Random Curiosity

The episode was pretty much a full recap, with only a few new shots. While there really weren’t any new scenes added in, Lelouch did voice over the entire thing. The end also featured a cell phone promotion/contest for merchandise such as the OP single and a Lelouch figure.

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With Makoto unable to use chopsticks properly, Yuuichi is reminded of what Mishio told him about Makoto’s health deteriorating.

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Having finished his battle with Koga, Captain Hitsugaya returns to his division and asks his men to recover the Bount.

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Negi has a dream about chasing after his father, but the person who appears before him is the Black Rose Baron instead.

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Desperate for apples, Ryuk has made sure that they’re not being followed, so Light goes and buys him some.

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One morning, a woman opens the newspaper and sees that it again lists the date as October 28th.

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Early one morning, Oreld is walking along a bridge when he sees a cloaked woman on the other side.

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On one foggy morning, Yukari is out running and sees a figure far ahead of her.

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Two men are walking through the ruins of a building after a fire in the theater district when one of them suddenly starts acting strange and gets a mask on his face.

Have you ever seen something so pretty and so touching that it made you want to cry? I don’t usually label myself as the sentimental type, but the trailer for Byousoku 5 Centimeter (5 Centimeters Per Second) (mirror) evoked those emotions so easily. I think it’s a combination of the amazing art and a fantastic piano piece. A very similar piece (if not a different part of the same song) is also played in the teaser trailer, which is equally beautiful. I’ve got it playing in the background right now because it’s such a serene, almost sad song. If you haven’t yet seen these trailers, you must go download them right now.

For those of you unfamiliar with this film, it is acclaimed director Shinkai Makoto’s latest work that features three short stories titled Oukashou, Cosmonaut, and Byousoku 5 Centimeter. They all revolve around a boy named Toono Takaki (voiced by Mizuhashi Kenji) and take place from the early 1990s to the present day. The first and third stories, Oukashou and Byousoku 5 Centimeter, will have two different voice actresses (Kondou Yoshimi and Onoue Ayaka) playing the part of a girl named Shinohara Akari. It seems that Takaki and Akari got separated at the same time they graduated from elementary school, and the Oukashou part is about his reunion with her. The second story Cosmonaut is about Takaki after that reunion told from the point of view of a classmate named Sumita Kanae (voiced by Hanamura Satomi) who has feelings for him. The third and final Byousoku 5 Centimeter is the title work that depicts the wandering of their souls once they’ve grown up. The movie’s theme song is going to be Yamazaki Masayoshi’s One more time, One more chance from his 1997 single by the same name (Watch a live version on Youtube).

Byousoku 5 Centimeter, which has a running time of approximately an hour, will premiere in early spring of next year at the Shibuya Cinema Rise.