![]() ![]() So we suggest you book now to avoid disappointment. We've seen both films and can confirm you really must see them on the big screen for maximum enjoyment. They'll first show Your Name, then after a short interval you'll get to see Weathering with You. Your Name is Makoto Shinkai's smash hit movie is a must to see on the big screen, while his latest film Weathering with You is on the path to prove just as successful.Īs a special treat on Wednesday 15th January 2020 you can the double screening around the UK. Because Hodaka saves Hina in 2021 and it never stops raining in Tokyo, most of the city is flooded by the time they reunite in March 2024.The good folks at Anime Limited have just announced they'll be some special double bill screenings of Your Name and Weathering with You. Based on the ending to Weathering With You, however, this presents a discrepancy. A few other minor characters from Your Name, namely Mitsuha’s friends Tessie and Sayaka, also appear during the climax of Weathering With You.Įssentially, most of Weathering With You takes place in 2021, eight years after the climax of Your Name when the meteor hit Itomori, but just under a year before Taki and Mitsuha’s reunion in 2022 at the very end of Your Name. Later in the film, when Hodaka goes to the mall to buy Hina a birthday present, the clerk that helps him is none other than Mitsuha, who moved to Tokyo after her town Itomori was destroyed by the meteor. While there, they meet an older version of Taki, one of the protagonists from Your Name, who is this woman’s grandson. On one such job, they make the sun shine in an old woman’s back yard. GKIDSĪfter Hina reveals her weather maiden powers to Hodaka in Weathering With You, the two start a business to make money off of her ability to make the rain stop temporarily. ![]() Hodaka and Hina in 'Weathering With You'. ![]() But a “tragic fate” awaits the “weather maiden.”īoth stories explore intimate human connections in a world infused with magic and mysticism rooted in folklore, but there deeper connections between the two films - and a pair of cameos - that establish what we might as well call the Makoto Shinkai Cinematic Universe, or maybe even the Shinkaiverse for short After finding work at a small occult magazine, he meets Hina Amano, a young girl who somehow developed the power to control the weather. In Weathering With You, Hodaka Morishima runs away from home during a rainy summer to live on the streets of Tokyo. Once they realize they’re from different points in time and a catastrophic event separates them, they have to transcend time and space or risk forgetting one another completely. In Your Name, a boy living in Tokyo swaps bodies with a girl from a rural town. Called Weathering With You, Shinkai’s new film, out January 17 in America, shares many similarities with Your Name in terms of basic plot structure: Two spirited young people connect over a feeling of wonder inspired by supernatural phenomenon and struggle in the face of tragedy to preserve that connection.īut are there any Easter eggs or cameos that connect Weathering With You and Your Name in even more ways? The answer might surprise you.īig spoilers follow for Weathering With You and Your Name. Japanese animator and filmmaker Makoto Shinkai followed up the tremendous success of Your Name - the highest-grossing anime film of all time - with a new tenderhearted story of two teenagers developing a bond in rain-soaked Tokyo. ![]()
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