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Stop me if you’ve heard this before: A boy yearning for a better life in the big city and a girl discovering magical powers she doesn’t understand are pulled together by fate and fantasy, their shared secret in this magical ability ultimately blossoming into love. That’s the premise of Makoto…
When originally released in 2016, the acclaimed Your Name became the highest-grossing anime in Japan ever. Today, its follow-up, Weathering With You, was released in Japan. The movie shares many thematic and stylistic themes with Your Name. The result is good but flawed.
Ever since that whole Ghost in the Shell live-action debacle, audiences have been wary of how the J.J. Abrams-produced Your Name remake would adapt its source material. Would the live-action film stay close to Makoto Shinkai’s original film, or would it do the thing that most American anime adaptations do…
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