By Shelley Pallis. Children Who Chase Lost Voices from Deep Below, also know as Journey to Agartha, was a landmark moment in the career of anime director Makoto Shinkai, his second chance at big-budget feature directing, six years after the relatively poor performance of his first full-length feature, The Place Promised in Our Early Days. […]
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