Trivia / 5 Centimeters per Second

• Acting for Two:
  • In Crunchyroll's English dub, Jennifer Alyx voices Takaki's classmate in the first segment as well as Kanae's friend in the second segment.
  • In the Polish dub, Aleksandra Radwan voiced the younger Akari Shinohara and some minor characters.
  • In the French dub, Céline Melloul voices both Akari Shinohara and Kanae Sumida.
• All-Star Cast: Crunchyroll's 2009 English dub includes well-known voice actors such as Johnny Yong Bosch, Erika Lenhart, Tara Platt, Kira Buckland, Kirk Thornton, Julie Ann Taylor, Steve Blum and Michelle Ruff.
• Copiously Credited Creator: In the Polish dub, Dariusz Kosmowski voiced minor roles in addition to serving as an ADR director and writer.
• Directed by Cast Member: The Russian dub was directed by Alexander Filchenko, who also voiced some minor roles.
• Dueling Dubs: Two English dubs of the film have been released. It was first dubbed by Houston's ADV Films in 2008. For Crunchyroll's release the following year, it was re-dubbed by Burbank's Bang Zoom! Entertainment.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: ADV Films' initial North American release went out of print after their distribution rights expired in July 2008, and DVD copies tend to go for high prices online.
• Late Export for You: The novel wasn't released until 2021, a whopping 14 years after its original release, as a double feature with Children Who Chase Lost Voices.
• No Dub for You: The film was never dubbed into Arabic, Latin American Spanish or Brazilian Portuguese.
• The Other Darrin: Bang Zoom! Entertainment's 2009 English dub features an all-new voice cast, with Takaki Tohno going from David Matranga to Johnny Yong Bosch, Akari Shinohara from Hilary Haag to Erika Lenhart and Tara Platt, and Kanae Sumida from Serena Varghese to Kira Buckland.
• Same Voice Their Entire Life: In ADV's English dub, Hilary Haag voices Akari's younger and older selves.
• Similarly Named Works: Star Driver released a music track that shares names with the film. The coincidence was not lost on him.
• What Could Have Been:
  • According to the preface to the novel, Shinkai wrote 10 draft short stories while in pre-production of this film and picked three for the final production. One of those rejected pieces, The Sky Outside the Window, is included both in the limited edition DVD in Japan and the novel.
  • He had briefly entertained the idea of giving Akari and Takaki a happy ending, but ultimately didn't, mainly because it would have wrapped the story up nicely like a fairy tale.
• Write What You Know: In Funimation's interview with Shinkai in their release of Your Name, Shinkai revealed that the events in the first act where Takaki's train journey to see Akari is delayed by snow is based on an experience he once had.

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