![]() ![]() may have just been the right order of those individual elements at the right time, but that would ignore the film’s appeal to young Gen Z audiences. While his earlier films were certainly popular in Japan, they never took off elsewhere. Shinkai’s anime has always revolved around similar imagery, themes and characters. And from the thematic exploration of severed connection in 5 Centimeters per Second (2007) to the grotesquely beautiful realism of The Garden of Words (2013), Shinkai’s filmography had already done everything it had ever set forth to, realizing the earliest visions of a young animator’s single-handed passion projects. Shinkai’s filmography had come to be characterized by love stories and blue skies, but also by existential threats and apocalyptic events. rewrote records-and expectations-for anime around the world. Makoto Shinkai had already courted comparisons to legendary director Hayao Miyazaki when his 2016 film Your Name. ![]()
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