The weather maiden is a human sacrifi ce and with her death ends Tokyo’s never-ending rain. And Hina’s sacrifice shifts the tone of the fi lm to a more tragic one upon that realization.

Hina is a 15 year old girl who prayed for one more sunny day
so that she could take a walk with her dying mother, and in
return she was given this job. The girl who searched far and
wide for a job to take care of her little brother, she found the
perfect one, right?

She prayed for the sun to take a walk with her dying mother
and she became the sun itself. How fickle! That Hina was forced to be a human sacrifi ce for the benefi t of others and not even for the benefi t of her brother that she would leave behind. Because she is selfless like the sun, she helped those who requested without a second thought.

So in its fi nal 35 minutes, Weathering with You answers that question. Hodaka says it himself: Hina to him is more important than any blue sky. As he retrieves her from that other world and implores her to pray, and this time for herself, he asks her to be selfish. He tells her that it is enough. Everything she has done, all the sacrifi ces she has made are enough.