The Wind Rises does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. The narrative primarily focuses on the heterosexual relationship between Jiro Horikoshi and Nahoko Satomi, alongside Jiro's professional life and passion for aircraft design, without any queer representation.

The Wind Rises is a biographical drama centered on the life and career of aircraft designer Jiro Horikoshi. The film does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or explore themes related to transsexual identity, focusing instead on historical events, engineering, and a heterosexual romance.

The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.

The Wind Rises is a biographical drama based on the life of Jiro Horikoshi and Hayao Miyazaki's manga. All historical figures and original characters maintain their established genders from historical records or the source material, with no instances of a character being portrayed as a different gender than their canonical or historical depiction.

The Wind Rises is an original animated Japanese film based on the life of a historical Japanese figure, Jiro Horikoshi. All characters are depicted consistently with their established or implied Japanese (or German, for Castorp) race and ethnicity, without any changes from source material or historical record.