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* GivenNameReveal: Ekusun Tsukinoe, the scientist who designed the Tower for the Union, is eventually revealed to be [[spoiler:Sayuri's grandfather]] despite their different last names.
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* GivenNameReveal: Inverted; Ekusun Tsukinoe, the scientist who designed the Tower for the Union, is eventually revealed to be [[spoiler:Sayuri's grandfather]] despite their different last names.
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* AliensInCardiff: The story starts in desolate Aomori Prefecture at the northernmost tip of Honshu and returns there for the climax.
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** Hiroki and Takuya's work on the Bella Ceila is shown in great detail, as is the hanger for storing their aircraft.
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* TwoGuysAndAGirl: Hiroki, Takuya and Sayuri befriend one another, sharing summer days together working on the Bella Ceila or capitalising on the pleasant weather.
* WeWereYourTeam: Hiroki and Takuya's friendship disintegrates after Sayuri's disappearance. Reuniting to finish the Bella Ciela for her sake brings them together again.
* WeWereYourTeam: Hiroki and Takuya's friendship disintegrates after Sayuri's disappearance. Reuniting to finish the Bella Ciela for her sake brings them together again.
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* TwoGuysAndAGirl: Hiroki, Takuya and Sayuri befriend one another, sharing summer days together working on the Bella Ceila Velaciela or capitalising on the pleasant weather.
* WeWereYourTeam: Hiroki and Takuya's friendship disintegrates after Sayuri's disappearance. Reuniting to finish theBella Ciela Velaciela for her sake brings them together again.
* WeWereYourTeam: Hiroki and Takuya's friendship disintegrates after Sayuri's disappearance. Reuniting to finish the
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* StarCrossedLovers: Hiroki and Sayuri struggle with their feelings for each other because the latter disappeared from the former's life and, by the time he finds her again years later, she is in a coma. [[spoiler:Even after she is awoken, she loses her memories of her romantic feelings for him. He vows to start over from the beginning and try to make it work; whether it does, we don't get to find out.]]
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* HammerAndSickleRemovedForYourProtection: The Union is never explicitly confirmed to be the USSR despite the contextual clues implying as much.
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[[https://otakumode.com/news/5a9505cf4ee0898e245edcd6/Shinkai-Makoto%E2%80%99s-The-Place-Promised-in-Our-Early-Days-Coming-to-the-Stage! 14 years after its initial release, the film is getting a stage adaptation in 2018.]]
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* ShoutOut: The poem Sayuri reads in class in an early scene is ''Eiketsu no Asa'' (jp:永訣の朝 "Morning of the Last Farewell") by Kenji Miyazawa. She is later shown reading ''The Net Involved in a Dream'' (jp:夢網 "Dream Net").
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* TakeAMomentToCatchYourDeath: A rare, nonfatal non-fatal example. Sayuri is saved from a LiteralCliffHanger off the end of an abandoned pier by Hiroki. Just as they are mostly safe and jubilating over the successful rescue, the rest of the dock gives way and dumps both of them into the ocean.
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* TakeAMomentToCatchYourDeath: A rare, nonfatal non-fatal example. Sayuri is saved from a LiteralCliffHanger off the end of an abandoned pier by Hiroki. Just as they are mostly safe and jubilating over the successful rescue, the rest of the dock gives way and dumps both of them into the ocean.
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As teenagers, Hiroki and Takuya became friends with a girl, Sayuri, and came to know each other better while travelling to and from school on the train. When Hiroki and Takuya find a crashed drone plane, they begin to repair it and promise to take Sayuri to the tower. However, she mysteriously disappears before they can and the boys' lives drift apart.
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As teenagers, Hiroki Fujisawa and Takuya Shirakawa became friends with a girl, Sayuri, Sayuri Sawatari, and came to know each other better while travelling to and from school on the train. When Hiroki and Takuya find a crashed drone plane, they begin to repair it and promise to take Sayuri to the tower. However, she mysteriously disappears before they can and the boys' lives drift apart.
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* TakeAMomentToCatchYourDeath: A rare, nonfatal non-fatal example. Sayuri is saved from a LiteralCliffHanger off the end of an abandoned pier by Hiroki. Just as they are mostly safe and jubilating over the successful rescue, the rest of the dock gives way and dumps both of them into the ocean.
* TheWorldIsJustAwesome: Near the end of the film, the protagonists finally reach Hokkaido, finding a lush, peaceful place untouched by the war not too far away.
* TheWorldIsJustAwesome: Near the end of the film, the protagonists finally reach Hokkaido, finding a lush, peaceful place untouched by the war not too far away.
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* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: Ulita call themselves a liberation front, but are considered terrorists by most others.
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* GoryDiscretionShot: In the last part of the film, as Hiroki is flying the Velaciela towards the Tower, its canopy gets splattered by blood from somewhere, maybe the pilot of the fighter destroyed in the dogfight shown just moments ago.
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* FighterLaunchingSequence: There is a shot of the Velaciela taking off.
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* HistoryRepeats: Falling short of GenerationXerox due to not actually being related, but when Takuya's professor is discussing with Okabe why they are letting [[spoiler:Hiroki and Takuya take Sayuri to Hokkaido and carry out the attack on the Tower]], the camera pans to a photo of a younger Okabe and professor with an unknown girl next to a flying machine of their own, with the clear implication that they were once in the same shoes that the protagonists are now filling.
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* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: Even at great risk to himself, Hiroki flies over hostile airspace amidst combat in trying to reach the tower and help Sayuri awaken. Driven home earlier by Takuya, who asks him to choose between saving the world or her.
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* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: Even at great risk to himself, Hiroki flies over hostile airspace amidst combat in trying to reach the tower and help Sayuri awaken. Driven home earlier by Takuya, who asks him to choose between saving the world or her.her, [[spoiler:though he eventually goes along with the plan despite his misgivings, taking Sayuri from the hospital before the NSA can spirit her away for further study and helping finish the Velaciela.]]
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* TitleDrop: The Japanese title, "The Place Promised Beyond the Clouds", is mentioned in the lyrics of the ending theme, "Kimi no Koe/Your Voice".
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* ChekhovsGun: Sayuri mentions early in the movie that her grandfather is a physicist; his role is significant in that [[spoiler: he is the one who designed the tower.]]
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* ChekhovsGun: ChekhovsGunman: Sayuri mentions early in the movie that her grandfather is a physicist; his role is significant in that [[spoiler: he is the one who designed the tower.]]
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* {{Homage}}: There is an extended shot of characters watching a train pass that is very similar to one seen in ''Anime/VoicesOfADistantStar''.
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* PlotBasedVoiceCancellation: Early on, Sayuri tells Takuya something that she's afraid will make him laugh, to which he assures her he won't. As she says it, though, the sound of a train covers up whatever it is.
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* PlotBasedVoiceCancellation: Early on, Sayuri tells Takuya something that she's afraid will make him laugh, to which he assures her he won't. As she says it, though, the sound of a train covers up whatever it is. It isn't until about two-thirds through that we go back and learn it's really about [[spoiler:the strange dream she's been having.]]
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* BlandNameProduct: Billboards for "Popsi" can be seen.
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* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: [[http://gallery.minitokyo.net/view/229186 The tower]] is ''extremely'' tall; it rises far above all mountains and visible cloud layers, and is seemingly visible from most parts of Japan. Along with its mysterious purpose, there's the mystery of how it doesn't collapse under its own weight, or a stiff breeze.
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* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: [[http://gallery.minitokyo.net/view/229186 The tower]] is ''extremely'' tall; [[StarScraper it rises far above all mountains and visible cloud layers, and is seemingly visible from most parts of Japan. Japan.]] Along with its mysterious purpose, there's the mystery of how it doesn't collapse under its own weight, or a stiff breeze.
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Three years later, tensions between the UN alliance and the Union grow. Takuya is now working with the Alliance to understand parallel universes, while Hiroki is a student in Tokyo, who suffered increasing melancholy as a result of his numerous dreams about Sayuri. He recieves a letter from her one day, and as the threat of war builds in the divided nation, he discovers that the mystery of Sayuri's disappearance is linked to the fate of the world and resolves to fulfill his promise to her.
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Three years later, tensions between the UN alliance and the Union grow. Takuya is now working with the Alliance to understand parallel universes, while Hiroki is a student in Tokyo, who suffered increasing melancholy as a result of his numerous dreams about Sayuri. He recieves receives a letter from her one day, and as the threat of war builds in the divided nation, he discovers that the mystery of Sayuri's disappearance is linked to the fate of the world and resolves to fulfill his promise to her.
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* RuleOfCool: Hiroki and Takuya power the Velaciela with a jet engine simply because they're cool.
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* RuleOfCool: Hiroki and Takuya power the Velaciela with a jet engine simply because they're cool.
