[The gloomy sky of Tokyo depicted in the movie seems to represent not only climate change but also a world of confusion.]

The theme of Weathering With You is not just about climate change.

There are other important themes.

『トランプはAI』

"Trump is AI".

There is one thing I would like to add before we start. The main purpose of this article is not to critque President Trump.

President Trump is a patriot and is elected as dictated by the democratic system.



But to tell you the hidden theme of Weathering With You, I have to mention President Trump.

Weathering With You is the prayer of Director Shinkai to people all over the world.

I want the world to know this hidden theme.

If you look at this interview with Director Shinkai, you may find that it is rather serious.

Quote source

https://www.jiji.com/sp/article?k=2019080800951&g=soc

From the above article

He（Director Shinkai）said that he was worried that "populistic leaders were born in each country, and we could see a slightly different picture of the future than we reasoned for."



“I felt that harmony, including climate change, was unlikely to be easily regained." The gloomy sky of Tokyo depicted in the movie seems to represent not only climate change but also a world of confusion.

“I felt that harmony, including climate change, was unlikely to be easily regained." The gloomy sky of Tokyo depicted in the movie seems to represent not only climate change but also a world of confusion.

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The keywords are the following:



[populistic leader] in the above article.



[the sky of Tokyo seems to represent not only climate change but also a world of confusion] in the above article.



And I will tell you what this is later ...

[Trump is AI] and [The Catcher in the Rye]



Weathering With You was our story of fear, and most of all, hope.



Some of you may say that is delusional.



However, if you read the entire article you will understand what I said.



Please read it all.



I've often lost my mind trying to spell short and easy-to-understand sentences.



But I've stopped.

I was very particular about the word choice in this article. As the message could easily be misunderstood.



In fact, I did not intend to talk about this.

This article was a article prior to the release of Weathering With You.



I wrote this prediction article in a really casual way.



'This can't be right, it couldn't mean that.' was what I felt.



If you've already seen the movie, don't blame me that it is different. Please read through this in its entirety



Please read till the end!





Although this is a long article, please, please.



The following is an article I wrote with a light feeling for Weathering With You before it was published.





Finally, I wrote about the result. Although it is a long sentence, please let me give you the last word.





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Everyone, it's almost time for the release of Weathering With You.





It will be released this month, on July 19th (Fri)! Just two more weeks!



I can't wait!







I think everyone has many questions!

Is it more interesting than Your Name.?



Why are they shooting guns in the trailer?



Are Hodaka and Hina going to be a couple?





The director and Yojiro talked about the pros and cons, but...



And …,



What's this time’s "Magnificent Distance between Attracted Men and Women" of Makoto Shinkai's "Feature"?









The voices of a distant star→ Distance in light years.







Garden of words → stand distance







Your Name. → Time is off by three years ………



How far is the distance between Hodaka and Hina this time?







If I start to worry about it, I can not stop worrying.



I’m so worried ...



I guess you have many questions, things to worry about, but I am particularly interested in the theme of Weathering With You.

Of course the weather is an important theme.



However I have noticed some strange points the writing in.



To explain some strange points ...



What was the director thinking when creating his work?





I would like to create a timeline of interview articles and videos after the immediate release of the movie.





First, when was the movie poster of Weathering With You made? Let's start here.

This is a story about the secrets of the world that only I and her know.



Director Makoto Shinkai’s latest work.



Weathering With You



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Urgently decided LINE LIVE! ‘Your Name.’ special number







You can see it on Niconico! Infact in this video the director touches on this key visual.



Part 1 https://sp.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm29644878





Part 2 https://sp.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm29644917







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It seems he got the image on September 10th 2016, which was soon after the release of 'Your Name'.



'Your name' was released on August 26th so it was 15 days after the release!





In this program, they used the message function of LINE LIVE to ask questions to Makoto Shinkai. There was a question, “What's next?”







Chiaki Matsuzawa, the moderator

“There’s a comment ‘what's your next work?’ already ... “





Director Shinkai

"I haven't thought of the next film yet, but yeah ... well, it's almost the end of summer now.



The cumulonimbus at the end of summer is neatly over the sky, the tropopause ... the cumulonimbus is growing, it's always growing, and it's flattening straight where it hits the troposphere. A very high cumulonimbus ...



The flattened part looks like a vast dozen kilometers of grassland, above the tropopause of the clouds ...





A few days ago, I felt like somethings happens there and I wanted to see such image ...



But I don't know if it will be the next one.”



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Even though he said he didn't know if it'd be the next work, it fortunately did end up being the next work.



The director caught a cold at this time and looked very ill.



Good job, Director!









Next, I will introduce ...



The next interview was on September 20th 2016, by Ayaka Ogawa at News Station.





You can see it on Youtube!



The video will start when you click on it below.



He didn't directly bring up the new work, but he did say it like this.



(start from the above video, 03:44)

Director Makoto Shinkai x Ayaka Ogawa

Great Hit “Your Name.”

Director talks: "Hope in despair"



Announcer Ayaka Ogawa

"Do you watch the news usually?"





Director Shinkai

"The thing I care about in a news program is that I want to feel the whole big air change through the press.”



"Because the difference between what the audience wants, and what I can do as the director is very large."



The director may want to make a work that reflects the atmosphere of the present age, and also to present it to the audience.







That's why he wants to feel the atmosphere of the world from the news ………….





By the way, a typhoon was coming to the Islands of Japan on this day. In this interview, the director mentioned that too.





As for Weathering With You, “weather” is an important theme, as expected …





... But is that really all there is?"







I feel like that's not what the movie is all about.







The next time the Director touched on the new work, as far as I am aware, was during this program. According to the Director's Twitter it was on March 7th.



March 11, 2017



[TBS special program "3.11 Truth in the 7th Year"]



The interview video has been uploaded to YouTube





To start the video, click the image of Announcer Zenba below.



From 16:49 he mentions Weathering With You.



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Advertising Video



3.11 Truth in the 7th Year



To be broadcasted 14:00 March, 11(Sat)



Highlight



Director Makoto Shinkai will reveal the truth of the blockbuster movie, "Your Name." for the first time!





◆ Director Makoto Shinkai, who has the blockbuster movie, “Your Name.” which became a social phenomenon, walked on the disaster area four months after the Great East Japan Earthquake, and drew “one picture.” Six years have passed and earlier this month he visited the same place again.



What is “the fact that he could not talk to anybody until then,” which Director Shinkai told a caster Zenba?



The truth of "Your Name." is revealed for the first time.



In this program, the announcer Zenba asked him a question, “Finally, what is the next work?”





【Announcer Zenba】

“This is the last question. I think that you have often picked up the atmosphere of that era, what everyone in that era thought and made it into a work. What kind of work would you create next? ”







【Director Shinkai】

“I haven't found anything that I can really talk about yet, but ... us, adults, think that we were not like this or maybe the world is just getting worse, I guess.



……… But, on the other hand, I wonder if I could create a story about young children who can jump out of our gloom and far beyond our imagination. The next step might be to do that, maybe.”



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By the way, this was on a magazine called "Nikkei Entertainment" released on July 4th this year.its been around for a while

On page 14 of this magazine, there is a statement that says “the plot was completed in late February 2017.”



And, also that "The first plot has just been written as it is."



The recording of the talk program between the announcer Zenba and Director Shinkai, which was introduced earlier, was on March 7th, 2017.





By the time this talk took place, the outline of the story had already been set in stone.



If so, wouldn't the words of Director Shinkai in this interview be directly reflected in the story of Weathering With You?





I will present an analysis based on this assumption.





Director Shinkai says in this program like this;

"us, adults, think that we were not like this or maybe the world is just getting worse, I guess."





What does this mean?



First, let’s start with the part,

"Think that we were not like this"



I won't go into details because it deviates from the main subject, but I guess it's poverty or disparity.





↓ This is an article recently uploaded on June 17th.

Genki Kawamura revealed in France the secret story of the production of the “Weathering With You”



June 17, 2019 12:30



After that, it was about the production of " Weathering With You". Here, the work is explained from three parts, "theme", "character", and "background". According to Kawamura, there are three themes for "Weathering With You". One of them is "weather" in the title. “Weather” is relevant to everyone in the world and is something that everyone always cares about. This will create a universal story.



The second is “in the clouds”. The cloud drawn in the first key view holds the key to the story. The third is “Survival of boys and girls in Tokyo”. Contemporary themes such as urban poverty are likely to be involved in the work.

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”Contemporary themes such as urban poverty are likely to be involved in the work.”







Well, let's get back to the story.

Then what do the words “maybe the world was getting worse”? mean?





In fact, two years ago, when I watched the talk between the announcer Zenba and Director Shinkai, I felt that the international situation was worsening from the expression "the world is getting worse."





At that time, the global news was Trump's victory in the US presidential election and his inauguration rather than climate change. (The victory in the presidential election was on November 8, the previous year, and the Inauguration took place on January 20, Inauguration about a month before the recording of the program by Director Shinkai and the announcer Zenba.)



I felt incredibly depressing as Trump won the US presidential election and was officially appointed as President.





And, to be honest, I couldn't imagine climate change or global warming from the expression "the world is getting worse."





In the previous year, the heavy rain disaster was in rural areas, but it was not very familiar to me, living in Tokyo.





The climate of Tokyo in March 2017, when this talk was held, was not so different.



There is actually another reason I came to think of the worsening international situation in the words of the director.



It might be because I checked Shinkai's Tweet ...







Director Shinkai's Tweet on November 9, 2016 (resulting from the US presidential election)

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Shinkai Makoto @shinkai ... November 09, 2016



I'm going to Hong Kong today. "Your Name." promotion. I’ll board after drinking beer. See you.

Shinkai Makoto @shinkai ... November 09, 2016



Hong Kong now. I heard the results of the presidential election in an in-flight announcement. Seriously?



He said, “Seriously?”





It seems like Director Shinkai heard the news of Trump’s winning on the way to Hongkong to promote “Your Name.”



I was very surprised at the time, too.



Trump's rant at the presidential election was terrible.







And, in the trailer of Weathering With You......



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『トランプはAI』

"Trump is AI".



… But, if it was all this, then it’s like, what’s the matter?





It can be said it was just a coincidence.



Or, even if it's purposefully done by Shinkai, it will be a leap in logic to say that it is related to the theme, the main theme of a new movie.



…, but I feel like I'm stuck.





Now, a little different story. After the release of Your Name., there was one more thing that made me feel depressed in international affairs.



September 2016 North Korea nuclear test



February 2017 Missile launch test in North Korea





In fact, there is an interview with Director Shinkai that mentions the missile launching test, which is actually just a word, though.









Interview on October 21, 2017



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Movie news



Director Makoto Shinkai looks back on the journey so far--the compelling thoughts in his everyday depictions



October 21, 2017 09:00



Commentary with feelings at the time







[Movie.com News] The first TV broadcast of the hit animation movie “Your Name”, which domestic box office revenue has exceeded 25 billion yen, will be broadcast (on WOWOW from 8:00 pm on November 4). WOWOW will broadcast a special program from October 21st, as well as the past four works directed by Makoto Shinkai. Furthermore, from November 11th, " Makoto Shinkai Exhibition" will be held at the National Art Center, Roppongi, Tokyo. Before the broadcast and the exhibition, Director Shinkai talked about his style.





A major feature of Shinkai's work is the realistic and detailed images of everyday scenes that people usually see. He efficiently uses natural motifs such as the sun, moon, and stars, wind, clouds, water, and rain, and uses artificial objects such as trains, buildings, and convenience stores to enrich the scenery that everyone has seen. He has sublimated those into a unique scene and has captured the hearts of many people. Why did Director Shinkai want to describe every day?







“From the very beginning, I wanted to make my own work digitally because I was a salaried worker,” said Shinkai, who said, “After getting on a crowded train, doing the work until the last train, coming back in the middle of the night, going to a convenience store, buying a lunch, eating, eating up in the morning and continuing the life for years and years, I repeated the same thing all the time and wore away. Then I felt like I was missing something important. So I wanted to make a movie that takes place in the living space that I send every day,” he revealed his seriousness.









What emerges from the words of Director Shinkai is the real anguish of people living today, which has been described in previous works, as well as a feeling of blockage and loneliness. “Specifically, trains and ticket gates come out, convenience stores, vending machines, bicycle storage places, etc. I wanted to affirm this world, I remember feeling like that and started to make them into a movie.” The extreme personal thought aroused a lot of sympathy through the work, and Director Shinkai quickly climbed up to become Japan's leading filmmaker.









Director Shinkai self-analyzes the keyword "everyday" using his initial masterpiece "5 Centimeters Per Second" as an example. "When I made "5 Centimeters Per Second", I thought everyone had the feeling that Tokyo's everyday life would continue as it is. It was just before the earthquake (the Great East Japan Earthquake), terrorism was not as large as it is now, and economically Japan may taper off, but I felt that the same everyday life would continue as it was, and it would be a very detailed work of everyday life in such an era. I wonder if a movie that brings out meaning from a good place is a good thing, such as a train crossing a train that blocks between two people and there is no girlfriend after the train passes, so it can happen in everyday life I thought we needed a story that would bring out the meaning of living from something small. "







His style that accurately captured the scent of the times changed from "catch up" to "pull up". ""Garden of Words" and " Your Name." are post-earthquake movies. We can’t think that Tokyo's everyday life is going to continue as it is now any more. In a time when I don't know when missiles will come down, when you do not know when earthquakes and typhoons will come, as a movie that customers will watch, you strongly grasp what you could not get by yourself. Or maybe you want to fulfill what you've always wanted, or accomplish something big on your own, and the current audience wants to see a story that catches on something big, and I myself wanted to make something like that."







The culmination is "Your Name." Director Shinkai said, "I made "Your Name." because I wanted to make a movie that would allow the audience to leave the theater with a very happy feeling from the beginning , because of the unstable times after the earthquake. It's a movie that moves a lot of emotions including emotions and sadness, sadness and loneliness while I'm doing it, but when you finally left the theater, I want you truly think it was good.'' He put his strength in.









I can tell that Director Shinkai feels that the audience and himself are on the same line instead of being separated. That's why drawing everyday life is inevitable. Director Shinkai said, “I have a change in my mind, but it seems that myself is being changed by the change of the audience watching the movie, the change of the atmosphere of society, the change of what everyone thinks. That kind of feeling may be stronger,” he concluded.



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It's just a sentence, but he said, "I don't know when a missile will come down."

By the way, do you have any concerns with these interview articles?







Such as earthquakes, typhoons and rain do not stop, I did not feel uncomfortable with these words.







The earthquake is a word that links to the Great East Japan Earthquake of 3.11, and Your Name.



Don't you feel it’s strange?



Typhoon and rain are words that match with Weathering With You.



But,



"In international affairs, terrorism has never been as large as now."







"I don't know when a missile will come down"



Don't these phrases just seem unfitting?



As a matter of fact, this is what he said in that interview one month ago.





Interview on September 7, 2017



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Animated film director Makoto Shinkai attends a press conference on "Shinkai Makoto Exhibition-From ‘Voices of a Distant Star‘ to ‘Your Name.’" held at the National Art Center, Roppongi, Tokyo on Thursday, September 7. According to the interview after the meeting, he talked about the next work, following "Your Name.", saying “it is currently under construction."





――Please tell us about the current situation of your next work.



"Thanks to you, ‘Your Name.’ is a long run and the promotion settled down in February this year. After that, I’m currently setting up a script and art setting”



――What kind of theme will it be?



"I've been thinking about what kind of movie to make in the current era for the past six months. Every day I'm very worried. Of course, that's exactly the theme of the next work. I can't tell you now, but I still want to make a movie for young people, just like ‘Your Name.’



--What is the "young person" for you, whom you want to deliver your work?



"Earthquakes will occur, rain will not stop, missiles will fly fiercely... but that's not their responsibility. They have to grow up in harder times than when we were young. How do they move into the future in an ‘imposed’ environment? How do they get over or break it ... I'm making a story from that perspective. ”



―― Then, what kind of work do you expect to be?



"Although adults are generally useless for children, what kind of movie can I make for young people, when I’m middle-aged? (lol) It is very abstract, but I want to make a work, which young children today will think, ‘This is a story about us’ and ‘It's a story that tells me something.’"



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‘missiles will fly fiercely’...





…, are you worried about something?





In a conversation between the announcer Zenba and Director Shinkai, which I raised earlier, the announcer Zenba said,

‘ I think that you have often picked up the atmosphere of that era, what everyone in that era thought and made it into a work. '

I think the announcer Zenba's point is right.



In the interview with the announcer Ayaka Ogawa, the Director also mentioned about such a thing.





Think about it, Your Name. was also such a movie





After all, from these points, I feel that Director will make the theme of Weathering With You to be like the international situation.





By the way, it seems that the script was completed on August 26, 2017, when the above article was published, “before” September and October.





In August of the same year, he gave the script to Yojiro.



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And this is a magazine that has not been released yet, but it will be a notice of a magazine called Da Vinci, which will be released on August 6, 2019 ...





Since the character is small, I enlarged it.

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『“世界”の調和が狂うとき、少年と少女は何を選ぶのか』



"What do boys and girls choose when the harmony of the "world" goes wrong?"



Why should it be the “world”?



If you look at the description of the movie, the stage should be limited to Tokyo, not the world... right?



Of course, a catastrophe on a global scale may occur during the movie.





From that point, I guess it could be like Your Name, which was a spectacular and unexpected development like at the time.





But why is the harmony of the world going wrong?



Why not say "Weather harmony"



From such a point, I wonder if the theme will be connected to the international situation.



Of course it is possible that I am wrong with my predictions.



What do you think?





Also, Director Shinkai, please tell me what kind of thought you had when you made the movie in an interview someday!



I’d like to check whether my predictions were correct (^^)



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Well, that was my prediction before the movie was released.







Everyone, after watching the movie, what did you think of it?







I can hear Natsumi's voice, played by Tsubasa Honda,



“That’s hilarious!”

“Your delusional, I’m really put off!”

(lol)







I have no choice but to laugh ......







Excerpt from [Weathering With You Theater Pamphlet]



Comment from Director Shinkai.

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I want to create a story that creates something new in the world, where harmony cannot be restored.



The most underlying pillar of this work was the feeling that this world itself was going crazy. In the world situation, In this situation and environmental issues, the change in the world is accelerating, and the bodily sensation is changing in a strange direction.



I feel that many people think so. But we did not stop it. The world today is also the result of our own choice.

“The most underlying pillar of this work was the feeling that this world itself was going crazy. In the world situation...,”





Please see below.



This is a comment from Yojiro of RADWIMPS singing the theme song, which was tweeted on July 23 in the movie “After Release”.

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The news that keeps coming up, the tensions and violence in the situation overseas, the weather and disasters, and the like, make me worried little by little. I think about what we can do with music. I think about the order of the important things. I want to live without giving up.



9:17 PM Jul 23, 2019 Echofon



1951 Retweets 25K Likes

" the tensions and violence in the situation overseas " ...



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The following is information provided by DM from a Twitter follower. (Added on August 8)



Because I have not obtained permission from him, he will be anonymous.





Important pieces of the puzzle are now available.



This was the most important piece.







I cannot thank this person enough.

The following is the content of his DM."





"As an aside, Yojiro Noda used to talk many times during live MC that, we cannot know when missiles will fall or we suddenly get caught up in terrorism, especially from around 2017.



But “I want you to live everyday”







I read the article and felt that what he has told from this time was also connected to the movie.







Live remarks can also be confirmed on the 2017 live video (Human Bloom Tour)!



During the tour, it was time always with the news of missiles and it was said that the live would be canceled if the J alert sounded. ''







This DVD and Blu-ray seem to have the video and audio. ↓↓↓↓

Video albums and live albums of the nationwide tour “Human Bloom Tour 2017” held from February to May this year are on sale!

And I noticed something serious by his point.









Why didn't I check Yojiro's Twitter and Instagram? …, (Added on August 9)







I laugh at my own stupidity.







Director Shinkai went to RADWIMPS live just when North Korea's missile launch test was a major problem.



April 15, 2017



Well, we'll be ready to hit back the missile again today, so don't miss, the Hokuriku members!

April 15, 2017



We had a special show with Shinkai-san. There was a feeling shared only by those who were there today.



Oh, I was happy to meet you! !



Shinkai-san's eyes were as clear as ever. I am really looking forward to the next one.

Makoto Shinkai April 15, 2017



RADWIMPS Fukui was great! I can cry!



Shinkai said like this after the performance,

Makoto Shinkai April 15, 2017



RADWIMPS live again. Listening to dream lanterns, previous and previous life, sparkles and nothing else, and other favorite songs, I feel like I finally finished the long-lasting "Your Name.”, well, RAD is going far ahead, anyway, the important feelings for a new movie,

Makoto Shinkai April 15, 2017



I was taught a lot. Also by the people who came to the stage greeting today. It was a happy day. Thank you!

“RAD is going far ahead, anyway, the important feelings for a new movie, I was taught a lot. Also by the people who came to the stage greeting today.”

Mr. Yojiro Noda posted the following Tweet at the same time.

Yojiro Noda April 6, 2017



Gentle people are keeping this world, but



crazy people are proceeding this world

Yojiro Noda April 8, 2017



Will they start a war?



Where are humans heading?

And eight months after this Tweet ...

Like us, Mr. Yojiro Noda may have been worried ...

Yojiro Noda December 9, 2017



Hey Mr. Trump, really, what the heck are you thinking?

This was a little while ago, but there was this tweet.



On this day, September 3, 2017,



it was the day North Korea conducted a “nuclear test.”



Yojiro Noda September 3, 2017



Kim Jong-un is only a year older than me, but he seems to live too harsh.



I guess he becomes too serious because it's an inherited power.



I’m worried about him.



And this is a Tweet a few days before Director Shinkai went to RADWIMPS live.





Yojiro Noda April 10, 2017



This time also, I met the Hiroshima Peace Memorial. The Hiroshima Peace Memorial was still there, just as it was three years ago. Standing there, on that very day 72 years ago, I get a mysterious illusion as if I were there. Life in a moment ...

※The Hiroshima Peace Memorial is the hypocenter of an atomic bomb.



Below is Yojiro Noda's Instagram.





Some of the lyrics of " Is There Still Anything That Love Can Do?" are already here.



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ほどけぬ誤解と

降り積もる憎悪と



許し合う声と

握りしめ合う手を

この星は今日も 抱えて生きてる



愛の歌も 歌われ尽くした

数多の映画で 語られ尽くした

そんな荒野に 生まれ落ちた僕、君 それでも

愛にできることはまだあるよ

僕にできることはまだあるよ



Unbreakable misunderstanding

The hatred that accumulates



Forgiving voice

Hands holding each other

This star is still alive today with those



The song of love was also fully used up

Exhausted in numerous movies

We were born in such a wilderness. but

There's still something love can do

There's still more I can do





This time also, I met the Hiroshima Peace Memorial.



The Hiroshima Peace Memorial was still there, just as it was three years ago. Standing there, on that very day 72 years ago, I get a mysterious illusion as if I were there.



People who lost their life in an instant. Countless people jumping into the river, holding their melted skin from their lives.



"Hot, hot"



Moaning of "water, water".



Humans have been at war for hundreds and thousands of years. I really hate it. The more important people and things become, the more we hate eachother.



In the history of humanity for thousands of years, no matter what science has evolved, there is still nothing fundamental.



We are stupid.



Where does the United States and Russia over Syria go globally?



But I still want to believe in human kindness.



When I experience music live it doesn't feel impossible.





I may be naïve, but I want to keep saying it.



I talked too much.



Thank you very much today.





なぜこの手をすり抜ける

ものばかり与えたか

それでもなおしがみつく

僕らは醜いかい

それとも、きれいかい

答えてよ



Why it slips through this hands

Did I just keep giving things?

Still clinging

We are ugly

Or beautiful

Answer me



I hope we can see such a beautiful sunset forever. I don't want to lose it because of missiles.



But if it falls, take over me, left people.

Our will.

Is the essence of human being ugly? Stupid? Or beauty?



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Introduction of the work】↓

【This is a story about the secrets of the world that only I and her know.】

The new work "Weathering With You" is a story, in which a boy and a girl who are at the mercy of fate."choose" their own way of life in an era, when the harmony of the weather is going crazy.



A young girl with a mysterious power, Hina, who met a runaway boy, Hodaka, who came to Tokyo. The story of their love is portrayed beautifully, painfully, as a message to all generations entering a new era and to the whole world.



Director Shinkai, Yojiro Noda, I have finally understood what kind of message you want to convey to people all over the world.





The long-tailed dragon in the sky, was a metaphor for a missile attack on Tokyo.

Even though I wrote this by myself, I can't believe it, but that is what it is.



When I first saw Weathering With You,





"International affairs are completely unrelated with that movie.



This is ridiculous.



Predicted articles have been largely out of the way ... "



I felt like that.





This is because, in the story of Weathering With You, neither "world situations" nor "missiles" are ever mentioned.





I noticed this theme because I found the phrase "World situations" in an interview with director Shinkai in a theater pamphlet.



And, as I will tell later, I was reading the same book as Director Shinkai.



That was a great help in noticing this theme.





Even though I wrote this statement myself, I can't really believe it...







If I connect all the information I have collected so far, it will end up like that.







And that cumulonimbus may be a metaphor of "nuclear."

（僕にできることは ―）＝ What I can do ―



Indeed, we, Japanese have been worried about the “North Korean nuclear development issue” since or before September 2016.



In the interview video I raised earlier, the announcer Zenba pointed out,

‘ I think that you have often picked up the atmosphere of that era, what everyone in that era thought and made it into a work. '



In retrospect, it was a really sharp point.





I think people all over the world were concerned and were watching "that problem.



And it will surely not change now.



Weathering With You may be a metaphor for anxiety we feel about that problem with "Unstoppable rain in Tokyo".







In retrospect, I think that the hint that Weathering With You is on the theme of the "global politics" was also drawn a little in the movie.

トランプはAI ＝ "Trump is AI"

ゲリラ豪雨は気象兵器

＝“Guerilla heavy rain is a weather weapon”

東京を守る大量の人柱

＝“Many human sacrifices protecting Tokyo”

テロ警戒 ＝ "Terrorism alert"

The book, which was shown in Weathering With You,

[The Catcher in the Rye]

Do you remember that book?

【The Catcher in the Rye】 was published in the United States in 1951.





Even today, it has been highly evaluated around the world as a youth novel, having a teenage boy is a hero.





By the way,



There is an academic paper (research) that say, the author Salinger wrote The Catcher in the Rye as an 'anti war novel'

Quote source

https://archives.bukkyo-u.ac.jp/rp-contents/BO/0094/BO00940L083.pdf





According to the author of academic paper, Salinger was unable to clearly appeal to this message of "anti-war" due to the social background in the United States at the time.







However, the author of academic paper said that if people read the novel closely, they would see the anti-war messages at the end of the sentence.





The reason is supposed to be the outbreak of the Korean war.

And the overall hyper nationalist view.



due to McCarthyism↓

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism







Probably Director Shinkai probably created Weathering With You as our story of [Fear and Hope].



I think some people did not like the end of Weathering With You or the choice of Hodaka and Hina at the end of the movie.



But I guess their choices were right.



Thanks to the choice of them,



“We could turn back halfway”



I strongly feel so.





If the blue sky continued as it was, what would the world be like?







"The same expression" appears in the novel of Weathering With You, but ...







I thought that the blue sky that spread after Hina was sacrificed was fake.





The following is an excerpt from Hodaka’s monologue in a novel, Weathering With You.







Novel Weathering With You Page 214

Excerpt from Hodaka’s monologue

"When I got out of the hotel to show off, I was dazzled.



(Omitted)



It looked like a fake.



It was a “blue sky like a fake.”



Novel Weathering With You Page 244

Excerpt from Hodaka’s monologue

"[Blue sky like a fake]

and

[Huge cumulonimbus like white pillar]

which supports that sky looks down at me coldly.”

Director Shinkai, said that,



"I got the image of a human sacrifice from President Trump."

on November 12, at a lecture held in Kyoto.





It seems that the image that fulfills the huge hopes and desires of people led to the image of the human sacrifice.



With enough sacrifice, would being able to fulfill the people's desires and achieve world peace be possible?





For a moment, we may be able to see a fake blue sky.







But then what happens “in reaction”?





At that time, Is it enough to just have Tokyo sink?

100%の晴れ女 ＝ 100% Sunshine girl

トランプはAI ＝ "Trump is AI"

Excerpt from page 128 of Novel Weathering With You↓

"Last night, Jingu Gaien Fireworks Festival was a miraculous sunny day in the city center.



“But as if it was the reaction of it”



Today, it is another heavy rain. The current temperature in the city center is



twenty one, which is well below normal years. It is chilly that we cannot imagine in August.

If we want a blue sky (peace) with human sacrifice ...



If we want to fulfill our wishes or desires by means of human sacrifice, ...



If, ignoring the complexity of this world, U.S. president tries to achieve a blue sky ...



What will happen in the future?



"In the real world, it invites snow falling in summer"



I strongly feel so.



Do you remember what happened in Iraq earlier this year?

I feel like I saw the snow falling in summer for only a moment.

Needless to say, Iran has a big responsibility.

Trump's Choice wasn't as much of an assassination as it was a military order.



Qasem Soleimani coordinated with terrorist cells.



But I have to worry about President Trump's behavior and judgment.



Does he understand the complexity of this world?

I understand that fortunately, the situation didn't get worse.



What if an American was on board a Ukrainian aircraft that was shot down by Iran?



What would've happened if a US soldier was killed by an Iranian missile?



（※On the other hand, I understand that "World War 3" isn't even close to starting.However, I feel an indescribable fear. The huge conflicts of the past have expanded, betraying everyone's expectations that the conflicts will not expand）

Of course, as Hodaka and Hina did, choosing long rainfalls would affect many people.

It will torment us.

These problems facing Japan and The United States are not gone.



Now, Related issues is occurring in Middle East. [Iran Nuclear Development]



Regarding Iranian Nuclear Development. Trump may want to achieve clear weather by force.

Forgive me for repeating myself.



As I said in the beginning. President Trump is a patriot and is elected as dictated by the democratic system.



As a Japanese man, I may not have the right to speak on it.

But I still want to tell you.

This movie has a hidden message.

Maybe I have encountered the same book as Director Shinkai.



Director Shinkai, Sorry if I was wrong.



But I guess Director Shinkai also saw that book.





This is because it is an inevitable book if the theme is World Situations.



(The book was first published in 1966, and has been reprinted "once a year" until 2019.)

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『国際政治ー恐怖と希望』（高坂正堯著）

International Politics-Fear and Hope

(by Masataka Kosaka)



http://www.chuko.co.jp/shinsho/2017/10/180108.html





The following text is an excerpt from the content introduction at the link above.



"Humanity has long devoted wisdom to achieve world peace, but the battles have been repeated.



Why doesn't the war crisis go away-- ''



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The author of this book, Masataka Kosaka, states in the book that world peace is "impossible" based on a variety of reasons.





He also says that a “world without nuclear weapons” is impossible.





He say, various conflicts or problems in the international community are as complicated and difficult to solve, as the weather is.

And the violence in this world doesn't stop, like the rain in that movie.





Masataka Kosaka also stated:



If we want to stop the rain that keeps forcibly falling..., if we use "force" to solve the problems and seek peace. We need human sacrifice.



With enormous number.







Therefore, Mr. Kosaka set another prescription.





He says, instead of using a "human sacrifice," using force to solve the problem, freeze the problem and put it off.





He says we shouldn’t ignore the complexity of this world, stop "falling rain" and forcibly achieve "sunny weather" (peace).





Hina and Hodaka prayed for “sunny weather” in response to various requests from people during the movie.



And it was shown wonderfully.



All of the scenes of Hina as the “Sunshine Girl” were wonderful, especially the scene of the Jingu Gaien Fireworks Festival. I was watching the movie myself and was very excited.

But what happened after this fine weather?



Excerpt from page 128 of Novel Weathering With You

"Last night, Jingu Gaien Fireworks Festival was a miraculous sunny day in the city center.



But as if it was the reaction of it



Today, it is another heavy rain. The current temperature in the city center is twenty one, which is well below normal years. It is chilly that we cannot imagine in August.

And as a result of their continued sunny weather,



what happened to “Sky in Tokyo” at the end of the movie?



Looking at "Snow Falling in the Summer", Hodaka says as follows.



The bold part is excerpted from the text of Hodaka from pages 183 to 184 of the novel " Weathering With You".

Isn't this a punishment?



I wonder while rubbing my arm out of my sleeve in the raincoat.



Because we changed the weather on our own, people like the gods in the sky got angry.



Because humans were not satisfied with the weather given.



Because we wanted the blue sky on our own.



Mr. Kosaka says, if we ignore the complexity of the world situationーThat's like a weather phenomenonーand seek "sunny sky" (peace) by "exercise of power", it will lead to a huge tragedy.



Kosaka says.



Rather than using "power" and seeking "sunny weather" (perfect peace) to avoid catastrophe, we should rather choose "long rainfall" (uneasy peace).





He states that if the long rains (uneasy peace or fear) will give you anxiety, and if we use power to seek the fine weather (peace) ... if we break the balance and harmony of the worldー, as history showsー, "it will be impossible to restore the world."





He states.



Things will get out of control, and that's when it comes to "snow in the summer."



Of course, choosing "long rains" (uneasy peace) is, of course, a way to make people uneasy.





Mr. Masataka Kosaka also mentions that point in the book.



Furthermore, he also warns that uneasy peace such as "long rains" will create "the cause of another conflict or ruin."



Mr. Masataka Kosaka quotes a famous social psychologist and makes warning.



(* Text below is from [International Politics-Fear and Hope], page 72)

Living in fear and doubt for long periods of time makes the spirit of people unhealthy.



(Omitted)



The long-term impact of such peace on human psychology is described by social psychologist Erich Seligmann Fromm.



'When constantly threatened by ruin, most humans will exhibit certain psychological symptoms, such as fear, hostility, coldness, and the resulting indifference to our important values.



These conditions turn us into barbarians.



It's a savage with complex and rigorous equipment.”



It is unavoidable because "threats continue to exist" in front of us.



However, Mr. Masataka Kosaka is strongly opposed to promptly and forcibly seek problem solving and peace ー by using “power” and not hesitating sacrifices ー and by having human sacrifice, being worried about the long-lasting, unstoppable rain.







In the era of nuclear weapons, if we easily establish a human sacrifice …, if we easily use force to resolve conflicts, not with a metaphorical expression “in the literal sense,” he states that it will lead to world ruin.







Mr. Kosaka says.



We have no choice but to live in this world, where the problems are not solved, the daily unrest and the unending rain fall.







However, Mr. Masataka Kosaka states



at the end of the book [International politics-" Fear and hope"]:





Although in such a world where rain does not stop, we must never give up seeking hope.





Even if we can't see the path to the “clear sky” (peace), we must not stop praying (prayer for peace).







(* The text in bold below is excerpted from pages 207 and 208 from [International politics-fear and hope]



"Don't stop to wish"



"Do not despair"



and it is,



"Human’s responsibility"





And when I watched the movie "Weathering With You" and once again remembered the words, stated at the end of [International Politics-"Fear and Hope"].



"In fact, humans do not stop wishing, even without rational grounds.”





I remembered Hina crossing her hands and praying in the last scene of the movie.

And I remembered the last word of Hodaka,

"We'll be fine."

The last section of the book, [International Politics-“Fear and Hope”],

Is named with Despair and Hope.



Director Shinkai and Mr. Yojiro Noda. Thank you for the wonderful movie.



Probably, Director Shinkai, created Weathering With You, as "a story of hope in the continual rain of this world."





Subtitle（Main title in English version）

Weathering With You



"Overcoming difficulties"



"Withstand window and snow"



I finally understand the meaning of them.





Everyone, by all means, please listen again the theme song in the movie by RADWIMPS



[Is There Still Anything That Love Can Do?]



[We'll Be Alright]







Doesn't they sound like a different song?





Compared to what I listened in the trailer, at least for me, the impression of the song sounded different.







I sincerely hope that the message they send will reach the whole world.





Thank you for your reading this long article.





Here, I have a favor to ask you.





I understand that it is still difficult for Director Shinkai and Yojiro Noda to tell everyone that "Actually, the theme was" North Korean missiles, nuclear development issues.



This is because it may cause great debate or criticism.





I understand that this is one of the reasons that Director Shinkai did not depict "World Situation" or "Missile" in Weathering With You.





It may be difficult for Director Shinkai to mention how to deal with “that problem.”



It can be very controversial.





He may be possible to touch it in a rather far way without stepping on it.





Both Shinkai and Yojiro Noda should have made an “agreement” ‘to avoid direct mentioning’ because they are politically sensitive issues.







To start the video, click the image below.



Director seems concerned.



(From 22:00, you will confirm.)



In the interview video above, the director says:



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The above video, from 22:00





Director Shinkai

"There are various excellent works, but I want to believe that there are things that only we can do.



But if we do, we may be hit all at once.



We may be attacked.



Although I have such feelings, I still think there are things I can do, I want to think so.



And by showing it off, a little something like atmosphere, something like breathlessness may diminish, there are expectations,



I feel happy if I can do that,



I can't say it well, but it's a movie made with that meaning.”



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There are still concerns in Director.





However, at the same time, Director Shinkai seems to think, He want to lighten the heavy atmosphere we feel about “that problem”











I have a favor to ask you.



Would you tell people around you, the theme and message of Weathering With You, everyone close to you, instead of Shinkai and Yojiro Noda?







Director Shinkai said on Twitter when Weathering With You was about to be released, as follows:





“We make anime in the hope that the world will be a little richer and a little better.”



Why did Nana Mori, who plays the role of Hina, shed tears at the production report conference?







Why did she lose her voice and shed tears on the very first post-recording?



What was she worried about and why she lost her words?

Kotaro Daigo, who plays the leading role in a certain program, looked back on this and said as follows.



"That's because Nana thinks about the work “in various ways ..."



So Nana was perfect for the role of Hina."



The pictures, voices, and music in that movie, the productions staff “took the weight of the theme they handle” and strongly hoped “to change the world,” therefore, I guess it was created.



I think that the production staff of Weathering With You, including Director Shinkai and Yojiro Noda, are serious.





Weathering With You is already scheduled for release in more than 140 countries.





I would like to lend you your voice, if allowed.





If allowed ...



everyone,"Maybe there is such a theme and message." in that way, I want you to tell people around you.





Thank you all for your long relationship.





I think it's a pros and cons movie.



It was a movie with a really tricky theme.



Against my view, of course, there are objections.



And I think the text in this article was a long, hard to understand text.



However, to those who have read so far, I really appreciate it.









I thank you so much.







Supplement





(I notice that Weathering With You has its motif of [International Politics-Fear and Hope], because there is a reason. Of course, it is still just a hypothesis.)







At the exhibition of Makoto Shinkai's Garden of Words, there was a “Prospectus of Garden of Words”.







There was a certain word that hit me. Director Shinkai described Japan as a "geographically ‘special’ and ‘unstable’ country.”







Mr. Masataka Kosaka, in another book, [International Politics-Fear and Hope], described Japan as a "far-western country" and "an oriental detached house."







In another book, Mr. Kosaka described Japan as a trade nation, with trade as the backing of the country.



He stated that because a trade nation lack of power, the international situation would tend to make the situation unstable.







As a result, I thought that Director Shinkai might have read Masataka Kosaka's [International Politics-Fear and Hope].







I will write another article about this.

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The article was finally completed on October 6, 2019.



https://twitter.com/fpodrXcqTo3SehD/status/1180813580393824257?s=19





Weathering With You, Director Makoto Shinkai, and Director Hayao Miyazaki. And geopolitics.

[From “Prospectus of Garden of Words” at the exhibition of Makoto Shinkai]





I hope you can see it.

