![]() What was the starting point for Weathering with You? ![]() ![]() Below, Shinkai expands on the serious themes of climate change that hide beneath this charming tale of adolescent love, and how he felt about the tremendous success of Your Name. Shinkai now returns with his latest, Weathering with You, a Tokyo-set tale of the blossoming friendship between runaway teen Hodaka (voiced by Kotaro Daigo) and Hina (Nana Mori), a young orphan who appears to be able to manipulate the weather for the good of the population. Then along came the stunning Your Name, which by 2017 was the highest-grossing anime film of all time, besting even Miyazaki classic Spirited Away. Already, his features The Place Promised In Our Early Days (2004), Children Who Chase Lost Voices (2011) and The Garden of Words (2013) had earned Japanese filmmaker comparisons to the great Hayao Miyazaki. When Variety magazine listed Makoto Shinkai as one of ten animators to watch back in 2016, it was a canny choice. ![]()
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