What kind of Makoto Shinkai would be judged as "Weathering With You" as "subtle"?

I think "Weathering With You" is a willful Makoto Shinkai under the "subtle" evaluation. In 2016, after the release of "Your Name", it achieved amazing results, making the creator Makoto Shinkai suddenly come to the public, and his popularity was limited to animation fans. This also made Makoto Shinkai vaguely regarded by some viewers as the "inheriter of Japanese animated films" before Hayao Miyazaki's comeback.

After the popularity of the work, Makoto Shinkai’s next film has attracted the attention of countless people from the beginning. Shinkai Makoto didn’t keep us waiting too long. After "Weathering With You" was released in Japan this summer, he also came to China to meet with us. Just when "Weathering With You" was about to be released, the fire at Kyoto Animation shrouded the entire animation industry in sadness and smoke. This isn't good news for the film, and Shinkai himself has been criticized for promoting the work on Twitter. It's kind of comforting to know that on the day Weathering With You hits theaters, "God" seems to be showing up. According to the plot of the movie, after several days of rain, Tokyo suddenly became sunny. As a result, the film also received excellent free publicity.

In the past few months, "Weathering With You" has topped the box office in Japan, but "Your Name" has never been seen. The massive resources invested by film investor Toho are certainly paying off, but the expectation of miraculous success, at least not long before they want to copy your name, is still far off. What went wrong with Weathering With You? I watched this movie in domestic cinemas for three consecutive days to try to find out.

Xin Haicheng's success has become the object of public attention and pursuit from the previous "minority" or just limited to the circle of animators. Business achievements put Xin Haicheng into a situation where he had to do something. So, at the time of its release, Weathering With You felt like a perfect idea, both conceptually and thematically, and it was so much like Your Name. But when we actually see this positive movie, we find that the similarities between the two are not only: the same story structure, the first half uses a happy story atmosphere to arouse the audience's emotions, and the second half plummets and contradicts Gather and the problem is solved. So I think "Weathering With You" is judged as "subtle" by the willful Makoto Shinkai.