History Anime / WeatheringWithYou

* TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse: The Kanto region, of which Tokyo is part of and the main setting of this film, is inundated with unusually heavy rainfall and [[spoiler:the price extracted for denying Hina's sacrifice is the flooding of much of the city]], with no mention of any other country being plagued by it.

* FantasticAesop: The movie's ending gives two. [[spoiler:Saving the girl you have a crush on is the most important thing in life, no matter how many people it could endanger. And humanity hasn't been living in harmony with nature, so it doesn't matter if millions of innocent people lose their homes if not their lives and much of a city becomes uninhabitable.]]

* FamilyPortraitOfCharacterization: The photograph of that Takai presents to Hina shows an unhappy Hodaka with his prideful dad.

* RunningGag: Hodoka gets caught looking at a girl in a momentarily revealing position and challenged on it by her, prompting him to deny that he was looking.
* RunningGagged: [[spoiler:When Hina opens her robe in the hotel to show him that her torso is almost completely translucent, she accuses him of looking at her breasts (as he keeps doing by accident in other instances) in an attempt to lighten the mood. Hodoka initially denies it, then tearfully breaks down sobbing while admitting that he did look.]]

* TheHeavy: A traditional BigBad, as in a entity driving the plot by his deliberate, malicious action, is hard to pin down in this story[[note]]The laws Hodaka gets in trouble with by flouting and the weather gods are too impersonal to really count, and while Hodaka's parents push things along by making the police aware of his runaway status, they are never confronted or even appear onscreen[[/note]], Inspector Takai and his army of policemen and women are, in many different ways, the most visible antagonistic forces to Hodaka, Hina and Nagi.

* ConscienceMakesYouGoBack: [[spoiler:After the police start sniffing around his office for Hodaka, Suga kicks him out so as to not endanger his custody situation with his daughter. The guilt, along with Natsumi and Rain's disapproval, causes him to go look for Hodaka the next day to try to help him out with the police. When things go south in the ruined building as Hodaka races for the the weather shrine, Suga interferes with the police so that Hodaka can reach it, even when he had a gun pointed at him just moments before]].

* MagicalRealism: The only fantastic elements in the story are the weather maiden legend, the weather gods and the supernatural ecosystem of water fish.

* TookALevelInKindness: It’s implied in the light novelization that Hodaka’s mother and father saw the error of their ways and gave him a warm, yet awkward return.

** One of the articles Keisuke shows Hodaka when introducing what K&A Planning does is titled [[spoiler:"human sacrifices that protect Tokyo".]]

* ContinuityNod: [[spoiler:Taki and Mitsuha of ''Anime/YourName'' fame both have minor roles in this movie, though, ironically, their names are not mentioned apart from a fleeting glimpse of "Tachibana" at the former's grandmother's house. WordOfGod says that this story takes place just before they re-encountered each other as adults.]]

* ProductPlacement: Hodaka goes to Yahoo Japan to ask questions twice. TruthInTelevision, as Yahoo is Japan's most popular search engine.

* RelativeError: [[spoiler:Natsumi and Suga are fairly comfortable around each other, leading Hodaka to assume that they're a couple. To his embarrassment, the two are actually uncle and niece, making their relationship purely familial. In Hodaka's defence, Natsumi did pointedly (although possibly unintentionally) give him this impression when they first met (holding up her hand with little finger extended, indicating they're in a relationship).]]

* TheCameo: [[spoiler: Taki, Mitsuha, Tessie, Sayaka and Yotsuha from Makoto Shinkai's earlier work ''Anime/YourName'']] appear at separate points in the film.

* InternalHomage: The DistantFinale follows an earlier scene in showing similar shots of Hodaka on a ferry coming to Tokyo. It serves to demonstrate how [[spoiler:the flooding caused by Hina's rescue]] has changed things.

* InternalHomage: The DistantFinale follows an earlier scene by showing Hodaka on a ferry coming to Tokyo. It serves to demonstrate how [[spoiler:the flooding caused by Hina's rescue]] has changed things.

A novel adaptation also by Shinkai was released on July 18, 2019, while a manga adaptation by Watari Kubota began in Kodansha's ''Afternoon'' on July 25.

* AgeCut: Hodaka, in the novelization, is an eighteen year old man, reflecting on his time in Tokyo. The book is a series of flashbacks of his 16-year-old self.

* AllThereInTheManual: The light novelization more or less confirms that Hodaka’s parents (or his father at least) were indeed abusive, and one of the reasons he ran away from home was because of the island’s stifling, perhaps indifferent mindset. When he returned home, his parents and his school gave him an awkward, but warm welcome, implying that they softened up.

** While the supernatural has been part of the film since the first scene, the appearances of the [[spoiler:dragon-''kamisama'' feel more like something out of kaiju film or CosmicHorrorStory. After all, what else do you call entities big enough to stretch across the sky to which most humans are insignificant gnats?]]

The movie was released in Japan on July 19, 2019, with [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/daily-briefs/2019-09-20/makoto-shinkai-weathering-with-you-film-unveils-poster-for-added-4dx-mx4d-screenings/.151340 4DX editions starting September 27.]] Worldwide releases followed afterward, including a premiere at [[https://tiff.net/events/weathering-with-you the Toronto International Film Festival in September]], which is [[http://www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/articles/AJ201908310001.html Japan's first submission]] to the TIFF since ''Anime/TheWindRises'' in 2013. An English dub produced by Creator/NYAVPost was released January 2020 by Creator/{{GKIDS}}. Japanese DVD and Blu-Ray release was on May 27, 2020. [[https://twitter.com/GKIDSfilms/status/1265313178700910595 English digital release will be August 4, 2020, while physical release will be September 15.]]