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Hodaka Morishima
Hodaka Morishima
I want you more than any blue sky!
Voiced by: Kotaro Daigo (Japanese), Brandon Engman (English)
The male protagonist of the film. He is a first year student at Tokyo Metropolitan Kozushima High School who lives on the island where it is based. He couldn't bear the stress of his expectations and ran away to Tokyo. He meets a girl named Hina, who has the power to manipulate the weather. Together they start a friendship that doesn't last long when things go out of control.
- Abusive Parents: Although not specifically stated in the film, poor Hodaka has a father who's of the physical and emotional variety. This is indicated by his positive review on the hamburger that Hina gives him as well the bandages on his face seen in the beginning. The light novel seems to deduce that his father was the culprit. Nothing much is said about what his mom’s like, although a scene of Hodaka writing a letter to his mother in the beginning of the manga implies that she may not be as abusive as her husband. The novelization also states that when Hodaka returned to Kozushima, his parents and his school gave him a warm, yet awkward welcome, hinting that Mr. and Mrs. Morishima might have softened up during their son’s absence.
- Action Survivor: He is about as physically competent as someone you'd expect to be on the run from an abusive household. He manages to save Hina’s life, but ends up flooding Tokyo nonetheless.
- Age-Appropriate Angst: He's 16 and rightfully upset about his seemingly dull island life and his parents. He also goes through a lot of angst when it comes to his relationship with Hina.
- Age Cut: The plot of the light novelization is about him as an 18-year-old reflecting on his sojourn in Tokyo. From this perspective, the book is a series of flashbacks of his 16-year-old self.
- All of the Other Reindeer: The light novelization seems to paint Hodaka as an underachieving outcast and a country bumpkin who was disobedient to his family, his town and his school. When he returned, he did improve: his grades go up, he gains more friends in school and adults speak to him more often. In his own words however, Hodaka just sees them as “side-effects”. A possible interpretation based on the film alone is that he may have even been bullied by his schoolmates.
- All There in the Manual: The light novel expands on Hodaka’s character, actually creating legitimate motivation for his actions and a reason why he ran away from home, as opposed to the original film where he simply hated his home island life and randomly decided that after sixteen years of putting up with it, he would run away from it. To be precise, he was suffering from an abusive father and a school that was metaphorically chaining him down. The manga also gives a different answer, showing two panels of Hodaka’s home life: one of him looking bored and distant as he sits on a bench that is surrounded by nature
◊ and another of him lying lifelessly underwater◊, adding to his definition of “suffocating”. - Always Save the Girl: Hodaka’s strong dedication to Hina has him saving her life more than once.
- Anti-Hero: Based on
Word of God, it would be Hina, not him, to fit the position of the true heroic figure. - Be Careful What You Wish For: His seemingly harmless remark about wanting clear weather on the night that he and Hina confess their feelings for each other snaps the climax into action.
- Berserk Button: He reacts very negatively to going back home and he is very frightened of the mere thought of it.
- Break the Haughty: Between his star-crossed romance with Hina and enduring all that he has to do to bring her back, this rather thoroughly applies to Hodaka. The same applies to his parents, if that’s how you see it.
- Broken Ace: Given his background and depending on how well he does at his high school on Kozushima, Hodaka may be this.
- Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: The brooding boy and Byronic Hero, with quite the emotional issues to carry, to Hina's gentle girl.
- Brutal Honesty: Tries to use this to make Kei loosen his grip on him when he needs to save Hina. It doesn't work, so he bites him instead.
- Byronic Hero: Even when taking his backstory into account, Hodaka has a lot of emotional issues that could fill the Pacific Ocean. In typical byronic hero fashion, he's good-looking, passionate, rebellious, capable of deep love, and constantly defies social norms.
- Cannot Spit It Out: He refuses to discuss what his life back home is like for understandable reasons. Subverted with Hina, but his answer (“Everything was suffocating, that town, my parents.”) is pretty vague to say the least.
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Chaotic Good: If the lawmen in the film are either Lawful Evil or Lawful Neutral at best, Hodaka perfectly fits that alignment, defying authority and using pragmatic, underhanded tactics but for a good reason in the end. See Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! and Pragmatic Hero. - Character Narrator: About 75% of the light novel is told from Hodaka's first-person point of view.
- The Chew Toy: He’s had enough experience to know how hard it is to stand up to others who are bigger and tougher than he is, including his dad. He does, however, fight back at one of the thugs that accosts Hina using a gun.
- Chronic Hero Syndrome: Saves Hina, a complete stranger from a duo of thugs, and tries to save her again when she is being sacrificed.
- The Cynic: He thinks that his island home is nothing but a prison.
- Cynic–Idealist Duo: The Cynic to Hina's idealist, since he's more pessimistic and pragmatic than her.
- Dark and Troubled Past / Mysterious Past: Though his life prior to the events of Weathering With You has yet be given too much detail, what we do know from the movie itself, the light novel and the manga confirms his childhood was not a happy one.
- Defrosting Ice King: According to the novelization, Hodaka now sees Kozushima in a different light after he sacrifices Tokyo to the rain by rescuing Hina.
- Determinator: Does everything in his power to make sure Hina and Nagi are not busted by the cops.
- Family of Choice: He sees Hina, Nagi, Keisuke and himself as a surrogate family over his own parents for obvious reasons.
- Foil: To Hina. Both are adolescents with a complicated family situation, who have also developed street smarts soon, given the difficulties they go through and the issues with authorities related, but while Hodaka is from a fairly wealthy family of control freaks, Hina is poor and has no parents at all; then, Hodaka is rather cynical, impulsive, and could't care the less about collectivity if it means saving Hina from her Heroic Sacrifice, while Hina is an optimistic All-Loving Hero, whose goal is to sacrifice herself so that she can save others from catastrophic events caused by bad weather.
- Former Teen Rebel: Grows into one; at the time he finishes high school, he is a calmer young man who's on his way to find a job and go to University, living a more normal life.
- Four-Philosophy Ensemble: The Cynic; as described above, he's rather pessimistic and thinks of the island he comes from as a prison. Then, he's also more pragmatic than the more idealistic Hina when the situation calls for it, not being above using guns to menace enemies, though he also can be very Hot-Blooded, impulsive and irrational due to his rebellious nature.
- Four-Temperament Ensemble: Melancholic, since he's a brooding rebel and Byronic Hero looking for freedom, and, as explained above, he has a pessimistic nature and feels oppressed by the life he lived.
- Free-Fall Romance: Literally; the last part of the climax has him and Hina falling down through the skies of Tokyo. It is also at this moment that he prevents Hina from a life of eternal isolation in the clouds.
- Freudian Excuse: Defied in the original film. Makoto Shinkai deliberately kept Hodaka’s reasons for running away completely vague so that it wouldn't be a dramatic focus point in the movie and the only explanation given, aside from visual clues like the bandages, is that he found it to be “suffocating”. Played straight in both literary adaptations.
- The light novel gives him a terrible father that might have seen the error of his ways after he returned.
- The manga somewhat suggests that he was lonely and bored.
- Friendless Background: Hodaka implies in the last chapter of the light novel that, prior to his escapade to Tokyo, he had little to no friends in school.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: He’s quirky, brash, pretty animated, very sensitive and he is often not very polite. During the climax, he snaps at all of the opposing forces (including Keisuke) for their efforts at trying to keep him and Hina apart.
- Hated Hometown: As mentioned in the novelization, Hodaka feels this way towards Kozushima because of it’s stifling mindset that is killing him at a slow rate. He eventually sees his home in a more positive light during the three year timeskip in the end.
- The Hermit: Hodaka chooses to live alone in Tokyo with no one else for company.
- The Hero: Zig-Zagged. Hodaka is the male protagonist of the film and it happens to be his coming of age story. Depending on your interpretation based on the film alone, however, he doesn’t seem to get better. Or does he? Makoto Shinkai, however, does not see him as this, and based on his description, the one fitting the trope would be Hina:— "If the definition of a hero is a person who would save both his significant other and the world, the protagonist of this film, Hodaka, is not a hero..."
- Hidden Depths: Namely his entire backstory, among other details, which can be guessed at via visual clues, one of Makoto Shinkai’s trademarks. It’s also one of the main themes of the movie and what Hina brings out in him.
- His Heart Will Go On: A non-tragic example. After graduating high school, Hodaka sets out on his own, with enough yen to get him his own apartment, without any friends or family, while facing potential trauma from not seeing or hearing from Hina since that fateful day. But he holds on to the hope of seeing her again and makes the most of his newfound freedom, savoring his ability to choose his own path without his abusive father controlling him, and makes a good life for himself in time. In the very end of the movie, he and Hina are happily reunited.
- Honor Before Reason: Hodaka's love for Hina is so strong that he ends up flooding Tokyo without giving a single thought on the consequences.
- Hot-Blooded: He's quite an impulsive hothead, and often irrational, brash and not above menacing enemies with guns.
- I Just Want to Be Free: One of his reasons for running away. He earns it after he graduates.
- I Just Want to Be Normal: As mentioned above, Hodaka is uncomfortable with the trappings of his station and his island home and wants to experience being a city kid with no restraints.
- I'm a Man; I Can't Help It: He doesn't act overtly perverted to be a Dirty Kid, but he can't help but stare at Natsumi's chest at feel times, something she mercilessly teases him for, to his embarrassment.
- Impoverished Patrician: Hodaka may come from a lower-upper class or upper-middle class family, but he ends up spending most of his money during his first few days in Tokyo.
- Invisible Parents: His father is only seen in a photograph, but his mother is The Ghost, being completely (and physically) out of the picture. As the novelization confirms that Hodaka was getting beaten up by his dad, some of Hodaka's scenes makes it appear that he is still suffering from the trauma of his father's punches. This is Averted in the final chapter of the manga where they appear at their son's trial.
- Kindhearted Cat Lover: Befriends a black cat, whom he christens Ame.
- The Knights Who Say "Squee!": When we first see Hodaka, he's positively giddy about the rain that pours down on the ferry he is traveling on. The novelization emphasizes that he was letting all of his emotions out.
- Laser-Guided Karma: A heroic version. Karma eventually catches up to Hodaka thanks to the police, but his life on both the island and the mainland improve for the better.
- Limited Wardrobe: While this is justifiable given his runaway status, Hodaka rarely wears a different outfit aside from his black and white shirts in almost every scene up to the morning of Hina’s disappearance.
- Man Bites Man: Does this to Keisuke who stops him while he's on the run to save Hina.
- Meaningful Name: Hodaka means “high sail” reflecting his decision to explore the world, while Morishima means “luxuriant island” which gives the audience a clue towards his background.
- Nice Guy: An odd example: despite starting off as not exactly polite and a rebellious hothead, after warming up to Hina after he rescues her, he becomes very kind and compassionate, and tries to help her with their newfound business. Of course, he'll also do his best to save her when she's sacrificing herself.
- Nice to the Waiter: This is how he first meets Hina when she notices him and gives him a hamburger.
- No Social Skills: He’s shown to be shy and awkward, rather brash, and he even stares at Natsumi’s breasts at least three times, although he remains faultlessly polite in that case. The novelization reveals that he even became more sociable with his schoolmates prior to his return to Tokyo.
- Noodle Incident: If you're that desperate for an answer behind the bandages applied to his face in the beginning, see All There in the Manual and Abusive Parents above.
- Pragmatic Hero: He's not above menacing others with a gun when attacked, may they be thugs or policemen... Or also causing trouble to others to save Hina, for that matter. And, despite his impulsive nature, when fronted by police, he'll always find some kind of underhanded tactic as a way to escape, rather than facing the situation.
- Rebellious Spirit: He would rather live his own life than continue the life he feels forced to live. He does learn to express this and break away after saving Hina.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Hodaka is the Red Oni to Hina's Blue Oni, as he's kind of a hothead and can be very reckless, while Hina, despite being the more cheerful of the duo by far, is also more laid-back and less impulsive.
- Rule of Symbolism: He does not replace his bandages after arriving in Tokyo. This is metaphorical of Hodaka trying to free himself from his father’s control.
- The Runaway: Due to the abuse he suffers at the hands of his father, among a myriad of other possible reasons, Hodaka runs away from Kozushima, which kick-starts the plot of the story.
- Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Often breaks the law, but ultimately for a good reason: saving Hina. Though, initially, it must be said that his reasons were more self-serving, but this changes indeed after meeting the girl.
- Small Town Boredom: A possible interpretation. One of Hodaka’s reasons for running away is that he was simply bored with his endlessly shallow (and neglected) lifestyle on Kozushima, which makes his case all the more similar to Mitsuha from Your Name.
- Spirited Young Lady: A male example, as he's an upper-middle class 16 year-old boy who is also quite awkward, clumsy and very rebellious against the standards and society of his hometown. Becomes full-blown after meeting Hina.
- Start My Own: One of his reasons for running away. In the end, after three years have passed, he severs all ties to his parents for good and actually manages to make full use of his life such as attending a university, resuming his job at K&A Planning and finally, settling down with Hina (probably).
- Street Smart: Becomes this by constantly using tactics to escape from the police.
- Supporting Protagonist: While most of the story is told through Hodaka’s eyes, the main focus is Hina’s role as a weather maiden and finding her purpose to use it.
- Took a Level in Badass: Starts off with a little more than angst, but grows into a courageous, assertive young man who defies authority and danger to do what his heart chooses.
- Troubled, but Cute: Hodaka is ultimately a Nice Guy, as well as a handsome fellow with lots and lots and lots of issues.
- Uptown Boy: Hails from an upper-middle class family, but falls for the poor Hina Amano.
- Welcome to the Big City: For a bunch of reasons concerning his troubled past, he set off to Tokyo on his own in order to escape his abusive father and strict school to live his own life as much as possible. To his dismay, he ends up facing one problem to the next. After a few days, he is unable to find a decent job until he joins forces with K&A Planning and ends up in a McDonalds where he meets Hina.
- White Sheep: Unlike his classmates, (as implied by their personalities in all versions of the story) he hates his home island life due to his Abusive Dad, the island's narrow-minded philosophy and the traumatic stress it's giving him. He falls hard for Hina, and wants to be with her, even if it means a life of financial struggles. After the three year time gap in the film's epilogue, he pursues a simple (or exciting) lifestyle as a university student in Tokyo, partly also because of Hina and if the ending is of any indication, he plans on spending the rest of his life with her.
- Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: His dad hits him, his school chains him down, his island’s stifling small-town mindset is slowly killing him, he has difficulty finding a job, his money doesn’t last long, no ID card, no friends to speak of, is involved with a girl with magical weather changing powers, is on the run from the police for possessing a gun that may or may not belong to them and ends up flooding the capitol of Japan just to save the girl he loves.
Hina Amano
Hina Amano
Voiced by: Nana Mori (Japanese), Ashley Boettcher (English)
The female protagonist of the film. She has the power of atmokinesis, which mostly involves bringing sunlight to the raining city of Tokyo. Because her mother died of a fatal illness, she and her brother Nagi have to fend for themselves. She meets Hodaka at the McDonalds where she works and soon befriends him. Their love affair doesn't last because of certain troubles regarding both the law and the price of her powers.
- Action Girl: If you count her weather-changing powers as this.
- All-Loving Hero: Hina sees the best in people and is kind and supportive to everyone; she's also selfless to a fault, outright sacrificing herself for others.
- Ambiguously Absent Parent: Her father is never mentioned at all.
- Anger Born of Worry: Towards Hodaka. See Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like below.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: She gives Hodaka a hamburger, he saves her from a thug and the two start to develop a friendship toward each other.
- Break the Cutie: But only on a certain scale once the climax starts to settle in.
- Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: The cheerful, optimistic and supportive gentle girl to Hodaka's brooding boy.
- Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like: Does this in a Tsundere way towards Hodaka at first, when he saves her from a duo of thugs. The reason was that he did it with a gun in his hand, shooting the thug in front of him.
- Cue the Sun: Thanks to her magical weather-bending powers, the sun will come out.
- Cynic–Idealist Duo: The idealist to Hodaka's cynic, since she's by far more optimistic than him, supporting and comforting the guy. However, she's also a
Woobie to an extent, and life definitely wasn't fair to her at all. - Deuteragonist: Depending on your interpretation. Hina is the focal character the story revolves around, but part of the story is also dedicated to showing Hodaka's struggle against social hierarchy.
- The Drifter: She often travels around the city looking for part-time jobs, but eventually moves on.
- Disappeared Dad: It is not specified if her father is deceased or divorced and the closest we get to learning about him from the earliest draft of the story is that he simply isn’t there, implying the latter.
- Don't Split Us Up: Hina refuses to accept this trope, should the law catch up with her and her brother.
- Face Death with Dignity: She almost sacrifices herself, but thanks to Hodaka, she survives.
- Foil: To Hodaka's father, who most likely sees Hodaka as a possession, while she sees him as a person. Hodaka himself probably sees this as well.
- She's one to Hodaka as well. Both are adolescents with a complicated family situation, who have also developed street smarts soon, given the difficulties they go through and the issues with authorities related, but while Hodaka is from a fairly wealthy family of control freaks, Hina is poor and has no parents at all; then, Hodaka is rather cynical, impulsive, and could't care the less about collectivity if it means saving Hina from her Heroic Sacrifice, while Hina is an optimistic All-Loving Hero, whose goal is to sacrifice herself so that she can save others from catastrophic events caused by bad weather.
- Four-Philosophy Ensemble: The optimist; despite all she went - and still goes - through, she's a self-sacrificing, never loses her kindness and idealism, and still carries on despite everything.
- Four-Temperament Ensemble: An eclectic - mostly sanguine, with phlegmatic traits - overall; while cheerful, outgoing, optimistic and friendly, not only she's very accommodating, but she also has a calming influence on others, especially Hodaka, and as life didn't come easy at all to her, she also matured pretty soon.
- Free-Fall Romance: Literally; she and Hodaka fall through the skies of Tokyo in the final climax.
- Friend to All Children: Shown with her attitude towards Suga's daughter; at some point, she and Hodaka help other children using their website. She is also very friendly with Nagi.
- Genki Girl: Downplayed actually, she's optimistic, cheerful and quite energetic, but understandably she's something of a Woobie due to what happened to her and what she still goes through. She pushes through regardless, though.
- Good Is Not Dumb: She's extremely kind and with an immensely good heart, yet it's definitely shown she's also clever and knows how to handle very difficult situations. Fitting as she had to grow up soon.
- Good Is Not Soft: She has proven to be this when her powers cause deadly side effects to others, such as causing huge waves of water and creating bolts of lightning at will. However, she just uses her powers to make others live a happy and peaceful life.
- The Heroine: The movie is as much her story as Hodaka’s, and according to Word of God, if the definition of a hero is a person who would save both his significant other and the world, then she would be the one fitting the true status as The Hero.
- Human Sacrifice: Hina’s intended fate. She is willing to sacrifice herself to bring balance to the weather, just minutes before Hodaka comes to her rescue.
- Ideal Hero: Where Hodaka is more of a Pragmatic Hero, being reckless, not above causing trouble to save Hina or menacing lawmen and enemies with a gun, and constantly using underhanded tactics to escape, Hina is an example of Incorruptible Pure Pureness, who just wants to sacrifice herself for humanity. Yes, she may have lied, but that was to have the possibility to work and have enough money to support her little brother, and she's suddenly disgusted at using ruthless tactics like threatening others with guns.
- Incorruptible Pure Pureness: She's a heroic, kind-hearted and selfless girl who just wants to do what's right and sacrifice herself for others.
- Innocent Blue Eyes: They match her being very sweet and good-natured along with being the Love Interest and heroine of the story.
- Intergenerational Friendship: With Suga and his daughter Moka.
- I Will Wait for You: It's pretty clear she was waiting for Hodaka to come back in the epilogue, and she's as adorably happy as a child at that moment.
- Kill It with Water: If she abuses her powers, her body turns into liquid.
- Knight of Cerebus: An indirect, and non-villainous example. But her presence and role as a weather maiden in the film makes several serious conflicts and even adds more drama to the film.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Played for Drama. Towards the ending, Hina has been abusing her power to the point her body turns to liquid and she has to become a sacrifice for the weather gods. Hodaka saves her, but the weather gods are not mocked: in the aftermath of the climax, she loses her powers, Tokyo is doomed to sink and she has go back to finding a normal job.
- Magical Girl: She has the power to bring on the sun and clear the rainy skies.
- Meaningful Name: Hina means “sun greens”, reflecting the sun’s healthy effects in the environment, while Amano means “sky field”, which serves as a foreshadowing as to where she’s heading.
- Meet Cute: Hina can be seen looking back at Hodaka when she gives him the Big Mac.
- Minor Living Alone: With her brother due to her mother’s death and father’s absence.
- Missing Mom: Her mother died a year before the events of the film.
- Nice Girl: There is nothing dislikable about her. Not only she's a Friend to All Children and a girl with a heart of gold who sees the best in people, but she's also selfless even to a fault.
- Only Sane Woman: Actually, if you think of it, she fits here, lacking any of the quirks of the other characters - Hodaka being an impulsive rebel, Keisuke being a gruff smoker and drinker, Natsumi being a talkative, teasing gadfly who Drives Like Crazy and her brother being a mischievous Kid A Nova. Her young age sometimes does show, though.
- The Pollyanna: Hina's more half-and-half. On one half, she is very sweet and cheerful, while on the other half, she's a Woobie.
- Plucky Girl: Even though you can't help feeling sorry for what she went through, she still remains optimistic, cheerful and supportive.
- Promoted to Parent: Becomes this after her mom dies. With no mention of her father or any other relatives to speak of, Hina has to take care of her little brother so that they can keep on living.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Despite being the more cheerful of the duo by far, she's the Blue Oni to Hodaka's Red Oni, being more laid-back and less impulsive, while Hodaka is kind of a hothead and can be very reckless.
- The Runaway: With the law on their tails, Hina, along with Nagi and Hodaka, decides to escape the law to avoid a seemingly miserable life in a foster home. Not to mention the fact that she doesn’t want to risk getting separated from her brother.
- Street Smart: Seems to know her way around after shifting from job to job.
- Tareme Eyes: She has large eyes which have this form along with being Innocent Blue Eyes, fitting her sweet and kind-hearted nature.
- Tragic Keepsake: Her mother’s pendant.
- Tsundere: Surprisingly, but she's still a type B, although a very downplayed example. She's immensely nice and kind-hearted, but her young age and embarrassement whenever her possible crush on Hodaka is mentioned show up at times.
- Weather Manipulation: They don’t call her the 100% Sunshine Girl for nothing.
Nagi Amano
Nagi Amano
Voiced by: Sakura Kiryu (Japanese), Emeka Guindo (English)
Hina's adorable little brother.
- Adorably Precocious Child: The comic relief and is very smart compared with other children around his age.
- Annoying Younger Sibling: Utterly averted. Nagi is very nice to Hina and gets along well with Hodaka, even giving him advice on what to buy for Hina. He can be quite brash, especially after Hodaka has him wearing a teru teru bōzu costume, but the movie makes it clear that that's not necessarily a bad thing.
- Chick Magnet: A lot of girls around his age find him cute.
- Composite Character: A pre-production example. Originally, Hina was supposed to have two sisters. Nagi is a gender-flipped combination of the two.
- Determinator / Wholesome Crossdresser: After Hodaka is arrested and his sister is waiting to be devoured by the weather gods, Nagi makes a concerted effort to help bring her back by swapping clothes with one of his girlfriends.
- Disappeared Dad: It is not specified if his father is deceased or divorced and the closest we get to learning about him from the earliest draft of the story is that he simply isn’t there, implying the latter.
- Don't Split Us Up: He runs away along with Hodaka and his sister so that he and Hina can stay together.
- Kidanova: He is very young, yet he's already something of a casanova. He actually manages to escape the police by having an ex-girlfriend switch clothes with him.
- Lovable Jock: He's a charming, athletic and attractive kid, very popular among the opposite sex, and a Nice Guy as well.
- Meaningful Name: Nagi means “calm”, which reflects his personality as a whole.
- Minor Living Alone: With his sister due to his mother’s death and father’s absence.
- Missing Mom: His mother died a year before the events of the film.
- Nice Guy: Very friendly and caring toward his friends and sister. He even helped Hodaka find a birthday present for Hina during the soccer scene.
- The Runaway: He tries to escape the law along with his sister and Hodaka.
- Shipper on Deck: Supports Hodaka and Hina’s relationship all the way.
- Tagalong Kid: Justified. After Takai and his forces figure out that he and his sister are living all by themselves, Nagi becomes a positive third wheel in Hodaka and Hina's escape from the law.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Subverted. He is last seen in the flesh tackling the old cop so Hodaka can make his way to the rooftop shrine to rescue Hina, and a later photo shows him with Keisuke's family, but whether or not he reunites with Hina is open to interpretation.
- Wise Beyond Their Years: One of the reasons that separates him from being a little brother stereotype. He is very mature and he helps Hodaka with some ideas on what to buy for Hina.
Keisuke Suga
Keisuke Suga
Voiced by: Shun Oguri (Japanese), Lee Pace (English)
A man who saves Hodaka from falling off the ferry to Tokyo. He runs K&A Planning, which does ghostwriting for tabloids.
- The Alcoholic: He has Hodaka buy him a beer at their first encounter, and alcohol is rarely far from his lips. Natsumi often calls him out on it.
- All There in the Manual: He is developed further in both the manga and the light novelization.
- Bait the Dog: He first appears as a nice guy after saving Hodaka from falling overboard, but then he mooches off of him. This is later downplayed as he never does anything indecent.
- Brutal Honesty: He does not make light of the fact that Hina is beyond saving once he reaches Hodaka in the abandoned building. Hodaka proves him wrong.
- Character Development: He is initially interested in only making money off of his tabloids, but at the end, he is so moved by Hodaka’s desire to save Hina that he immediately gives him enough money to find a place for them to stay.
- Commonality Connection: He too ran away to Tokyo when he was about Hodaka's age and it's implied that he did it for the same reason: He and his father never got along. He also lost the woman he loved and so he sympathizes with Hodaka's wish to save Hina.
- Contrived Coincidence: For some nutty reason, he just so happens to be on the same ferry that Hodaka is on. Which leads to the former saving the latter's life.
- Drowning My Sorrows: One of the reasons he drinks.
- Establishing Character Moment: After we are introduced to Hodaka, he shows up out of nowhere and saves him from going overboard. This makes it clear that he does actually care for other people. This is Zig-Zagged as he mooches off of Hodaka, but later on he's seen as supportive towards him.
- Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The foolish to his brother’s responsible.
- Four-Philosophy Ensemble: The apathetic, since he's often aloof and generally has a rather neutral, sleazy attitude.
- Four-Temperament Ensemble: Phlegmatic type 2 very probably, since he easily appears to be pretty laid-back and levelheaded, especially compared to Hodaka. Then, it becomes evident that he still carries sorrows on his shoulders... And after all Hodaka is a boy, while Kei is an adult.
- Freudian Excuse: Keisuke may be a bit of a jerk, but since his wife died and his parents favored his brother more than him, can you really blame him if he wants to take it out on somebody?
- Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: While confronting Hodaka in the derelict building, he tries to talk Hodaka down into surrendering, which could be seen as an Epic Fail after everything Hodaka did to get there. This statement earns him a well deserved glare from Hodaka and prompts Hodaka to call him out for maintaining such a calm attitude amidst his girlfriend going missing.
- Grumpy Old Man: Not actually old, but the other main characters are all between childhood and young age under 25, while he's in his 40s, and he's rather gruff. That said, he's quite kind and genuinely caring underneath his grumpy attitude.
- Hero of Another Story: Has a similar backstory with Hodaka’s, but with tragic results.
- Intergenerational Friendship: With Hodaka and Hina.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Downplayed. He may be kinda gruff and sleazy towards others, even Hodaka, but he's ultimately quite kind, cares deeply for his daughter Moka, allows Natsumi to live with him, and cares for Hodaka and Hina later on. It doesn't take until Hodaka tries to rescue Hina for him to sympathize with his actions.
- The Lost Lenore: His wife.
- The Mourning After: He still misses his wife.
- Only in It for the Money: He pays a lot of lip service to the myths he writes about and is only focused on obtaining the profits. Despite Tokyo flooding in the end, he actually succeeds in expanding his business.
- Parental Substitute: Hodaka has a much better relationship with Keisuke than his own father. It's pretty apparent that Hodaka sees him this way, even if he is a bit of an asshole at times.
- Perma-Stubble: His facial hair never seems to leave him.
- Precision F-Strike: He gets to be the film's main source of profanity.
- The Runaway: See other tropes above and below. His backstory is basically an adult mirror of Hodaka’s.
- Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: The Savvy Guy to Natsumi's Energetic Girl. He's a cynical realist, while she's always cheerful and positive.
- Shipper on Deck: He has full support of Hodaka and Hina's relationship as a couple.
- Smoking Is Not Cool: One of his character flaws. He even tries to kick the habit in order to get Moka back.
- Tragic Keepsake: His wife’s ring.
- The Unfavorite: It is also implied that he ran away because he was an anti "Well Done, Son" Guy who was tired of living under the shadow of his more successful older brother (Natsumi’s father) and the expectations his parents had for him.
- Uptown Guy: Comes from a family of legislators who fell in love with a city girl.
- White Sheep: Also like Hodaka, he was rebellious against his parents' and society's expectations for him.
Natsumi
Natsumi
Voiced by: Tsubasa Honda (Japanese), Alison Brie (English)
A recent graduate who works for Keisuke while trying to find employment. Is really his niece.
- Aborted Arc: She spends some moments in the film looking for a real job away from K&A Planning. Whether or not she got one or chose to stay with K&A after the time skip can only be guessed.
- Badass Driver: She's very fast on a scooter, which comes in handy when helping Hodaka escape from the police forces.
- Bare Midriffs Are Feminine: She often wears shirts that expose her belly, accentuating her sexy, feminine figure.
- Buxom Beauty Standard: She has a very well-endowed bust, which both Hodaka and the camera fixate on.
- Commonality Connection: It's later revealed that like Hodaka and Keisuke, she too has daddy issues and has left her father to live with her uncle, determined to get manage her life by herself, which is implied to be why she related to Hodaka's status as The Runaway.
- Cool Big Sis: She acts like a cool and supportive older figure to Hodaka, and later to Hina.
- Deadpan Snarker: Natsumi is arguably the most sarcastic character in the film and has a somewhat mischievous sense of humor.
- Drives Like Crazy: On her scooter, though it's justified since she's there to help Hodaka escape from the police.
- Fangirl: In contrast to Keisuke, she's actually a fan of urban legends and gets invested in their stories.
- Four-Philosophy Ensemble: The realist, surprisingly. Despite her optimism and generally playful attitude, she's actually very capable of being levelheaded, and is the one looking out for facts through her job.
- Four-Temperament Ensemble: Sanguine; she's very outgoing, cheerful, friendly, kind and helpful, as well as flirty and teasing.
- The Gadfly: She's shown to have a somewhat mischievous sense of humor, telling Hodaka twice she guessed he was staring at her breasts. That said, she's one of the most kind-hearted characters in the movie.
- Genki Girl: In addition to being somewhat immature at times, she's very cheerful and energetic.
- Lascivious Beauty Mark: She has a mole underneath her left eye, and is an attractive and pretty flirtatious young woman who likes to act as The Tease and The Gadfly, intentionally flustering other characters often by joking around (as seen with Hodaka when she guesses he was staring at her breasts).
- Motor Mouth: Tends to run her mouth off when stressed.
- Ms. Fanservice: The camera focuses on her breasts and cleavage quite a bit, and she often wears fairly revealing clothes.
- Nephewism: Keisuke is actually her uncle, and not her girlfriend like Hodaka initially assumed. She went to live with in after an argument with her father caused her to run from home.
- Nice Girl: She is very sweet, accommodating, selfless, and helpful towards Hodaka, and for most of the time she's also sympathetic with Kei despite his gruff antics.
- Rebellious Spirit: Also like Hodaka, she too was dissatisfied with her high-class upbringing and decided to live with her uncle. Overlaps with Rebellious Princess.
- Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: The Energetic girl to Keisuke's Savvy Guy. She's always cheerful and positive, while he's a cynical realist.
- The Tease: She seems to be fond of making others feel flustered, as seen in her interactions with Hodaka about her boobs joke, and with Hina about her possibly having a thing for Hodaka. She always does it in a benevolent way, though.
- Uptown Girl: She's the daughter of a government official or politician.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Subverted. Natsumi helps Hodaka reach the shrine, but she is not seen or mentioned again after Hodaka returns to Tokyo in the epilogue, though it's implied she was arrested with helping Hodaka like the others. She is, however, seen in a photograph alongside Nagi, Keisuke and her cousin.
- White Sheep: She is in the same boat as Hodaka and her uncle: a rebel of society.
- Womanchild: Downplayed as she's still very young, being in her first twenties, but she comes across as somewhat lazy and immature at times.
Moka Suga
Moka Suga
Voiced by: Moe Katsuragi (Japanese), Lexie Foley (English)
The daughter of Keisuke who Hodaka and Hina befriend.
- All There in the Manual: Hodaka, in the light novel, states that by 2024, she is still living with her grandparents.
- Children Are Innocent: Looks, sounds, and acts about five.
- Raised by Grandparents: Her grandparents hold legal custody over her due to Keisuke being an on-and-off deadbeat dad.
Ame
Ame
A black cat whom Hodaka befriends.
- Cool Cat: He takes a liking to Hodaka.
- Dub Name Change: Named Rain in the English dub, a literal translation of his Japanese name.
- Formerly Fit: He gained a lot of weight during the timeskip.
- From Stray to Pet: It’s quite clear that he is a stray by the time Hodaka meets and takes him in. He is eventually adopted by the Sugas.
- Undying Loyalty: He stays with the Sugas even after the flooding of Tokyo.
Takai
Takai
A police investigator who’s hot on the trail of our three young runaways.
- The Bad Guy Wins: In the span of one day, he actually succeeds in arresting Hodaka, but the boy escapes and an exciting chase scene to the shrine ensues. After Hodaka prevents Hina’s sacrifice, he arrests Hodaka again, for good this time and ships him back to his home island while he has Suga, Hina and the others thrown in jail. The closest thing he gets to a comeuppance is Suga punching him in the face.
- Delinquent Hair: Inverted. He has a big 1950s pompadour, a hairstyle heavily associated with Greaser Delinquents and Japanese Delinquents in numerous anime and manga, but is a police detective, albeit, an unfriendly one.
- The Dragon: To the higher ups in the Tokyo Police Department and possibly even Hodaka’s parents, who have given him the task of bringing their son home. What’s worse about this plausible connection is that he may or may not be aware of how physically abusive Hodaka’s father is.
- The Heavy: While Hodaka’s parents and the weather gods could be seen as the bigger threat as a whole, he is the main antagonistic character and the one most visibly trying to get in the way of Hodaka, Hina and Nagi’s happiness.
- Inspector Javert: He suspects Hodaka of owning a gun that may or may not belong to his cohort Shibata and becomes more and more aware that Hina and Nagi are living alone. After putting two and two together, Takai becomes obsessed with catching Hodaka, Hina and Nagi. Also, he is in some ways a policeman, so this fits.
- Jerkass: He may be doing his own job but there's nothing likable about him as he's antagonistic and abusive towards Hodaka without taking the time to listen to his reasons regarding Hina's disappearance after he apprehends him.
- Knight of Cerebus: As bad as the nightclub thug was, it is Takai's appearance that kicks the human opposition to our protagonists into high gear.
- Lack of Empathy: Has no regards to Hodaka's feelings and treats him as an annoyance, disregarding his obvious emotional distress. Even when a fellow cop suggests that the first order of business should be getting Hodaka a psychiatrist, he brushes it off.
- Lawful Evil: He serves as an antagonist to the three runaways simply because he is doing his job.
- Lean and Mean: He’s very thin and a massive Jerkass, but not entirely.
- No Sympathy: His goal is to catch Hodaka for his crimes and put Hina and Nagi into foster care, and in doing this, he makes no attempt to offer comfort or reassurance or understand why they do what they do. The same goes for almost everyone on his payroll. This does bites him in the ass, as his questionable handling of the situation pushes Hodaka to run off.
- Shipping Torpedo: Indirect and subverted. He has no intention of destroying Hodaka and Hina's relationship, but his actions come off as so. He does succeed…for about three years until the two are reunited.
- Villainous Breakdown: When it's clear that Hodaka won’t come quietly without getting Hina back, he tries to shoot the poor boy.
- Villainy-Free Villain: About the worst thing about Takai is his Lack of Empathy towards Hodaka's clear distress. Outside of that, he never actually crosses any moral line, even with him pretty firmly portrayed as the "bad cop."
- Would Hurt a Child: Pulls a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown on Hodaka before he is ambushed by Suga. Not to mention trying to shoot the boy during the climax when he's trying to run up the building to save Hina.
- Yank the Dog's Chain: Just when it looks as though Hodaka, Hina and Nagi are going to escape the law for good, Hina disappears, he arrests Hodaka for stealing Shibata's gun and it’s all a huge chase scene from here.
Yasui
Yasui
Voiced by: Sei Hiraizumi (Japanese), Mike Pollock (English)
An old policeman who works with Takai.
- Eyes Always Shut: He rarely shows his eyes, but he still can move around just fine.
- Good Cop/Bad Cop: Compared to his younger partner Takai, Yasui is a much kinder person. He never really go out of his way to hurt anyone in his pursuit of Hodaka, at least attempting to understand what motivates Hodaka to do what he did, and treats his interrogation with Keisuke much better than how Takai treated Hodaka. Of course, he still pulled a gun on Hodaka along with the other officers in the climax, but to be fair, Hodaka was pulling a gun on them, too, and while Takai is getting itchy to fire the first shot, Yasui instead desperately tries to talk Hodaka down peacefully and keeps his gun down.
- Inspector Javert: Suspects Hodaka of stealing Shibata’s gun. Downplayed as he comes off has much more reasonable and sympathetic than Takai.
- Oh, Crap!: When Nagi attacks him in drag.
- Punch-Clock Villain: Not really a villain, but he tries to apprehend Hodaka, Hina and Nagi because it’s his job. He actually comes off as a pretty decent guy and doesn't treat Hodaka and company any more badly than the job requires.
- Satellite Character: He’s only seen in a few scenes, most of which involve him hovering around Takai.
- Sympathy for the Hero: Admits that he envies Hodaka's youthful passion for Hina.
- Token Good Teammate: He’s the softest member of the Tokyo Police Department.
Mrs. Mamiya
Mrs. Mamiya
Voiced by: Sumi Shimamoto (Japanese), Barbara Rosenblat (English)
Keisuke Suga's mother-in-law.
- All There in the Manual: She still holds custody over Moka, even by 2024, or so Hodaka tells us in the light novel.
- Evil Matriarch: Not so much evil as appearing to be a very proper and well-meaning lady who prioritizes her granddaughter's happiness and health over things like her father taking legal custody of her.
- Grand Dame: She appears to be pretty wealthy and she's old enough to be one.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She cares for Moka, but is sadly preventing her from living with her only living parent due to his constant smoking, among other irresponsible decisions he's made.
- Jerkass Has a Point: She holds some form of contempt for Keisuke for a myriad of reasons, including the death of her only daughter.
- Love-Obstructing Parents: It's implied that she and her husband were against Keisuke and Asuka's relationship from the beginning. In the light novel, Natsumi even clarifies that the Mamiyas were at war with the Sugas before the wedding even started.
- Obnoxious Entitled Housewife: Being an upper class Grande Dame makes her one by default with her mildly condescending attitude towards Suga, but it’s clear that all she wants in return is for him to become a better father while she longs for the sun to come out again.
- Pet the Dog: Does let Keisuke see his daughter when he cleans up his act.
- Took a Level in Kindness: A passing mention from Hodaka in the light novel (“his relationship with his wife’s parents isn’t a bad one,”) implies that she and her husband had softened up with Keisuke during the timeskip.
- Women Are Wiser: She calls Keisuke out for his smoking being a factor in Moka's asthma.
Asuka Suga
Asuka Suga
Keisuke’s late wife.
- All There in the Manual: The manga and the light novel imply that she too may have been a weather maiden.
- Deceased Parents Are the Best: Given what we know of her, she was a very loving mother to Moka.
- Posthumous Character: She is already dead by the events of the story.
- Rule of Symbolism: The camera focuses on hers and Keisuke’s wedding rings a few times, suggesting that Keisuke still misses her and is seeing a repeat of his life in the form of Hodaka.
Ayane Hanazawa
Ayane Hanazawa
Voiced by: Ayane Sakura (Japanese), Emma de Paauw (English)
One of Nagi’s old romances.- Defrosting Ice Queen: For some reason, she and Nagi are no longer dating, but she makes up for him in the climax.
- Small Role, Big Impact: She swaps clothes with Nagi during the climax off-screen, allowing Nagi to pull a Big Damn Hero moment on Hodaka so that he can rescue his sister.
Kana
Kana
Voiced by: Kana Hanazawa (Japanese), Echo Picone (English)
Nagi’s current belle.
- The Quiet One: She only has a few lines.
- Second Love: To Nagi.
Fumi Tachibana
Fumi Tachibana
Voiced by: Chieko Baisho (Japanese), Barbara Goodson (English)
The grandmother of Taki Tachibana.
- Action Survivor: Despite her old age, she survives the sinking of Tokyo.
- Cool Old Lady: Knows a lot about the weather maiden legend and the early history of Tokyo.
- Intergenerational Friendship: With Hodaka, Hina and Nagi.
- Remember the New Guy?: Not once in any version of Your Name did Taki ever mention having a grandmother.
Megumi Amano
Megumi Amano
Hina and Nagi’s late mother.
- All There in the Manual / A Day in the Limelight: The manga gives Megumi a chapter which depicts her passing on her pendant to Hina.
- Deceased Parents Are the Best: She was a very loving mom towards her children, as seen in the manga.
- Foil: To Mr. and Mrs. Morishima.
- Like Mother, Like Daughter: She too was a Sunny Girl, who most likely passed her atmokinetic powers onto Hina. She may also come from a long line of sunny girls too.
- Posthumous Character: She is already dead when Hodaka arrives, which is about a year later.
Mr. and Mrs. Morishima
Mr. and Mrs. Morishima
As seen in the manga.
Hodaka's parents. While they care for him, they see high expectations before their son’s happiness.
- Abusive Parents:
- Mr. Morishima is this to Hodaka, whom he strikes in frustration for no particular reason other than the possibility of Hodaka going though a rebellious phase.
- Mrs. Morishima is clearly the lesser of the two, given the letter that Hodaka writes to her in the first chapter of the manga.
- All There in the Manual: They are slightly expanded upon in the light novel and the manga.
- Big Bad: Of Hodaka’s side of the story.
- Control Freak: Mr. Morishima is strongly implied to be domineering and controlling towards Hodaka, as exemplified by the photograph of him and his son at the school open house as well as Hodaka's feelings towards him in the novelization and the manga.
- Everyone Has Standards: Depending on your interpretation. When Hodaka runs away and goes missing for three months, his parents, despite their treatment of him, file a missing person’s report to bring him back.
- Evil Counterpart: Mr. Morishima is one to Keisuke Suga.
- Fantasy-Forbidding Father: Mr. Morishima is implied to be one.
- Freudian Excuse: Can you really hate them if they were simply doing what they believed was best for Hodaka?
- The Ghost: Without physically appearing in the film, their prescience is still felt within some of Hodaka's scenes.
- Greater-Scope Villain / Small Role, Big Impact: Without any screentime, they are basically responsible for all the bad things that happened to Hodaka on the island as well as the cause of him running away.
- Invisible Parents: Mr. Morishima averts this trope, appearing in the photographs that Takai gives to Hina, but his wife plays this straight in the film and novelization.
- Averted in the manga, as pictured above.
- Jerkass: Mr. Morishima regards Hodaka as a possession and a "Well Done, Son" Guy to be controlled, makes an abusive father and is apparently very strict with his family. It doesn’t take until Hodaka runs off on them to make him realize what he had done.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Every time they're referenced prior the climax, simply reinforces the notion that they could never make Hodaka happy. But given how concerned they were in the final half of the story, it's very likely that they did care for Hodaka after all.
- Kick the Dog: They weren't very nice with Hodaka before he made the decision to run away.
- Laser-Guided Karma: For reasons that can only be speculated at, Mr. Morishima was (presumably) an abusive tyrant who made life a living hell for Hodaka. His actions end up driving Hodaka away and result in him meeting Hina in Tokyo, leaving him and his wife under a cloud of worry.
- Meaningful Name: Morishima means “luxuriant island”, and given the way they dress among other hidden details, they could be upper-middle class.
- My God, What Have I Done?: It can be interpreted that they finally realized that their actions drove Hodaka away and they enlisted Takai's help to bring him back home. The looks on their faces during Hodaka's trial in the manga are of concern and worry.
- No Name Given: They are referred to by Hodaka as “his parents”, while their surnames are pretty obvious.
- Parents as People: Given what we know about them, they do love Hodaka, but their actions means they neglect Hodaka’s emotional health in favor of their own goals (as is often the case with most parents in fiction). It can also be assumed that Mr. Morishima does feel horrible when he finds out his son ran away.
- Took a Level in Kindness: The novelization and the manga imply that they had a change of heart after Hodaka came back.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: In some ways, Mr. and Mrs. Morishima are also responsible for the foundering of Tokyo. After all, it was their actions that lead to Hodaka running away and meeting Hina.
- Useless Bystander Parent: Mrs. Morishima could very well be one since Hodaka made no mention of her hitting him. His letter to her in the manga could also count.
- Why Couldn't You Be Different?: A possible interpretation of Mr. Morishima’s cruel treatment of Hodaka.
- Would Hurt a Child: Hodaka explains in the novelization that the reason why he wanted to go after the light was because his father slapped him across the face off-screen.
Taki Tachibana and Mitsuha Miyamizu
Taki Tachibana and Mitsuha Miyamizu
Taki voiced by: Ryunosuke Kamiki (Japanese), Michael Sinterniklaas (English)
Mitsuha voiced by: Mone Kamishiraishi (Japanese), Stephanie Sheh (English)
Mitsuha voiced by: Mone Kamishiraishi (Japanese), Stephanie Sheh (English)
The protagonists of Makoto Shinkai's previous work, Your Name. Taki makes an appearance visiting his grandmother, coincides with Hodaka and Hina's visit. Mitsuha on the other hand appears as a saleswoman selling a ring to Hodaka while he is finding a gift for Hina.
- Alliterative Name: Taki Tachibana and Mitsuha Miyamizu
- All There in the Manual: The light novel reveals that they got married during the three-year time skip.
- The Cameo: Both of them appear briefly interacting with Hodaka and helping to improve his relationship with Hina.
- Commonality Connection: Mitsuha’s backstory is most likely similar to that of Hodaka’s and Suga’s.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: Mitsuha comes from a troubled family where her father neglected her for most of her childhood after her mother passed away. She also has her hometown destroyed by a comet, in which she died in one timeline, and was separated from her soulmate for eight years. By the time of the epilogue of this movie, she and Taki are married, finally giving Mitsuha some degree of happiness for once in her life.
- Hero of Another Story: Said story being Your Name, of course.
- Important Hair Accessory: Mitsuha still wears her red ribbon from her childhood, which represents the Red String of Fate between her and Taki.
- Official Couple: As confirmed by Shikai during an interview, both Taki and Mitsuha are married by the time of the epilogue of this movie. In the novelization of the movie, Taki's grandmother has a wedding photo of him and his bride.
- One Degree of Separation: Unknown to Hodaka (but not to the audience), the grandson of one of his clients and the saleswoman he bought a ring from know each other (though judging by the timeline, they have yet to reunite).
- Out of the Frying Pan: Mitsuha had to alter time in order to survive the destruction of her village nearly a decade ago, only to encounter another disaster at her new home in Tokyo in the form of a three year long flood.
The Weather Gods
The Weather Gods
The omnipresent gods who control the weather based on the principles of Human Sacrifice.
- Big Bad: Of Hina’s side of the story. Given their hierarchy, they might as well could be the real villains of the movie.
- Eldritch Abomination: They punish Hodaka, Hina and the citizens of Tokyo with a never ending rainfall. It's implied through dialogue that the whole world's being punished for Hodaka'a actions, just that Tokyo is suffering the worst of it.
- Gaia's Vengeance: A possible interpretation of their post-movie agenda. Both Tokyo and a few other regions of Japan are shown with biblical levels of water or neverending downpour, implying they've punished the Earth, or at least Japan, due to Hodaka's actions.
- The Ghost: They are only depicted on the walls of the priest's temple.
- Greater-Scope Villain: Without so much as making a physical appearance, they are practically responsible for all of the bad things that happen to Hina in the story.
- Jerkass Gods: They require Human Sacrifice, so it comes with the territory. Them punishing an entire country, if not the whole world, to gradually be flooded for one person's actions also counts.
- Laser-Guided Karma: They are in control of this troupe by punishing the people of Tokyo, and possibly the rest of the world if not Japan, for not allowing Hodaka to let Hina’s sacrifice proceed as planned.
- Our Gods Are Different: These gods are in control of bringing balance to the weather, which can only work if a weather maiden (i.e. Hina) is sacrificed.
