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With the help of Adult Swim's Jason DeMarco, Paste Magazine presents the 100 best anime movies of all time.

Director Makoto Shinkai reached worldwide recognition with his film your name., one of the biggest box office successes in Japans history. With his new movie Suzume on the horizon, Nick and Nicky discuss the directors thematic fixations.

On the occasion of Shinkai's 50th birthday, we take a look at the aesthetic evolution of one of Japan's greatest filmmakers.

Renowned anime director Makoto Shinkais first feature film in three years follows in the footsteps of his previous two hit films to portray the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami. 

Shinkai Makoto, director of Your Name, is back with yet another breathtakingly beautiful anime film. How does Suzume stack up?

About 11.5 billion years ago, a distant star roughly 530 times larger than our sun died in a cataclysmic explosion that blew its outer layers of gas into the surrounding cosmos, a supernova documented by astronomers in blow-by-blow detail. Researchers on Wednesday said NASA's Hubble Space Telescope managed to capture three separate images spanning a period of eight days starting just hours after the detonation - an achievement even more noteworthy considering how long ago and far away it o...

Kamiki plays Sōtas friend Tomoya Serizawa // The official website for Suzume (Suzume no Tojimari or literally, Suzumes Door-Locking), Makoto Shinkais first...

Film has completed production, will open in Japan on November 11

Film opens on November 11 // Makoto Shinkai revealed on Twitter on Saturday that Suzume (Suzume no Tojimari or literally, Suzumes Door-Locking), his first...

Eri Fukatsu, Matsumoto Hakuō II, Shōta Sometani, Sairi Itō, Kotone Hanase, Kana Hanazawa join cast