Arata Kanoh > Quotes

“Everythin' in the world ends up where it should be.”
― Arata Kanoh, 你的名字 Another Side:Earthbound

“Well, actually… He had the sense that he was often truer to himself in her body than in his own.”
― Arata Kanoh, your name. Another Side:Earthbound

“She'd told me that, once-- that she had always felt loss approaching. I was still in middle school, and there was no way I could really have understood what she meant, but those words had sent shivers through my soul.”
― Arata Kanoh, The Place Promised in Our Early Days

“I used to be like that, too, long ago-- cheerful and unreserved. My treasures were dumb little things and deliriously fun.”
― Arata Kanoh, The Place Promised in Our Early Days

“I've always felt like...like I was going to lose something. As beautiful as the world is...”
― Arata Kanoh

“I was scared.
Scared that I wouldn't find anything important inside her.
Which is why I thought I shouldn't even try.
That decision alone absolutely crushed me. It was the final verdict: There is nothing for you anywhere.”
― Arata Kanoh, 5 Centimeters per Second: one more side

“It was a terminal station during the commuter rush. The backs of the crowd formed a sort of current, surging through the automatic ticket gate one after another, and the sight didn't surprise me or trigger any real emotion. When had I stopped being startled by how many people lived in one town, each of them with their own separate lives? I was aware of the fatigue I was carrying. I was thirty-one, and the weariness of those thirty-one years had seeped into me. It wasn't that big a deal. But it was not nothing, either.”
― Arata Kanoh, The Place Promised in Our Early Days

“The reason he had trouble opening up to her was simply because he was a guy, and Mitsuha was a girl.
The same went for Sayaka.
There was a wall of feelings between two people of different genders.”
― Arata Kanoh, 你的名字 Another Side:Earthbound

“She might have been trying to tell him something that couldn't be put into words.”
― Arata Kanoh, 你的名字 Another Side:Earthbound

“Let’s just be satisfied with what we’ve got. If you start off from there, content, I’ll figure out how to make it better somehow.”
― Arata Kanoh, your name. Another Side:Earthbound

“After that ephemeral relief passed, and the deep colors of reality painted over Akari's lingering presence in me, what silently crept in was a hollow but refreshing feeling - that I may never wish to be understood again.”
― Arata Kanoh , 5 Centimeters per Second: one more side