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2004 film by Makoto Shinkai. Once again it features breathtaking visuals...in particular his backgrounds are as good as anyone working in anime today.
The story here though fell short. Told in jumbled-up time lines it was very hard to follow and once parsed it turned out it wasn't worth the effort. Alternate reality can be tricky. Too often, as here, it comes across as tricky little gimmicks which really make little sense.
He does focus on a love relationship...here between two best friends and a girl. But where he went with it was asinine. This one looks like a step on the way to his maturation as a filmmaker...epitomized by 5 Centimeters Per Second.
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