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Animax Adds Shinkai's Place Promised

The Animax UK site has added the 2004 Makoto Shinkai feature film The Place Promised in Our Early Days. It is available to subscribers to the site here.

The film is set in an alternate timeline in which Japan was divided after losing World War II. Hokkaido was annexed by "Union" while Honshu and the other southern islands came under US sovereignty. A gigantic yet mysterious tower was constructed at Hokkaido and could be seen clearly from Aomori (the northernmost prefecture of Honshu) across Tsugaru Strait. In the summer of 1996, three 9th-graders had made a promise that one day they'll build an aircraft and unravel the tower's mystery, but their project was abandoned after the girl, Sayuri Sawatari, began experiencing sleeping sickness and transferred to Tokyo for better treatment. Three years later, Hiroki Fujisawa accidentally found out that Sayuri had been in coma since then, and he asked Takuya Shirakawa to help him finding a way to revive her. What they don't know yet is that Sayuri's unconsciousness is somehow linked with secrets of the tower and the world.