5 centimeters per second, the time when cherry blossoms. This Movie is about Takaki Tohno and his childhood love Akari Shinohara whom tells the story of how beautiful there pure and innocent there love is from childhood to bad circumstances that drifts them away from each other. The story speaks in point of view Takaki Tohno, whom fights events and time then ultimately
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5 centimeters per second, the time when cherry blossoms. This Movie is about Takaki Tohno and his childhood love Akari Shinohara whom tells the story of how beautiful there pure and innocent there love is from childhood to bad circumstances that drifts them away from each other. The story speaks in point of view Takaki Tohno, whom fights events and time then ultimately himself to keep his love Akari Shinohara at bay. Will he finally meet Akari Shinohara again? Will he enjoy life with his first love? The story holds all secrets.
Plot:
From the beginning of the story, the story slowly unveils in such a eloquent way, since Shinkai manages to tell the audience enough to understand the relations with both Takaki and Akari that start to care about their happiness. Then the plots starts moving a bit quicker coming to the second set of the movie where Takaki meets Kanae Sumida and how there relations starts and ends. The 2nd plot mainly focuses on Kanae in order to give a perspective of what people see of Takaki but importantly her love for him. The last ends in great art, but will only say that the sequence played perfectly in able to show the last section and end it with good feeling.
Music:
The music is every bit important to storyline and the animation, as the music played the ambience and tone of which are emotions contain. When a great thing happens, the beautiful played of TENMON in piano starts which the audience feels a great deal happiness. Every action and event from the first section is placed perfectly. The music of One more time, One more chance is the best picked song that suited with this movie, I can't say where it will be played but where it was set made the movie perfect since with it's lyrics and tone of the song was the movie needed.
Characters:
There's only two main characters in the movie but not in the book, in the movie it focused on Takaki Tohno and Akira Sunohara, the character development was at it's best since we saw them grow as a person and as individuals, for a 1 hour set the development was at 5 centimeter per second. The Character interaction is worth nothing as every facial expression can be seen from each scene whether they are angry or sad, they gave the characters life.
Art:
The Art is superb, seeing how real and beautiful the areas where the stories take place. Truth be told, that each place that is drawn is an actual place around Japan, As the Shinkai did a great job taking and drawing the right scenes to play adding how real they look even the desk that Takaki goes to school was very accurate. The Character drawings isn't worth noting other then that they will cleanly drawn and colored to the exact shadows and folds of the clothing.
Conclusion:
5 centimeters per second is worth a watch for all audience as everyone will enjoy a masterpiece that Makoto Shinkai has made though romance genre will truly love this movie. It is worth to own on DVD and as the movie is masterpiece which won't get boring watching all over again. As Shinkai description of the movie " it's the distance between the souls of Two people.and the speed at which they meet one another".
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