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新海誠  |  Makoto Shinkai

Legal name:  新海誠

Transliterated name:  Shinkai, Makoto

Birth place:  Koumi, Nagano Prefecture, Japan

Birth date:  9 February 1973

Language:  Japanese

Bibliographic comments:  

Biographic comments:  Pseudonym of Makoto Niitsu.

Novels

The Place Promised in Our Early Days

with Arata Kanoh

2005

<  November 2020, 1st English language edition

Yen On

ISBN 978-1-975318-69-7

Hardcover, 192 pages

$20.00

Notes:

  •  Translated by Taylor Engel.

Collections

She and Her Cat

with Naruki Nagakawa

2013

<  First English language edition, October 2022

Doubleday

ISBN 978-0-8575-2822-3

Hardcover, 154 pages

£10.00

Notes:

  •  Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori.

  •  Stories by Nagakawa, based on the anime by Shinkai.

>   Library edition

Fiction: Sea of Words  //  First Blossoming  //  Slumber and Sky  //  The Temperature of the World  //  Epilogue

Voices of a Distant Star: Words of Love / Across the Stars

with Arata Kanoh

2006

<  First English language edition, July 2019

Vertical

ISBN 978-1-975318-69-7

Trade paperback, 190 pages

$14.95

Notes:

  •  Translated by Michelle Lin and Yota Otukani.

>   Library edition

your name.

2016

<  May 2017, 1st English language edition

Yen On

ISBN 978-0-316-47186-2

Hardcover, 192 pages

$20.00

Notes:

  •  'Your Name' series #1.

  •  Translated by Taylor Engel.

your name. Another Side: Earthbound

with Arata Kanoh

2016

<  November 2017, 1st English language edition

Yen On

ISBN 978-0-3164-7311-8

Hardcover, 208 pages

$19.99

Notes:

  •  'Your Name' series #2.

  •  Translated by Taylor Engel.

Weathering with You

2019

<  December 2019, 1st English language edition

Yen On

ISBN 978-1-975399-36-8

Hardcover, 192 pages

$20.00

Notes:

  •  Unknown translator.

Omnibus editions

5 Centimeters per Second / Children Who Chase Lost Voices

with Asahi Akisaka

2021

< First English language edition, 27 April 2021

Yen On

ISBN 978-1-975315-69-6

Hardcover, 240 pages

$20.00

Notes:

  •  Omnibus edition of 5 Centimeters per Second (novelisation of Shinkai's 2007 non-genre anime) and Children Who

     Chase Lost Voices (novelisation of Shinkai's 2011 anime).

  •  Unknown translator.