History YMMV / FiveCentimetersPerSecond

* FridgeLogic: In the last third, [[spoiler: Takaki and Akari cross the railway crossing just moments before two trains whiz past.]] Doesn't this world have the most basic of safety precautions?

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: [[https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/6y2y8y/five_centimeters_per_second_the_beauty_of_falling/ This essay]] suggests that, far from Akari and Takaki unintentionally drifting away from each other as physical distance becomes emotional distance, Akari was already prepared for their first kiss to be the last, a sign of farewell, and did not hold out the same hope Takaki did of wanting to fight for their relationship.

* FanPreferredCouple: Most people ship Takaki and Akari.

** The manga's Chapter Nine has two panels showing the traffic lights at the intersection between Shinjuku Police Station, years before ''your name.'' made them famous.

* HypeBacklash: While the film is largely well-received for its atmospheric, emotive style, SceneryPorn that remains stunning more than 10 years later, and choosing realism in depicting the fragility of a LongDistanceRelationship while avoiding the usual fairytale endings, there is a substantial minority of viewers coming in later, especially after the faster-paced and more narratively-dense '' Anime/YourName'', who find it boring and reliant on melodrama and ambience rather than a well-developed plot and characters. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_3Im2tyMx4 This video by KrisPNatz]] comes to mind.

* HypeBacklash: While the film is largely well-received for its atmospheric, emotive style, SceneryPorn that remains stunning more than 10 years later, and choosing realism in depicting the fragility of a LongDistanceRelationship while avoiding the usual fairytale endings, there is a substantial minority of viewers coming in later, especially after the faster-paced and more narratively-dense '' Anime/YourName'', who find it boring and reliant on melodrama and ambience rather than a well-developed plot and characters.

* HilariousInHindsight: As mentioned in the preface to the novel, one of the draft short stories Shinkai wrote while planning this was ''The Sky Outside the Window'', which has rain as a central concept. Though it was rejected back then, now with both ''Anime/TheGardenOfWords'' and ''Anime/WeatheringWithYou'', he has gone back to the idea not once but twice.

* HilariousInHindsight: As mentioned in the preface to the novel, one of the draft short stories Shinkai wrote while planning this was ''The Sky Outside the Window'', which has rain as a central concept. Though it was rejected back then, now with both ''Garden of Words'' and ''Anime/WeatheringWithYou'', he has gone back to the idea not once but twice.

* HypeBacklash: While the film is largely well-received for its atmospheric, emotive style and choosing realism in depicting the fragility of a LongDistanceRelationship while avoiding the usual fairytale endings, there is a substantial minority of viewers coming in later who find it boring and reliant on melodrama and ambience rather than a well-developed plot and characters.

* HypeBacklash: While the film is largely well-received for its atmospheric, emotive style and choosing realism in depicting a LongDistanceRelationship while avoiding the usual fairytale endings, there is a substantial minority of viewers coming in later who find it boring and reliant on melodrama and ambience rather than a well-founded plot.

* HilariousInHindsight: As mentioned in the preface to the novel, one of the draft short stories Shinkai wrote while planning this was ''The Sky Outside the Window'', which has rain as a central concept. Though it was rejected back then, now with both ''Garden of Words'' and ''Weathering with You'', he has gone back to the idea not once but twice.

* AwesomeMusic: This is now pretty much a standard for a Makoto Shinkai film, as the bittersweet [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IG_FY3v0uWk closing theme shows]].