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The animated Tokyo ofWeathering With Youis caught in the grip of a seemingly endless downpour.
Its the acceptance that a recent misery might just be the new normal.
I feel sorry for children nowadays.
We used to have beautiful springs and summers, one character muses.
To say that its an allegory about climate change feels both true and a little reductive.
Later, to her annoyance, Hodaka attempts to rescue Hina from some men in the red light district.
But shes harboring a secret, one that she shows Hodaka up on the roof of an abandoned building.
This is, to put it lightly, a busy set-up.
(Shinkai is, among other things, not shy about product placement.)
Theyre characters who struggle for sanctuary in a present thats less unfriendly than indifferent.
Its also, in its own way, optimistic.
