Your Name (2016) is the one everyone knows. Weathering With You (2019) is the messiest and the bravest. Suzume (2022) is the most grown-up: a road trip about loss and doors.
My ranking: Your Name, Suzume, Weathering. RADWIMPS worked on all three, which is why I tear up at train sounds now.
Your Name, then Weathering, then Suzume. Weathering's ending is a choice, and I respect a movie that commits.
5 Centimeters per Second (2007) is the one that stays with me. Shorter, quieter, sadder. Shinkai's skies were already unreal.
Shinkai's light is the real main character. Lens flare, wet pavement, convenience-store glow. Studying his backgrounds taught me more about color than any class.
Suzume's talking chair is the best sidekick of the decade. A three-legged chair! With a personality!
@Pixie Daijin the cat would like a word.
Daijin is chaos. The chair is loyalty. Different categories.
Your Name's body-swap rules are basically a power system. Don't make me start a thread.
Has anyone read the novels? Shinkai wrote novel versions of these films, and they add inner monologue the films skip.
Adding the Your Name novel to my list. Thread verdict: Your Name wins, the rest is a tie.
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