Alternate Titles:
5cm per Second - English
Five Centimeters Per Second - English
Byousoku 5 cm - Japanese
秒速5センチメートル - Japanese
Content Rating:
Content suitable for teenagers of ages 13 to 15 and contains some minor violence and sexual references. Content may as well include drugs, minor gore, and some references to abuse. These titles tend to have some development features which gear teenagers more towards adult content in the future, but still hold an overall good nature.
Young-Teen
Synopsis: Tono Takaki and Shinohara Akari have been close since childhood but are separated against their will by their families. The two manage to keep in touch with one another over the years through letters, but continue to grow apart as time goes by. Despite the distance Takaki continues to yearn for Akari, even as his life progresses towards close relationships with other girls, including Sumida. How will Takaki and Akari’s relationship flourish throughout the years? Only time will tell.
Audiences:
Shōjo
Shōjo: (lit. 少女 "Young girl") Anime and manga with demographic aimed towards younger female audiences in their pre to late teens. It is important to stress that shōjo is not a style but a genre. Because of this, shōjo is defined as the target audience. Common shōjo tends to contained plots more focused towards character development and innocent love. Maho shōjo is a subgenre relating to shōjo geared around the main character receiving magical powers to fend off evil.
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Shōnen
Shōnen: (lit. 少年 "teenager") Demographic aimed towards boys. Shōnen often, but not always, includes high action stories with humorous action and comedy scenes. Many shōnen titles will often have bizarre plots with androids and robots as well as have a high stress on technological advancements or abnormalities. Shōnen is specifically defined as a demographic and should not be defined strictly on style or plot. Style and plot are only common references that many shōnen seem to share.
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Josei
Josei: (lit. 女性 "woman") Also called redisu or redikomi is a genre typically designed by women for older teens and adult females. Josei, unlike shojo, is far more realistic and more related to the "slice of life" genre.
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Seinen
Seinen: Anime and manga designed for older males often college aged or older and contained more mature content. Seinen titles are more plot based and less focused on action or slapstick comedy. Seinen as well normally has a much stronger sense of "logic" placed within the plot requiring a deeper audience.
Genre:
Drama, Romance, Slice-of-Life
Themes:
School
Original Run: 3/3/2007 to 3/3/2007
Episodes: 1 - Learn More
Duration: 62 minutes