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According to a report from Japanese publication Mainichi, Wakayama Prefectural Police in Japan arrested 52-year-old anime producer Kouichirou Itou for allegedly soliciting a 15-year-old high school girl living in Nagano for nude pictures of herself. Itou admitted to the charge. However, he claimed that he had "done it with other people, so [he ...
The Animangaki organizers have announced that Comix Wave Films, the studio that produces the animation for Makoto Shinkai animated movies such as Your Name and Weathering With You, will be attending Animangaki 2023. This is notable for being their first international convention appearance. According to the Facebook post, Anime fans rejoice! Comi...
Makoto Shinkai’s Suzume No Tojimari has received a new trailer, which shows the male character, Souta Munakata (Hokuto Matsumura) turning into a chair. Makoto Shinkai is directing the film and writing the screenplay, while Masayoshi Tanaka (Your Name, Weathering With You) is designing the characters. Kenichi Tsuchiya (Your Name, Garden Of Wo...
Makoto Shinkai's Suzume No Tojimari has received a new trailer, which features the theme song of the upcoming anime movie. The theme song is titled Suzume (Sparrow) and is sung by Nanoka Hara, who also voices the main protagonist of the movie, Suzume Iwato. Makoto Shinkai is directing the film and writing the screenplay, while Masayoshi Tanaka (...
Makoto Shinkai's next movie after 2019's Weathering With You has received its first teaser trailer. The working title for his new movie is Suzume No Tojimari (literally translated in English as Suzume's Door-Locking). The Suzume No Tojimari synopsis reads: On the other side of the door, was time in its entirety— 17-year-old Suzume's journey ...
Makoto Shinkai's Your Name is coming out on Netflix soon (on 1 September 2021), so now's the best time to grab some figures of the main characters from the acclaimed anime movie. The Good Smile Company has announced two of them, including: POP UP PARADE Your Name Taki Tachibana Complete Figure (LINK) POP UP PARADE Your Name Mitsuha Miyam...
Singapore will be launching the first phase of the new Thomson-East Coast Line (TEL) on 31 January 2020. Before that, the government will also be holding an open house on 11 January 2020 for the public to take their first official look at the new MRT line. For that purpose, acclaimed director Makoto Shinkai of Your Name and Weathering With You fam...
To many of his fans and critics, Makoto Shinkai delivered yet another animated masterpiece earlier this year with Weathering With You. Not even a year has gone by and it's already received a live-action adaptation. Okay, it looks good so far. Oh, wait a minute. Something seems suspicious here, folks. Yeah, it's actually porn. T...
Weathering with You - or Child of Weather in Japanese - is now out in Malaysia. It’s not just director Makoto Shinkai’s latest film, but also the first since his 2016 hit, Your Name, which brought him into the mainstream spotlight. Shinkai’s films are varied in length, but many feature an air of poignancy and nostalgia, with r...
A lot of people adored Makoto Shinkai's latest animated movie, Weathering With You. Unfortunately, I'm not one of them. My review has since received flak and attacks from Shinkai fans and weeaboos who apparently think that Weathering With You is the greatest anime masterpiece since 2016's Your Name and that it's a crime for anyone not to like th...
For the record, I haven't watched Your Name, nor any of Makoto Shinkai's previous works. I went into Weathering With You as a Shinkai virgin and a casual anime fan (whose all-time faves include Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood and Fate/Zero). I was hoping to be wowed by what is regarded as one of the most highly-anticipated animated movies of 2019. ...
Makoto Shinkai is back with another romantic fantasy anime film and it looks like it'll be another hit. Weathering With You managed to sell more than 1 million tickets just within the first three days of its opening weekend in Japan. According to Anime News Network, Weathering With You had a more successful opening weekend compared to Makoto's pre...
Makoto Shinkai directed one of the best films of 2016, Your Name. The anime had a strong release and it was the highest-grossing anime film of all time worldwide, with a box office of $358 million (RM1.46 billion). With a strong rating of 8.4 on IMDb and 9.1 on MyAnimeList.net, it's surely an anime one cannot miss. This summer, he's back with a...
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