In Weathering With You, Hodaka Morishima runs away from home during a rainy summer to live on the streets of Tokyo. After finding work at a small occult magazine, he meets Hina Amano, a young girl ...

Weathering With You tells the story of a Japanese high school ... Hodaka befriends a girl named Hina, whom he learns is this rumored hare-onna. (In Japanese, there is a term called ame-otoko ...

In the new anime movie Weathering With You, a teenager named Hina treks up 10 flights to a rooftop where a makeshift shrine sits in a rare beam of sunlight. Tokyo is rain-soaked, and as it ...

In “Weathering With You,” Hina’s gift (obtained from a visit to a Shinto shrine) blesses the clients for her mystical services with a respite from the downpour that permits outdoor activities.

This is important because Weathering With You is equally about Tokyo as it is about the romance that buds between protagonists Hodaka and Hina. Much of Shinkai’s questions about love and ...

Weathering With You doesn't quite measure up to the haunting lyricism and youthful longing of Your Name. But the tragedy that looms over Hina and Hodaka, and Tokyo, and the planet, echoes the ...

“Weathering With You,” his first feature since the record ... While living on the streets of Shinjuku, Hodaka meets Hina Amano, a gentle orphan who’s trying to care for herself and her ...

Hina and Hodaka have heart-shaped faces with ... one that looks like life yet is also expressionistic. “Weathering With You” loses its way with a diffuse ending that leans heavily on pop ...

Despite the magic of Hina's powers, Weathering with You is one of the most grounded and realistic depictions of what climate collapse will probably look like. There's no single disaster or ...

From there the film wanders into a story as tragically downcast as rain itself, but like Hina’s power, it still allows for pockets of sunshine and rainbows, humor and levity. In these moments ...

as does Hina’s ability to harness lightning in alarmingly violent ways, and before long, they’re on the run from the authorities. This is where “Weathering With You” proves weakest ...