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   Kresnik
   July 30th, 2007 - 02:16

   What do you mean by distance between heart and hands..?
   I’m waiting for the subs to come out.. Hope they work on it soon..

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   Crusader
   July 30th, 2007 - 02:56

   Waiting for the sub… In the mean time this distance between the heart and the hands non-sense is hurting my brain. Mere sophistry I’d say. Then again my greatest love in life was armored warfare, with infatuation with girls a distant 500th. As confessions go I suppose Nauzron made you confess under duress.

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   kaz3phyrous
   July 30th, 2007 - 04:00

   i can really relate to kanae… knowing that the one you like is only looking at someone else, it kinda discourages you from giving saiid person your kokuhaku… but i also feel sorry for takaki… since it was not only the physical distance between him and akari that was widening but also the distance of there hearts… after watching the byoukosu before going to sleep and waking up around 4 hours later for school really makes you sad for the rest of the day… but even with the sadness it’s still a great movie to watch… and it’s well worth a rewatch for me soon…

   btw… someone already released the subs… one blogger at animenano released an .ass script… and someone muxed it with a raw and released it in TT…

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   maglor
   July 30th, 2007 - 05:24

   I’m afraid my opinion of the whole ’5cm/s’ movie got lower after watching the 2nd and 3rd story. There just wasn’t enough story and dynamics for my taste.

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   Stripey
   July 30th, 2007 - 05:27

   Kresnik: It’s out. I watched the Eng subbed version Heart/hands is my literary failure at imageries for desire and action respectively XD

   Crusader: Somehow I can picture Zyl telling you that this affair called love is not unlike armoured warfare As for THE confession, duress only if you consider the overpowering aura of her lolicious beauty

   kaz3phyrous: Indeed, how many series can impact us as B5cm does. I think most of us have been in Kanae’s shoes before so her struggles and tears struck especially close to our hearts. Myself I identify with Takaki after all how many times have my non-action betrayed my initial resolve. Definitely deserves multiple rewatches.

   maglor: I know what you mean since I thot Oukashou > Cosmonaut > Bysousoku 5cm too. But overall it’s still a very powerful tale (despite minor structural weaknesses in the plot) that penetrates hearts.

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   kaz3phyrous
   July 30th, 2007 - 07:35

   i wonder who broke off communication first?
   was it takaki or akari?
   if those two kept in touch, would it have worked out?
   i asked myself many questions after watching this…
   takaki x akari pair was a really sympathetic pair… they were both victims of circumstances… being separated was not their fault… i just can’t feel anything but sadness after watching the ending sequence accompanied by “one more time, one more chance” it was clear from that sequence that they still held each other in their hearts… even if they were with someone else… this makes this line “Samishisa magirasu dake nara, dare demo ii hazu nanoni”(If I just wanted to avoid loneliness, anybody would have been enough.) from the song all the more powerful…
   but i guess the distance between themselves was just so powerful that it drew them apart… just like in reality…
   but i guess in a more optimistic point of view it was B5cm still had a happy ending because in the end they still remained in each others hearts as shown when they were talking about a dream they had about what happened in oukashou…

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   Stripey
   July 31st, 2007 - 00:03

   I thought not clearly presenting the factors involved in their broken communications is one of those minor weaknesses I mentioned about. Possibly it’s embedded the fast-fwded scenes when the song kicked in in the 3rd segment of the movie. It’s likely to be triggered by a missing mail and that snowballed into non-contact as both waited for the other to respond. I feel sadder for Takaki than for Akari. The train scene at the final moments of the movie was to me a very good depiction of what happened. Separated by time/space (represented by the 2 trains) Takaki lingered in the past, desperately grasping at his hope of reuniting with Akari. In doing that, Takaki has squandered a large part of his youth and probably hurt several girls. Akari? She’s moved on. Gone on to find her own happiness. Many would find the idea of hopelessly waiting for someone who’s not returning romantic, I personally see it as cruelty to self and I’m glad that Takaki leaves that train crossing with a smile, signifying he’s gonna move on. Hoping he patches up with Mizuno san. B5cm reminds me again that for anyone to have a healthy relationship, he must first love himself (of course in a healthy non-obsessive manner).

   Indeed great is such a production to invoke so much self-searching

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   cyw1988
   August 2nd, 2007 - 10:50

   Hey there stripes.. long time no see…
   Anyway, I wasn’t surprised that you have a post on this up since it’s like the most talked about anime nowadays. Hell I even have the Jap DVD of it. anyway, this show is a simple show yet with such a strong link to reality that it really pricks your heart to see these 2 love birds not ending up together. Shades of my adolecence came flooding back to me as I remember the good old days. Though they’re gone and will probably never return, they stay as fond memories in my heart.

   This show portrays how time, space and even changes in people can force a distance between 2 people. I pretty much see 2 questions being asked in the anime. Which hurts more? Separation? or not Letting your feelings known?

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   Stripey
   August 7th, 2007 - 11:53

   heya cyw1988, thx for dropping by again Such stories almost always trigger rather bittersweet memories of my ‘misses’ during my teenage days too. As for which is more painful, I’d think separation of 2 persons deeply in love but forced apart by circumstances is more tragic. Not letting feelings known is sometimes the less cruel thing to do when you are certain it’s just gonna hurt all parties involved more.

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    Kresnik
    August 15th, 2007 - 21:35

    Now that I’ve watched this, I got confused of the unsent mail that Takaki writes. Does he not send it because of not knowing Akari’s address, or he thought that it’s not matter anymore? If he doesn’t know the address, he could always write letter asking for one, right?
    By the Cosmonaut episode, I think the distance has changed from space into time. If he still wants to be reunited with Akari, the least he could do is contact her, which he not do. It’s heartbreakening to see how long Takaki must go on on his illusionary vision before go on with his life, which Akari did faster.
    Final words, I think that this is a good movie, both from story and picture quality. But the only lingering feelings I have after watching this is a little sadness and anger for Takaki.

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    Stripey
    August 17th, 2007 - 01:02

    I read elsewhere that in those fast forwarded scenes in the final mins of B5cm, there were hints at a lost mail from Takaki. But like you said, a single missing mail is unlikely to trigger non-contact unless there’s no follow-up from both sides which I suspect was what happened. It’s sad that they allowed non-contact to happen despite their deep longing for each other. Such a shame indeed.

    We came to the same conclusion – great movie and feeling that Takaki somehow squandered his chances with Akari and a large part of his youth.

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