I really enjoyed Makoto Shinkai's film Your Name when it came out. I even saw it in theaters. The director, however, seems to continually do variations on the same core story of a disaster befalls the land and a space and time and sometimes star-crossed pair of love interests have to overcome themselves and connect so as to save lives. Yeah, that was okay in a mystical variation on what amounted to Freaky Friday but ... much as I enjoy Your Name ... the core plot mechanics are still Freaky Friday. I didn't see that the director was veering from from the template in Weathering With You and I haven't bothered to see the newest outing.
And seeing a review like this I'm not likely to get around to it.
The trope of the romantic trophy the hero or heroine secures as a reward for saving time and space has been sufficiently played out in, ahem, other genres here in the United States that I'm not chomping at the bit for anime variations. I have still, after all this time, not written my oft-intended rant "Legend of Entitlement" about what a narcissistic and violent entitled frat bro Korra is despite being female. Let the reader understand, "You kissed me back!" sounds like something a frat rat would say.
