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  • Bibliography:
    29 Books
  • First Book:
    June 2012
  • Latest Book:
    February 2025
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Book List in Order: 29 titles



  • Love can move at the speed of terminal velocity, but as award-winning director Makoto Shinkai reveals in his latest comic, it can only be shared and embraced by those who refuse to see it stop.

    Takaki Tohno quickly befriends Akari Shinohara wh...



  • On rainy mornings, Takao can never bring him-self to go to school -- instead, he spends that time at the beautiful Shinjuku Gyoen gardens and finds a brief reprieve from everything else in his life among the trees and flowers. And on one of those mor...



  • Can a poem save your life?Words are powerful. Insults and rumors can derail a career; a bit of encouragement can give someone the strength to pursue their dreams. When a high school boy skipping class to sketch shoe designs and a taciturn woman drink...



  • Mitsuha, a high school girl living in a small town in the mountains, has a dream that she's a boy living in Tokyo. Taki, a high school boy in Tokyo, dreams he's a girl living in a quaint little mountain town. Sharing bodies, relationships, and lives,...



  • A story of two people determined to hold on to one another. Mitsuha, a high school girl from a town deep in the mountains, dreams of an unfamiliar life in Tokyo. Taki, a high school boy from Tokyo, dreams that he is a girl living in the mountains. As...



  • For fans of Mieko Kawakami’s Breasts and Eggs and Murata Sayaka’s Earthlings, this Japanese bestseller from renowned anime director Makoto Shinkai features four inspirational and heartwarming vignettes following women and their cats in their ques...



  • During the events of your name., Mitsuha and Taki's miraculous encounter forever changed their lives and the fates of everyone in the tiny mountain village of Itomori. But their earth-shattering ordeal represents just one chapter in Itomori's history...



  • Mitsuha is a young girl living in a rural town named Itomori and is fed up with her life. One day, her family and friends notice she's suddenly acting strange. Little do they know, a high school boy from Tokyo named Taki Tachibana found himself rando...



  • The second installment of the manga adaptation of the film that took the world by storm!...






  • Award-winning director and author Makoto Shinkai offers a romantic sci-fi tale about young love and space adventure, based on his 2003 animated film.

    Mikako Nagamine is recruited as a pilot to fight in the interstellar war against a force of a...



  • The third installment of the manga adaptation of the film that took the world by storm! To save Mitsuha and all of Itomori from the comet Tiamat, Taki joins up with Saya-chin and Tesshi to evacuate the town. But Mitsuha's father is stubborn and re...



  • During the events of your name., Mitsuha and Taki's miraculous encounter forever changed their lives. But they weren't the only ones affected by their body swapping -- Mitsuha's friends and family have their own sides of the story to tell!...



  • During the events of your name., Mitsuha and Taki's miraculous encounter forever changed their lives. But they weren't the only ones affected by their body swapping -- Mitsuha's friends and family have their own sides of the story to tell!...



  • A contemporary classic, 5 Centimeters per Second won animator Makoto Shinkai international renown as a rare talent. Indeed, he just might be one of the most powerful bards of romantic longing and thwarted love working today in any medium. This offici...



  • Longing to escape his island home, a boy named Hodaka runs away during his first summer of high school to find a new life in Tokyo. As rain falls for days on end and Hodaka struggles to adjust, he meets a girl named Hina who holds a mysterious power:...



  • Mitsuha Miyamizu may be experiencing a mysterious bond with an unfamiliar Tokyo boy, but she's not the only member of her shrine-keeping family with transcendent connections. Her little sister, Yotsuha, finds herself getting a curiously closer look a...



  • “Your Name” Director Makoto Shinkai’s latest movie “WEATHERING WITH YOU” will get a complete manga version with beautiful art and delicate depictions by the up-and-coming artist Wataru Kubota!! During the summer of his first year in high sc...



  • "Your Name" Director Makoto Shinkai's latest movie "WEATHERING WITH YOU" will get a complete manga version with beautiful art and delicate depictions by the up-and-coming artist Wataru Kubota!!

    The summer of freshman year of high school. A boy...



  • In the Cold War era of an alternate history, the Soviet Union has taken control of the northern island of Japan and cut it off from the rest of the country. Just south across the strait, a boy named Hiroki is fascinated by the mysterious tower the So...






  • "Your Name" Director Makoto Shinkai's latest movie "WEATHERING WITH YOU" will get a complete manga version with beautiful art and delicate depictions by the up-and-coming artist Wataru Kubota!!

    The summer of freshman year of high school. A boy...



  • Hodaka has finally started to feel like he’s found his place in Tokyo with Hina and Nagi, but his sunny days won’t last forever.  The Sunshine Girl powers are beginning to take their toll on Hina, putting her in danger of disappearing into t...



  • 5 Centimeters per Second When Takaki meets Akari in elementary school, they are as thick as thieves. She always teaches him the important things, while he does his best to protect her. After they are separated in middle school, though, they have to f...



  • Come Rain or ShineThe skies have reclaimed the Weather Maiden, and Hodaka is on the run! All Hodaka cares about is saving the girl who took his world by storm, but is he willing to tempt the fates to bring sunshine back into his life?In Weathering Wi...



  • The skies have reclaimed the Weather Maiden, and Hodaka is on the run! All Hodaka cares about is saving the girl who took his world by storm, but is he willing to tempt the fates to bring sunshine back into his life? In Weathering With You, Makoto Sh...



  • Seventeen-year-old Suzume lives with her aunt in a quiet port town in Kyushu. One day, on her way to school, she runs into a young man searching for something and follows him to a ruin in the hills. But inside, all she finds is a single white door am...



  • Girl meets boy. Boy turns into...a chair?Based on the Golden Globes-nominated hit blockbuster, this story blends the best of fantasy, coming-of-age, and road trip stories while also exploring the aftermath of traumatic environmental disasters on both...



  • Girl meets boy. Boy turns into...a chair?Based on the Golden Globes-nominated hit blockbuster, this story blends the best of fantasy, coming-of-age, and road trip stories while also exploring the aftermath of traumatic environmental disasters on both...



  • Girl meets boy. Boy turns into...a chair?Based on the Golden Globes-nominated hit blockbuster, this story blends the best of fantasy, coming-of-age, and road trip stories while also exploring the aftermath of traumatic environmental disasters on both...



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    Mitsuha Miyamizu may be experiencing a mysterious bond with an unfamiliar Tokyo boy, but she’s not the only member of her shrine-keeping family with transcendent connections. Her little sister, Yotsuha, finds herself getting a curiously closer loo...





Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Makoto Shinkai has published 29 books.

The next book by Makoto Shinkai, Suzume 3, will be published in February 2025.

The first book by Makoto Shinkai, 5 Centimeters per Second, was published in June 2012.

No. Makoto Shinkai does not write books in series.