First Images for Makoto Shinkai’s Fourth Movie

It’s just pass Christmas Eve and Makoto Shinkai has decided to reveal some art from an early image board of his fourth feature length movie. What great news before the New Year, eh?

The name of the movie is currently undecided and Shinkai isn’t permitted to reveal what it’s about. What he can say is that [...]

Makoto Shinkai x Tenmon 10th Anniversary Orchestral Album

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 featuring [...]

Place Promised to Get a Budget DVD Release in Japan

Priced at 2800 Yen, the budget DVD release of the 4 year old “The Place Promised in Our Early Days” is due in Japan on June 18th next week. It will contain both the English and Russian dub of the movie for Japanese fans to enjoy.
Shinkai also writes he’s happy his movie has sold over [...]

Makoto Shinkai Moves Back to Tokyo

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 [...]

Global Shinkai Day Comes to An End

And so, Global Shinkai Day has come to an end. I literally stayed up overnight until Saturday morning at six for the first session, slept for the second then stayed for the others. The number of attendees started off pretty well. It mostly floated between the 10 to 15 people mark for the day but [...]