Box office During its initial screening in 359 theaters and 448 screens in Japan,
Weathering with You sold 1,159,020 tickets to earn 1,643,809,400 (approx $15.22 million) in its first three days. It was reported that
Weathering with You surpassed Shinkai's previous film,
Your Name, which earned 1,277,960,000 (about $12.51 million at the time) in its first three days of screening, earning 28.6% more. By August 25, 2019, it had sold eight million tickets and earned 10.73 billion (about $101 million). By September 9, 2019, it had earned 12 billion and became the highest-grossing film of 2019 in Japan. By October 2, 2019, the film had sold over tickets in Japan, after 75 days on the market. By October 20, 2019, it had sold tickets and grossed in Japan. , the film has grossed () in Japan, and became the thirteenth
highest-grossing film of all time in Japan. In China, the film had sold 8,985,208 tickets and grossed in its first 17 days on the market, by November 19, 2019. By the end of November 2019, the film had grossed () in China. In
Singapore, it grossed () and became the highest-grossing anime film in Singapore. In the United States and Canada, the film has grossed $7,798,743, . As of July 2021, the film grossed over worldwide.
Critical response On
Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of based on reviews from critics, with an average rating of . The site's critics consensus reads, "Beautifully animated and narratively engaging,
Weathering with You further establishes writer-director Makoto Shinkai as a singularly talented filmmaker." On
Metacritic, the film has a
weighted average score of 72 out of 100 based on reviews from 30 critic reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Brian Ashcraft of
Kotaku praised the film, saying; "in
Weathering with You, the connection to real-world weather seems muted and like a missed opportunity. Weather in Japan has long been predictable. But in the past few years, Japanese weather, like weather all over the world, has gotten increasingly strange, relentless and dangerous. In the movie, it's mentioned how the weather has been changing, but it's in relation to how spring and summer have become less enjoyable for kids in Japan. There's nothing about how dangerous this weather has become. And even with the movie shows the power of weather, the impact is underplayed. but later wrote "the biggest problem that
Weathering with You has is this: it's the follow up to
Your Name". Daryl Harding, writing for
Crunchyroll News, praised the world-building aspect of the film, stating that Shinkai has his finger on the pulse of modern Tokyo's atmosphere, but criticized the similarity between
Weathering with You and
Your Name. Kim Morrissy of
Anime News Network also gave the film a generally positive review, praising its visuals and use of weather to convey the story's metaphor, but criticizing the execution in the second half of the film; she wrote that "Shinkai was evidently constrained by the need to fit his story into a particular template, one that didn't seem to fit the plot this time around". Twwk, reviewing the film for Beneath the Tangles, was mostly positive as well, writing; "The movie isn't as emotionally powerful as
Your Name due to a screenplay that plays too loose (and lazy) to earn its huge moments, but it's still heartfelt." James Marsh from
South China Morning Post praised the film for its animation, but criticized it for its lack of "clarity of vision seen in
Your Name". He described the plot as more straightforward than that of
Your Name, but said it has some unanswered and "dangling" plot threads. A review by Alicia Haddick for Otaquest praised the film's attempts to differentiate itself from Makoto Shinkai's past work and praised its animation, story and music, but said that its reliance on the structure of his last film hurt the movie overall, stating that "it's impossible to discuss this film without the specter of
Your Name hanging over your shoulder". Andrew Paredes, writing for
ABS-CBN News, praised the film's characters, story, themes, and Makoto Shinkai's directing, saying; "The effusive emotion and Shinto
mysticism rubbing up nicely against real-world concerns. And then there's the animation: Shinkai has outdone himself with this follow-up, presenting Tokyo not just with detailed fidelity, but also with a glow that suggests a lush, lambert inner life." Terence Toh, writing for
The Star, praised the film's characters and story, saying; "
Weathering With You boasts of wonderful visual and likeable characters. The story is also right as rain."
Accolades The film was selected Japan's entry for
Best International Feature Film at the
92nd Academy Awards, but it failed to make the shortlist. It also received four
Annie Award nominations including
Best Independent Animated Feature, which makes it the fourth anime film tying with
Spirited Away,
Millennium Actress, and
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence to have four nominations; the second-joint highest for an anime film at the Annies, behind
Ghost in the Shell (1995) and then
Belle (2021) with five. The film won the
Best Animated Feature Film award at the
13th Asia Pacific Screen Awards (ASPA) in
Brisbane,
Australia. ==Adaptations==