With the launch of an official site and key visual last December, the next Makoto Shinkai film had found its way into the schedule in Japan with Weather Child: Weathering With You. The feature is set for a July 19th, 2019 debut with worldwide distribution being planned for it and now the official site has revealed a little something about the manga side. These are usually very short projects overall and this one will appear in Afternoon magazine with the July 25th, 2019 installment. It’ll get the cover and a color page and is being produced by Watari Kubota. We’re not seeing any credits for Kubota anywhere, so this is marking their first formal published work.
Shinkai is writing and directing the film based at CoMix Wave Films with Atsushi Tamura serving as the animation director and Masayoshi Tanaka handling the character designs.
The cast includes Kotaro Daiko as Hodaka Morishima, Nana Mori as Hina Amano, Shun Oguri as Keisuke Suga, Tsubasa Honda as Natsumi, Chieko Baisho as Tomi, Sakura Kiryū as Nagisa Amano, Sei Hiraizumi as Yasui, and Yuuki Kaji as Takai.
GKIDS is planning for a limited run in the US to qualify for awards next year such as the Academy Awards and that means LA and NYC screenings at minimum. They’ll then set an early 2020 wider release with both Japanese and English dubbed screenings.
Check out the official site.
Plot Concept: The summer of his high school freshman year, Hokoda runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo, and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and personal limits. The weather is unusually gloomy and rainy every day, as if to suggest his future. He lives his days in isolation, but finally finds work as a writer for a mysterious occult magazine. Then one day, Hokoda meets Hina on a busy street corner. This bright and strongwilled girl possesses a strange and wonderful ability: the power to stop the rain and clear the sky…
[Source: ANN]
