Creating a website, she and Hodaka start selling her rays at a bargain rate, sharing precious light with the city’s grateful, sodden inhabitants. In Shinto, the sun goddess Amaterasu is an important deity, but Hina’s realm is far more down to earth. ![]() The two soon hit on a scheme to sell Hina’s mysterious new gifts as a so-called sunshine girl, a figure who can summon the sun with prayer. The story grows more intricate after Hodaka meets Hina, a sweet, friendly smiler with a younger brother and no adult support. ![]() She’s bathed in light, but then also soon home, waking from a voyage or maybe a dream. For now, though, Hina finds peace under a blue sky where fish soar and raindrops fall up, swirling like tadpoles. The apocalyptic resonance of this image, which invokes the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, hovers like an omen. She doesn’t travel over the rainbow, not exactly, but slips through a watery portal, landing on a green field atop a mushroom-shaped cloud. Putting her hands together as if in prayer, Hina closes her eyes and steps through the gate, changing both herself and the story. A traditional structure found in or at the entrance of Shinto shrines, the gate often serves as an entrance to a sacred space. She finds its terminus on the roof of a derelict building, where the light spreads over bright green, nodding blooms and an incongruously placed red torii gate. The first time you see the sun streaming, it’s in the company of the teenage Hina (voiced by Nana Mori), who rushes toward the beam as if pulled by a magnet. ![]() There’s beauty here, though, in the shocks of color like the red latticework of an Eiffel-like tower and umbrellas that, when seen from above, look like promenading flowers.Įvery so often, a ray of sunshine pierces the gloom, illuminating a small urban patch. The record torrent that pounds Tokyo throughout is relentless: It floods streets and homes, wrapping the city in a heavy blanket of gray. The rain doesn’t simply fall in “Weathering With You,” an anime about love in a time of catastrophe, it gushes.
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