Global Shinkai Day Movie Marathon part 1: Voices of a Distant Star (2002)
I’ve honestly never heard of Makoto Shinkai before the trailer for The Garden of Words came out, but the overall style and drama the trailer hinted at was enough to pique my interests. And whaddya know, a couple weeks later, crunchyroll just so happened to be streaming his better known movies for public visual consumption. How convenient. One of the first Japanese dramas I ever looked into in some form was Saikano: The Last Love Song on This Little Planet….