8.0
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Weathering with You (2019)
Weathering with You (2019)
Overview
The summer of his high school freshman year, Hodaka runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo, and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and personal limits. The weather is unusually gloomy and rainy every day, as if taking its cue from his life. After many days of solitude, he finally finds work as a freelance writer for a mysterious occult magazine. Then, one day, Hodaka meets Hina on a busy street corner. This bright and strong-willed girl possesses a strange and wonderful ability: the power to stop the rain and clear the sky.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Viewer Rating
8.0
Overview
The summer of his high school freshman year, Hodaka runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo, and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and personal limits. The weather is unusually gloomy and rainy every day, as if taking its cue from his life. After many days of solitude, he finally finds work as a freelance writer for a mysterious occult magazine. Then, one day, Hodaka meets Hina on a busy street corner. This bright and strong-willed girl possesses a strange and wonderful ability: the power to stop the rain and clear the sky.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
While the film's central conflict involves a climate crisis, a theme often associated with the Left, its resolution champions individual choice and personal happiness over a societal or political solution, ultimately advocating for adaptation to a changed world rather than a call for collective action or systemic change.
The film features traditional casting for its cultural context, focusing on ethnically Japanese characters without explicit DEI-driven casting. Its narrative maintains a neutral to positive framing of traditional identities, with themes centered on environmental challenges and personal sacrifice rather than critiques of traditional roles or explicit DEI promotion.
Secondary
Weathering with You does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes within its narrative. The story centers on a heterosexual romantic fantasy, leaving no LGBTQ+ portrayal to evaluate.
Weathering with You does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes within its narrative. The story primarily focuses on themes of climate, sacrifice, and the relationship between its two main protagonists, Hodaka and Hina, without engaging with transgender identity.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Weathering with You is an original film with no pre-existing source material, historical figures, or legacy characters. All characters were created for this specific movie, thus no gender swaps occurred.
Weathering with You is an original animated film with characters created specifically for this production. There is no prior source material, historical record, or previous installment from which characters' races could have been established and subsequently changed.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
7.5
8.0
Critic Ratings
9.2
7.2
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