# Where to Watch Children Who Chase Lost Voices

**Children Who Chase Lost Voices streams on Netflix. Makoto Shinkai's early epic — his most Ghibli-flavored film, an underworld adventure about grief and the terrible price of trying to undo it.**

## Where to Watch

- [Netflix](https://www.netflix.com/title/80104167)

Netflix carries it — a deep cut worth the watch for anyone who loves his later films.

## Synopsis

Asuna is a self-reliant girl who spends her afternoons on a hilltop with a crystal radio that one day catches an impossible, beautiful song. The music leads her to a boy from Agartha — a hidden world beneath the earth — and then, after loss strikes, into Agartha itself, following a teacher with his own desperate reason for descending: the legend that the underworld can return the dead. What unfolds is a journey through ruins, gods, and gatekeepers, where every character is carrying grief and each must decide what letting go actually costs. It's Shinkai reaching for myth before he found his signature style.

## Fast Facts

- **Format:** MOVIE
- **Episodes:** 1
- **Premiered:** 2011
- **Studio:** comix wave films inc.
- **Score:** 7.1

## If You Liked This

- **[5 Centimeters per Second](https://hozuna.com/anime/5-centimeters-per-second)** — 5 Centimeters per Second is early Shinkai distilled — distance and longing without the fantasy scaffolding.
- **[Your Name](https://hozuna.com/anime/your-name)** — Your Name is where his themes of loss and impossible reunion reach their perfected, phenomenon form.
- **[Maquia](https://hozuna.com/anime/maquia)** — Maquia matches its mythic scale and its meditation on love that must survive separation.
- **[Frieren: Beyond Journey's End](https://hozuna.com/anime/frieren-beyond-journey-s-end)** — 
- **[Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood](https://hozuna.com/anime/fullmetal-alchemist-brotherhood)** — 
- **[Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc](https://hozuna.com/anime/chainsaw-man-reze-arc)** — 
- **[Re:Zero Season 4](https://hozuna.com/anime/re-zero-season-4)** — 
- **[Attack on Titan Season 3 Part 2](https://hozuna.com/anime/attack-on-titan-season-3-part-2)** — 

## FAQ

### Where can I watch Children Who Chase Lost Voices?

It streams on Netflix.

### Is this like Your Name?

It's earlier and more of a classic adventure — closer to a Ghibli quest than his later romances — but the emotional core of loss and longing is unmistakably Shinkai.

### Is it a good place to start with Makoto Shinkai?

Start with Your Name for the phenomenon; come here after to see his mythic side — it deepens everything else he's made.