Cool. I didn't like Voices much though. It's just not comparable to this one.

For certain. Yay NAMFox by the way, I now have my favorite line from the teaser trailer (which, btw the way, was a pain to put in kanji) is a custom message!


-- ど ん な ど の 速 さ で 生 き ん な...

"And one morning, when I at last came to the earnest realization... that I had lost everything that was beautiful, I knew I was at my limits, and quit the company." <-- I mentioned earlier that I loved that line right? That was among the best moments of the movie to me. I honestly think that final speech defines the conclusion excellently.

Beside that, it would have to be the scene in part two where Kanae finally manages to stay on her board again, that whole scene demonstrating her newly found confidence. Anyway, yeah, it was great in part because of what followed. But I won't go into that for those who haven't viewed it yet and because I'm lazy.

Where did you get episode 3? i can't find it

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There is a Voices of a Distant star thread here I'll make the other anime a thread after I father some images and info

Did you ever get to that or should I make it? I've watched it now.

Sorry for the double post but I felt the need to bump this. I just have to say: the dubbing is gonna make me cry. Unless by some miracle it improves before release, I'm going to be extremely disappointed. I watched the trailer released by ADV (watch here) and I almost died. It was probably the most misleading and cheesy trailer they could have made, and it revealed what I think was a very poor choice of voice actors. My expectations are shot right now. Any encouragement?

I hate to conclude what the dub will say before it's fully released, but right now it sounds like they think it's about falling in love, purely. I really don't think 5 centimeters per second is "the speed at which you fall in love." That is nonsense. They start out in love and drift apart. There is absolutely no indication that they are actually drawing closer, and in fact, the evidence stands against that. I really hope they realize that at some point.

Anyway, I could get used to the voice actors if the script sounds right to me. Who knows, we don't know how they sound as children yet. Maybe it'll make up for the bad choice of adult voice actors. I really hope it turns out as well as the japanese version. It easily could. They did incredibly with "The Place Promised In Our Early Days." That had an excellent dub. Maybe 5cm/s will make a recovery as well.

Yeah I know how it works. I can get used to most english voice acting over time. It's the translation and interpretation itself that I can never get used to. The fansubbers seem to do a much better job than the official script writers...

The dub does seem to be pretty bad but no matter how bad the dub is, I want them to release this in the UK as well so badly.

It's a bump BUT!

Just watched it, changed my desktop background as well! The graphics are absolutely beautiful <3. The story itself made me tear up at each individual episode and I really like it due to both characters being so sentimental about their first love. It's quite sad at how everything ends up but I enjoyed this ending because it's quite true in real life that one can relate to it. A very meaningful anime, that will linger in my mind for years to come <3.