5 Centimeters Per Second (Movie)

5 Centimeters Per Second or known as Byousoku 5 Centimeter - a chain of short stories about their distance is a romance anime movie created by Makoto Shinkai which consists of three chapter: 'Extract of the Cherry Blossoms' (Oukashou / 桜花抄), 'Cosmonaut' (コスモナウト) and '5 Centimeters per Second' (Byousoku 5 Centimeter / 秒速5センチメートル). 

Chapter 1: Extract of the Cherry Blossoms, tells the relationship  between Takaki Tono and Akari Shinohara, two classmates in elementary schools who have a very close relationship, but after elementary school graduation Akari moves to Tochigi, due to her parents job. So far, they communicate by writing letters. When Takaki will be moving to Kagoshima, he decide to meet with Akari because Takaki realize they will separated by a distance farther. At the meeting that they did the first kiss and they promise to continue writing mail to each other. 

Chapter 2:  Cosmonaut, tells Takaki who now in the third year senior high school in Tanegashima. In that school, Takaki has a classmate, Kanae Sumida who fall in love with Takaki. In this episode Takaki depicted  not respond Kanae feelings although Kanae never say about her feelings, and consider Kanae only as a  friend.

Chapter 3: 5 Centimeters per Second, epilogue of this movie. Now, time has been passes 2007 and Takaki has worked in a company as a programmer. Takaki seems is still miss and love Akari even though Takaki has a girlfriend named Risa Mizuno and Akari will mariage with someone. When Mizuno decide break up with Takaki, this makes Takaki very depressed and finally he quit from his job. Over time, finally Takaki seems can forget Akari and can escape from his past that binds his life and Takaki can continue his life with a smile.

Release Date:
2007-01-22 (production completed)
2007-02-16 to 2007-02-19 (ep 1 net premiere to Yahoo! Premium members)
2007-03-03 (Japan, Cinema Rise theater at Shibuya, Tokyo)

5 Centimeters Per Second, a great movie by Makoto Shinkai especially for those of you who like movies with love themes plus with an impressive graphics quality make this film as a beautiful art work. This film describes the life of human that has seen slow but it was fast, like cherry blossoms fall from tree to the ground with speed 5 cm per second.
The film won the Lancia Platinum Grand Prize, the Future Film Festival for best movie in animation or special effects and won the Award for Best Animated Feature Film at the 2007 Asia Pacific Screen Awards. One thing that makes me love this movie is the great ending theme song of 5 Centimeters Per Second "One more time, one more chance" by Masayoshi Yamazaki.

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Summer Wars (Movie)

Summer Wars tells story about Kenji Koiso, a genius high school student in mathematics who must spend his summer holiday with Natsuki at her family home for a summer job. Natsuki’s family, the Jinnouchi clan, dates back to the Muromachi era, and they’ve all come together to celebrate the 90th birthday of the spunky matriarch of the family, Sakae. That’s when Kenji discovers his “summer job” is to pretend to be Natsuki’s fiancé and dance with her at the birthday celebration. As Kenji attempts to keep up with Natsuki’s act around her family, he receives a strange math problem on his cell phone which, being a math genius, he can’t resist solving. As it turns out, the solution to the mysterious equation causes a hijacking of the social networking site through which most of the world's social and business traffic flows.

Summer Wars is a japanese animated science fiction romance film directed by Mamoru Hosoda and produced by Madhouse which was released on 2009-07-29. Like other film directed by Mamoru Hosoda that is The Girl Who Leapt Through Time who won many awards, Summer Wars was also successful with occupies position 5 in the Top Anime Movies at Japanese Box Office 2009 .
Not only show good animated graphics, Summer Wars also presents a fresh story for you to watch with your family.


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Grave of the Fireflies (Movie)

Grave of the Fireflies tells story about Seita and his younger sister Setsuko, who must survive at the end of World War II because they were orphaned after their mother died from air attacks and his father a navy soldier unaccounted for after Japan surrendered to the Allies. After their mother died, Seita must struggle to find some food for himself and his sister Setsuko to survive. Until they finally rest in peace because Seita no longer able to find some food.

Title : Grave of the Fireflies
Alternative Title: Hotaru no Haka
Genres: Drama

Grave of the Fireflies (Hotaru no Haka) which is the 1988 animated drama film written and directed by Isao Takahata is the animated film adaptation of a semi-autobiographical novel titled Grave of the Fireflies written by Akiyuki Nosaka.

This animated film has a moral message that is packed in a very sad story and touch the hearts of anyone who watched this movie. The message conveyed in this film is that the war would bring misery. No wonder Grave of the Fireflies received many awards and honors.

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Bakuman Anime First Impressions

Bakuman anime is very interesting in the first episode. Bakuman anime that is an adaption from the Bakuman manga tell story about a boy named Moritaka Mashiro who want become a manga artist. With the story laced with elements like comedy, romance and drama, Bakuman anime I think will be the Best Fall Anime 2010 .

For the opening theme Blue Bird by Kobukuro I give rate 5/5, I very enjoy the music. But for the ending theme BAKUROCK by YA-KYIM I give rate 4/5.

Star Driver First Impressions

Star Driver: Kagayaki no Takuto is one of my most anticipated anime this fall. The first time I watched it felt like watching classic anime 90s or 80s, maybe it's just my feeling only. But I think Star Driver will still be the most exciting anime in this fall.
For the opening theme, I do not really like the song. but for the ending theme, I like it very much.

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (Movie)

Plot : The Girl Who Leapt Through Time tells about story of friendship between Makoto Konno, Chiaki Mamiya and Kousuke Tsuda. Someday in the summer, Makoto Konno found some device that can give ability to the user to leapt through time. After Makoto using that device for leapt throgh time several times, she realize that device have limited usage. So Makoto very careful to use that device again. The rest of the last usage, she must use the ability to leapt thorugh time to save her friend Kousuke and his girlfriend from some accident. But Makoto failed to prevent the accident because Makoto instead use the last ability to avoid Chiaki. When the train will hit Kousuke, the time stopped and backwards because someone leapt through the time and the person is not Makoto but the person is Chiaki Mamiya, the original owner of the device that come from the future.

Title :  The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Alternative Title : Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo (Japan)
Genres : drama, romance, science fiction
Release Date : 15 July 2006 (Japan)

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time animation movie that adapted from manga Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo teach me many lesson about importance of a time and you can't playing time with your own wish. The Ending theme is also very great for this animated romance film. And I like when Makoto roll after she leapt through time, hahaha.

"Time Waits for no one".

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Shiki, Occult Academy, Highschool of the Dead First Impressions

Anime Summer 2010 First Impressions : Shiki, Occult Academy(Seikimatsu Occult Gakuin), Highschool of the Dead.
Shiki Anime:  as I expected before, shiki anime the first episode make me said, "This is the best anime for this summer". The soundtrack is good, can give more the impression of horror for this anime. The opening and ending theme really good, especially for the ending theme I think. At the end of the episode, I was surprised because Shimizu Megumi I think she is the main character of Shiki Anime Series just died suddenly because an incident. With the dead of Megumi, make me curious about the next episode (episode 2).
Sekimatsu Occult Gakuin: with a good comedy and with the nice Ending Theme this anime will become a competitor for shiki this summer.
Highschool of the Dead: hmm Highschool of the Dead, I think this anime too much violence, blood and too much echi. The opening and ending theme not bad. But the love story contained in this anime will give positive values for Highschool of the Dead.

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Angel Beats Episode 13 (Final)

Angel Beats Episode 13 is the last episode of Angel Beats anime series. The title for this final epsiode is Graduation. In this episode that reveals all the mystery of the story just left 5 character, because the other has been graduated. Yuzuru Otonashi, Yuri Nakamura (Yurippe), Kanade Tachibana, Naoi Ayato and Hinata Hideki wait each other to "graduate" so they make graduate ceremony. One by one start from Ayato, Yurippe, Hinata has graduate, finally just left Otonashi and Kanade. Otonashi just want to walk forward together with Kanade and do not want to leave with Kanade but for some reason Kanade must leave Otonashi and when she say "Thank you", it is a farewell to Otonashi.
After they "graduated" is not explained where they go and what new life happened to them just a few second that show Otonashi who was chasing a girl who looked like Kanade. But the point of this epilgoue is just farewell and good bye. Seems very good story if made sequel version.
This story reminds me when I still school and must say farewell to my friends. Yeah so sad but life must go on.

Kakashi vs Pain : Naruto Shippuuden 159

Kakashi vs Pain, that is the main title of Naruto Shippuuden episode 159. This episode tell the battle Kakashi vs Pain, in the battle Kakashi get help from Chouji, Chouza (Chouji's father) and the others to defeat Pain but the help is useless and finally all of them get seriously injured. Kakashi tell Chouji to run save himself and tell Tsunade about Pain power. And to save Chouji from Pain attack, Kakashi use his sharingan to create another dimension hole but that jutsu causes exhaust all his chakra and stamina. Finally Kakashi Hatake must fall on the battlefield.
This episode give a side heroism of Kakashi Hatake because he sacrifice himself to protect his comrades and Konoha Village like his father(Sakumo Hatake) did in the past. Beside that, this episode give past memories of Kakashi by bringing people who are very mean to him in the past, they are Minato Namikaze, Obito, Rin and Sakumo Hatake . And this episode give an explanation why he very want to stay alive even though he must sacrifice his life to protect Chouji.

Samurai X Reflection (OAV)

Samurai X Reflection or known as Rurouni Kenshin Seisōhen tells the story about end of life of the legendary swordsman Kenshin Himura. Story started about Kaoru who was wating for the return of Kenshin Himura. She everyday going to the harbour to waiting Kenshin come home. When Kaoru was waiting for Kenshin, she reminisced about the first time she met with Kenshin until Kenshin left home to help the people outside Japan.
Maybe some fans of Samurai X will be disappointed because at the end of the story, Kenshin Himura rest forever because of his disease can not be cured. But I think this is the perfect story to end the story of Samurai X. Kenshin left his son named Kenji Himura.
This OVA series featuring many characters from the TV series, they are Kenshin Himura, Kaoru Kamiya, Yahiko Myojin, Sanosuke Sagara, Megumi Takani, Tsubame Sanjo, Seijuro Hiko.

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Samurai X Trust & Betrayal (OAV)

Samurai X Trust & Betrayal or known as Rurouni Kenshin Tsuioku Hen tells the story when Kenshin Himura as a Hitokiri. Story started when Kenshin was a child saved by Hiko Seijuro from group of bandit who kill his family. After Kenshin Himura studied swordsmanship for several years from Hiko Seijuro, he left his teacher and join IshinShishi group to succeed Meiji Restoration . When he famous as a Hitokiri Battosai, Kenshin met with Yukishiro Tomoe, who later became his first wife.
This series reveals the mystery of who is giving cuts to the face of Kenshin Himura, and why Kenshin who had been a butcher to be no longer want to kill anyone after the revolution has ended. Only a few characters from the TV series appear in this OVA, they are Kenshin Himura, Hiko Seijuro, Hajime Saito, and Shishio Makoto.

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Samurai X Trust and Betrayal episode 1 : The Man of the Slashing Sword
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Samurai X Trust and Betrayal episode 3 : The Previous Night at the Mountain Home
Samurai X Trust and Betrayal episode 4 : The Cross-Shaped Wound

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