It's been a while since we heard Shinkai mention anything about his new piece of work. After taking a detour and spending some time in Greece before returning to his home in Nagano, he wrote yesterday (or technically the day before) that he has moved to a new apartment in Tokyo, Shinjuku. He gets pretty tired out just thinking about all...
CrunchyRoll had some technical problems presumably due to the surge in demand with over 22,000 hits if I remember correctly. They had all three movies streaming for the 24 hours including an official unreleased new dub of the 5 Centimetres per Second movie by Bang Zoom Entertainm...
Just when I was reading over Kazuma Kaneko's thoughts about the "powers" of the internet and how it compares with the "spiritual world" I came across this...
Looks like fans from all over the world will be gathering together at the Makoto Shinkai English Fan Forum this weekend to chat with each other while watching his movies. If you...
It's only been two months since Makoto Shinkai wrote about how he was doing on his website but apparently, fans have been worried and have been writing emails asking him along the lines of, "Are you alive?" In response, he has literally written on his site that he is alive and well and thanks all concerned.
On the other hand, ever since...
Voices of a Distant Star The Place Promised in Our Early Days The DVDs The Booklet Thoughts...
Shinkai lets his readers know that he's started to plan his next piece of work although there's nothing really to show as an animation yet. He comments that it will be his biggest piece of work so far too... I wonder what it's about? Something to do with life in a foreign world p...
(1) The BFI (British Film Institute 英国映画協会) building by the River Thames which was where the event was held. When I got lost that day, I asked the English fans who called out to me to give me directions (Laughs). (2) The theatre. (3) The interview that took place after the screen...
The importance of cats. Inspiration to create "She and Her Cat" and "Voices of a Distant Star" alone Working with a team to produce "The Place Promised in Our Early Days" Tenmon's role in the projects. No deliberate recurring theme such as long distance relationships or losing to...
Update about notice. Update Update...
The opening for adult visual novel game "Ef The Latter Tale" isn't being considered part of his work in this book, just in case you're going to order this book and was wondering if that would be in it too....