Makoto Shinkai Updates

Japanese publisher CoMiX Wave has established a new sub-company called CW Films specifically to distribute film productions. CW films has announced plans to release a DVD single for the Makoto Shinkai produced anime music video Egao (“Smiling Face”), a 2:20 music video for vocalist Iwasaki Hiromi’s theme song to the Japanese TV program Minna no Uta. The Egao DVD will include 3 versions of the Egao music video along with a “making of” segment and staff interviews. The DVD single will go on sale in Japan July 2nd and retail for 1500 yen.

CW Films has also announced that Makoto Shinkai’s second OAV, “Kumo no Mukou, Yakusoku no Bassho,” will be released (possibly theatrically) this winter. While Makoto Shinkai’s homepage translates the English language title as “The Place Promised in Our Early Days,” CW Films uses the English title “Standing by the Place that was Promised.”

Source: Natsume Goushin Ryu Dojo