5 Centimeters Per Second, the Makoto Shinkai anime from 2007, is getting a live-action film adaptation in Japan. The film will be released in fall 2025. The movie will star Hokuto Matsumura, a member of the group SixTONES, who played Sota in Shinkai’s film Suzume. …Read more »
Being somehow psychically scarred by a scary, depressing or otherwise disturbing piece of entertainment is an experience most of us share – and as a medium, anime certainly isn’t lacking in series or films with some pretty distressing elements. Ranking site Goo recently asked its …Read more »
It was a nice weekend for Makoto Shinkai. Your Name ( Kimi no na wa. ), the latest film by Shinkai, the director behind 5 Centimeters Per Second and The Garden of Words , had a fine opening weekend at the Japanese box office, earning …Read more »
Makoto Shinkai's anime has a very distinct feel to it, from the first work that really got his name noticed, 2002's Voices of a Distant Star , to 2011's Children Who Chase Lost Voices . Most of this comes from both his personal visual touch …Read more »
Anime conventions are vast, singular, beautiful, and incomprehensible, a riotous, amorphous celebration of what it is to be a fan of Japanese cartoons and comics. And across North America, from sea to shining sea, there’s no anime convention as vast as Anime Expo, the longest-surviving …Read more »
This coming weekend marks a very special event coming from the folks at Crunchyroll. It is, for those of you just joining the festivities, the "Third Annual Global Shinkai Day." So what does that mean? It means from March 11-13 Crunchyroll will be streaming three …Read more »
Crunchyroll CEO, Kun Gao, appeared as a guest on the latest ANNCast, where he made an announcement regarding his company's latest endeavor: DVDs. Primarily known for streaming, Crunchyroll is branching out with their first DVD release, 5 Centimeters Per Second , the 2007 film by …Read more »
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