“Mouse-san!”
“Oh, hello Otaku Oceania.”
“I am so, so glad to hear you’ve decided to review Makoto Shinkai’s instant classic Five Centimetres per Second!”
“Oh?”
“You bet! I mean, in your last few animé reviews you’ve been beating up pretty hard on my favourite genre! In fact, I was this close to running you through with my limited edition Masashi Kishimoto autographed samurai sword! Ha ha ha!”
“Ha ha.”
“But a glowing review of 5 Centimetres per Second should smooth everything over and where are you going!?”
“It sucks! Soz!”
Ohhhh I’m gonna catch a beating for this one. I’ve given bad reviews to popular movies before but, holy moly, 5cmPS is a full on critical darling. It was released in 2007and received rapturous responses, with the film press instantly hailing director Makoto Shinkai as “the next Miyazaki”, an accolade I’m sure that had nothing to do with the fact that Hiyao Miyazaki was the only animé director any of those mouth breathers knew by name harrumph harrumph harrumph harrumph harrumph!
“I didn’t get a harrumph out of that guy!”
“Give Mouse an harrumph!”
“Harrumph!”
“You watch yer ass!”
I’d never heard of the movie before I was requested to review it but I went in expecting to love it. I mean, there is a halo around this thing and all the screenshots I could see looked absolutely smurges. I mean, look at this.
But…it…just…movie…good…is…not…
unshavedmouse 