History YMMV / TheWindRises

* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: Partial example. Creator/HideakiAnno 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.

* 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).
** 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).
** 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.

* HarsherInHindsight:
** Jiro experiencing the Great Kanto Earthquake while traveling by train to study aeronautical engineering at the beginning of the film when an earthquake happened in Kumamoto Prefecture nearly three years after the film's release in March 2016.
** The English translation of Yumi Matsutoya's "Hikoki Gumo" has become harsher in hindsight for Miyazaki's friend Creator/IsaoTakahata's death from lung cancer in April 2018. Likewise, Naoko Satomi's death becomes even more heartbreaking, as she and Takahata both had an IncurableCoughOfDeath. Jiro Horikoshi is a heavy smoker in the film; Takahata himself smoked for many years before giving up on it in 2011, and smoking is also a major cause of lung cancer.

** The English translation of Yumi Matsutoya's "Hikoki Gumo" has become harsher in hindsight for Miyazaki's friend Creator/IsaoTakahata's death from lung cancer in April 2018. Likewise, Naoko Satomi's death becomes even more heartbreaking, as she and Takahata both had an IncurableCoughOfDeath.

* HeReallyCanAct: Partial example. Creator/HideakiAnno 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.

* 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 [[BloodFromTheMouth coughing blood]] and dying]], are hardly child-appropriate material.

* {{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 many modern trends in the medium he dislikes.

** What makes it worse is the biopic part of the film: Is it a romanticized version of a designer's life or is it more saccharine and fictionalized than ''Film/PatchAdams''? Should the consequences of the planes that were built have been acknowledged more? Should Jiro have been shown regretting what he's created? This will most likely be debated long after Miyazaki is gone.

* 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).
** 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).
** 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)

** The English translation of Yumi Matsutoya's "Hikoki Gumo" has become harsher in hindsight for Miyazaki's friend Creator/IsaoTakahata's death from lung cancer in April 2018. Oddly enough, both Takahata and Naoko Satomi had a similar symptom occurring in both lung cancer and tuberculosis -- an IncurableCoughOfDeath.

** The English translation of Yumi Matsutoya's "Hikoki Gumo" has become harsher in hindsight for Miyazaki's friend Creator/IsaoTakahata's death from lung cancer in April 2018. What's worse is that both Takahata and Naoko Satomi had a similar symptom occurring in both lung cancer and tuberculosis -- an IncurableCoughOfDeath.

** The English translation of Yumi Matsutoya's "Hikoki Gumo" has become harsher in hindsight for Miyazaki's friend Creator/IsaoTakahata's death from lung cancer in April 2018. What's worse is that both Takahata and Naoko had an IncurableCoughOfDeath.

** The English translation of Yumi Matsutoya's "Hikoki Gumo" has become harsher in hindsight for Miyazaki's friend Creator/IsaoTakahata's death from lung cancer in April 2018.

* HarsherInHindsight: Jiro experiencing the Great Kanto Earthquake while traveling by train to study aeronautical engineering at the beginning of the film when an earthquake happened in Kumamoto Prefecture nearly three years after the film's release in March 2016.

** 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.

* HeReallyCanAct: Partial example. Creator/HideakiAnno 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.

** What makes it worse is the biopic part of the film: Is it a romanticized version of a designer's life or is it more saccharine and fictionalized than Patch Adams? Should the consequences of the planes that were built have been acknowledged more? Should Jiro have been shown regretting what he's created? This will most likely be debated long after Miyazaki is gone.

* HarsherInHindsight: The scene where Jiro experiences the Great Kanto Earthquake when an earthquake would occur in Kumamoto Prefecture three years after this film was released.

* 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.

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

** Is it a touching, tragic, heartfelt swan song for the master animator which may be his MagnumOpus or a lazily written, albeit beautifully drawn and directed, retirement notice of a man who couldn't be bothered to give one last fantasy adventure that he's become so well admired for?

* MagnumOpus: Many are already seeing this as HayaoMiyazaki's ultimate masterpiece, even amongst many of his others.

* BrokenBase =/= LoveItOrHateIt:

** Is it a touching, tragic, heartfelt swan song for the master animator which may be his magnum opus? Or a lazily written, albeit beautifully drawn and directed, retirement notice of a man who couldn't be bothered to give one last fantasy adventure that he's become so well admired for?

* BaseBreaker: Is it a touching, tragic, heartfelt swan song for the master animator which may be his magnum opus? Or a lazily written, albeit beautifully drawn and directed, retirement notice of a man who couldn't be bothered to give one last fantasy adventure that he's become so well admired for? What makes it worse is the biopic part of the film: Is it a romanticized version of a designer's life or is it more saccharine and fictionalized than Patch Adams? Should the consequences of the planes that were built have been acknowledged more? Should Jiro have been shown regretting what he's created? This will most likely be debated long after Miyazaki is gone.

* BaseBreaker: Is it a touching, tragic, heartfelt swansong for the master animator which may be his magnum opus? Or a lazily written ,albeit beautifully drawn and directed, retirement notice of a man who couldn't be bothered to give one last fantasy adventure that he's become so well admired for? What makes it worse is the biopic part of the film: Is is a romanticized version of a designers life or is it more saccharine and fictionalized than Patch Addams? Should the consequences of the planes that were built have been acknowledged more? Should Jiro have been shown regretting what he's created? This will most likely be debated long after Miyazaki is gone.

* NightmareFuel: [[spoiler: Naoko [[BloodFromTheMouth coughing up blood]].]]
** The Great Kanto Earthquake, which the film barely scratches the surface of. Mercifully, the movie left out parts like the Tokyo [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_whirl Fire Whirl]] that killed 38,000 people seeking shelter along the river.

* 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.