Well, according to the Makoto Shinkai Fan Web (Who performs the wonderful service of translating tidbits from the official Byousoku 5 Centimeter site for us English-speaking Shinkai fans), the final edit of Shinkai's upcoming film had been completed sometime before this previous Tuesday (Jan. 23, 2007) and that it will premiere at the Cinema Rise theater in Tokyo in March 2007! Heck yeah I'm excited!

Check out the screenshots that I've captured from the high-definition preview trailer! You can also download the trailers themselves from the official site, and you can also find subtitled version if you look around (I.E., search on YouTube . I would do it for you, but YouTube was down for maintenance when I was writing this entry...).

As an added bonus, I've gotten my hands on a 720p version of Shinkai's The Place Promised in Our Early Days and took a lot of screenshots of that one! Check out the massive gallery! Hopefully, these don't spoil the story of the movie, but they should showcase Makoto Shinkai's animation style. Though seeing it in motion is something else...

I'll be cropping out more headers from those images in the near future, that's for sure!