_list":["post-1352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime","category-movies","tag-5-centimeters-per-second","tag-makoto-shinkai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}