She and Her Hamster

The third installment of The Garden of Words manga came today. There are a bunch of series in this "magazine" and I saw some English parts in one. No pictures of that one though (hellooo cartoon boobs). Also in today's delivery was the video "Egao" also by Shinkai, from 2003 (song by Hiromi Iwasaki). The "She" in this video bears a resemblance to Mikako in Voices of a Distant Star, which seems natural given when it was made. I can't read the Japanese subtitles on the DVD (found English online though) but did try all the menu options and found a nice short about the making of, which had no narration which was no loss on this. It was nice just to see all the steps being built up into the final product.