This is the 3rd National Day week I spent in Shanghai, except two days in Hangzhou, my otaku lifestyle hasn’t changed much. I watched two anime films by Makoto Shinkai: 5 Centimeters Per Second, Voices of a Distant Star.

1080P version of 5 Centimeters Per Second is amazingly awesome, I mean the detailed graphic, almost every single frame can be captured and set as desktop wallpaper. That’s the quality of commercial studio production.

Something is quite memorable in Voices of a Distant Star, if one day your girl friend is traveling to a distant star, and all messages sent from her would take years to deliver, because a distant star means a star in light years far away. Then?

You two are connected, because you’re keeping missing each other, so no matter how many light years away, you’re connected.

Actually I wish I could have one connection like that. Such connection is not meant for telling stories to others, but just a connection that will be kept in hearts for many many many years.

So, R2 is ended. I just watched the last chapter of R2 and am going to say, Code Geass is the masterpiece of masterpiece.

What can I expect from a Japanese anime? State-of-the-art graphic, sentimental songs with sentimental rhythms, war and love, futuristic metal gears, legendary stories from King Arthur and the Holy Bible, the way our human society built and the ideologies, beautiful school girl complex, flattened world, German words, professionalism here and there. And Code Geass just had them all.

Our world is complicated, Code Geass started with a bright boy to discover the whole sophisticated world, and ended with his death. After his death, is the world really changed? This may be a question left to R3, if R3 is coming. And what will change the world or the world never change, will be a question left to me, will my actions for pursuing perfection really change the world?