Makoto
Shinkai (pseudonym of Makoto Niitsu) is a Japanese director, animator and dubber born in the area of Nagano in 1973. He started very early to make animated films, both short films
and feature films. However, the success arrived only in 2016 with his most
famous film “Your Name”, considered a best seller of Japanese animation.
Nevertheless, today I'm not going to talk about his films but about
his novels. Actually, he isn’t a writer, or rather Shinkai doesn’t consider
himself a writer. What he wrote is practically the novelizations of his own screenplays, of four of them. Here they are in my top 4 list.
