Kakomareta Sekai (lost Makoto Shinkai 3DCG animated short; 1998)

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Kakomareta Sekai (Japanese: 「囲まれた世界」, English: The World be Enclosed) is a 30 second long 3DCG animation done by Makoto Shinkai (the creator of Your Name; the third highest-grossing anime film of all time) using Lightwave 3D that was originally viewable at Shinkai’s website in 1998 becoming his first work in his entire career, but was taken down due to bandwidth issues and that Shinkai only intended to use it as a program practice for his next works.

History

Kakomareta Sekai it is inspired by Japanese novelist Murakami Haruki's book 'Sekai no Owari to Hādo-Boirudo Wandārando' (English title: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World). The music was done by Tenmon, who's also responsible for the music in Shinkai's 'Kanojo to Kanojo no Neko', 'Hoshi no Koe', and 'Kumo no Mukou, Yakusoku no Basho'.

Status

The job search has been in effect since the beginning of the 2000s by numerous fans, being the first registrations in anime forums and Reddit.[1]

On February 13, 2021, the user ErickAnime uploaded a video with a series of screenshots of the actual short that was at the archive Makoto Shinkai website on a Wikipedia link at the References part.[2][3]

On June 12, 2021, there was a screenshot proving the audio quality of the content.

On July 12, 2021, the Tenmon Blog was found and a comment regarding the music that he used.[4]

Gallery

References

  1. Anime Forum regarding the short Retrieved 01 December '21
  2. YouTube video with the screenshots Retrieved 01 December '21
  3. Shinkai's blog entry of the short Retrieved 01 December '21
  4. Tenmon's blog entry regarding the music of the short Retrieved 01 December '21