Now that we're far enough removed from Weathering With You's premiere that spoilers are fair game, there's a question that's been on my mind since then.

Spoilers ahead for Weathering With You and Your Name, read at your own peril.
My question is this:

How cursed do you think Mitsuha believes her life is?
Think about it. Mom died, Dad walked out on her and became a controversial politician, she lives with her grandmother, is essentially ostracized from most of her peers because of aforementioned father.
Then she suddenly gets thrown into this body-swap situation with a guy three years in the future, during which time she discovers she is fated to die in a horrific accident when a meteor falls to Earth and levels her town and kills everyone in it.
Her hometown is in fact leveled to dust, but thanks to her body-swap partner she is able to get everyone to safety at the cost of losing her memories of this dude she essentially fell in love with.
She moves to Tokyo, essentially having to re-start life from scratch and adapt to the big city after being a country girl for so long.

She FINALLY reunites with the guy through happenstance and a vague sense of deja vu, and we don't even know if they actually get together-
-which from a writer's standpoint I actually approve of that decision to leave that open-ended, but the fan in me really wants to know if they hooked up.
And then, and THEN, after adapting to her new surroundings and moving on with her life and living as a normal city girl, what happens? What the fuck happens?

Tokyo gets flooded out and becomes a disaster zone.

Poor girl cannot catch a single fucking break.
So I want to know, like, how fucked up does she believe her life is? Does she carry around like, twenty onamoris in the fervent hope she doesn't get struck by lightening or something? That's got to do SOME kind of damage to a girl's self-esteem, right?
Anyhoo, that's the question I've been thinking about since I saw the movie. Just one of those random little tangents I like to go on.

I'm going to bed now.

Night folks.
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