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Hodaka and Hina may lack the intelligence and resolve of Taki and Mitsuha, the mismatched couple in “Your Name.” But they’re engaging characters, and their adventures enable Shinkai to examine two dire problems many young people in Japan feel powerless to overcome. As he did in “Your Name,” Shinkai suggests that magic exists in the everyday world, if the viewer would only look for it. Tokyo almost becomes another character in the film, and the light and water falling on the city offer a counterpoint to Hina and Hodaka’s actions. Shinkai’s artists capture both micro- and macroscopic: the wonder of a raindrop acting a prism, casting refractions onto the surrounding surfaces and the glow produced by light shining through clouds. “Weathering” is a luminously beautiful film. Their flight from the police forces them to make choices that lead to an unexpected conclusion.

Hodaka is still a runaway whose family is looking for him Hina and Nagisa are minors with no legal guardian. Success brings Hina, Hodaka and Nagisa happiness and more money than they’ve ever seen in their hardscrabble existence in the post-bubble Japanese economy. People hire Hina to gain a few sunny hours for a party, a wedding, a memorial service. Using his web skills, Hodaka markets her talent. When Hina prays, the clouds part and sunlight pierces them - for a brief time. She is a Weather Girl, a modern incarnation of a shaman from the old fables. Hina’s modest demeanor conceals a legendary power. While living on the streets of Shinjuku, Hodaka meets Hina Amano, a gentle orphan who’s trying to care for herself and her precocious younger brother Nagisa. Oddball Keisuke Suga saves Hodaka when he‘s nearly swept off the ferry in a storm, and gives him an under-the-table job researching articles for a two-bit occult magazine.

Fortunately, he meets two people who offer him lifelines. He takes shelter in alleys and an all-night manga cafe to escape the ceaseless downpour. Impetuous and impractical, he’s brought very little money and forgotten the student ID card he would have to show to apply for a part-time job. Hoping to find a more interesting life than his local high school offers, Hodaka Morishima runs away to a rain-soaked Tokyo. In both films, Shinkai turns a seemingly ordinary juvenile romance into a magical-realist journey - and a meditation on real social concerns.

“Weathering With You,” his first feature since the record-breaking “Your Name” in 2016, confirms Makoto Shinkai’s place among the leaders of the new generation of anime writer-directors.