A boy falls in love with a girl.
Unable to confess, he is gifted with by a deus ex machina with the girl's phone number. Never minding the strange area code, he immediately calls her, and is overjoyed to find out that she has a crush on him as well.
But, the next day, when he recounts the previous day's confessions to the girl, she only looks at him with a perplexed expression. After some investigation, he finds out that the girl he called is not the same girl he fell in love with. In fact, she doesn't exist in this universe at all. She is the girl's alternate universe counterpart, who has fallen in love with the MC's own AU self, who too is blissfully unaware of her crush.
Hijinks ensue as the two strike up a deal to give each other their darkest, most private secrets in order to equip the other with the weapons they need to conquer the heart of their other selves. While the two chase their respective loved ones, DRAMA ensues as they begin to fall in love with each other instead and question the NATURE of LOVE.
Why are Asians so bad at portraying romance?
>>68257594
Because they're bad at actual romance. Low birth rates and all...
>>68257594
>He hasn't watched any Kar Wai
>>68257594
Because they consider different things romantic
>>68257675
there are many reasons why the birth rates are low
Source:my wife is Japanese and I spend couple of years in Japan living.
Better anime romance here
This meme is so fucking stupid it has been invading my dreams. I had a dream last night where episode 2 was out and I was really confused about somehow missing episode 1. Fuck this shit.
>>68257853
how do japanese wife?
FINDS A WAY
>>68258308
It's a gorgeous movie, but romance felt like it was written by a 16-year old whose girlfriend just broke up with him, sad just for the sake of being sad
IT FOUND A WAY
>>68258690
Agreed.
>>68258690
Nah I don't think so. The movie never feels "woeisme" it just gets brutally honest and realistic.
>>68260011
>The movie never feels "woeisme"
It pretty much sums up the protagonist's personality.
>>68260056
You can't possibly think this. Maybe towards the end but the rest of it he is a very grounded character. He is hopeful through the entire first act and then the mistakes in the second act was completely his fault and he knew it. He deliberately never messaged her
>>68257553
The premise sounds kinda cool actually
>>68257553
Shinkai can't write for shit.
Just look at his previous abortions.
Garden of Words was fucking retarded.
He is just good at making desktop wallpaper porn.
>>68257553
I don't care much for Chinese cartoons at all, but their animation of starscapes with a person looking upwards gives me all kinds of feels. E.g. 5cm per second.
Reminds me of that upside down anime movie.. Patema or whatever the title was
>>68260660
Is that right.
>>68257553
Finds a way
>>68258308
For those who still did not get it: The last scene was a happy one. She wasn't on the other side of the tracks, because she showed him that she finally moved on and he got that.
t. Someone whose crush told him today for the second time that she doesn't care about him
>>68261433
She ends up in an unfulfilling marriage and he ends up alone
>>68257553
what a stupid ass phone company.
