But in the meantime, CoMix Wave Films, the animation studio which produced the visuals for Your Name (as well as every other Shinkai theatrical feature) has created and released a short anime showing a pair of young Japanese lovers journeying through the beautiful natural and urban scenery…of Canada!
But in the meantime, if Tokyo-based CoMix Wave Films wants to keep rendering other parts of the world in anime form, that’s just fine with us.
With Your Name having been released in 2016, odds are it’ll be two years or so until Shinkai’s next anime hits theaters.
Follow Casey on Twitter, where he hopes southern California gets the CoMix Wave Films treatment one day.