The will to see the one you love one last time, the worry that she won’t be there when the train keeps getting delayed at station after station due to the worsening weather… all of that plays into Takaki’s character and you almost begin to feel the pain in his heart with each passing minute. All the emotions associated with being in love are brought out here. While on the train, the storm worsens and Takaki begins to feel uneasy. This prompts Takaki to board a train in the middle of a snowstorm to go visit Akari one final time before he moved. Akari left first, which caused them to grow apart, and then Takaki found out he was moving as well, but in the opposite direction, meaning the two of them would grow further apart. Both of them had families that were moving, therefore they had to transfer schools, but their transfers didn’t happen at the same exact time. While the letters apart already tell you that they no longer live near each other, the flashbacks still establish the reasons why. While these letters are being read, we are given a few flashbacks to their childhood days to establish the fact that they are, indeed, childhood friends.
In the first chapter, we are introduced to both Takaki and Akari through the reading of letters (mainly by Akari) from two friends who have grown apart over the years. A very nice touch by Makoto Shinkai, indeed.
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It leads you to believe that the movie is two separate stories with different characters, and then it hits you that it’s the same guy in both stories, which puts everything into perspective when you realize it. The film does a very good job of calling him Takaki in the first chapter and Tohno in the second chapter. The story of 5 Centimeters per Second is fragmented into two chapters, but both chapters revolve around Takaki Tohno and his journey through life from young child to young adult. This wasn’t his first film, but it was the film that got Makoto Shinkai recognized and the focus of Part V of the Makoto Shinkai Series. Welcome to Byousoku 5 Centimeter or, as it’s more commonly referred to in English, 5 Centimeters per Second. That’s how the classic romantic tale typically goes, but often times in reality, things don’t always work out the way you would like them to. They enjoy their romance and live happily ever after. Sometimes they would do desperate things, like take a train across half of Japan, just to see each other. Mutual interests build up and sooner or later the two of them realize that they are in love.
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