Weathering with You

Weathering with You (天気の子, Tenki no Ko, lit. "Child of Weather") is a 2019 fantasy and romantic drama anime film by Makoto Shinkai, his seventh major production. Its soundtrack is by RADWIMPS. It is animated by CoMix Wave Films and distributed by Toho.

The summer of his high school freshman year, Hodaka Morishima (Kotaro Daigo, Brandon Engman) flees his remote island home for Tokyo, which he finds smothered by rain and not as glamorous as he had been hoping. Soon left broke by the endeavour, he reluctantly accepts an offer from shady Keisuke Suga (Shun Oguri, Lee Pace) to ghostwrite for paranormal tabloids in exchange for bed and board alongside his assistant Natsumi (Tsubasa Honda, Alison Brie). While investigating a legend of the sunshine girl that can bring back the sun, he finds her in the person of recently-orphaned Hina Amano (Nana Mori, Ashley Boettcher). Together with her younger brother Nagisa (Sakura Kiryu, Emeka Guindo), they attempt to make a living by monetizing her power, but soon find the consequences of doing so nipping at their heels.


 * Abusive Parents: While the film doesn't outright say so, the bandages on Hodaka's face when running away from home at the start, combined with his extremely negative reaction to the idea of just going back, imply this. Beyond the physical, emotional abuse or at least neglect is also implied by the way he calls a humble Big Mac that most people would find unremarkable the best meal he'd ever had in his life.
 * The Alcoholic: Keisuke is a heavy drinker and outright has part of his office set aside as a well-stocked bar. Natsumi frequently scolds him for it. It is implied he drinks to cope with
 * Always Save the Girl: At the climax, Hodaka decides he's not going to accept Hina
 * Bait and Switch:
 * After clearing the sky at Roppongi Hills Mori Tower, Hina says she's in love, then adds that it's with the sunshine girl job.
 * In the final act, it initially seems like one of Hodaka's schoolmates wants to confess her feelings to him. Then it turns out that
 * Bait the Dog: Keisuke is initially introduced with heroic backlighting from the sun after saving Hodaka from getting swept into the sea. Immediately afterwards, he mooches off the boy despite being a grown man. Ultimately downplayed, as despite his stinginess, he doesn't actually do anything evil.
 * Barbie Doll Anatomy:
 * Be Careful What You Wish For: In the love hotel, Hina asks Hodaka if he wants the rain to stop. He says yes; come the next morning, the rain is gone,
 * Beautiful Void: The place above the clouds is a verdant but empty grass field on top of a cumulonimbus.
 * Body Horror:
 * The Cameo:
 * make appearances at various points in the film.
 * Kentaro Araki, a somewhat famous meteorologist consulted for the film, makes a brief unnamed appearance as an interviewee.
 * Contrived Coincidence:
 * Hodaka just happens to meet Keisuke, the only person willing to offer him a job, on the ferry to Tokyo.
 * Hodaka just happens to try taking refuge at the McDonald's Hina is working at, and later be at the right time and place to save her from the shady nightclub owner.
 * just happens to fall in front of him
 * Confusing Multiple Negatives: After the sky-clearing at Roppongi Hills Mori Tower, Hina says that she might not not not several times have found what she wants in life. Hodaka attempts to figure it out and loses count.
 * Creator Cameo: The cat avatar Shinkai uses can be seen as a fridge magnet on Keisuke's fridge.
 * Disappeared Dad: Hina and Nagi's mother is shown to be bedridden in hospital at the very start and said to be dead by the time Hodaka comes into the picture a year later. Their father is nowhere to be seen or even mentioned. His being dead rather than merely deadbeat is implied by how the authorities never bring up the possibility of dumping them on him, but nothing is spelt out clearly.
 * Distant Finale: The final act takes place three years later.
 * Foreshadowing:
 * One of the responses Hodaka gets from Yahoo about finding a job as a teen without ID is "sex club waiter". Later, he encounters a shady nightclub owner implied to be in this line of work.
 * A news bulletin shows a case of seized illegal guns and ammo shortly before Hodaka encounters one.
 * One of the articles Keisuke shows Hodaka while explaining his work is titled
 * When Hodaka first goes to meet Hina at her home, he passes a pair of women saying that she can't live without a guardian.
 * The day after Hina clears the sky at Roppongi Hills Mori Tower, a radio broadcast says that the heavy rain is back
 * When Hodaka tells the old woman that he has One Last Job for a father and daughter to play in the park before putting the sky=clearing on hold due to overwhelming demand, one might guess from The Law of Conservation of Detail that he's referring to
 * Freeze-Frame Bonus: Unlike the other only gets a very brief appearance from the side together with her classmates looking at the clear skies
 * Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!:
 * Ironic Echo: Early on, Hina catches Hodaka looking at her chest and angrily asks where he's looking at. Later in the film,
 * The Legend of Chekhov: One of Hodaka and Natsumi's interviewees on the sunshine girl is a self-proclaimed psychic who tells them about how altering the weather Later on, Keisuke and Natsumi visit Koenji Hikawa Shrine, where the elderly priest tells them about a legend of weather-altering shrine maidens and
 * Man Bites Man:
 * Moral Myopia: After, one of the shots shows the shady nightclub owner with what appear to be his wife and child. They show no signs of distress at being around him, which suggests he treats them well, and only makes him more scummy for what he doesn't seem to have any problems with doing for work.
 * The Needs of the Many: As the weather gets worse than ever, Keisuke wonders aloud if One sign of how bad things have gotten is that Natsumi, who normally calls him out on his foolishness, doesn't say anything this time.
 * Orange-Blue Contrast: After Hina clears the sky at Roppongi Hills Mori Tower, one subsequent shot shows both the orange-red Tokyo Tower and the blue-lit NTT Docomo Yoyogi Building.
 * Real Place Background: Hodaka's island home is apparently Kozushima. Various places all around Tokyo also feature; the derelict Yoyogi Kaikan Building central to the plot is near Yoyogi Station, or at least it was before it was demolished in real life. The nearest train station to Hina's home is Tabata Station. Keisuke stays near Kagurazaka Station. The first sky clearing job takes place in Odaiba, while the one for the fireworks festival takes place on the Sky Deck of Roppongi Hills Mori Tower. Parts of Kabuki-cho in Shinjuku and Ikebukuro in Toshima are also prominently featured.
 * Snow Means Death: As bad as the constant heavy rain is, it isn't until snow starts falling in summer that things rapidly race to their nadir.
 * Theme and Variations Soundtrack: A number of tracks are rearrangements of "Grand Escape", "Is There Still Anything Love Can Do" or "We'll Be Alright".
 * Time Skip: After the opening sequence where Hina goes under the torii and first uses her power, the film jumps forward a year to introduce Hodaka.
 * Would Hurt a Child: The shady nightclub owner doesn't seem bothered in the slightest when he goes for a ground-and-pound on Hodaka.