5 Centimeters per Second

秒速５センチメートル

Takaki Toono and Akari Shinohara grow close as children, staying in touch by letter after her family relocates, until distance and time quietly wear the connection down. Years later, high schooler Kanae Sumida falls for Takaki without ever quite reaching him, caught behind the space he still keeps for a promise made when they were young. Written by Makoto Shinkai, this is the official novelization of the 5 Centimeters per Second film, expanding scenes only sketched in the movie.