i have shin concerns not chin can sense
Shinkai concerns now before you dislike this video unsubscribe and tell me anime wasn't the
mistake i was hear me out Makoto Shinkai is one of my all-time favorite directors
and his work has given me goosebumps more times than the freezing Canadian winter
that being said i have serious concerns with his upcoming movie Suzume no Tojimari Makoto Shinkai
has often been referred to as the next Hayao Miyazaki but in my opinion they could not be
more different what sets Shinkai's anime so far from the rest isn't the world building or fantasy
setting it's the relationships that he crafts in such an intimate way that you almost feel a part
of them the setting and spectacle always takes a back seat to the connection between the characters
except for once in what in my opinion is the only bad Shinkai movie in his over 20 years
of directing children who chase lost voices in which a boy saves Asuna from a dangerous creature
and unknowingly drags her on a journey to a long-lost land bound to surpass her very
imagination and that right there is where i think this movie went wrong i don't want
Shinkai to surpass my very imagination i want him to ground me in reality through the feelings that
the characters share with each other whether or not there's time travel asteroids or even a flood
is almost inconsequential now let me read you the synopsis for his upcoming film a door of disaster
that opens all across the archipelago it is a road movie a modern adventure story and an action film
obviously that is a very brief way to describe a probably two hour long movie so it's still
entirely possible that we'll get the emotional intimate Shinkai style that we've come to love but
describing it as an action-adventure film really makes me nervous luckily Shinkai hasn't made a bad
movie in like 11 years but i guess he also hasn't made that many movies in that time so our odds are
good but not perfect weathering with you pushed the absolute limits of scale for a Shinkai film
and just barely skirted the line of being too big for its bridges and i think that might be
why despite how much i love this movie it's the Shinkai film that I've seen the fewest times
i was really hoping his next film would reign it back in a bit the way garden of words did
after children who chased lost voices i feel like that movie was a turning point for shinkai where
he took a step back and reevaluated what made voices of a distant star and five centimeters
per second so special after the world altering scale of weathering with you i was really hoping
we'd get a more personal story but from everything we've heard so far about this post-apocalyptic
road trip that doesn't seem like it's going to be the case in general post-apocalyptic just
isn't my favorite setting for anime or to live in for that matter but you could still tell a quaint
romantic story that just happened to be set in an apocalyptic world hell shinkai even managed to do
that in a story that spanned the entire universe in voices of a distant star but despite being set
uh here we never really left the inside of noburu and mikako's thoughts from start to
finish all we cared about was their relationship to each other here's what we know about susume
no tojimari so far the story follows 17 year old suzume who lives in a quiet town in kyushu after
meeting a young man they find a door among modern ruins on a mountain more doors start popping up
bringing disasters through them susume's journey begins as she travels around closing these doors
so yeah it's the anime adaptation of monster zing put that thing back where it came from so
help me and perhaps my biggest shin concern is the reason i watch his movies to begin with escapism
which might be surprising given that my entire youtube channel is based around anime realism
but hear me out the majority of his films are grounded in a photo accurate depiction of tokyo
but with some sort of fantasy twist but the characters and relationships themselves are
completely grounded in reality so it's a little odd to refer to his movies as escapism the way
you might with a miyazaki film which was clearly intended to sweep you away into a different world
altogether but for me and i imagine lots of other anime fans japan sort of is a magical other world
that represents something much deeper which might be the weebiest thing i've ever said
but hang on a minute i'm not delusional at least not entirely yes i know japan is a real place with
real problems like anywhere else but as someone who only gets to visit every couple years to me
it represents an escape from my mundane life as a canadian salaryman and watching anime that so
closely represents reality gives me a little taste of the place i love going so much with
an added layer of fantastical perfection so yes i seek out reality in anime but only in
the timeless sense the people places and feel of japan not japan as it is this very moment but
a fantastical idealized version of it which brings me to this quote by the shinkai man himself
i began writing the script around the same time that japan announced a state of emergency over
the pandemic which had a significant impact on the story the mood of the times is indelibly etched
into the script in the grand scheme of things most media is inherently a reflection of the current
state of the world but in this case it seems to be quite a bit more literal the events of the
past few years have had a profound impact on me in a way that nothing else ever really has and anime
has been one way to take my mind off of that which might not be something i'll be able to say about
susume no tojimari shinkai's movies are always about overcoming the distance between people
bridging the gap that separates all of us which can definitely still be the case in this upcoming
film it's just the language being used to describe it so far is making me far less excited to see it
than I'd otherwise be but who knows maybe it'll be exactly what i need and connect with me in a
way that none of his other films ever had before in fact shinkai said that he wants his next movie
to show everyone that no matter what happens will somehow manage to get by
if you'd like to hear me discuss exactly what makes shinkai one of my favorite directors to
begin with you can watch this video here thanks so much for watching and I'll see you next next time