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** Takaki uses a wireless ''LogiCool'' mouse at his workplace.
* [[Cherry Blossoms]]: First mentioned by Akari, the rate at which [[Cherry Blossoms]] fall under normal circumstances acts as a metaphor for falling in love.
* [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!]]: {{spoiler|When Kanae starts to tear up at her inability to tell Takaki her feelings, she has an internal version of this.}}* [[Cannot Spit It Out]]: Kanae struggles to tell Takaki that she's deeply in love with him.
* [[Dreaming of Things to Come]]: Takaki has a recurring dream of himself and Akari climbing a hill in a surrealistic sunrise. Aside of being a [[Mythology Gag]] for ''Place Promised'', this could be [[Distant Finale|the future]], [[Mundane Afterlife|their afterlife]], or an [[Alternate Universe]].
* [[Drowning My Sorrows]]: One point in the third act cuts from Takaki's ex-girlfriend to him at a bar, shows the two of them sleeping at opposite sides of a bed, then back to him gulping down a glass. The implication is obvious.
* [[Expy]]: Takaki incorporates elements derived from the male leads in Shinkai's previous works, and shares some similarities to [[The Great Gatsby|Jay Gatsby.]]
* [[Foreshadowing]]:
** In the first act, Takaki hopes while his train is stalled by the snowstorm that Akari has gone home rather than wait for him in the cold. {{spoiler| This time, she waited. Come the third act, she no longer does.}}
** There are several mentions of the Japanese space program in the second act well before the climactic rocket launch happens.
** In ''one more side'', Risa becomes distressed by Takaki guessing that she has an older brother, but it takes three more chapters to learn why.
* [[Gratuitous English]]: As with Shinkai's other movies, it has a Japanese title (''Byōsoku Go Senchimētoru''/"5 Centimeters Per Second") but an English subtitle; in this case: ''A Chain Of Short Stories About Their Distance''.
* [[I Will Wait for You]]: This is implied in the second act and {{spoiler|subverted in the third act}}: In the period between the end of part two and the beginning of part three, Takaki has {{spoiler|had at least one long-term relationship with another woman}}, and Akari has {{spoiler|become engaged to another man}}.
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* [[Last-Name Basis|Last Name Basis]]: Takaki's distance from Kanae is reflected by how, unlike with Akari, he always uses her last name.
* [[Lighter and Softer]]: Unlike Shinkai's previous two films with their bloodshed and violence, here there isn't even a schoolyard scuffle.
* [[Maybe Ever After]]: The manga has an additional chapter focused on Kanae, at the end of which it is implied {{spoiler| she bumps into Takaki again.}} Whether or not things work out this time is left unknown.
* [[Men Can't Keep House]]: An undone bed and undisposed beer cans are among the things in Takaki's messy apartment that show how he's not doing well in the third act. That said, ''one more side'' states that he already wasn't the neatest even before breaking up with Risa.
* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: Older Takaki is quite handsome even when his life is in shambles.
* [[Multiple Endings]]: The last few minutes of the movie present a number of images that can represent several different aspects of an ending. The 'true' (i.e. final) one appears to be a [[Tear Jerker]] [[Esoteric Happy Ending]], but it also presents a [[Downer Ending]], a [[Happily Ever After]], and a few [[Scenery Porn|shots of]] [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|symbolic birds]].
* [[Official Couple]]: Takaki and Akari.
* [[Real Place Background]]: The iconic railway crossings are with the Odakyū Odawara Line near Sangūbashi Station in Shibuya, Tokyo. Other actual locales recreated include parts of the Shibuya and Shinjuku Wards of Tokyo and the southern island of Tanegashima.
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Akari is blue, Kanae is red.
* [[Scenery Porn]]: The [[Doing It for the Art|artwork is awe-inspiring]]; the sheer volume of detail present in the movie, especially with respect to some of the minor scenes and [http://static.zerochan.net/full/44/02/67644.jpg background] elements, almost makes reality look drab by comparison.
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