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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.

* [[Accidental Pervert]]: Hodaka often gazes at Hina for unintentional reasons.

* [[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 {{spoiler|the death of his wife Asuka in a traffic accident.}}

* [[Alternate Universe]]: Despite the appearances by several characters from ''[[Your Name]]'', the fact that the other film's [[Distant Finale]] - which takes place chronologically between the main part of this film and its own [[Distant Finale]] - does not depict a Tokyo that is {{spoiler|suffering constant rainfall and on its way to becoming flooded}} shows that the two cannot be 100% in alignment.

* [[Always Save the Girl]]: At the climax, Hodaka decides he's not going to accept Hina {{spoiler|being sacrificed to restore normal weather to Tokyo and rescues her from the clouds, telling her to pray for herself instead. She does so and they are returned to Earth, but the rain also comes back. Three years later, much of Tokyo is flooded}}.

* [[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.

* [[Crap Saccharine World]]: While [[Makoto Shinkai]] has never shied from depicting the loneliness of modern urban life, ''[[Weathering with You]]'' is the first time he's been so nakedly cynical about Tokyo. Hodaka's first onscreen sight of the city is the Rainbow Bridge beautifully lit in the evening, but it's not long at all before he gets confronted with the seedy underbelly and dilapidated buildings, violent thugs tricking women into dubious work, and general [[No Sympathy]] for runaways, orphans and {{spoiler|still-grieving widowers}}.

* [[Creator Cameo]]: The cat avatar Shinkai uses can be seen as a fridge magnet on Keisuke's fridge.

* [[Distant Finale]]: {{spoiler|After Hodaka rescues Hina, he is arrested and sent back home on probation until he finishes high school.}} The final act takes place three years later: {{spoiler|Having graduated, Hodaka goes to a now-flooded Tokyo for university. He speaks to Keisuke and the old woman before reuniting with Hina}}.

* [[Draconic Divinity]]: In-universe art of the weather gods apparently responsible for Hina's power depicts them as dragons. {{spoiler|We eventually see them for real, as titanic draconic figures stretching across the sky.}}

* [[Dragon-in-Chief]]: A traditional [[Big Bad]] can't be pinned down - the laws seeking Hodaka be sent back to home and school or Hina and Nagi get proper guardianship aren't sentient to be having any ill will against them, while it's impossible to say whether {{spoiler|the weather ''kami'' flooding Tokyo in return for the denied sacrifice is out of malice or merely an autonomic response}} - but the detective Takai is the most prominent of the police investigating Hodaka's case.

* [[Eiffel Tower Effect]]: In addition to Shinkai's customary use of NTT Docomo Yoyogi Building, other icons of Tokyo that appear include the Rainbow Bridge, Roppongi Hills Mori Tower, Tokyo Skytree, and Tokyo Tower.

* [[Freeze-Frame Bonus]]: Unlike the other {{spoiler|[[Your Name]] cameos, Yotsuha}} only gets a very brief appearance from the side together with her classmates looking at the clear skies {{spoiler|after Hina's sacrifice}}.

* [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!]]: {{spoiler|While in the derelict building, Keisuke slaps Hodaka, trying to get him to see reason.}}

* [[Gray Rain of Depression]]: This trope accompanies Hodaka's initial poor prospects in Tokyo and is contrasted in-universe with the good mood that sunshine brings. {{spoiler|Later, this is inverted; following Hina's sacrifice, the sunlight comes across as a harsh reminder of what he's lost, even as others who do not know are rejoicing over the return of the sun.}}

* [[Inferred Holocaust]]: This is one of the reasons for the controversy surrounding the film. {{spoiler|Hodaka saves Hina from becoming a sacrifice to the weather gods. Cue heavy rain returning, which we are told went on for 3 years, and the sight of Tokyo mostly flooded. We are told that the people adapted to it, being shown increased use of water transportation and children playing in the rain, and assured that this is merely Tokyo going back to how it used to be in the old days. However, there's a lot to take issue with when subject to scrutiny, even when being charitable and assuming that the majority of damage was limited to the 23 special wards. How many people got injured or died because of the flooding? Millions are displaced. Billions of Yen in direct property and infrastructural damage and losses has been caused, plus billions more lost from businesses that closed down because their premises got flooded. Major cultural and educational facilities are lost. Then there's the long-term effects of living with constant rainfall and minimal direct sunlight, like what might be experienced by asthmatics or those susceptible to depression. The effects also radiate outwards into the rest of the Greater Tokyo Area; millions from Western Tokyo and the surrounding prefectures who previously commuted into central Tokyo for work would have to find new jobs, which they now need to compete with all the refugees for, and the loss of routes that cut through central Tokyo previously would have deleterious effects on the logistics and transportation situation. The loss of such a major metropolis should realistically have massive consequences reverberating years to decades down the line.}} Almost all of this is glossed over.

* [[Internal Homage]]:

* [[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 {{spoiler|comes with the price of getting spirited away.}} Later on, Keisuke and Natsumi visit Koenji Hikawa Shrine, where the elderly priest tells them about a legend of weather-altering shrine maidens and {{spoiler|how they always ended up getting sacrificed.}}

* [[Man Bites Man]]: {{spoiler|Hodaka bites Keisuke's arm to get free so he can continue his quest to rescue Hina.}}

* [[Missing Trailer Scene]]: One of the trailers has a shot of Hina pushing a trolley near Odaiba's Tokyo Teleport Station. What actually happens in that area in the film is different.

* [[Monumental Damage]]: One of the signs of how bad things get is {{spoiler|Tokyo being flooded enough that the Rainbow Bridge is partially underwater.}}

* [[Moral Myopia]]: After {{spoiler|Hina's sacrifice}}, 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 {{spoiler|letting Hina be sacrificed is a worthwhile price to pay in exchange for millions getting normal weather back.}} 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.

* [[Never Trust a Trailer]]:

* [[Next Sunday A.D.]]: The film was released in 2019, starts in 2020, and is mostly set in 2021.

* [[Older Than They Look]]: When Hina first introduces herself to Hodaka and says she's the older of the two at 17, Hodaka says that she doesn't look her age. {{spoiler|She's lying.}}

* [[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.

* [[Out-of-Genre Experience]]: The film briefly dips its feet into {{spoiler|[[Cosmic Horror Story]] when it shows the full scale of the weather gods that have been talked about across most of the runtime. Forget the overgrown winged lizards you might think of when you hear the word "dragon"; these things stretch across the the sky, being so huge that buildings are small beneath them and humans too tiny to be seen. [[Kaiju]] fight around and through buildings; one of these, while not quite big enough to be a full-scale [[Cosmic Entity]], could flatten an entire skyline just by landing. Hodaka is briefly sucked into and through one, and it shows no humanly-recognisable sign of noticing, if it even noticed at all, much less communicating with him. What agendas, drives or motivations they might have are never made known. Even when Tokyo is flooded after Hina is brought back to Earth, it's not possible to tell whether this is a malicious smiting of lesser beings for defiance or merely an autonomic, impersonal natural law kicking in. One can clearly understand why these things were worshipped and offered [[Human Sacrifice]]s.}}

* [[Reality Ensues]]:

** Hodaka quickly discovers that surviving as a runaway is harder than he had expected; his money runs low after just a few days, despite using the cheapest possible accommodation of a manga cafe and subsisting on instant noodles. Also, no one is willing to take the risk of employing a student without a valid ID. Later on, the attempt to find accommodation {{spoiler|while on the run from the police}} encounters a similar problem.

** What was Keisuke doing on the ferry from Hodaka's home island to Tokyo?

** What is the deal with the pistol Hodaka finds? Apart from an early news bulletin about seizure of illegal guns and an enigmatic reference to a "Shibamata", no further elaboration is provided as to its origins.

* [[Scenery Gorn]]: In the [[Distant Finale]], we see that {{spoiler|large parts of Tokyo are now underwater}}, and it is a profoundly disturbing and haunting sight, even if the people are shown getting used to it.

* [[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.

* [[Star-Crossed Lovers]]: Hodaka and Hina.

** {{spoiler|Hodaka buys Hina a ring}}, which later becomes this after {{spoiler|she turns intangible after being taken into the clouds, and it falls back to the ground}}.

* [[Unreliable Narrator]]: Hodaka in the light novel, if we assume all the movie scenes are visual representations of the story he's telling to the audience. If they are meant to be this, Hodaka describes scenes and conversations for which he wasn't even present. Also, his interpretation of his parents might be different compared to an unbiased perspective.

* [[Urban Fantasy]]: Hina's power and the consequences and effects of its use drive the plot.

* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: While a photo in the [[Distant Finale]] shows the continued wellbeing of most of the cast, the fate of Nagi's friends Ayane and Kana after {{spoiler|their helping to disguise him so he can escape the police and go help Hodaka}}, or whether Nagi and Natsumi suffered any negative consequences, are left unknown.

 

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