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New trailer for Makoto Shinkai’s Suzume no Tojimari fatures first spoken dialogue, adorable chair

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 15, 2022
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Melancholy, mystery, and…mobile sentient furniture?

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• (anime • Makoto Shinkai • movies • Suzume no Tojimari • video)

Jaw-dropping trailer released for Makoto Shinkai’s new anime movie, Suzume no Tojimari【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 11, 2022

Magical adventure road movie looks to a continuation of the story of the world of Your Name and Weathering with You.

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• (anime • Makoto Shinkai • movies • Suzume no Tojimari • video • Weathering with You • your name.)

Makoto Shinkai announces new anime movie Suzume no Tojimari

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 15, 2021

Director of Your Name, Weathering with You’s latest project is a supernatural road movie action adventure.

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• Japan
• (anime • Makoto Shinkai • movies • Suzume no Tojimari • Weathering with You • your name.)

Makoto Shinkai or Mamoru Hosoda, who makes the better anime movies?【Survey】

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 23, 2021

Poll asks respondents to pick between the directors of Your Name and Summer Wars.

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• Japan
• (anime • Makoto Shinkai • Mamoru Hosoda • movies • Summer Wars • survey • The Boy and the Beast • The Girl Who Leapt Through Time • Weathering with You • Wolf Children • your name.)

Relive an iconic scene from anime Weathering with You with Japan’s rentable Hina umbrellas

• Dale Roll
  Jan 1, 2021

Take Hina with you for all kinds of weather this weekend!

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• Japan
• (anime • clever • COK • cool • Makoto Shinkai • movies • rain • rental • Tenki no Ko • Tokyo • umbrella • umbrellas • Weathering with You)

Drive-in theater in Kanagawa to offer Makoto Shinkai movie showings, concerts, and more

• Dale Roll
  Dec 7, 2020

Looking for something socially distant to do? Look no further than Yokosuka!

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• Japan
• (anime • COK • coronavirus • drive-in • drive-in theater • entertainment • Evangelion • Kanagawa • Makoto Shinkai • Mamoru Hosoda • movies • Yokosuka)

AI GAN project from Wuhan students turns photos or videos into gorgeous cinematic anime visuals

• Katy Kelly
  Aug 13, 2020

The AI-network can change any landscape into a sun-bleached breezy anime backdrop while retaining key details.

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• China, Japan
• (AI network • anime • AnimeGAN • cool • filters • Hayao Miyazaki • Makoto Shinkai • photographs • photography • Satoshi Kon • technology)

Makoto Shinkai fixes “shocking” visual mistake for Weathering with You’s Blu-ray release

• Casey Baseel
  May 29, 2020

If you ever needed proof that the director of Your Name is a visual perfectionist, this is it.

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• Japan
• (anime • funny • Makoto Shinkai • movies • Tenki no Ko • Weathering with You)

New Weathering With You art book comes with free anime backgrounds for video conference calls

• Oona McGee
  May 21, 2020

Long-awaited collection of background art includes official merchandise for use in both the real and virtual worlds.

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• Japan
• (anime • backgrounds • beautiful • books • COK • Makoto Shinkai • merchandise • movies • video conference • Weathering with You)

Japan’s new “Behind the Mac” ad shows the times Apple products appeared in Japanese anime【Video】

• Oona McGee
  Mar 2, 2020

From Your Name to Mirai and Weathering With You, over a dozen anime star in this gorgeous 30-second commercial.

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• Japan
• (Airpods • anime • Apple • beautiful • commercials • computers • laptops • macbook • Makoto Shinkai • marketing • movies • Tenki no Ko • Weathering with You)

Gundam creator thinks Makoto Shinkai anime need more female crotch grabbing and/or horniness

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 2, 2019

”Shinkai-kun is still young, so that’s why he can make that sort of anime.”

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• (anime • Gundam • Makoto Shinkai • movies • Weathering with You • Yoshiyuki Tomino • your name.)

Train station ad skillfully invokes Makoto Shinkai to get through to the “smartphone generation”

• Master Blaster
  Oct 4, 2019

Equal parts anime nostalgia and reverse psychology make for an effective billboard.

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• (5 cm per Second • advertising • anime • Billboard • driving school • Fukuoka • Makoto Shinkai • Masayoshi Yamazaki • One More Time One More Chance)

Weathering with You anime cafe opening soon with beautiful Shinkai-inspired menu items【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 25, 2019

Your Name director Makoto Shinkai’s latest movie takes on gorgeous edible form in Tokyo and Osaka.

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• (anime • beautiful • COK • food • Makoto Shinkai • movies • restaurants • sweets • Tenki no Ko • themed restaurants • Weathering with You)

Weathering with You anime exhibition coming to Tokyo with special cafe menu items

• Oona McGee
  Sep 17, 2019

Treat yourself to the taste of a glorious rain-flecked Makoto Shinkai movie.

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• (anime • cafes • exhibitions • Makoto Shinkai • movies • Tenki no Ko • themed restaurants • Weathering with You • your name.)

Weathering with You is first anime submitted for Best International Film Oscar in over 20 years

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 27, 2019

Makoto Shinkai’s Your Name follow-up is only the second Japanese animated film ever to get the nod.

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• (Academy Awards • anime • Makoto Shinkai • movies • Oscars • Tenki no Ko • Weathering with You • your name.)

Japanese photographer moves people to tears with night sky photos that look like anime art

• Oona McGee
  Jul 31, 2019

Gorgeous images show us anime skies really can exist in real life.

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• (anime • Instagram • Makoto Shinkai • movies • nature • photography • twitter • your name.)

Do not adjust your monitor – The view from Japan’s Gono train line really is this beautiful【Pics】

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 29, 2019

Not a Shinkai or Miyazaki anime, nor a CG-created wonderland, this is one of Japan’s best train journeys.

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• Japan
• (Akita • Aomori • beautiful • Gono Line • Makoto Shinkai • spirited away • trains • travel)

The beautifully lonely building in Shinkai’s Weathering with You? It’s a real place in Tokyo

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 28, 2019

We’ve visited the real-world location for the pivotal scene in the anime event of the summer, but it’s about to disappear forever.

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• Japan
• (anime • Makoto Shinkai • movies • Tokyo • urban exploring • Weathering with You • Yoyogi)

There’s a Makoto Shinkai anime-inspired tea in Japan, and it’s beautiful like his films

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 25, 2019

We get a little emotional taste-testing the Weathering with You Ameiro Jelly Tea.

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• Japan
• (anime • beautiful • convenience stores • drinks • Lawson • Makoto Shinkai • taste test • tea • Weathering with You • your name.)

Drenched in passion – Makoto Shinkai’s Weathering with You is here, but is it good?【SoraReview】

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 24, 2019

Arguably the Shinkai-est anime yet, and perhaps the beginning of a connected Makoto Shinkai cinematic universe?

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• Japan
• (anime • Makoto Shinkai • movies • review • SNO • SoraReview • Tenki no Ko • Weathering with You • your name.)

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