Comedy tries too hard, mostly failing. Autopilot plotting. Characters are too simply written initially but are fuller in the second half.

Fantasy coming-of-age drama set in a town that is stuck in time. Unfocused and under-developed. But looks very good. Worth viewing.

Despite being a time-loop story with a little clumsy structuring and cheesy montages, it is still a moderately enjoyable horror film.

Love story with parallel universes told in two films. Good production. Pacing is mostly good but a little clumsy at times. Worth viewing.

Shoujo romance about twins Chiki and Mami with their different mentalities towards relationships. Short, simple and relatively lighthearted.

A solid romance slice-of-life drama about living with regrets. Can use more dramatic tension but mostly avoids being too cheesy.

Red panda with her work and personal life problems. Vents by singing death metal. Relatable and amusing if you are into that type of humor.

Intriguing coming-of-age supernatural-fantasy mystery involving humans with telekinesis set in an idyllic village. Highly recommended.

Good but not great. Decent writing and performances. Nicely shot. Worth watching if one is interested in the genre.

Martian Time-Slip was first published as a novel in 1964, although it was published in serialized form in 1963. Although life is not easy...

Morishima Hodaka is a 16-year-old high school student who is running away from home. On the ferry making its way to Tokyo in a storm...

A fantasy and slice-of-life romantic-comedy about friendship, romance, the difficulties of adolescence, identity and destiny.

Although it is about friendship, it takes a more ambiguous approach compared to Shinkai’s previous works.

The Place Promised in Our Early Days is Shinkai’s first feature-length work that, like most of his later works, explores friendship.

Voices of a Distant Star is an OVA and one of Shinkai’s earlier works. Like most of his later works, it explores love and friendship.

Mostly enjoyable romantic dramady and very funny at times, but the plotting and pacing plateau in the second half of the series.

Anime, Manga and Light Novel review of Shinkai's 5 Centimeters per Second.

The Girl I Left Behind (私が棄てた女), first published in 1964, is one of the earlier novels of Endo Shusaku (遠藤 周作).