Makoto Shinkai's early work, Voice of the Stars, is similar to this work. Sayuri and Hiroshi are separated by dreams, while the separation between Mikako and Sheng is 8.6 light-years of space and 8 years of time.
The dream that blocked Sayuri, Hiroshi, and Shirakawa originated from a promise when they were young—the giant tower in Ezo, the information received from the parallel universe constituted Sayuri’s dream, and Sayuri kept searching for his youth in his three-year dream. Haoji, the only desk in the classroom that was shrouded in the setting sun, but Haoji was never seen again. White planes appeared from time to time in Sayuri's dreams, it was the agreement with Hiroshi that seemed so real, but it was hard to touch.
Sayuri left without saying goodbye, Hiroshi and Shirakawa also gave up the Vale Sail construction plan, and the two went further and further. After Hiroshi came to Tokyo, he thought that he could forget the giant tower and Sayuri's promise. It can disappear among the more than 30 million people in Tokyo, but Sayuri appears in Hiroshi's dreams more and more frequently. What Hiroshi misses in his heart is still Sayuri, who was reading the textbook aloud under the setting sun and tucked his hair behind his ears. , The agreement with Sayuri that day will never be forgotten. Hiroshi said in his inner monologue in Tokyo: In a city where more than 30 million people live, think about it carefully, I want to meet people who want to talk, but not all of them. no. In those days, I sometimes dreamed of Sayuri. It was the dream of Sayuri, who was struggling to find a lonely person in a cold place. As a result, Sayuri could not be found every time. Presumably this also indicates that Hiroshi will fulfill his promise to Sayuri - on the other side of the cloud.
Shirakawa was still a good student when Hiroki stared at Sayuri that afternoon, and the subsequent development of the plot also confirmed this. In high school, he was recommended by Okabe to enter Tomizawa Research. Room, compared to Hiroshi, he has a more mature mind and rational thinking, but like Hiroshi, he likes Sayuri, and the embarrassment of the dialogue at the station, Sayuri subconsciously knocks the umbrella on the ground, and the rain flows smoothly. He left traces on the ground with the umbrella, I believe Sayuri also noticed it. Years later, the research lab discovered the connection between Sayuri and the giant tower, and Shirakawa regained his youthful promise. When faced with the choice between saving the world or saving Sayuri, Shirakawa and Hiroshi made the same choice.
When Vale Sail took off, Shirakawa watched the plane go far away, and Haoji flew to the agreed place under the cover of the battle between the north and the south. The fear of the road ahead still could not stop Haoji's determination to fly to the agreed place.
Sayuri woke up and said, "I seem to be about to lose something." Hiroshi stroked Sayuri's face, and greeted Sayuri who came from a lonely dream with warm eyes.
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