Which one did you like more?
Your Name
60.2%
386
Weathering With You
39.8%
255
641 votes
| Both of these works are by Shinkai Makoto. I was curious to know how everyone felt on the two movies. I personally preferred this movie quite a bit in comparison to Your Name. Your Name is a body swap theme, which I literally eat those up, so I am a bit surprised I did enjoy Weathering With You more in comparison. What were your guys' thoughts? I think the big difference for me is that I enjoyed the ending a bit more. I think overall too, all of the friendships and characters that are created in WWY are stronger than those within YN. |
Phoenix_TriteJun 24, 2020 8:29 PM
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| Weathering with you had a lot better supporting characters imo and better ending. I really liked Nagi’s character ! |
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| Your Name for sure. Weathering was really muddled with its environmental message and mythology. Had a lot more moving parts to it than any other Shinkai works I've seen, which Id normally call a good thing, but Shinkai is at his best when he's executing fundamentals at a high level. Plus the end of Your Name was just plain excelent, especially when stacked up against Weathering's end |
| I probably need to think about it more later but for now I prefer this to Your Name. The torii gate teleportation is probably just as stupid as the meteors and timetravel shit in Your Name, but the latter stuff still annoys me to this day. Another thing that is probably still kind of hazy, I think Your Name overused excessively detailed backgrounds scene to scene which became distracting, they're better paced here. |
| I kinda portray both of those movies in same light but your name gets ahead mostly because of brilliant aesthetics. |
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| They had a Futari wa Precure cameo with the same voice actresses. That hit me with level 1000 nostalgia back in middle school! The comedy and the shots were hilarious and timed well imo. And every character is incredibly likeable. Makoto picked the write voice actors and actresses for the roles (i watched it in subs). And for God's sake, EVERY rain drop and water animation was hand drawn. The poor animators hell must be appreciated at all costs. And i appreciate how this was kind of a response to climate change. That you really can't fight it back but let it happen.. and weather is truly mysterious and destructive.. violent. But its something out of your control and bound to happen. But we learn to live with it. Very worldly of Makoto. |
squishedJan 16, 2020 11:50 PM
| I enjoyed Weathering more because I appreciate that Shinkai, knowing how his popularity exploded, decided to take a riskier path and make some social commentary. The execution was questionable but I don’t expect much more from an anime film. |
squished said: They had a Futari wa Precure cameo with the same voice actresses. That hit me with level 1000 nostalgia back in middle school!. Honest to god highlight of the movie for me!! (although i saw the dub so I didn't realize they brought the og JP actresses). It may be the high from just seeing the movie last night but right now I think I like Weathering With You more! I think the magical gimmick was more interesting and I think the supporting cast was stronger |
NG_Chloe said: More specifically, I don't like Hodaka, he's constantly running from the police, which I know some people have problems with the police, but each time he impulsively runs away or causes problems for the police, I just think "dude what are you doing,", because the police are just doing their jobs and they're kind of right in this movie, since Hodaka's a run away, and while I understand how he feels, it's not worth causing so much trouble over, like we're supposed to be mad when the police tackle him, but I just kind of think, "well, that's what you get you stupid kid,". While I personally liked Hodaka, I think my problem with him constantly running away was why. Like why did he leave the island, what happened with his parents, etc?. It almost was like he was a blank slate protag. I was expecting them to at least do a "my parents are abusive and the whole town hates me" but there was no explanation as to why he even left. |
| Surprised to see how the poll turned out, likely a bit of recency bias in there. It definitely helped that I went to a double bill screening of Your Name and Weathering with You because it made comparison very easy. I rate both films highly, but I definitely prefer Your Name. Characters in both of these films are fairly standard, but Your Name's relationship feels much more organic because it shows the chemistry between its characters much better as they adapt to each others lives and the advantages and disadvantages that come with each, learning more about each character through the other. I preferred the art in Your Name - and maybe that's just because I'm a sucker for anime countrysides, but even the climax of Weathering with You can't beat the jawdropping scene in which I also think the soundtrack of Your Name is consistently amazing, whereas Weathering with You has 2 songs that stuck out to me - although that might change as I listen to the soundtrack in my free time. I would also argue Your Name is paced a lot better. The film gets into the thick and thins of things very quickly whereas Weathering with You is a film of almost entirely ongoing buildup, so if the climax falls flat, then it probably will feel much less enjoyable. Despite this, I felt that both films actually went by pretty fast anyway, but I make this point as I can see Weathering with You feeling sluggish on rewatches. Also, the ending of Weathering with you trips and stumbles on trying to present a message on the climate. So it's ok to let the Earth become uninhabitable, just because it was in the past? It's stupidly optimistic. I don't mind having a selfish protagonist make a selfish decision and I'm glad there was no absolute deus ex machina of an ending, but something about leaving the fate of the planet to the narrow minded Hodaka really rubs me the wrong way. Speaking of Hodaka, I wish he got more characterisation. There's very little conveyed about the circumstances of why he left the island and his vague motivations makes him come across as quite childish, but the problem with that is that his mentality doesn't really change through the course of the film, making him a relatively static character in my eyes. The comedy of Weathering with You also leaves a lot to be desired. While I do not determine the Supreme Law of Funny, I personally found myself laughing at Your Name a lot more, mostly thanks to how expressive the voice actors were in playing their body swapped roles. In spite of my criticisms of Weathering with You, I did overall enjoy it a lot, but Your Name has remained a tested favourite through multiple rewatches. The two are definitely films worth seeing on the big screen thanks to their grand production quality. |
| I'm not going to go into a lot of detail, but I highly preferred Your Name. WWY was still amazing and I rate it highly, but I didn't feel as connected and emotionally invested. Your Name was a roller coaster of emotions for me, even watching it 7+ times. YN continues to give me this powerful feeling during and after every watch, while WWY didn't really make me feel anything once it was over. The main thing I preferred in WWY was the supporting cast; they were interesting, well developed and added a good amount of humor. There's so many details you really could sit and compare, but that impact is what's really important to me. Your Name will always be so special to me and an all time favorite. |
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| Your Name. Not just the anime, but the novel comparison as well. |
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| Yet the old woman says that it's not 'normal' to expect the landscape to stay the same forever. Meaning the built-up part of Tokyo used to be under-water and it will again. So sure Shinkai seems like he's jumping on the climate-change thing, but I think he threw that in to not make people think he's a raging leftist. |
| Just returned from the cinema, after watching both movies today. I enjoyed "Kimi no na wa" a tiny bit more than "Tenko no ko". I think the the time travelling and body switching made it a bit more interesting and the relationship was more exciting somehow. |
| I should probably re-watch Your Name at some point, because with all the time removed, it's kinda hard to remember too much about it. The absolutely stunning visuals and some of the shot composition stands out the strongest, followed by the two leads and some broad scope of the plot, but that's kinda it for me. But I think within that lines with my answer of why I prefer Weathering With You, the cast. You can chalk it up to a faulty memory, but to me Your Name's leads are good to great but it kinda stops there, I don't remember the supporting cast making any sort of impact. In Weathering With You, not only do I like both the leads (Hodaka especially) but the cast around the romance arguably steals the show for me. Both Nagi and Natsumi are great, and provide much of the lighter moments but Kei's the highlight here. I loved his parallels to Hodaka, and how his personal character arc built into the conflict, with Hodaka's desire to just see here once more causing Kei to attack the police to help him, was probably the emotional climax for me. It just feels like the supporting cast were better integrated into the thrust of the story here, and I almost always prefer a broader scope of characters to explore rather than a more singular focus. Beyond characters, themes are the other things I always turn to, and I do find the climate stuff and ending of Weathering With You to be way more interesting to chew on than anything in Your Name. And I won't lie, I prefer the most overtly obvious happy reunion between lovers in Weathering With You. I intend no shade to Your Name though btw, I'd still say it's the more aesthetically pleasing movie out of the two, and from what I recall, it had the tighter plot of the two. But those aren't things I value as much as what Weathering With You provides. |
| Definitely Kimi no Na wa. Tenki no Ko throws all caution into the wind and goes full on crazy, perhaps a little too crazy for its own good at times. Kimi no Na wa was overall much more coherent and thought out in my opinion, even if there's a few bloops here and there. |
| I'm not sure. I think I have to rewatch both. xD |
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| Tenki no Ko is basically an improved version of Your Name in terms of animation and art quality but story,character,romance and theme wise Your Name is on a whole other level, the atmosphere around Your Name was way more impactful than what Tenki was trying to do with its climate change impact. The love story on Your Name also clicks more with its fans for leaving us the impression of "wanting more" with how it ends, Taki and Mitsuha seeing each other again after all this time despite supposedly forgetting each other because of said body swap/time phenomena is and will always hit harder than Hodaka and Hina meeting again after Hodaka saved her, Your Name had its 2 characters not only saving the love of their life but a whole village of people as well, Tenki only focused on Hodaka saving Hina with the idea of FUCK TOKYO hence the ending we got, Tokyo underwater lol, if Your Name did the same thing Taki would have just focused on getting Mitsuha's body out of there and wouldn't care less about the villagers. Your Name also had the idea of having its 2 main characters meet as minimal as they can (we normally don't get romance shows like that), normally this is a bad idea but Your Name was pretty quirky with how they handled that and in turn it instead had me at the edge of my seat and during Mitsuha and Taki met each other (during the katawaredoki) it had all that accumulated feeling go out in one swoop whereas Tenki gave Hina and Hodaka too much time with each other, thats cute but really doesnt give that much of an impact anymore. |
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| Your name is a decent movie. This one is a copy but just worse. |
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| Weathering with you is the better movie for me. Need to re-watch it to be sure though. There's just a lot more going on in Weathering with you that makes it more entertaining to watch than Your Name. The side characters are more interesting this time around too. |
| Tenki no Ko is good and all but Your Name had a more memorable and impactful ending. So for me it's never gonna take that spot. Can't say the same about animation tho. |
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| YN, the theme was done much better and story was less messy. The climaxes were insanely done well. WwY is good but story a bit weak and characters forgettable. |
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