Weathering With You is the latest film from Makoto Shinkai, the writer and director who shot to worldwide fame with 2016’s Your Name.
It’s tempting to compare Weathering With You to Your Name, since the films have many similarities.
In Weathering With You, the climate apocalypse is already here, even though it’s never explicitly stated.
Things ultimately feel helpless, and yet the Tokyo of Weathering With You moves onward.
There are real-world parallels to be drawn here, as Australian wildfires have raged for four months, a crisis that was both spurred by climate change and will ultimately result in further climate change.