Reviews

The movie Weathering with You is about Makoto Shinkai's pathetic fallac(y). As Gundum Creator Tomino put it when talking about Your Name, Shinkai write "Stories about a boy and a girl who are always stretching out their hands towards each other. And yet the boy's hand never reaches the girl's crotch". This movie was no different. The movie felt like a mess, with plot lines running in a spaghetti formation and non sequiturs galore. The characters seemed to just do what made a cool scene, with little internal congruency for their character. The character designs are poor. The protagonist is plain annoying, running away from home, making his parents worry about him seemingly because he was bored. Throughout the show I was waiting to hear the true reason, but that's never discussed. Apparently it's fine to just run away from home because you're bored. But that's just the message of the show - do what you want without regard for others. Be a selfish child and wallow in your existential despair. Not to mention the product placement. Oh god the product placement. The product placement was everywhere. The scene where he ate a Big Mac at a clearly signed McDonalds (as emphasised by Shinkai's direction) and says "Ahhh my favourite comfort food" or something thereabouts, reeks, REEKS, of the Americanisation of anime and of a moral decline in what's expected of anime. The one redeeming quality of the anime was a 20 second scene where you see a sky whale eat the protagonist. I can't stomach giving an anime where they go into the belly of a sky whale a 1...

Overall this anime was bad. The end.