Good news, 5cm fans! Kodansha Comics has just revealed (photo by @to_aru_oni) at this year's Anime Expo 2018 that, the second novel of Makoto Shinkai's 5 Centimetres Per Second will be officially getting an English treatment by Vertical Inc. To quickly summarise, "One More Side" is written by Arata Kanoh offersalternative...
Inspired by Makoto Shinkai's 5 Centimetres per Second, Shanghai animation studio Haoliners has been working in collaboration with Comix Wave to create "Shikioriori [Unfolding of The Seasons]" (AKA 肆式青春, Sishi Qingchun "Flavours of Youth" in China). Just like 5cm, the movie is comprised of three short stories featuring the...
It's been a while since Makoto Shinkai released his first art book, "A Sky Longing for Memories" (which you can get an English copy of by Vertical Comics). Now he's released a new one at around the same time as his latest youth movie, "Your Name" and it's a B2 sized, 160 page book subtitled "Walker: Hikari no Kiseki [Trails of Light]". The...
It was our last day in Japan before we fly back to Scotland tomorrow. So, being a big fan of Makoto Shinkai's 5 Centimetres per Second (5cm) I just had to visit some of the locations that were located around Tokyo. Note: The location hunting wasn't done in order and this wasn't a full day dedicated to 5cm location hunting. You will see the...
28th April 2021 Update:
Official English translation is available via Yen Press. 20th June 2013 Update:
The site has now been taken down but you may still read the translations and the rest of the site content in PDF here. Finally got round to picking up the half done translation. Pretty hard to believe it's been two years since...
Thanks goes to FallingStar for tweeting to me about this! I must have missed Shinkai's tweet about this somehow! It's been over 4 years since 5 Centimetres Per Second premièred in Japan and since then, it's been novelised and manganised. Now it's getting another novel, subtitled "One More Side" - But it's not a sequel. The original 5cm...
As you'll no doubt already know, a new production blog is up and running for Shinkai's next movie. But while we're waiting for the official site to be up with more details, here's the next part of the novel translated in English, "Cosmonaut" which is told from Kanae's perspective.
The water dazzled under the rising sun just above the...
I'm sure regular visitors amongst you will know how much of a fan I am of Makoto Shinkai's 5 Centimetres Per Second by now. After looking through how much information I've gathered about the movie, I thought this blog wasn't giving it enough space to organise so I've decided to create a sub-site for it to have all the content accessible in...
An announcement has been made that there will be a Manga version of Makoto Shinkai's most recent movie, "5 Centimetres per Second". Yukiko Seike will be artist behind the coloured Manga and the serialisation will start in July's issue of Afternoon which will be on sale from tomorrow, May 23rd. On the other hand, Mizu Sahara was the...
Been a while since I last posted anything about Makoto Shinkai. Thanks to Daike-san, who has been too busy with work lately to update his fansite, for letting me know about this upcoming orchestral CD. To commemorate Anime director Makoto Shinkai and musician Tenmon's collaboration for the past ten years, an orchestral image album...