If Taki’s climb to the body of the shrine god had been preceded with a folk song about how badly he wants to see Mitusha rather than playing the piano sonata of her theme, Sparkle wouldn’t have stood out as much. When you spam songs like this, it lessens the impact any one song has. The inserts in both movies are played to great effect, punctuating the action on screen, but Your Name wins the point here, because Weathering With You gets overzealous with its inserts by its climax, doing that A Certain Scientific Railgun Season 2 finale where the musician presumably quit so it plays its openings back to back to back. WEATHERING WITH YOU AND YOUR NAME FULL VERSIONWeathering With You ups the ante by adding an extra two, so altogether there’s Voice of the Wind, Celebration, Is There Still Anything That Love Can Do?, Grand Escape, and We’ll Be Alright, with a full version of Is There Still Anything That Love Can Do? playing over the credits. Your Name features three, those being Dream Lantern, Zenzenzense, and Sparkle, with Nandemonaiya playing during the credits. Like any other movie, they’re filled with a slew of tracks that’re unremarkable on their own, with one or two pieces that make you go, “Ooo, this’s lovely,” but the real hits are the insert songs. Something noteworthy of both films is how instrumental music is to either, and that pun was only half intentional. Just is.” Now that I’ve seen Weathering With You, I can pinpoint exactly what made it the theatrical phenomenon it was, and it boils down to just three things: Weathering With You did good on its part, and it borrows a lot from Your Name, but what made the latter film great is watered down in the former, which is appropriate, given its premise.īefore, if asked what made Your Name so good, I would’ve shrugged and been like, “Dunno. Weathering With You isn’t a sequel to Your Name, and its only connection is Taki and Mitusha making cameo appearances in the weeks before their reunion, when we all burst into tears as Nandemonaiya starts playing, but as I was stepping out of the theater after the credits finished rolling, I couldn’t help but compare it relentlessly to the preceding film. So when Weathering With You came into this world, I was excited to see a Shinkai film for the first time in my life, and know what? It was pretty good. Other anime fans and I finally found common ground when Shinkai came out with Your Name, which went on to trample all over Spirited Away’s previous box office record and inspire pages and pages of fan art on Pixiv for the next eleven and a half months. The one film of his I did like, Children Who Chase Lost Voices, everybody else crossed their arms at in gruff consternation, so it made me wonder if this wasn’t something I should bring up at my next visit to my ophthalmologist. They were dull, slow, and tried too hard at being poetic. With high praise like that, it almost feels like there’s some malfunction with my eyeballs, because I was hardly a fan of his films. Makoto Shinkai’s films have been praised since his debut onto the anime scene, and before you can get the third syllable of his name out, anybody you’re talking to will gush about how unbelievably amazing his movies are.
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