Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With 2016’s “Your Name,” Shinkai’s body-swapping anime breakthrough, he tapped into a special teen rite of passage/romance ...

"I didn't know there were so many people longing for the blue sky." GKids has just released a brand new, official US trailer (with English subtitles) for the Japanese animation film titled Weathering ...

Animation Is Film will be holding yet another festival this year, and anime fans will want to pay real close attention to the event. Not only will the three-day event welcome some of the greatest ...

Makoto Shinkai follows up his hit anime 'Your Name' with this meteorological meet-cute, in which a boy falls for a girl who can control the weather. In Texas, there’s a saying that goes, “If you don’t ...

"She really was the sunshine girl!" GKids Films has debuted a final full-length official trailer (with English subtitles) for the Japanese animation film titled Weathering With You, the highly ...

Makoto Shinkai’s “Weathering With You,” which tells the tale of a young boy who falls for a girl with the power to stop ceaseless rainstorms pounding Tokyo, marks the first time an anime has been ...

A runaway teenager falls for a mysterious ‘sun girl’ who has the power to stop the rain in Japan’s highest-grossing film of 2019 Makoto Shinkai, the Japanese anime director dubbed “the new Miyazaki” ...

The centerpiece of Makoto Shinkai’s Weathering with You is perpetual, unrelenting rainfall, beating down on the city of Tokyo. From an early sequence in which protagonist Hodaka is nearly swept from ...

Shinkai was treated like a rock star at last weekend's Animation Is Film Festival. He discussed his climate change romantic fantasy, which he compares to "Joker." With 2016’s “Your Name,” Shinkai’s ...