The Place Promised in Our Early Days

Makoto Shinkai intended to draw the background art himself but with an estimated 1000 cuts needed this would have been impossible for Shinkai to do alone and the film's animation producer, Kiyonori Hiramatsu went to Tokyo Art University to scout for artists. Adding to complications, many of the students were recruited from oil painting classes and had no experience in creating digital backgrounds and many hadn't even used PCs before.

English subtitles spell prophecies (used as a noun) as prophesies (the verb).

There's a brief shot after the credits.

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