[Anime] Makoto Shinkai’s “Cross Road” Anime Ad Posted

Z-Kai, a Japanese correspondence education service released a television commercial for a new anime.

The “Cross Road” project, directed by anime director Makoto Shinkai (5 Centimeters Per Second, The Place Promised in Our Early Days) and character design by Masayoshi Tanaka (AnoHana, AnoMatsu, ToraDora!), debuted on television, Youtube and NicoNico in 120, 30 and 15-second versions on the same day.

The Youtube version contains English subtitles in the Closed Captions menu, and can be turned on.

15 Seconds version:

30 Seconds version:

120 Seconds version:

“I’m not alone anymore.”

Plot

“The story of “Cross Road” centers on high school students Miho (Ayane Sakura) and Shouta (Kensho Ono) as they prepare for tests. Miho comes from an island without even one cram school, while Shouta lives in Tokyo and works a part-time job. Both are striving to pass tests so they can enter college. The pair enroll in Z-Kai’s correspondence education courses, and their lives cross before they realize it.” [ANN]

Staff: 

Storyboard, Director, Editor, Background: Makoto Shinkai

Animation Production: CoMix Wave Films

Character Design, Animation Director: Masayoshi Tanaka

Insert Song: Nagi Yanagi (Bakemonogatari, Nagi no Asukara)

Key Animator : Masayoshi Tanaka, Taisuke Iwasaki, Hiroshi Tomioka, Tomoyuki Shimoya, Yuu Yamashita, Ushio Tazawa, Koichi Hayashi, Miho Suzuki

With the amount of quality put into this anime, and Makoto Shinkai at the helm, I have a feeling that this anime will turn out to be quite a touching story.

Also, with no projected date announced, I recommend keeping a lookout for this.

Source: [Z-KAI][ANN]

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