Shinkai's next project was 5 Centimeters per Second and premiered 3 March 2007.
It was critically acclaimed, winning many honors. Voices of a Distant Star was followed by the 90-minute The Place Promised in Our Early Days, which was released nationwide in Japan on November 20, 2004. In an interview, Shinkai noted that production took around seven months of "real work". In May 2001, he quit his job at Falcom and began to work on Voices. Some time later, he was contacted by Manga Zoo, who offered to work with him, giving him a grant to turn his idea into an anime they could sell. In June 2000, Shinkai was inspired to begin Voices of a Distant Star by drawing a picture of a girl in a cockpit grasping a cell phone. He traces his passion for creation to the manga, anime and novels he was exposed to in middle school.Īfter winning the grand prize at the 12th DoGA CG Animation contest (2000) with a short monochrome film, Shinkai began thinking about a follow-up while he worked for Falcom, a video game company.
A native of Nagano Prefecture, Shinkai studied Japanese literature at Chuo University, where he was a member of the juvenile literature club and drew picture books.
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