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* OlderThanTheyThink: Although without the FreakyFridayFlip shenanigans, there have been previous works involving characters [[spoiler:communicating across time]], including but not limited to ''Film/{{Frequency}}'', ''Il Mare'' and its Hollywood remake ''The Lake House''. All the three mentioned here also have [[spoiler:one side being DeadAllAlong and SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong]] elements. ''Frequency'' also has the communication being tied to a cosmic event - the aurora borealis in its case, Comet Tiamat for here. There is also one major significant different between ''Il Mare'', and by extension ''The Lake House'', and this work. [[spoiler:In those live-action works, there is a period of time during the past and present characters' interactions across time in which the person in the past is still living in the present person's time, until their death in some way, shape, or form, and with them dying in the arms of the person in the present, the latter not knowing this fact until later. In this work, by the time Mitsuha and Taki start jumping between other and time, Mitsuha had already been dead for almost 3 years.]]

* SugarWiki/AwesomeArt: Those long scenery shots will leave you in awe, and are a CreatorThumbprint of Creator/MakotoShinkai. Even people who don't like the film give it credit.

** Despite breaking box office records in Japan, the film had to settle for the recognition of Excellent Animation of the Year by the Japan Academy, while ''Manga/InThisCornerOfTheWorld'' won as ''Best'' Animation of the Year. The film did win two other contested Japan Academy prizes (Best Screenplay - Makoto Shinkai and Outstanding Achievement in Music - Music/{{RADWIMPS}}).

* HarsherInHindsight: In the film's ending, [[spoiler:as Taki is applying for an architect job, one of the comments he uses to convince employers to hire him is "You never know when Tokyo might disappear as well...".]] Come ''Anime/WeatheringWithYou'''s ending, [[spoiler:Taki's prediction - which happens chronologically after said flooding would have occurred - actually comes true when most of Tokyo is flooded due to the neverending rainfall.]]

** Despite breaking box office records in Japan, the film had to settle for the recognition of Excellent Animation of the Year by the Japan Academy, while ''Manga/InThisCornerOfTheWorld'' won as ''Best'' Animation of the Year. The film did win two other contested Japan Academy prizes (Best Screenplay - Makoto Shinkai and Outstanding Achievement in Music - RADWIMPS).

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: All songs in the film qualify, courtesy of RADWIMPS.

* FanPreferredCouple:
** Miki and Tsukasa both wore engagement rings in the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue. While the story does not provide any information on who they are married to (and the novelization even hinted that it's not between the two of them), fans often preferred to depict the two as being married to each other. The {{Funny Background Event}}s that the two did when accompanying Taki on his attempt to find Mitsuha is very much interpretable as ShipTease.
** There are loads of fan content that pair Miki with Mitsuha. This is very much a result of the fact that most of the interactions that pushed Miki and Taki closer are actually initiated by Mitsuha in Taki's body, and it is shown that Miki likes Mitsuha's version of Taki more than the actual Taki.

* {{Narm}}:
** Mitsuha's grandmother's repeated delivery of the ''musubi'' line as she calls seemingly everything an example of it starts to veer into OverlyLongGag territory and get a bit awkward after a while.
** Taki declaring his intention to remember Mitsuha's name after [[spoiler:she disappears from the twilight meeting at the lip of the mountain shrine crater starts out powerful, but it becomes a bit odd after he starts interspersing it with asking himself who he was trying to remember, and also being too distraught or something to even recover the marker and write her name until only after he's said it a few times. Even if he didn't know the right kanji, he could probably have written the hiragana, which Mitsuha had done so before.]]

*** Posting screencaps set to {{Music/Journey}}'s "Don't Stop Believin".

** There are loads of fan content that pair Miki with Mitsuha. This is very much a result of the fact that most of the interactions that pushed Miki and Taki closer are actually initiated by Mitsuha!Taki, and it is shown that Miki likes Mitsuha!Taki more than Taki!Taki.

** TheReveal that Hitoha [[spoiler:once had her own FreakyFridayFlip as a child]] might have been better given to Toshiki, and provided him with the kick he needed [[spoiler:to take his estranged daughter's apocalyptic raving seriously.]] The film actually builds up to something like this, what with Toshiki's [[DisappearedDad surprising]] insight into Mitsuha's altered personality, but the trigger is never pulled and we're [[RiddleForTheAges left to guess]] at how Mitsuha changed his mind.