The Staff

From working alone on "Voices of a Distant Star", Shinkai's team of artists and staff members has been growing in number since his second commercially available movie, "The Place Promised in Our Early Days". Up until summer 2009, they had all been working in his apartment to the point where he worried if the rooms could cope with the power demand from all the PCs and electrical equipment but he now has his own studio.

The official site can this movie can be found at http://5cm.yahoo.co.jp/ and staff members is as follows...

Members who were also involved with "The Place Promised in Our Early Days"

Writer, Director, Original Creator
Makoto Shinkai

Character Designer, Animator
Takayo Nishimura

Line Producer
Kouichirou Itou

Artwork
Takumi Tanji
Akiko Majima
Akira Hirosawa
Tasuku Watanabe

Music
Tenmon

Artists who joined the team for this movie

Minako Shimada
Kaori Izumiya
Yoshitaka Takeuchi
Yumi Ishii

Voices

Takaki Tohno
Kenji Mizuhashi
David Matranga (ADV)
Johnny Yong Bosch (Bang Zoom!)

Young Akari Shinohara
Yoshimi Kondo
Hilary Haag (ADV)
Erika Weinstein (Bang Zoom!)

Kanae Sumida
Satomi Hanamura
Serena Varghese (ADV)
Kira Buckland (Bang Zoom!)

Adult Akari Shinohara
Ayaka Onoue
Hilary Haag (ADV)
Tara Platt (Bang Zoom!)