5 Best Makoto Shinkai Anime Movies

5 Best Makoto Shinkai Anime Movies

Anime has been one of the most popular cultures in the world recently, which is also one of the movie genres that are watched the most. Hundreds of new anime are aired on TV and hit the screen in movies in Japan every year. For those who are wondering which anime to watch, I would like to introduce a much-talked-about new anime director Makoto Shinkai and his best anime here.

 

1. Your Name

Your Name (君の名は。), directed by Makoto Shinkai (新海誠), is one of the most recommended his anime as far as I’m concerned. Your Name delivers an emotional jolt to anime fans around the globe in a positive way in 2016.

Your name is one of the most successful movies in Japan of all time and also well known worldwide. The popular anime is the second highest-grossing Japanese film with about $250 million box-office revenue (No.1 is Spirited Away from Studio Ghibli). Your Name was also aired at the theater in over 120 countries and regions and had espeically explosive sales in China and South Korea.

2. 5 Centimeters per Second

5 Centimeters per Second (秒速5センチメートル) is looked on as one of the masterpieces of Makoto Shinkai early in his career. This anime movie, which was released in 2007, consists of three sections with the total runtime for about an hour : Cherry Blossom, Cosmonaut and 5 Centimeters per Second.

This anime represents the cruel but real “reality”. I really understand so well how they feels through the clear reality Makoto Shinkai presents.

3. Weathering with You

One of the best anime movies in 2019 is Weathering with You (天気の子), which some anime fans rate as better than Makoto Shinkai’s previous work Your Name. Weathering with You, the 7th anime movie of the director, earned more than the preceding anime at the domestic box office. It is being screened in about 140 countries and regions, which is also more than Your Name.

 

4. The Place Promised in Our Early Days

The Place Promised in Our Early Days (雲のむこう、約束の場所) is the second anime movie of Makoto Shinkai released in 2004, following his first work Voices of a Distant Star (ほしのこえ) in 2002. This is also known as the Makoto Shinkai’s first full-length anime made with his team members while the short-story Voices of a Distant Star was made almost by himself.

The plots of the latest anime by Makoto Shinkai such as Weathering with You and Your Name are based on his early works like The Place Promised in Our Early Days. Main characters scramble to realize their dreams sacrificing someone or the world in exchange for them.

5. The Garden of Words

Have you ever watched some anime movies directed by Makoto Shinkai in his early stage? The Garden of Words (言の葉の庭) is his 5th anime movie which was released in 2013.

The Garden of Words was aired on the theater screen overseas only in South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong, however, it is really recommended to watch if you haven’t watched Makoto Shinkai’s movie. Of course, you can access the anime on the streaming platforms all over the world now. You can easily experience what Makoto Shinkai’s anime is like in The Garden of Words: beautiful reality, the theme of the innocent “boy meets girl”. It takes just 45 mins to watch the mid-length film.

 

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