Characters
- Takaki Tōno (遠野 貴樹, Tōno Takaki?)
- Voiced by: Kenji Mizuhashi (Japanese), David Matranga (ADV), Johnny Yong Bosch (Bang Zoom!) (English)
- Takaki is the central character of the film. Because of his parents' jobs, he is forced to move a lot. He and Akari become close friends, but when Akari moves away, they end up attending different junior high schools. In the second arc, he is shown to be an apt kyūdō practitioner and a member of his school's kyūdō club.
The Manga goes into more detail about his (failed) relationships after college and his attempts to cope.
- Akari Shinohara (篠原 明里, Shinohara Akari?)
- Voiced by: Yoshimi Kondō (Part 1) and Ayaka Onouei (Part 3) (Japanese), Hilary Haag (ADV), Erika Weinstein (Part 1), Tara Platt (Part 3) (Bang Zoom!) (English)
- Takaki's best friend and love interest in elementary school. Like Takaki, she and her family move a lot. After elementary school, she moves to Iwafune. Apparently she suggests living with her aunt in Tokyo in order to stay with Takaki, but her parents forbid this. For a while, she and Takaki keep in touch via post.
- Kanae Sumida (澄田 花苗, Sumida Kanae?)
- Voiced by: Satomi Hanamura (Japanese), Serena Varghese (ADV), Kira Buckland (Bang Zoom!) (English)
- A classmate of Takaki in high school. She has been in love with Takaki since he began attending her junior high school, but cannot express her feelings to him. Kanae loves to surf and rides a moped to school. She doesn't know what she wants to do with her future. Her older sister is a teacher at her high school.
Alternatively in the manga, she is seen working as a nurse after the events on the film. She decides to go looking for Takaki at Tokyo and after arriving and wandering aimlesly for a while she finally gets his phone number. Just as she decides to go back and not see him, he seems to walk in front of the park bench where she is, presumably noticing her and her noticing him.
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