01-19-2012, 08:09 PM
imo this was a little disappointing storywise. it went for a hayao miyazaki-like story but unfortunately it was not able to pull it off completely. it started quite well, and even half-way through the story still had momentum, but near the end it just lost it. either shinkai forcibly tried to put elements of his usual story style in at that point or they simply ran out of time. other than that, it was pretty good.