In celebration of the long-awaited release of Your Name on home video, the director has made public the animated storyboards for the film’s opening sequence.
The artistic style of Makoto Shinkai, director of hit anime Your Name, is inarguably polished, and by multiple definitions of the word.
In addition to directing Your Name, Shinkai also wrote its script and drew its storyboards, including the illustrations seen in the video, which explains why so much of it is retained in the theatrical release.
There’s something almost surreal about seeing Your Name’s Taki and Mitsuha, as well as their world, rendered in abstract pencil strokes.