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'''''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, with Toko Miura featured on some of the songs. 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 addition to the film proper, there is a novel adaptation also by Shinkai, a manga adaptation by Watari Kubota that was serialized in Kodansha's ''Afternoon'', and [https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2020/08/27-1/makoto-shinkais-weathering-with-you-gets-audiobook-voiced-by-two-original-anime-vas an audiobook of the novelization read by Hodaka and Hina's Japanese voice actors.]
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* [[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. {{spoiler|His eagerness to return to Tokyo after the three-year restriction elapses, with no onscreen sign of his parents being concerned or at least taking the time to check out his university situation, doesn't help.}}
* [[Accidental Pervert]]: Hodaka often gazes at Hina for unintentional reasons.
* [[Adaptation Expansion]] / [[All There in the Manual]]: At the same time, Shinkai wrote a novelization that expands on Hodaka's character, actually creating [[Freudian Excuse|legitimate motivation]] for his actions and a reason why he ran away from Kozushima, in comparison to the movie where, based on what little he admits to, he simply hated his home island life and randomly decided to run away after 16 years of putting up with it. Namely, he was being physically abused by his father and he might have been suffering from [[Small Town Boredom]].
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