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1:00 PM on 05.12.2013

Watch 5 minutes of Makoto Shinkai's The Garden of Words

Get the tissues ready. Makoto Shinkai's latest work, The Garden of Words, is hitting wide release in Japan at the end of the month, and last night we saw the first five minutes of it air on TV Tokyo. In this snippet, we get ...

Brad Rice

9:15 PM on 04.02.2013

Cheers, Australians: Garden of Words to be shown at GCFF

Congratulations, anime fans of Australia, the Gold Coast Film Festival in the Broadbeach area of Queensland, Australia is going to feature the world premiere of The Garden of Words as part of their 'Cool Japan'...

Salvador G-Rodiles

3:00 PM on 03.14.2013

YES: Children Who Chase Lost Voices to join Shinkai Day

So I just realized that Global Shinkai Day is starting this Friday, and Crunchyoll is adding more content to its special Makoto Shinkai weekend event. To be more specific, Children Who Chase Lost Voices will be stre...

Salvador G-Rodiles

12:20 AM on 02.21.2013

The Garden of Words trailer looks like a garden of feet

Oh man, Makoto Shinkai really knows how to setup a beautiful scene in his stories. Even though I am not a big fan of his works, I cannot deny the sheer gorgeousness found in the colors and lighting of the first trailer for T...

Salvador G-Rodiles

3:00 PM on 01.27.2013

Makoto Shinkai's 'Someone's Gaze' teaser trailer

Just like with his previous works (Voices of a Distant Star, 5 Centimeters Per Second, Children Who Chase Lost Voices) Makoto Shinkai can create gorgeous anime. His new anime short Dareka no Manazashi (Someone's Gaz...

Josh Totman



Review: Children Who Chase Lost Voices photo
Review: Children Who Chase Lost Voices
by Brittany Vincent


2:00 PM on 12.24.2012

Season's Greetings: Makoto Shinkai is making a new movie

I am going to be perfectly honest with everyone on here, I'm not the biggest Shinkai fan around here. Though I will admit that his movies do get better with each new film that pops out of his mind. Before you smite me with yo...

Salvador G-Rodiles

8:00 PM on 06.15.2012

Sentai licenses Shinkai's Children Who Chase Lost Voices

Sentai Filmworks is at it again -- licensing yet another Makoto Shinkai property. Back in the days of ADV Films, the company licensed 5 Centimeters Per Second and Voices of A Distant Star, so it's no huge surprise that t...

Brad Rice

11:00 AM on 03.02.2012

Crunchyroll holds fourth annual Global Shinkai Day

For the fourth year in a row, Crunchyroll is streaming three films by Makoto Shinkai in what it's calling Global Shinkai Day. From March 9-11, you can see Shinkai's most well-known work: Voices of a Distant Star, The Place Pr...

Bob Muir

10:01 AM on 08.24.2011

Otakon 11: Makoto Shinkai press panel interview

Long delayed, but nonetheless, here is the first part of a series of write-up promised about a man who waxed poetic about loving at a distance in anime film. You might know him as Makoto Shinkai, but I know him as a humble gu...

Jeff Chuang

12:00 PM on 08.01.2011

Monday Madness: Our Innocence

So this weekend I finally got around to watching the highly acclaimed 5 Centimeters per Second and I was pretty much utterly destroyed. The story and writing in that show is fantastic, and it probably doesn't help t...

Itsa Timmy

11:00 AM on 07.22.2011

Otakon 11: Otakon to host Shinkai premiere [Update]

[Update: The film will now have subtitles, says Otakon staffers. Hooray!] Have you been dying to see Makoto Shinkai's latest work, Children Who Chase Lost Voices from the Deep? Well, Otakon's got your back. Sort of. The film ...

Brad Rice