Anime

Weathering With You vs. Your Name

Pockeyramune919 · 6y

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If you've seen both, which do you prefer and why?

Removed 6y
Personally I love the animation and impact Tenki no Ko had, but Your Name had a better and more reasonable plot drive. I think that Taki had better motives for going on his adventure rather than Hodaka even though they were relatively similar.

I rewatched Your Name multiple times, and just finished my first rewatch of Tenki no Ko.
- ReeverM 6y
  Pretty much spot on. I think Your Name is really difficult to compare to simply because of how well everything fits together and plays out. On its own, I think Weathering With You was a pretty great movie, especially regarding the animation and sound (including the OST).
  
  RADWIMPS really tugged at my heartstrings in Your Name, and definitely have not let me down in Weathering With You. Definitely planning on rewatching.
Enotica 6y
Tenki was beautiful, absolutely beautiful, but the story felt kinda shallower? Dunno. Your Name had a pretty great story, and yanked me in several different ways emotionally.
- Removed 6y
  Shinkai's work tends to be slower-paced, Your Name being an exception. Tenki is more in line with their other work like Garden of Words or 5-centimeters per second.
jear 6y
I even saw Tenki in the cinema and still don't feel like it doesn't live up to the success Kimi had on my emotions.
Although, I preferred Tenki's animation more, it was beyond beautiful.
Both are great movies!
user293050 6y
Tenki was a great movie on its own. The animation and the OST i feel made up for what it was... "lacking" in the story. Compared to Your Name where i found myself rewatching it once a week for 2 months straight... Your Name just hit different when it came to the story, ost, and feels train
Drazaross 6y
Your Name wins hands down for me cause even though both were great, Your Name had more of a deeper story and it had a such a distinct feel to it that made me watch it 11 times (not bluffing). I can't describe this feeling well but Your Name left a void in my soul, a craving for a movie on that level, but till now I have had no luck in finding such a phenomenal movie. I went to watch Tenki No Ko back when it aired here in the cinemas and it felt more like a culmination of Shinkai's works till now for me and nothing much more than that. Shinkai's latter film was superior to Your Name in many levels due to a bigger budget and more time but the story did not have much impact. Like how heart wrenching the climax of Your Name was, there was no such feeling, I mean there were feels, but not as strong as Your Name. Yeah I know Tenki No Ko had a more meaningful message behind it while Your Name did not have any of it, still I would watch Your Name once again than Tenki No Ko if I were given a choice. Although it is solely my opinion, feel free for constructive criticism!
- user293050 6y
  Your Name had me like
  
  While Tenki had me like
Pockeyramune919 6y
It's interesting that people say they preferred the story of Your Name. And I'm not saying that to be passive-aggressive, it's legitimately interesting to see how our opinions differ. While, in terms of the main characters, Your Name had the sadder ending, I felt myself not caring as much, as I didn't connect to the characters nor their bond as much as I did with Weathering With You and that was the movie that hit me in the feels. I do find Your Name is fair game for comparison, but that's just because I thought Weathering With You was better, or at least more enjoyable for me.
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  Pockeyramune919 6y
  I'm personally not referring to Your Name as a "hit me in the feels" movie. I was making reference to the fact that others in the thread that it was such a movie for them. Personally, I consider Weathering With You the "hit me in the feels movie." And yes, "I thought Weathering With You was better, or at least more enjoyable for me."
  
  and italics for some reason
  
  It's based on this
  
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  Pockeyramune919 6y
  ...knowing I’m referencing others doesn’t have anything to do with sentence structure. It’s just a question of knowing context.
  
  Taluun 6y
  I for one thought your post was pretty easy to understand.
- chocoskewers 6y
  I do agree with this to some extent; I think the actual personalities of the characters in Your name are a bit flat. We see a bit more of the actual characters in Tenki and the side characters feel like actual characters instead of 'we're just on the side as supporting friends but we're nothing more than that'. Tenki just gives a more wholesome family vibe while Your Name is more between two people. I do enjoy the flow and the story in Your Name a bit better, as the spiritual elements flow nicely into the story and have a reason for existing; something Tenki didn't really address well enough in my opinion. Your name is just a very cinematic driven film while Tenki has the same (maybe even improved) cinematic visuals plus a bit more interesting dialogue than Your Name. It's hard for me to decide, but overall I prefer Your Name as it feels more cohiesive than Tenki no ko.
Zembaphobic 6y
5 Centimeters Per Second
Apocynadeae 6y
Your Name wins out on both the animation and the actual story, altho I don't think either are very good I found Your Name to at least be enjoyable overall while Weathering With You had a better idea, it just doesn't work with Makoto Shinkai's directing at all and just ruins the entire thing
Rakeru 6y
Personally, I liked Your Name more because it was really well-developed as a movie itself, but the message in Weathering With You felt really powerful and left quite a big impact on me. Basically, I liked both (and luckily I was able to see them in the cinema :D), but if I had to choose the 'best' one, I'd say Your Name.
Ducktape 6y
Never seen Weathering With You, but it just looks like the same type of shit as Your Name. Not interested in the slightest.
ModChan 4y
The thread "kimi no na wa vs tenki no ko" and it's comments have been merged into this thread.

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- TyTheAnimeGuy 4y
  Just finished watching Kimi No Na Wa and I think it is safe to say that Tenki no Ko is much better overall. Don't get me wrong, Kimi No Na Wa is an amazing show, I just think that Tenki No Ko is better. I felt so much more attached to the characters in Tenki no Ko and the story was more engaging for me.
GusD 4y
what about josee tho
AquaSenpai 4y
Who cares? You liked Weathering with you better, I liked Your Name better. What the fuck does it even matter? We like what we like, there is no answer to this question and tbh other than the fact they're by the same person, they're different movies.

Holding one movie to a standard that you want other movies by the same team, company, or person to beat will pretty much just make you enjoy the stuff they make less. "Oh it was good, but it wasn't as good as xyz", "I was a bit disappointed because it wasn't like..."

I don't think shit like this is really that far from the Silent Voice vs Your Name debate; completely useless. Like me.
AbouDOne 4y
Okay so I'm not really a big Makoto Shinkai fan in fact my favorite movie of his prior to Weathering with you was Children who chased lost voices, the one that is the least Makoto Shinkai of the bunch I'm just not a fan of romance. And While I did find Your Name to be a really good show it was just that, really good a solid to high 8/10 but nothing that amazing. Weathering with you blew me away, everything from its setting to its characters made me care about ti more than I ever did Your Name. And again Your name is good it's really good but Weathering with you is just excellent.
- TyTheAnimeGuy 4y
  I agree, something about Weathering with you just hits so much harder as a romance for me. It was just so much more relatable to me. That's Tenki no ko is my favorite movie of all time and I don't think anything can top it as a romance/drama movie to be honest
DibDibs 4y
Comparing them as Shinkai films, I kinda liked Your Name better. Compared to his previous works, it didn't feel like there were any obstacles in between the relationship of the main characters. When I think of Shinkai, I mostly recognize him for his themes of long distance relationships and barriers that keep characters from meeting, I didn't feel that in WWY.
AliceCriesAlot 4y
hot take: there is no best anime
Gurshaan 4y
I agree
ModChan 3y
The thread "Who is the best Hina or Mitsuha" and it's comments have been merged into this thread.

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- Otakuzilla 3y
  In my opinion both are great but I prefere Hina
Kehsihba 4y
i would say mitsuha.
but I don't know on what basis we comparing
sohaib 4y
I'm a class one TnK fan but bruh come on Mitsuha is more based and lovely
bobabear453 4y
I prefer hina (sorry its just my opinion) idk why but I really didn't like kimi no nawa I thought it was a bit over rated