Japan's Makoto Shinkai - the independent animator behind Voices Of A Distant Star, The Place Promised In Our Early Days and 5 Centimeters Per Second - is a great favorite in these parts, his worked marked by a delicate sort of realism that gives his scifi tinged stories a good bit of emotional oomph. Shinkai has been quiet for a little while now but he's starting to make a bit of noise about his next project, as as-yet untitled affair that he promises to push his regular themes out to their natural extremes. After a string of short-features and an anthology project he also promises that this will be a proper feature length project. Beyond that he's not yet saying anything substantial about the plot but, as a gift to fans, he has released a pair of concept drawings from the project. You can find them here.
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