Tenki no Ko
This review contains spoilers
- Animation: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Soundtrack: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Story: ⭐️⭐️
- Overall: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Weathering with You
It would be irresponsible on my part to simply give you a 3/5 rating without explanation. I’ve broken down the scoring to what I think is one of the prettiest anime movies I’ve seen in a while 💜
The problem is the movie falls short of delivering a great ending. Needless to say, we’re about to talk spoilers from this point, you’ve been warned.
😍 Love the setting
Tokyo? Are you kidding me? It’s a great setting, the rain, the neons, one of the craziest cities in the world. The movie starts great! The runaway kid finds fortune in the big city. We’ve seen many of these but set in New York City.
The animation is just gorgeous, the backgrounds, the colors, well-handcrafted, not a spec of CGI (or that I could tell).
We all want that, don’t we?
Great friendship, a job, traveling around the city making people smile, a roof under your head. What else can you ask for? Hadoka, the main character, is content with having this. I love it. It’s great that he’s able to acknowledge he has enough to be happy. I can relate to that, so far I’m hooked, tell me more! 🙏
☔️ Why make the whole rain thing real?
I would’ve been plenty happy if the sunshine would’ve been all a big coincidence. Granted, I don’t know Japanese mythology, and could be this ancient story it’s scaping me but when we crossed the fantasy line things started going south.
🚔 How would even the police find him?
I’m sorry but it’s hard to believe, that in a city with a 13M population (or 40M in the metropolitan area), the police would be able to identify this kid.
On that note, why did he leave home? Was he being molested or abused? We saw the scene of him riding the bike with his face injured but they never explain why or how that happened. Why did he run? Must’ve been something extreme to trigger an exodus from your hometown at the age of 16.
Ok, ok I’ll buy it but the ending? 🤦♂️
All great movies take you high and then down right before the end. It’s a well-known rollercoaster and I was ready for it. I was ready for the drama.
The problem with Tenki no Ko is they closed the ending. I don’t know why they chose to show us this fast-forward (3 years), it was unnecessary and destroyed what could’ve been an amazing movie. It’s not the first time we see this, remember Your Name? 😉
But why was it bad?
- How did they find them on the rooftop?
- Couldn’t they have woken up, escape and reunite with the younger brother?
- They did not even try to reach out to each other in 3 years?
- They do the time jump and resume where they left off? At 15 + 3 = 18 years old. You’re telling me at that age you don’t move on?
This is why I think the ending withered the story. Maybe in Japanese culture would not have been cool to let the runaway kids live happily ever after while being underage. It feels like the moral of the story is kind of “pursue your love but if you’re over 18”, “finish school even if they abuse you at home” 🤷♂️
Strange ending, I didn’t like it ❌
How about you? Are you content with how they closed the story?
