

In essence this release replicates the original ADV Shinkai twin-pack, albeit in HD, and if you’ve seen any of Makoto Shinkai’s work, you’ll know that his films deserve the high definition treatment. If you know the difficulty Manga Entertainment had just trying and failing to get 5 Centimeters Per Second out here on Blu-ray, you can see why the project was scaled back to just the twin-pack again. There was even some thought of some of Shinkai’s commercial work and other short films. The initial announcement was for the Shinkai twin-pack, bringing Voices of a Distant Star and The Place Promised in Our Early Days to Blu-ray, but things got quite ambitious thereafter, with thoughts of an Ultimate Shinkai release mooted, adding 5 Centimeters Per Second, Journey to Agartha, and following its release, Garden of Words as well. Introduction It’s finally here! One of All the Anime’s earliest licence announcements has made it to release, although it’s had quite the road to travel.
