  We analyze the differential relation corresponding to integrability of almost
complex structures, reformulated as a directed immersion relation by Demailly
and Gaussier. Combining results of Clemente [3], we show that applying
h-principle techniques yields the following statement: for an almost complex
manifold with arbitrary metric $(X, J, g)$, and for $\epsilon > 0$, there
exists a smooth function $f : X \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ and almost complex
structure $J'$ on $X$ such that $J$ and $J'$ are $C^0$-close on the graph of
$f$ with respect to the extended metric on $X \times \mathbb{R}$, and such that
the Nijenhuis tensor of $J'$ on the graph has pointwise sup norm less than
$C\epsilon$, where $C$ is a constant depending only on $J$ and $g$. This is an
updated version of a previous preprint titled "Almost complex manifolds are
(almost) complex".
