Shinohara Akari and Tono Takaki from 5 Centimeters Per Second

Takaki’s best friend and supposed love interest in elementary school. Like Takaki, she and her family move a lot. After elementary school, she moves to Iwafune. Apparently she suggests living with her aunt in Tokyo in order to stay with Takaki, but her parents forbid this. For a while, she and Takaki keep in touch via post.

Takaki is the central character of the film. Because of his parents’ jobs, he is forced to move a lot. He and Akari become close friends, but when Akari moves away, they end up attending different junior high schools. In the second arc, he is shown to be an apt kyūdō practitioner and a member of his school’s kyudo club.

5 Centimeters Per Second: a chain of short stories about their distance (秒速5センチメートル: アチェインオブショートストリーズアバウトゼアディスタンス), is a 2007 Japanese animated feature film by Makoto Shinkai. The film was finished on 22 January 2007.