Fan theory- Makoto Shinkai's films (including Your Name) takes place in the same MetaVerse [Loads of spoilers inside]

Fan theory- Makoto Shinkai's films (including Your Name) takes place in the same Meta Verse (Spoilers for other movies)

It is very difficult to imagine all them as taking place in the same universes (especially with TP Pi OED parallel universe and alternate history shenanigan). Basically like what marvel does with their canon, almost all Makoto Shinkai movie takes place in the same metaverse (a cluster of universes) with some subclusters (Like TP Pi OED and Your Name)

Abbreviations: [For some reason the English names are kinda long]

Voices of a Distant Star (2002, Short Film): Voa DS

• The Place Promised in Our Early Days (2004): TP Pi OED

• 5 Centimeters per Second (2007): 5CmpS

• Children Who Chase Lost Voices (2011): CWCLV

• The Garden of Words (2013): Go W

• Your Name (2016)

Stuffed I noticed such as creator thumb prints

* loadsa trains: All movies: and I like trains

* Orphean journey or Izanami & Izanagi: CWCLV, TP Pi OED, Your Name

* TP Pi OED introduced the idea that you can access alternate universes through dreams and Your Name does that but with a stranger's body

* A crater: TP Pi OED and Your name

* There is a crater with Deities or deity level beings at the bottom of deep places: CWCLV and Your name:

* A big kaboom: TP Pi OED (tower destruction and the vision) and Your Name (The Meteor)

* Fridge Horror: Think of all the universes when the Male main character (Hiroki Fujisawa, Taki ) failed to save the Love Interest (Sayuri,Mitsuha) in TP Pi OED and Your Name. Especially like All those Sayuri (Plural) stuck on those Bioshock Infinite towers without getting saved or all those Takis that have to live with no way of getting Mitsuha back alive.

* A Male Protagonist that likes older women: Go W and Your Name

* A bunch of those titles seem to be sentences in English

* An 8 pointed sun or celestial object (like Tiamat): A bunch of them and the cover of Your name [Also all of them reminds me of studio trigger's 4 pointed star but with more points]

* Fear the sky, and death from above: Voa DS, TP Pi OED , and Your Name

* Yukari Yukino is present in both Your Name and Go W. (Either same versions or alternate version) Probably 2 to 3 version around

* Main character end up losing someone you love: all of them.

• There is definitely more that I missed.

========== Other stuff:

Even if they are not signs of the same universes those signs can be interpreted as resonances taking place in the metaverse

If you watched a bunch of these what is the lesson? Is it that you should move on don't bother trying to retrieve something lost (CWCLV; 5CmpS) but only take it when a chance is given(Your Name)?

Very unpopular opinion: a bunch of Shinkai's film is a bit formulaic mostly involving themes of losing connections and letting them go (like M. Night Shyamalan and his love of twists). Still the image is very pretty.

Predictions: Starting from TP Pi OED, if the pattern for Shinkai's next film continues it will be in the next two or 3 years (his film have a 3-4 year gap between them) and that the English title is a single word instead of sentences

It is going to be more of a somber drama rather than anything resembling action in it no mechas, no comets, no alternate universe, Just pretty scenery and talking, crying, and losing someone['s phone number].

TL;DR Makoto Shinkai movie same metaverse and reasons why. Also other stuff