Unboxing English and Simplified Chinese Subtitles...

Makoto Shinkai just announced via Twitter that the Blu-ray and DVD release of his latest movie, "Hoshi wo Ou Kodomo" will be available in Japan on November 25th and the good news is both versions will include English subtitles! As with previous releases, a small booklet is included and bonus disc features will include... An...

新海誠さんは８月２７日に香港の「コミックワールド」でご登場予定！香港では「星を追う子ども」のプレミアらしいですね！...

8/7/2018 Update: Kodansha USA revealed at Anime Expo 2018 that they will be publishing an official English version of this book so, you guys will be able to read it soon!...

The official site for Shinkai's forth movie isn't ready yet but production of the final movie is under way. He has also joined Twitter (in Japanese of course) and started a new production blog to keep track of the progress. He already has over 1000 followers at the time of writing. Apart from the short introduction from the blogs...

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...

やっと誠新海さんの４作目のニュースが出てきましたよ！映画はまだ名前ないけど、何だか少女が主人公ですね。 イメージボードの文字が読めませんが、物語の場所は西洋の国ではないようですね、しばらくロンドンで居たのに。あるほど影響があるでしょう！とにかく、この発表のウエブアドレスを見ると映画の名は「さようなら」という言葉も入ってるでしょう。...

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...

Shinkai also writes he's happy his movie has sold over 70,000 copies in Japan and that it's made its way into 30 different countries as of now....