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* ''[[5 Centimeters per Second]]'': Is the woman that Takaki passes at the railway crossing in the third act really Akari? The fact that she doesn't wait to acknowledge him despite getting her memory jogged a short time ago by {{spoiler|finding the letter she had intended to pass to him years ago}} is suspicious, and invites speculation that it could have been a doppelganger or Takaki's hallucination instead. Official artbook ''A sky longing for memories'' unhelpfully uses the phrase "the woman" rather than explicitly confirming or denying that it's her, further muddying the waters. The manga attempts to settle the issue byhas {{spoiler|having an apparition of young Akari appear and wave goodbye at Takaki after the latter has turned his back rather than try going after the woman}}, but givenwhether this is even meant to confirm that the woman is Akari after all or is merely symbolising Takaki's finally giving up on the pursuit of Akari is also debatable. The number of divergences itthe manga has from the film, also call into question how much stock is toshould be put in this iseven leftif asthe anformer exerciseis tothe thecorrect readerinterpretation.