“I think Makoto Shinkai, the director of Your Name, is good at grasping the emotions of young people.
Despite having never been so squarely in the spotlight before the release of Your Name, Shinkai is proving to be admirably adept at taking backhanded compliments in stride.
Thanks to the largely unprecedented and almost entirely unexpected levels of success achieved by anime film Your Name, director Makoto Shinkai’s name has been all over the Japanese media for the past half-year.
I figure he probably didn’t have any enjoyable romances in his high school days.”