12/29/2023 0 Comments 5cm persecond art![]() It’s unfortunate, but the art-style and animation often hold the story back from what it could have been. Furthermore, while the animation is consistently realistic, it is not nearly as lively or captivating as the animation of Shinkai’s later films. While I no longer find the film boring, I still found myself feeling indifferent to some of Takaki’s struggles, because he is so inexpressive and one-dimensional. However, the facial expressions, particularly Takaki’s are mostly indistinguishable and fall flat. For a film where so much of the emotions are deliberately left unsaid, the character expressions need to carry the weight of communicating those complicated feelings. Although the characters share certain physical features with Shinkai’s later protagonists, the character models in this film are noticeably much simpler and flatter in design, with most of the female characters sharing a similarly generic design. The art-style here is spartan and functional missing are the lush and vibrant colours of films like Garden of Words (2013), Children Who Chase Lost Voices, or most recently Your Name. The animation and art-style are perhaps the most obvious differences between this and Shinkai’s subsequent movies, looking far more like his earlier The Place Promised in Our Early Days (2004) than his recent work. But with all these similarities to later films, how does 5 Centimeters Per Second fare in comparison? In each section, Shinkai perfectly evokes a sense of longing for past loves and missed opportunities and explores the nature of nostalgia and déjà vu, subject matter that he would return to in films like Children Who Chase Lost Voices (2011) and Your Name (2016). Divided into three sections, the film presents protagonist Takaki during three distinct snapshots of his life, beginning as a hopeful middle-schooler and ending as a depressed and unfulfilled adult. Like almost every Makoto Shinkai movie, 5 Centimeters Per Second focuses on a pair of star-crossed lovers struggling with the difficulties of young love and long distance relationships. Watched the film a second time, I can safely conclude that this film is muchīetter than I initially thought but ultimately is most interesting when read To return to his first hit and see how it stacks up to his recent successes. Viewing, I’ve watched and loved a lot of Makoto Shinkai’s other films, so I decided At the time, I didn’t think much of theįilm, ultimately dismissing it as boring and slow. I’m a relatively recentĪnime fan, as I only got into the medium roughly six years ago, so I don’t haveĪ huge backlog of anime to look through, but one of the earliest anime IĬentimeters Per Second (2007). Seen in years and see how that anime holds up now. Usually review anime based on their own merits and usually after watching themįor the first time, I decided this time to look back at an older anime I haven’t So, I’m doing something a little different today.
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