It also is a culmination of Shinkai’s use of weather as a visual metaphor for human emotion and the acceptance of change, previously explored in films like The Garden of Words and 5 Centimetres Per Second. While, like many of his films, it is endearingly sentimental – and had me tearing up more than once – it also offers plenty of laughs, with Hina’s younger brother Nagi a source of constant amusement. It is an exploration of the power of young love and the impact that this can have over the choices and decisions we make in life. Weathering with You continues to examine many of the themes and aesthetics that pervade much of Shinkai’s work. The two start a business offering her services to a city needing desperate respite from the rain. The legends turn out to be true, and Hodaka meets Hina, the girl who can control the sunshine. It is through this job that Hodaka learns of the legend of the ‘100% Sunshine Girl’, a girl who can bring sunshine simply through the power of prayer. Keisuke saves Hodaka and takes him in as a live-in employee at his publishing company, which specialises in stories about urban legends for less than reputable magazines. Set in a Tokyo that is subsumed with endless rain, Weathering with You renders the city in beautifully gloomy yet breathtaking visuals. On his journey to Tokyo, teenage runaway Hodaka nearly drowns. Given the breakthrough popularity of Your Name with audiences worldwide, expectations were high for Shinkai’s latest film – and I am pleased to say that it does not disappoint. Weathering with You is the latest outing from Japanese anime writer and director Makoto Shinkai and the follow up to 2016’s immensely successful Your Name.
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