The recurring sub-plot involves a gun he found early in his Tokyo adventures. Hodaka ultimately ends up on the run from the police. Weathering With You is engaging and warm entertainment made for all audiences, despite a few quirks and plot devices that get our main characters into trouble. It’s an unexplained storm of biblical proportions, leading to a tragic choice for Hodaka late in the film connected to Hina’s mysterious gifts. If you pay attention, two certain characters from Your Name make brief cameo appearances.Īll this happens as Tokyo is inundated with constant rain for over two months. First meeting the teenage Hina working at McDonald’s, the pair start making a little cash by exploiting Hina’s mysterious ability handling rainstorms for paying customers. As the teenager struggles living in Tokyo without a proper ID and burning through his meager cash, he meets Hina Amano. Hodaka eventually tracks Suga down with the hopes of finding work. Weathering With You is engaging and warm entertainment made for all audiences Suga operates a small tabloid rag running articles about the supernatural and sees something of himself in the young Hodaka. On the way to the city, his life is saved by Mr. High school boy Hodaka Morishima runs away from his parents to Tokyo, hoping to land on his feet by himself. The film’s music is composed by Japanese band RADWIMPS, providing several songs. A rain-soaked Tokyo provides the setting, critical to the film’s core message and themes. The parallels are clearly there between the two movies, even if the characters and story are very different. Rehashing a few basic anime elements from Your Name commonly found in anime, Weathering With You sees two young teenagers romantically meet in a crowd-pleasing adventure tinged with fantasy and slice-of-life touches. The theatrical anime feature soon became the highest-grossing Japanese film of 2019, a box office sensation.
Eagerly anticipated by anime lovers everywhere, Weathering With You is Shinkai’s first movie since that classic’s 2016 release. The movie became popular enough across the globe that even Hollywood took notice.
Makoto Shinkai may always be chasing Your Name, his wildly successful and beloved anime masterpiece.