The Place Promised in Our Early Days Arc Review

Before Your Name and Weathering with You, The Place Promised in Our Early Days served as the blueprint of Makoto Shinkai signature style. This film is a beautiful, melancholic blend of sci fi and romance. The movie itself is still flawed for me, It lacks the narrative of Shinkai’s later works, but it kinda? overflows with passion, aesthetics, and beautiful sense of longing that Shinkai ussually manage to captures better than anyone else in his later works. It's a solid one for me with it's own minus.