Byousoku 5 Centimeter: 5 Centimeters per Second

[Zati]

New movie by Makoto Shinkai coming soon! He's one of the great directors of Japanese animated movies, and most people should know his other great works, look below at Kraco's post. I really enjoyed "Beyond the Clouds" and "Voices of a Distant Star," so I am definately looking forward to this.

Scheduled to be released in early spring 2007.

5cm preview - Triad

Tono Takaki had to part from Shinohara Akari after the gradation from the elementary school. Despite their secret thoughts, only time has passed. One day, Takasi is going to see Akari in the heavy snow.

This movie is a collection of three stories; the first episode, “Okasho,” shows the day of their reunion. In the next episode, “Cosmonaut,” the story about Takaki after the reunion takes place from the viewpoint of another person. The last episode, “Byosoku 5 centimeter,” clips out the movements of their thoughts.

(Description from AnimeNfo)

Originally Posted by Pleroma

Info courtesy of an fansub group:

As promised, here's the translation of Makoto Shinkai's
feelings towards this new work (5 Centimeters Per Second):
"5 Centimeters Per Second" is a story drawn about a boy who
acts as the axle of an animated chain of three separate,
independent short stories. The setting of the story
stretches from Japan of the early 1990's to Japan of today.
As the boy's life changes, so do the places in the animation
- ranging from Tokyo to other various places in the Kantou
region.

In this work, there are no sci-fi, fantasy or any other
fictional elements found commonly in many other animation
works. In exchange for all of that, we are trying to instead
display reality as it really is after having performed some
very thorough location hunting.

Our everyday lives are indeed mostly not filled with
dramatic ups and downs, shocking betrayals, or sudden
revelations. However, in the end, despite all that, the
world still continues to live on filled to the brim various
beauties and richnesses.

Right now, we're aiming to make such a work that will catch
those sides of reality mentioned above so that even after
you're done watching the movie, you'll be able to take a new
look at the landscapes you're so used to and see them
shining more than they ever have before.

Links :
AniDB
AnimeNfo
ANN
Official Site

[Kraco]

Just so that people would remember: This is from the same director as

Beyond the Clouds, The Promised Place
Voices of a Distant Star

which might explain the strange sounding plot, but also tell what manner of general ideology to expect.

[Ryllharu]

You have no idea how long I've been waiting for this. I heard about it on ANN back in summer. I own the dvds of all his work. Support Makoto Shinkai so he can make even more of these films!

[JaySee]

aka DB's fake Naruto 5.
Looks interesting. I haven't watched it yet, but I will once I have sometime.

[Lucifus]

My gods................. You do realize you have a warning pending to be shoved up your....."Don't make threads about a troll here...."

Edit to below: BoC says it best.

[Board of Command]

What the hell is this?

[kenren]

I'm guessing DB made a fake to get people to download it..

5 Centimeters per Second
-Contains three short stories:

* Oukashou (桜花抄)
* Cosmonaut (コスモナウト)
* Byousoku 5 Centimeter (秒速5センチメートル)

Plot Summary: Tono Takaki and Shinohara Akari are close friends who, upon graduation from elementary school, are parted because of family movement. Their deep feelings for each other keep them in contact, but they worry they may not meet again. Then, one day, Takaki decides to visit Akari.........This is a movie in three parts that follows the thoughts and relationship of 2 young people as they meet and part, both from their point of view and from people around them.

info taken from ANN

[Lucifus]

Wow, there was something behind this thread. I'll dl it but it'll prolly suck anywayz.

[JaySee]

Thanks to the 2 morons who neg repped me without watching the actual anime.

Anyways, it's actually a very good anime. I hope the other 2 parts get subbed as well. Only connection I see to DB is timecop helped with it. I hope people who got tricked by DB actually watch it instead of delete it right away. I look forward to more good trolls like this from DB.

[animus]

It's actually really good, it's just a calm story, tranquil and touching story. I've only watched the first "movie", hopefully the other 2 will be subbed. I think they're already out.

[Arcn3ss]

Iam looking forward to this. Its another work by Makoto Shinkai who did Voices of a Distant Star and The Place Promised in Our Early Days to name a few. However, I wont be downloading DB's version and there was another no name group who released it as well. Iam going to wait for The Triad to release it since they always do a good job.

[Board of Command]

Its another work by Makoto Shinkai

Guess that means I'm watching this. Maybe not DB's release if a better group is subbing.

[?igma]

Thanks to the 2 morons who neg repped me without watching the actual anime.

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Who would that be :>

[JaySee]

DB didn't sub it. A guy called mt-i from bikasuishin. The relation to DB is that interactii timed it and timecop encoded it.

[Munsu]

So, is DB's fake actually a legit release for this movie? Or did they release this movie but with parody subs? I myself will be waiting for Triads version anyways, but just curious.

[JaySee]

Yes. Again DB didn't translate it. 2 of the members timed and encoded it. They took someone else's translation. They're not continuing the project and actually refer to the future release from The Triad on their website.

[Chaos]

I found a link for part 1 subtitled by KissSub(but I think I'll wait for Triad's version)

http://tracker.anirena.com/download.php?id=457

[Kraco]

I just watched the KissSub version, and while there wasn't anything really wrong with it, I I'll download Triad's version for archiving in any case (assuming they will sub it). This is the kind of project that would really benefit from a higher quality than the KissSub xvid/avi. Let's hope Triad will release it in h264.

Other than that, it was certainly an interesting watch from an artistic point of view - nothing less to be expected from Makoto Shinkai. The plot of the first episode was interesting in the sense it didn't actually contain much matter at all, but nonetheless the execution was masterful. Animes like this actually, at least in small doses, make me wonder more than Death Notes or Code Geasses, because it's easy to understand why those work so superbly, but it's harder to understand how a story like this can work and work so well at that.

[animus]

I just watched the KissSub version, and while there wasn't anything really wrong with it, I I'll download Triad's version for archiving in any case (assuming they will sub it). This is the kind of project that would really benefit from a higher quality than the KissSub xvid/avi. Let's hope Triad will release it in h264.

Other than that, it was certainly an interesting watch from an artistic point of view - nothing less to be expected from Makoto Shinkai. The plot of the first episode was interesting in the sense it didn't actually contain much matter at all, but nonetheless the execution was masterful. Animes like this actually, at least in small doses, make me wonder more than Death Notes or Code Geasses, because it's easy to understand why those work so superbly, but it's harder to understand how a story like this can work and work so well at that.

It's kinda like Seirei no Moribito in my opinion. Somehow you can feel the story being able to end in another 3-4 episode maybe, but you can just feel that it's superb, engrossing, and it'll be epic.

[JaySee]

FYI, The Triad has dropped this as ADV has licensed it.