Talk about a storyline in which you are all but assured you’ll be misunderstood. Why does she end up leaving her job? Accusations–wrong, but still–accusations of inappropriate behavior with the students. Maybe Japan embraced this storyline and didn’t think anything of it, but for American audiences, this story is a turn off due to not only the age gap, but to the fact that the 27-year-old woman works at the teenager’s high school. Let me explain, and I’m by no means the final opinion on this, but sometimes one has to know the waters into which they are dipping their toes. The trouble here is the story, or rather the ages of the people in the story, or rather that it involves a high school student and an older woman…who works at his school. Rain, storms, any sort of weather, really, gives the illustrators the chance to really show off what they can do.
Spoilers and much negativity ahead.Īs with Weathering with You and also, Shinkai’s previously popular Your Name, the artistry in Garden is amazing. Although on the one hand Garden can be considered a great story, it’s also a giant mis-step in storytelling and knowing one’s audience. With the highly anticipated digital and DVD release of writer-director Makoto Shinkai’s Weathering with You just around the corner, I thought it might be fun to check out another of his anime films, The Garden of Words.
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