This all started a few months back when someone started a petition to bring WWY in india, a film by Makoto Shinkai. We had already seen DBS Broly being brought here, so I thought maybe, just maybe we had a chance.

I signed the petition and forwarded our friends to sign it as well. We were among the first couple of thousand ones to sign it. And eventually we forgot until we saw that it had amassed more than 25K+ signatures. It was later then recognised by Makoto Shinkai Sensei as well. I remember I was so happy that he decided to reply to us, he had said it wasn’t him who decided where the film releases but he will talk to the folks who do. This was even covered by Crunchyroll News.

It will be releasing in India, October 11. We were relieved, happy, filled with tears. It was finally our time. We were finally gonna be able to an anime movie, over the big screen. We couldn’t have been much happier. Then more events came, Japan foundation and others had a Japan film festival which screened many Japanese films. Sensei himself came down here in Delhi to meet us, his dear fans in India, for the sake of knowing how his movies had gotten love all the way here. But since it was in Delhi I couldn’t attend it, but thanks to knowsenpai and other, we got few glimpses of what had taken place there. We saw sensei talk to us, it was really warming. What a down to earth person he is.

Then finally waiting for four full months after it’s initial release, it was 9th October, a tweet came out announcing tickets will be available 6:30 PM IST. Damn. It sent chills to me. I hurried to BMS again and again. It was disappointing to see tickets hadn’t been out just yet. After couple of hours I checked again, and there was only a single screen all the way thane. I was a bit angry thinking how could this happen. But after calming I came to conclusion that it’ll probably take some time for all schedules to be up. Then slowly slowly it came to Kurla, then Juhu to all major places. Needless to say I booked the one near me right away. Two more days. I had booked for 12th October.

I and my friend arrived for the show at 2, the place was small but it was filled. Leaving about a couple of seats only. I was really proud of everyone seeing here, after all the efforts we were getting the one thing we really desired.

After crazy annoying ads the movie started, starting will all sponsors and stuff there came a frame, which read something along the lines, Let’s take a moment to thank all the otaku’s that made this happen. We cheered up, we had goosebumps seeing that one single sentence over big screen, it was exhilarating.

At the theatre

The movie in itself was really great. The animation was done really beautifully, it was kind of similar to your name, very high quality. Background music was just so right, subtle and pleasant, accentuating the scenes, making your heart beat faster. The entire movie, was a rush. We get to see some other familiar characters from Shinkai’s world. It made me laugh, smile, there were scenes just so beautifully touching your heart, the way Makoto Shinkai wants his movies to touch people’s hearts. It gets that done pretty nicely. Overall I’d say, it was a great movie. I really hope every person who wished to see the movie got to actually see it.

I really hope we get to see more anime movies in big screen in future.