Anyone else finds Weathering with You Makoto Shinkai best movie?

Everywhere I read online people seem to prefer Your Name, but to me the movie I keep coming back to is for sure Weathering With You.

Maybe its the time where I watched the movie first time resonated with my life at the moment, but its such a gorgeous movie. The writing, the music and the dynamic of the couple never not make me cry

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Lotuzyo2026-01-11 19:21

I agree fully. It's an unpopular opinion I guess but for sure the best one!

Yoshikaru59912026-01-11 19:23

I know Your Name is always the talks but the different timejumps.. I watched it like 2/3 times and might be too stupid for that movie 😭

Otherwise-Waltz-32112026-01-11 19:23

Weathering with you and Your Name both are superb with amazing visuals but for me none can beat 5 Centimeters per Second...

Iyagovos2026-01-11 21:07

Agree. 5 Centimeters is incredibly grounded and real, and it hurts best because of it

Otherwise-Waltz-32112026-01-12 00:51

It hurts also because of the great song "one more time, one more chance" 😭😭😭

not_copo2026-01-11 19:26

I totally agree, for me it's the best. The visuals are incredible and the story is fantastic, always my favorite.

Yoshikaru59912026-01-11 19:28

That last scenes with the music.. I watched this movie 3 times now and it still breaks me

The_Observations2026-01-11 19:28

Personally it's either the boy and the beast or wolf children, ride your wave isn't the best but it holds a special place because it was the only one i've watched in theaters.

Blabime2026-01-11 19:42

The first two are Mamoru Hosoda and the third is Masaaki Yuasa...

The_Observations2026-01-11 20:04

does the ... mean something? I feel like I'm missing something.

Kurikamekurisu2026-01-11 20:10

Those are the names of the directors for the movies listed.

None of those movies are directed by the same fellow who did “Your Name” or “Weathering”.

The_Observations2026-01-11 20:25

Ohhh that was the question? I thought op was saying weathering with you by makota shinkai was the best movie for anime and was comparing it to your name, if it was "Anyone else find Weathering with You is Makoto Shinkai's best movie?" then I would of got it, but the wording in the title just had me misunderstanding.

Blabime2026-01-11 21:14

Ah, after rereading it, I can see how that mistake might've happened. The comparison to Your Name should be helpful context, but since it's also just the most popular movie (regardless of director), it doesn't actually clear anything up if you're already mistaken. lol

gc111172026-01-11 19:30

Probably a controversial take, but I prefer Shinkai's pre-your name movies more. In particular, 5 Centimers Per Second

pipegf982026-01-12 10:14

oooh, hot take, nice! (I haven't watched them)

BicBoiSpyder2026-01-13 02:51

Garden of Words is my favorite from him.

Don't get me wrong, I love Your Name as much as the next person, but there is just something special about his early works.

5 Centimeters per Second is a classic and The Place Promised in Our Early Days is severely underrated. Voices of a Distant Star is also a hidden gem, if you can look past the not so visually appealing character design.

Blabime2026-01-11 19:44

I would think better of Weathering With You if it had come out first. I don't hate it, but to me it felt too much like Shinkai just trying to recreate Your Name's success.

That said, I've always been kind of partial to Garden of Words, but it has flaws of its own.

carry-on_replacement2026-01-12 08:20

weathering with you feels more polished in terms of characters and pacing, but it loses a lot of the heart that your name had. there's something raw and passionate that your name invokes that weathering just doesn't. it's technically more impressive but a less exciting experience

gud_fellow2026-01-11 19:54

It depends on preferences. I prefer 'Your Name'. It's better in my opinion, the music, the story, the visuals and the atmosphere. While 'Weathering With You' is good too. I like 'Your Name' better.

And I still listen to almost all the Music from 'Your Name'. The only song I listen to from 'Weathering With You' is 'Grand Escape'. I have to Praise it for that.

Lower_Refrigerator_22026-01-11 19:57

I honestly never got around to watching it I remember being hyped as hell when it was announced but never made the time.

I still think The Garden of Words is hard as hell to beat. Such a visually stunning film was a great story.

And once again that watercolor hyper realistic style animation is stunning. Almost every frame in that film is painting worthy

Yoshikaru59912026-01-11 22:10

Watch it its still eye candy

lord_ne2026-01-11 20:14

I really loved Weathering with You. Not sure I could rank which is my favorite though

e_t_2026-01-11 20:14

It is beautiful, but I felt like the ending was a major downer. Tokyo paid a very high price for the main characters' happily ever after.

Yoshikaru59912026-01-11 20:43

I kinda love the selfish nature of the movie myself in a way :s

AlphaBreak2026-01-12 05:59

I always kind of enjoy the takes like this. How many immoral actions does the world get to demand as a price for stability before you decide that maybe it's worth accepting a bad outcome to doing bad things? Does a Tokyo that can only survive on the back of child sacrifices deserve to exist?

They didn't get much into the idea in the movie, but I'd have liked more focus on it.

porpoiseoflife2026-01-11 20:28

I don't even have Your Name in my top three Makoto Shikai works.

1. 5 Centimeters Per Second
2. Garden of Words
3. Weathering With You
4. Your Name
5. The Place Promised In Our Early Days

Ziro_102026-01-11 21:44

The Place Promised In Our Early Days has the best song in any anime I've heard. It's the only song I keep coming back to just listen to it

porpoiseoflife2026-01-11 21:51

From Shinkai movies, it's One More Time, One More Chance from 5cm/sec for me. I had to take it off of my phone's playlist because I found myself crying in public whenever it came up.

Yoshikaru59912026-01-11 22:10

I really didn’t like your name as well

dude_18182026-01-11 21:24

I actually liked Suzume the best

Remarkable-Candle4232026-01-12 16:42

Same. I like it even better because the director wanted it to be a Yuri, but the Studio pushed back, so he made the ML a chair for almost the entire movie!

ExtraPicklesPls2026-01-13 07:01

Holy shit, that is some lore I needed in my life!

Konkon-chan2026-01-11 23:23

visually it was the most interesting, but story wise it felt wrong. hodaka being a criminal, terrorist who doomed 80% of tokyo for a girl?

music was nice, but it cant keep up with Suzume. the story and characters in suzume i liked much more too. suzume also doesnt have the time travel timeline shit going on tjat your name does

Yoshikaru59912026-01-12 08:16

Yeah the time travel really makes me not like Your Name, mainly cause its confusing to me..

I think in Hodaka case its a trap of young people going into Tokyo or any big city expecting to be able to live life but failing. But yeah I did like the selfish nature of this movie in choosing love over another sacrifice the world for the girl myself, dude is 16 :p

Raddish30302026-01-11 23:39

I'm sure there are people.

They being said.

It's a tier below my top three, which I kind of perceive as connecting movies. Since Your Name was his definitive statement on his main theme. "What separates us and what keeps us together."

Tier 1 - Your Name, 5cm, Voices of a Distant Star

Tier 2 - Garden of Words, Weathering

Salty1452026-01-12 00:36

I think for a lot of people, as *Your Name* is their first introduction to Shinkai, prefer that film just because its got that wow factor and by the time they get to WWY, that level of polish has less surprise factor. The irony though is that *Suzume* is absolutely a worse film than both, but people seem to also swear by it.

In a way, WWY feels too interesting to ever be as popular as *Your Name*. YN is, by any reasonable assessment, a very plain film. The characters are basic, the story is basic, and the more you think about it the worse it gets. So just don't do that. It sort of just dumps ideas on the screen, some of which work and others that don't. WWY is just him taking that mess of ideas and refining it into a far better film, but in doing so doesn't quite have the same "it factor" for the masses.

DagZeta2026-01-12 00:39

I think it's better than Your Name, but not as good as Suzume. They're all good, but generally I feel like he got better with each movie. (At least as far as his big ones go, haven't dug into his earlier work to comment on it)

Away-Meet35922026-01-12 00:42

When the song plays as they fall out the sky, i not only cry but get this light feeling in my chest.

IceBlue2026-01-12 02:52

Didn’t care for it. Liked Your Name and Suzume way more.

DFR_osty2026-01-12 06:37

5cm/s > Disaster Trilogy
Maybe because i dislike magic/fantasy crap in those 3

pipegf982026-01-12 10:13

I haven't watched Suzume so I can't compare them with that one, but Weathering with you IS objectively better than Your name. In Weatehring with you Shinkai basically retold the same story but with everything he learned from Your name and as such didn't made the same mistakes. In short characters are better, directing is more cohesive, the pacing is better and the writing is solid, whereas Your name's plot has more holes than baguette, the protagonist lacks personality and any genuine drive, many directing choices are distracting and a lot of the movie is just pointless eye candy (people like candy).

ytkl2026-01-12 15:51

I think he peaked at Kotonoha no Niwa. I actually really enjoyed 5cm too.

BicBoiSpyder2026-01-13 02:54

Unfathomably based opinion.

TianDogg2026-01-12 19:53

IMO Children Who Chase Lost Voices is his best movie. I feel like Shinkai is always telling some variation of the same story - a love story where two parties are unable to truly connect due to some barrier. But Children Who Chase Lost Voices is instead about grief and loss. It’s a much more interesting and affecting story, plus you get all the hallmarks of a Shinkai production.

After that my favorites are 5cm Per Second and Voices of a Distant Star. Voices of a Distant Star is like the quintessential Shinkai experience distilled into 20ish minutes, and with some indie rawness that I find really charming.

BicBoiSpyder2026-01-13 02:57

I really love Voices of a Distant Star, but the ugly character design brings down my enjoyment of it.

Euroversett2026-01-14 02:14

Not the best, but my favorite.

I think it is underrated though, in terms of quality.

Totaliss2026-01-15 00:40

I went to Weathering with you with the same friend who I saw Your Name with. I liked Weathering with You more, he liked Your Name better. Weathering with you's romance between the two leads felt much more believable to me, and we actually get to see them together and develop over the course of the whole film. The third act's climax was significantly more well setup compared to your name where the asteroid plot was really jammed in there. The central problem in Weathering with you felt like a looming threat that was continually getting closer until it finally hit, which felt much better then the rug pull that was an asteroid and a sunken town. To me weathering with you really felt like Your name 2.0, where it did the same kind of movie again but stronger.