Makoto Shinkai’s latest film, “Weathering With You” (“Tenki no Ko”), may have outperformed the director’s 2016 blockbuster, “Your Name.,” at the box office on its opening weekend, but it failed to create many waves on social media in its first week.
“Weathering With You,” which opened in cinemas nationwide on July 19, centers on high school freshman Hodaka Morishima (voiced by Kotaro Daigo), a teen who finds himself struggling to make ends meet after running away and making a beeline for Tokyo.
Morishima runs into Hina Amano (voiced by Nana Mori), an orphan who has the power to manipulate the weather.