Starting in December, Morinaga Milk products got a touch of anime in Japan with some help from Weathering With You animation director Atsushi Tamura. Tamura’s animation direction has been working in tandem with direction from Yuuya Fukuda and animation production by Noovo to create an …Read more »
Weathering With You, the mega-hit from Makoto Shinkai, will be broadcast on terrestrial Japanese TV for the first time January 3. Shinkai has created a special epilogue specifically for the broadcast that reflects on the hard year 2020 has been for everyone. The one-minute clip …Read more »
When you think of the last decade of modern anime films, which features strike you as the most impressive? Japanese survey site Rankingoo aimed to find the answer by polling 10,314 people between the age of teenagers and 60-year-olds, with the only major stipulation being …Read more »
If you’ve ever experienced rain and thought, “Rain, rain, go away, come again another day,” then you’ll understand what makes 18-year-old Hina so special. She can pray to the sky and make the rain stop. She’s called The Sunshine Girl. There’s been a ton of …Read more »
If you saw and loved Makoto Shinkai’s Weathering With You anime film, there’s a chance you also loved the scooter Natsumi puttered around in throughout the feature. Well, thanks to a partnership between the Weathering with You production committee and Honda, a limited range of …Read more »
Like many businesses, cinemas have been hit hard during the COVID-19 pandemic. In Japan, with the recent lifting of the State of Emergency, entertainment businesses are finally coming back to life along with the second stage of the country’s economic reopening. Among them is the …Read more »
Hey, we all make the occasional mistake. Those who have seen Makoto Shinkai’s Weathering With You know it’s a stunning visual experience. But on the occasion of the film’s home video release in Japan, the director has revealed one big “oops” that made it into …Read more »
This week saw the Japanese government cancel the State of Emergency early in 39 prefectures throughout Japan, with the exception of Tokyo Capital Region, Osaka, Hyogo, Kyoto, and Hokkaido. Just prior to that, select movie theaters in 11 prefectures announced plans to reopen, and there …Read more »
The 4K UHD collector’s edition Blu-ray of Makoto Shinkai’s Weathering With You anime film is due out in Japan on May 27, and it’s bringing 11 hours of documentary footage along with it. Some of that footage is on display in a new promo for …Read more »
GKIDS has another hit on its hands with the North American release of Makoto Shinkai’s Weathering With You. According to the numbers from Box Office Mojo, Shinkai’s latest made $3 million in just the first two days of fan screenings, and the feature is estimated …Read more »
Tickets are now on sale for the January 15 and 16 fan event screenings of Makoto Shinkai’s Weathering With You, which made a major splash in Japan and became the country’s highest grossing film of 2019. Yesterday we posted about the movie’s English dub cast …Read more »
It’s raining voice actors! Weathering With You, Makoto Shinkai’s hit follow-up to Your Name, is (finally!) hitting American theaters this month. Now we know who’s set to appear in the film’s English-language dub. The cast looks a little somethin’ like this: Brandon Engman as Hodaka …Read more »
Just like the song says, George Michael wants YOUR sex. Gundam creator Yoshiyuki Tomino, on the other hand, wants absolutely any sex at all in a Makoto Shinkai film, which he says are lacking in physical intimacy. Tomino recently spoke with Japan’s Weekly Playboy magazine while promoting the upcoming …Read more »
When are we going to stop writing about the amazing box office returns of Makoto Shinkai’s Weathering With You? Well, when they stop being amazing, that’s when. Here are the latest numbers on Shinkai’s mega-hit: It’s now sold over 10 million tickets and made over 13 …Read more »
Makoto Shinkai’s Weathering With You anime film has been running in Japan for 10 weeks now, and its only big shakeup this week was that it dropped down from third to fourth place. Pulling in another 150 million yen put its grand total at around 13 billion …Read more »
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