Weathering with You: Difference between revisions

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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.

* [[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.

** 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 {{spoiler| she's more interested in his being arrested in Tokyo.}}

* [[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, {{spoiler| and so is she.}}

* [[Beautiful Void]]: The place above the clouds {{spoiler| Hina is taken to after her sacrifice}} is a verdant but empty grass field on top of a cumulonimbus.

**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.

**{{spoiler| The ring Hodaka gave Hina}} just happens to fall in front of him {{spoiler| as the police are taking him away, startling him out of his despair at her disappearance.}}

* [[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]]: {{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.}}

*[[Foreshadowing]]:

**One of the articles Keisuke shows Hodaka while explaining his work is titled {{spoiler| "The many human sacrifices that protect Tokyo".}}

**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 {{spoiler| as if in backlash.}}

*[[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.}}

*[[Ironic Echo]]: Early on, Hina catches Hodaka looking at her chest and angrily asks where he's looking at. Later in the film, {{spoiler| after the backlash from her power has started to turn her body translucent green, she willingly opens her bathrobe and asks him again, this time sadly.}}

*[[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.}}

*[[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.

*[[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.