Kimi no na wa / Your Name

Your Rope thread

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First China, now Thailand. Even Star Wars can't stop it.

Why haven't you seen this movie in the cinemas yet Sup Forums?

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>Your Rope
What

Nawa = rope

>your rope

xd my good sir

bbc.com/culture/story/20161215-the-10-best-films-of-2016

I'm glad it showed up at least.

Gonna post some interviews with Shinkai
>INTERVIEWER
From early on you’ve attracted international press attention as the “next Miyazaki Hayao.”

>SHINKAI
My debut was back in 2002, when Voices of a Distant Star was screened at the Tollywood mini-theater in Tokyo’s Shimokitazawa district. It was just a short, self-produced 25-minute movie, but it was issued on DVD and sold overseas as well. I think the first time I was actually invited to speak abroad was at Comicon in San Diego. Since then I’ve been invited to events in various countries every time I release a new work. I’ve been called “the new Miyazaki” or “Japan’s next-generation anime creator” overseas for the last decade, but I think that’s mostly because people in other countries think of Japanese animation as being just Miyazaki–san and then everybody else.

And one more thing. The Miyazaki works that people know abroad and my own works are very different in style. I depict the local world of Japan. My backgrounds are full of Japanese traffic lights, Japanese vending machines, commuter train lines like the Saikyō Line, everyday buildings around Tokyo. I think it’s because my “touch” is so different from the worldview and imagery you see in Studio Ghibli works that I’ve been lucky enough to register as a “next-generation” director.

Even today, though, I think I’m still perceived overseas as something of a cult figure that people who are into niche or relatively unknown works can enjoy. So for instance, even if Your Name is a hit overseas and pushes up my audience figures, the core essence of my work is not going to change. That’s why I personally don’t think my works are going to reach a different kind of audience in the future than they have already.

>INTERVIEWER
Are you always consciously trying to create something “local”?

>SHINKAI
I can’t draw anything with a sense of reality if it doesn’t come from a place I’m connected to with my own two feet. I can show Tokyo, this city that’s the stage for my own daily life, in a way that is just slightly different from the Tokyo that the 30 million people living in the greater Tokyo metropolitan area know themselves. Or to take another example, the little mountain town in Your Name where Mitsuha (the heroine) has grown up is fictional, but I can imbue it with the reality of the landscapes of Koumi in Nagano Prefecture, the town where I grew up.

I was born and raised in a place 1,000 meters above sea level. It’s surrounded by towering mountains like Yatsugatake, the winds are strong, and the skies are wonderfully expressive. The Nobeyama Radio Observatory is close by, and the stars are gorgeous. Since there was nothing else to look at in the countryside where I grew up, I used to spend an hour or two almost every day just looking at the sky and trying to capture it in watercolor. So the skies in my movies have been shaped by those in the mountain country of Shinshū.

I'm glad he's sticking with local imagery of Japan. The art of Tokyo in Your Name was absolutely stunning.

>INTERVIEWER
What kind of anime influenced you when you were a boy?

>SHINKAI
Since we lived in the country, when I was a child we could only pick up three TV channels, the NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) general channel, the NHK educational channel, and one commercial station. I watched Sekai Meisaku Gekijō (World Masterpiece Theater) [a 1960s anime series both Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli director Takahata Isao worked on early in their careers] and NHK shows like Nirusu no fushigi na tabi (The Wonderful Adventures of Nils) and Miyazaki’s Mirai shōnen Konan (Future Boy Conan). When I was in high school I really loved director Anno Hideaki’s Fushigi no umi no Nadia (Nadia: the Secret of Blue Water). I’d say Nadia influenced me a lot.

But the movie that affected me the most was Miyazaki’s Tenkū no Shiro Rapyuta (Castle in the Sky). Back when I was in my first or second year of junior high school, Castle in the Sky was the first movie for which I traveled more than two hours on the train to Ueda and paid with my own money to see at the theater. I was entranced. I was amazed that there could be anything in the world as interesting as that movie.

Seriously, I don't know about other countries but in Thailand, the good chunk of that grossing came from rewatching. I don't know why but even now we only have one cinema that screen this movie with only one timeslot, those people (me included) still keep watching it. And this cinema has decided to extend the screening period for two times already.

>INTERVIEWER
You studied Japanese literature in Tokyo at Chūō University, and your first job was with a video game company. At what point did you decide to become an anime director?

>SHINKAI
Throughout my student life I kept on searching for something that I wanted to do in the future, but nothing came up, and I was starting to get antsy. I took the employment exams at several companies, just groping around, and in the end I joined Nihon Falcom. Ever since I was little I’d liked to draw pictures, think up stories, things like that. It seemed like video games was creative work, and I thought that could be interesting.

While I was working at Falcom I was drawn more and more to actually making up my own stories, and creating the video imagery myself. After five years I quit and produced Voices of a Distant Star on my own. It was incredibly fun and some people watched it, so I thought to myself, “maybe I can make a living doing this.”

Yet even after I’d made my next movie, the feature-length The Place Promised to Us in Our Early Days, and even after the shorter 5 Centimeters Per Second, I still wasn’t fully convinced that directing anime was the work I was most suited for. It was around that time that I was contacted by the Japan Foundation about taking part in a workshop in the Middle East on digital animation production, so I accepted. And then I figured, well, if I’m going to the Middle East I might as well try living overseas for a bit, so after the workshop was over I enrolled in a language school in London. I’d only intended to spend half a year there, but it turned into a year and a half.

Fucking hell. Is this real? i can't believe i'm alive to witness this

>INTERVIEWER
Was that first experience living abroad a turning point?

>SHINKAI
While I was in London I met lots of people who knew my movies. There were people who knew them at the school itself, and there were other times when people would just start talking to me about them in coffee shops. One time when I went to the barbershop, the barber himself said, “I know you!” and told me he’d bought DVDs of my anime. Everyone told me how much they liked my work. I’d been to get-togethers for fans at film festivals before then, but this was the first time I really learned first hand that there were people out there who were just watching my movies as they went about their daily lives.

But at the same time, I was also feeling, “here I am, I’m 35 years old, I’m not a Londoner, I don’t have any work, I’m not married, I’m nobody.” I was incredibly free, but at the same time I had this uneasy feeling that there was nothing under my feet. It was in the midst of this state of mind, feeling that I just had to grab on to something, anything, that the first contours of the feeling that I wanted to write stories began to solidify. So while I was still living in London I started writing the screenplay for my next movie, and when I finished it I came back home. That was the screenplay for Children Who Chase Lost Voices. I think that that was the point when I clearly decided that I would make my living as an anime director.

>Fucking hell. Is this real? i can't believe i'm alive to witness this
my exact thoughts when i saw your digits

If the post says Kimi no na wa will win the oscars, then the meme magic might be real.

>here I am, I’m 35 years old, I’m not a Londoner, I don’t have any work, I’m not married, I’m nobody
Fucking wizard.

>watch it
>its shit

Ok then.

>“here I am, I’m 35 years old, I’m not a Londoner, I don’t have any work, I’m not married, I’m nobody.”
This guy had a hard life, but he still writes stories for us to watch ;_;

Psst, your contrarian is showing.

Now his life is completed, married (even tho she isn't a beauty), 1 daughter, successful in his career.

don't begrudge him that

Man, I got Shinkai'd a lot of times in the cinema.

When Taki discovered Mitsuha died 3 years ago
When Taki's phone full of Mitsuha's diary and notes starts to fade away and disappear.
When Mitsuha met Taki on the train and Taki didn't notice him.
When Mitsuha disappeared when she was about to write her name on Taki's hand
When Taki tried to write Mitsuha's name on his hand but he couldn't because he forgot already.
When Mitsuha forgot Taki's name, stumbled on the ground, saw her hand, and it said "I love you" instead of Taki's name.
When both of them passed by each other on the foot bridge.
When both of them saw each other on different trains, then a another train fucking ruined it.
Fucking Cherry Blossoms and Trains at the end scene reminding again of that 5cm ending.
When they passed each other at the stairs (I almost said "fuck you shinkai" out loud in the cinema but contained myself)

In the end, it was all worth it. Fuck you Shinkai for making me tear up for the first time on one of your movies.

No, I'm happy with him. He teach me a lesson that you don't need to rush getting someone to married with. Just believe in musubi.

Im fine with that. I was just sharing my opinion. It was a mess with plotholes jokes that werent funny and animation was nothing special. Pretty backgrounds, thats it.

Thanks for opinion.

You are welcome. I leave you to your circlejerk now.

>he wrote his worst film in London
>after he got back to Japan he made his masterpiece

Really makes you think

>animation was nothing special
It's no Ghibli movie, but surely you would've noticed the movie had some good character animation?

>INTERVIEWER
Your Name puts more emphasis on entertainment than your previous works. Was it a very different production environment from what you were used to?

>SHINKAI
I produced my debut work, Voices of a Distant Star, entirely on my own. For all my other works since that, I’d been working in my own studio with my own small staff. With Your Name, however, more people were involved than ever before, and some had plenty of star power of their own. It was my first experience working with, for instance, a popular band like Radwimps, in a way that was very close to being a collaboration.

Our team of animators was also first class. I think any fan of Japanese anime will be stunned when they see the credits. Our character designer, Tanaka Masayoshi, works mainly in TV anime, and has a solid fan base of his own. Our animation director, Andō Masashi, is one of the great figures in the anime world. At Studio Ghibli he was supervising animator for both Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away. Other people with different roots were good enough to join in as well, people from animation companies like Production I.G. and Shaft.

ah sorry, i'm used to spite and pessimism here.

i feel the same way.

Guess Mitsuha's perspective of country life was closer to his perspective than Taki's. And here I thought Taki was his mouthpiece about people from the country.

The quint magic is real

children who chase lost voices is great

>animation was nothing special.
>Animation director, Andō Masashi that worked on Your name, is one of the great figures in the anime world. At Studio Ghibli he was supervising animator for both Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away

You had me rolling there but you were dumb enough to not do your own research.

>my post got quads

It's all thanks to Yayaka and meme magic!

I dont care about whoever that guy is, the animation was people walking and talking, it was not interesting, this could and probably should have been a live action movie

There are no cinemas showing it here, I don't even think there are any showings of it in all of Norway.

Not him but
>thread about news of a movie
>circlejerk

>INTERVIEWER
One thing all of your works have in common, from the very first up through Your Name, is the way in which—at the same time that they’re depicting the painful longings and separation between people—they are imbued with an almost cosmic breadth.

>SHINKAI
The nature of relationships between individuals, the relationship of feelings, was the single biggest theme of my adolescence. Why do we fall in love with someone? Why doesn’t that person we love love us back? They were these totally commonplace concerns, but to my adolescent self they were a vast mystery, like the mystery of the very cosmos itself.

Even today, when I’m married and have a child of my own, there are still moments when I suddenly feel that same bewilderment I felt when I was an adolescent. I think that this distance, this gap between people’s feelings, is something I will keep on depicting as one of my themes in the future.

And one more thing. Back in my youth I used to muse about why I was born, and what was the one role that only I could play. I wanted to feel that my own life was not just emptiness, that—even if it was only for an instant in the great current of time—my life was connected to a greater destiny. I don’t believe in any specific religion, but that feeling may be a sensation close to believing in a god. So given all that, I do have a desire to write stories that can bind together that tiny scale of one individual’s feelings and the vast scale of the cosmos and the stars.

>the animation was people walking and talking, it was not interesting,
>the animation is bad because it's not interesting.
Flawless logic you got there. Go back to your Naruto, One Piece, Bleach and Jojo.

>good character animation is not interesting
kys my man

Finally watched it today.
It's nice, but I'll put it below Kotonoha no Niwa.
This is actually my first time watching anime on big screens and I feel kinda disappointed that the color are kinda washed out or not as sharp as I used to watch on my toaster. Is it because I already used to watch BD release with their color sharpened?

>WHERE'S THE AKSHUN AND THE FIGHTAN
Sup Forums is an 18+ site, kid

This bait is 3/10 Sup Forums, what are you doing

The Blurays will always look better than the cinema release. No need to be disappointed since you watched the inferior version of the movie.

But the experience of watching it first time in the cinemas will always be better.

Complete Timeline

Doujins when?

Nice work Sup Forumsnon, but you forgot to put the scene where Mitsuha went to see Taki in Tokyo.

Friendly reminder that by the end, for all intents and purposes, Mitsuha is a cake creep chasing after a kid fresh out of college

The Taki that she remembers was the same age as her though not the younger version.

Come on, the age gap isn't that big.

Travel to London and watch it there. Some German Sup Forumsnon already did it.

Oh right, I should put it in for completion. I'll wait for some more feedback (if there is one).

Its dead in the Philippines

>INTERVIEWER
You’ve also written some novels. Do you want to put your energy into writing more fiction in the future?

>SHINKAI
At this point in time I’m just writing novelizations of my own movies, and I’ve never once thought that I have any intrinsic value as a novelist. I think people have been good enough to read my books just because I made the anime. But I do like to read and write fiction. In fact, I spend more time reading fiction than I do watching films or anime. So I do want to someday write a novel for its own sake. But I also have a stronger feeling that I have to create works that my audience truly wants. Maybe what I am needed for, right here and now, really is animation after all.

>Source:(Originally published in Japanese on December 5, 2016. Interview and text by Itakura Kimie and Katō Megumi of Nippon.com.)

Well, since this a Makoto Shinkai anime, I was expecting the same glorious pink cherry blossom I've seen from 5 cm/s and those nice visuals of Tokyo from Kotonoha no Niwa.

Also, is there any cat in the movie? All I remember is that doge that following Tessie.

MODS

A friend told me the cinema in megamall was half-filled this afternoon. Rip meme magic.

Is this ever getting a wide(r) release in the U.S.?

Yeah, Funi said they are planning a wider release next year.

A lot of idiots were proud they watched it in kissanime.

Source: FB

>Why haven't you seen this movie in the cinemas yet Sup Forums?
Because POLAND STRONK AND DON'T NEED CHINESE GAY CARTOONS

Also one of our potato eaters drawn all backgrounds for it so it must suck

>Why haven't you seen this movie in the cinemas yet Sup Forums?
Because it's doesn't ir in my 3rd world country

There's no way this is better than KnK.

Which one?

Kyoani poorly handle the story and characters. I'd better stay with manga.

Okay then, TL ver.1.1

because it's not screened here
FUCKING KILL ME

Kyoani fucked up the adaptation. If you read the manga better stay away from it. The only good thing about it is the sound track.

>Why haven't you seen this movie in the cinemas yet Sup Forums?
Because this shitty country still thinks animation is for little children and only pixar/disney crap gets screenings. I managed not to watch the shitty 480p torrent but I don't know how long I'll last.

Is this the first time Shinkai made a film with a good ending?

Yeah, after watching all the bad ends of Shinkai movies. This is probably the one that was send by the gods through musubi and heals my broken heart.

this

Maybe if I win the lottery in the next days

tfw people actually believe the streaming sites have the HD version

user, they only asked for each other's name without a single memory of the time they spent together. They could very fell decide to split when one thinks the other's breath stinks.

post yfw YN-009

So the teacher is from garden of words right?

AAAAAAAAAA THIS FUCKING MOVIE IS SELLING LIKE HOTCAKES AND GETTING GOOD REVIEWS BUT IT PROBABLY WILL NEVER BE RELEASED IN MY COUNTRY
FUCK LIVING A THIRLD WORLD SHITHOLE

Yeah, it's also the same VA which is HanaKana.

Maybe it's not exactly her but yeah.

>Why haven't you seen this movie in the cinemas yet Sup Forums?

Because I'm not a mindless young adult sheep who watches things because of hype and that prevailing social attitudes suggest one must do so.

Wait a second, lemme go fetch my fedora so I can tip it to you

>baby shinkai

Gateway had even less. I just watched it earlier

>watching anime in theater for the first time
>scene with Mitsuha's tits and pantsu
>hand automatically gravitates towards crotch
>remember i'm not alone
>try to play it cool by doing some arm stretches

>forced tearjerker bait made with less time and passion
>better

no space patrol no cry

People keep saying it's her but we don't know for sure.

Has any movie ever filled cinemas here for more than the first few days? I'm just happy it got shown here at all.

Careful with that edge son.

>Why haven't you seen this movie in the cinemas yet Sup Forums?
Every time I go on the catalog I get reminded that this is only going to screen as a dub after waiting a year for it.
Fucking hanging myself with this rope.

>Why haven't you seen this movie in the cinemas yet Sup Forums?

Because I'm in America and no theaters except for LA fucking show it

Maybe it's worth the trip.

Fuck it. I'll dump some semi-official art here.
Started with this one, Album Jacket for Kamishiraishi Mone (Mitsuha VA), debut mini album 'Choucho'.
Draw by Tanaka Masayoshi, Original character design.

Tanaka again, this picture was used as a lockscreen for Shinkai's Iphone.

Is this on nyaa? I like her cover of Nandemonaiya, she has a nice voice.

I don't know, but yeah she has a nice foundation, and a room to improve.
This is from an animator staff to celebrate big hit.

Possibly the only way I would feel comfortable having an anime wallpaper on my phone would if I was an anime director.