Please Mind: When reading this, I expect you to already have watched the movie. Cause this ain't summorization and watch guide, this is deep thoughts of someone, who has just rewatched the movie and cried 40% of the runtime.

Okkkk so let's start.

Well yeah easier said than done, but I will just start explaining some insiders on how I watched the movie. The first time was really a while back. I watched it with my friend ( @Rycario) and, yeah we enjoyed it, but not on an emotional level. Just as a fun little movie we watched.
Now on the 13th of Jan. 2025 (ended the watch on the 14.) I watched it again, but alone this time and BOYYY I DO NOT REGRET ANY MINUTE SPEND ON THIS!!!
This rewatch was an emotional rollercoaster. I cannot explain how deep I felt connected with the emotions, especially in the end scene when he just escaped from all those stupid morons and got to Hina. OMG THE MUSIC KICKED SO HARD GODDAMN IT, but I'm getting to that, hopefully.

Just like my A silent Voice review, I will not do the standard: OMG ANIMATION OKE THERE BAD COULDHAVE BEEN beTta and the yeah nah bla bla bla. No, I am just sharing what I felt while watching.

First things first: I started the film and I just got some snapshots in my mind of how the baseline went but not in any order and any details. Ok looked back, Not at all any details, ngl, buuuuut that's kinda why I rewatched. I continued and instantly - I got hooked on how the movie introduces you - the viewer - into Hodaka. You feel what he feels, in some kind of way, you feel the pressure of him pointing a gun at a fucking human (ok a downbad degenerate of a human, but still), you feel the Headwind while he's being chased by the police. YOU FEEL GOOD ABOUT HOW HE HITS THoSe mORONS IN DA FACE IN THE END. All of that is soooo well made, which leaves me no other option but to:

Weathering With You > Suzume > Your Name.

Ok so let's have some look into the actual deep dives of the story and why it feels so... so... Capivating to watch. I think because you (even as the viewer, cause you kinda feel what Hodaka feels) feel treated unfairly. Hodaka - from beginning to the end - just looks for a better life, finds the love of his fucking life and then she litterally is the choosen one and needs to vanish. Why? Yeah the fuck should I know, it feels wrong. Also how all of the adults just go in there and be like: Ohhhh youuu live alone and you're having a good damn life, ohh that sucks because you ain't hurting anyone. YES I KNOW IT'S LAW AND STUFF AND IT'S MADE TO PROTECT CHILDREN AND STUFF, But goddamn it feels so wrong seeing a - yeah you could call it that - happy family being broken up just because the law is something that just screams I WANNA SHOOT SOMEONE IN HIS HEAD, yummy. And there we are: What even is this the law and why is it there and why is it so imperfect in so many scenarios. But not gonna do that deepdive now.

And now to my emotional rollercoaster (don't worry, it won't be long):
Yes the "I cried 40% of the runtime", maaaayyybe was a bit over the top, buuuuut it got me harder than A silent voice just because of this joy. This joy when they meet again, this joy when they sit at the top of the building watching the fireworks that Hina just made possible. That's so crazy. And OMG my feeling also went so wild in said last scene. To kick on your memory a bit. It's when all of the police officers and like litterally the main set of characters just meets at the old, dusty, soon to be vanished like Hina - building and Hodaka tries to get to Hina. As said catchy emotions on his side. And also as said (you see, I am combining thingis there) this feeling of unfairness, why daah hell are they stopping him from getting to Hina (Yes, because they fucking have no clue what the hell is going on and are not in any way open for anything supernatural, which should be pretty nice from some people, cause there ain't no way we ain't having any "supernatural" things in our world, back to the point).

Overall: Best movie I have ever watched (after reavaluating all of the stuff I have watched) and would defenetly recommend it to anyone. (At the time of writing this review of course...)

Can't wait for the next banger CoMix releases, hopefully in 2025...

No, I will not put this through chatGPT to get out all my spelling mistakes, just think them out while reading. Have a great next sleep, a great first next time on anything you do, keep up the anime and manga addiction. bb.