It’s been a full 10 years since director Makoto Shinkai released The Garden of Words anime film, preceding smash hits like Your Name., Weathering With You and Suzume. Now, with the anniversary on the minds of fans, a stage play adaptation is on the way …Read more »
Fans of Makoto Shinkai’s anime movie The Garden of Words ought to check out (or check into) the Hotel New Otani in Tokyo. Starting in June and lasting until July 21, the hotel is offering a Garden of Words theme. Your hotel room will be …Read more »
It is impossible to spoil The Garden of Words ; it’s a love story by Makoto Shinkai. Specifically, though, this movie tells the tale of Takao, a student and aspiring shoemaker whose rainy day truancy repeatedly makes him encounter an older woman (Yukino) who has …Read more »
Anime Anime, one of Japan’s top destinations for anime news and views (mostly news, really) just polled its readership and asked that age-old question: what’d ya like this year? To be more accurate, the question was “which anime film released in 2013 was the most …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 »
The Garden of Words , the next film from director Makoto Shinkai ( Children Who Chase Lost Voices , The Place Promised in Our Early Days ), looks pretty stunning. Its Japanese theatrical run kicks off on May 31, and earlier today Sentai Filmworks announced …Read more »
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