History YMMV / TheWindRises

* InternetBackdraft: Despite WordOfGod stating that this movie is not about the war, but the story of someone chasing his dream while a war loomed over the background, more than a few people disagree. The most notable criticism came from South Korea, where some saw it as glorifying the designer of Zero fighter, many of which were built by Korean forced labor, the fighter itself is seen as a symbol of Imperial Japan's aggression. Ironically, it was also criticized by some Japanese conservatives for its anti-war overtone which, combined with Miyazaki's (unrelated) writing against the militarization of Japan, painted him and his work in a negative light for his opponents. The Japanese left sided with the Koreans (as well as noting that Chinese labor was used). May overlap with ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch.

* NightmareFuel: [[spoiler: Naoko coughing up blood.]]

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: Israeli cable company HOT [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDGTWnIAdi8 put this film on their children’s VOD menu]], dubbed to Hebrew. While it’s not as bad as ''Anime/PrincessMononoke'' or ''Anime/GraveOfTheFireflies'', the subject material, and certainly [[spoiler:Naoko CoughingBlood and dying]], are hardly child-appropriate material.

* UnfortunateImplications: As noted under InternetBackdraft, it's all too easy to see this as the sugarcoating of an arms designer's creating one of the most infamous weapons ever made.

* HeReallyCanAct: Partial example. Creator/Hideaki Anno had mostly been directing or animating throughout his career. His acting repertoire consists of a role in a parody of the Franchise/{{Ultraman}} franchise and the occasional cameo. In this film it’s quite noticeable that he’s not a professional VA, speaking in a somewhat more nasalised and less clear voice than the rest of the cast, but he makes emotional scenes work very well.

** The movie lost in the Academy Awards to ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'' for the Best Animated Picture category in 2014. To say that some people saw this as unfair would be a HUGE understatement...

** The movie lost in the Academy Awards to Disney/{{Frozen}} for the Best Animated Picture category in 2014. To say that some people saw this as unfair would be a HUGE understatement...

** Many animation fans, including those of WesternAnimation, weren't happy when the movie lost to Disney/{{Frozen}} in the 2014 Academy Awards. Like, not one bit... (See AwardSnub above)

** On a lesser degree, some complained about the frequent smoking in the movie, especially of Jiro Horikoshi, who is a non-smoker in RealLife (see CompositeCharacter and VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory), and is even seen smoking right beside his wife, [[spoiler:who was suffering from acute Tuberculosis]] (he wanted to step away, but stayed at her insistence).

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: [[ReluctantMadScientist Even the most well-meaning technology can be adapted for war and destruction]]; this is an inevitability, and should not deter any aspiring creator [[BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil from trying to make the world a better place]].

* {{Applicability}}: Some have read into the film's depiction of an artist's simultaneous joy in the creative aspects of his work and trepidation at its eventual uses Miyazaki's own mixture of pride and enjoyment in his films and trepidation at may modern trends in the medium he dislikes.

* AwardSnub: At the Annie Awards, where The Wind Rises was only nominated for three awards and only won Best Writing in a Animated Feature Award for Hayao Miyazaki.

* InternetBackdraft: Despite WordOfGod stating that this movie is not about the war, but the story of someone chasing his dream while a war loomed over the background, more than a few people disagree. The most notable criticism came from South Korea, where some saw it as glorifying the designer of Zero fighter, many of which were built by Korean forced labor, the fighter itself is seen as a symbol of Imperial Japan's aggression. Ironically, it was also criticized by some Japanese conservatives for its anti-war overtone which, combined with Miyazaki's (unrelated) writing against the militarization of Japan, painted him and his work in a negative light for his opponents. May overlap with ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch.

* NightmareFuel: [[spoiler: Naoko coughing up blood.]]

* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Kayo, as a child and in spades as a adult.

* AwardSnub: Considered by many viewers to be one of the best Miyazaki films, but it did not win the Best Animated Feature Oscar.
** More noticeable at the Annie Awards, where The Wind Rises was only nominated for three awards and only won Best Writing in a Animated Feature Award for Hayao Miyazaki.

* AwardSnub: As expected, a lot of anime fans were pissed that the film lost the Best Animated Feature at the Oscars to ''Disney/{{Frozen}}''. But many critics and movie buffs already expected that ''Frozen'' would win since the start of the award seasons.
** The film received almost similar reception at the Annie Awards, where The Wind Rises was only nominated for three awards while Frozen was nominated for ten awards. But the film managed to win the Best Writing in a Animated Feature Award for Hayao Miyazaki over Frozen's Jennifer Lee.

** On a lesser degree, some complained about the frequent smoking in the movie, especially of Jiro Horikoshi, who is a non-smoker in RealLife (see CompositeCharacter and VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory), and is even seen smoking right beside his wife, [[spoiler:who was suffering from acute TB]] (he wanted to step away, but stayed at her insistence).

* {{AnnoyingYoungerSibling}}: Kayo, as a child and in spades as a adult.

* MemeticMutation: The movie poster has become a source of many parodies lately.

* InternetBackdraft: Despite WordOfGod stating that this movie is not about the war, but the story of someone chasing his dream while a war loomed over the background, more than a few people disagree with it. Some, most notable of which being South Korea, bashed the movie for glorifying the designer of Zero fighter, many of which being built by Koreans under forced labour, and is seen as a symbol of Japanese imperialism and oppression by others. Some, on the other hand, bashed the movie for its anti-war overtone which, combined with Miyazaki's (unrelated) writing against the remilitarisation of Japan, painted him and his work in a negative light for his opponents.
** On a lesser degree, some complainted about the chain-smoking in the movie, especially of Jiro Horikoshi, both because he is a non-smoker in RealLife (see CompositeCharacter and VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory), and because the movie depicts him [[spoiler:smoking right beside his wife, who was suffering from acute TB. Granted, he did want to leave while smoking, but his wife insisted him to stay even if it means smoking in front of her, but still.]]

** On a lesser degree, some complainted about the chain-smoking in the movie, especially of Jiro Horikoshi, both because he is a non-smoker in RealLife (see CompositeCharacter and VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory), and because the movie depicts him [[spoiler:smoking right beside his wife, who was suffering from acute TB. Granted, he did want to leave while smoking, but his wife insisted him to stay even if it means smoking in front of her, but still.]]