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* [[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.

* [[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}}.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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]]:

** 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.

* [[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.

** A raindrop pendant, initially in Hina's dying mother's hand, is later worn on a choker by 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}}.

* [[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.