Unlike the other Shinkai novels I’ve read, I had no familiarity with The Garden of Words. But according to Shinkai’s comments, the film is 46 minutes, and to cover everything written here would take 2 hours. That might explain why I spent the whole novel wondering how the heck was this a movie… Now, part […]
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