2009-07-16, 22:14 | Link #1061 |
Yuuki Aoi
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I've always thought of Byousoku as a long series of haikus, with the humans overshadowed by the world around them. I think of it as a Buddhist show, showing the basic unsatisfactoriness of life. That's something even deeper than character development.
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2009-07-25, 01:15 | Link #1062 |
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Sorry for straying from the topic. But to all Hayate no Gotoku manga readers, Hayate was finally reunited with Athena after 10 years of separation. Their love story was also pretty powerful IMO.
To those people who are still bitter from the ending (5cm per second of course), Hayate no Gotoku might offer some degree of consolation to your hearts. Plus, does anybody knows anything about Shinkai's next project? |
2009-07-26, 02:22 | Link #1063 |
Letter from lost days ~
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Netherlands / Turkey
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I've watched this movie yesterday. It has been sitting near me for a very long time, and I had no idea what it was about. So, I've decided to give it a shot...
Oh.. My.. God. I guess I couldn't have picked a better time to watch it. Beside the fact that I'm also going to a very very far place; leaving a precious friend behind, the movie in itself was amazing. I loved the drawings, music, characters, and how the "distance" theme was used. I guess I was expecting a more cliche ending; the girl and the boy ending up together. But that was just probably my naive expectation to avoid more tears... Astonishing movie. ... That gave me mixed feelings and shivers. Thank you. |
2009-07-31, 17:54 | Link #1066 | |
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cat's name is Sayuri
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2009-08-30, 21:50 | Link #1071 |
Udon-YAAAAAAAA
Join Date: Jan 2008
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all of Shinkai's stuff isn't "happy." the argument could be made that Place Promised was the happiest out of the three, but the message I think Shinkai wants to get out is hope, which =/= happiness. i would detail it more, but ya, school starts tomorrow. i kinda wanna go back and watch it now.
anywho, any news on the new project? |
2009-09-01, 14:10 | Link #1072 | |
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2009-09-01, 21:09 | Link #1073 | |
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It's ending perfectly reflects your emotions with the protagonists and I can't really come up with many works in any field that have left me that way.
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2009-09-01, 21:47 | Link #1074 | |
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Another gauge of the greatness here is how you really went through all of your emotions as you watched it. You really felt for the characters and their circumstances. Spoiler for Episode 3:
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2009-09-01, 22:43 | Link #1075 |
Seishu's Ace
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Location: Kobe, Japan
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All of Shinkai's works are filled with a deep and kind of gentle melancholy. You feel like you're seeing the world through his eyes - he obviously sees incredibly beauty in nature and especially in the everyday creations of men, but also ultimately feels alone (this is a man who is currently not working because he feels his cat has betrayed him). I suppose "Place Promised" is ultimately the most hopeful of his works, but I would agree that hope is a better word for it than happiness.
Spoiler for 5CM Ending:
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2009-09-02, 02:31 | Link #1076 |
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Apparently there is a chinese anime movie series, "Window of Heart" (?) (心灵之窗), that copied some parts of "5 Centimeters per Second".
Links with some comparisons: http://en.gigazine.net/index.php?/ne...902_china_5cm/ http://www.tianya.cn/publicforum/con.../1601020.shtml ETA: This was posted also on ANN: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...5cm-per-second Last edited by M.Marangio; 2009-09-02 at 15:12. |
2009-09-02, 11:11 | Link #1078 |
Yuuki Aoi
Join Date: Jul 2004
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I've always thought of 5cm as a Buddhist religious film. For one thing, many of the images are like Zen haiku, giving a feeling of the immediate presence of the world. For another, the film conveys the basic Buddhist idea that life is unsatisfactory, a realm of inevitable suffering.
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2009-09-05, 13:18 | Link #1080 |
Udon-YAAAAAAAA
Join Date: Jan 2008
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so i felt like watching this again. so good. so very good. i'm only 10 minutes in currently, but i can already feel the emotions starting to come out.
also, i pretty much realized that Takaki screwed himself when he lost his letter. if that hadn't happened, EVERYTHING would have turned out differently. (or at least that's the lie i told myself the first time i watched it..) and also, the ending song finally makes more sense now. now that i've actually sat and read the lyrics.. haha. should have done that a long time ago. Last edited by germanturkey; 2009-09-05 at 14:17. |
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