Controversial Opinion Weathering With You is better than Your Name

I've only seen Your Name so i pick that one 👍

I liked Tenki no Ko/Weathering With You more, too, especially the soundtrack.
I think Your Name is probably the one that made Makoto Shinkai, the director, much more famous (like, viral kind of famous) worldwide, and mainstream; Tenki no Ko was then considered as "just" a new masterpiece from Shinkai. There was also Agartha that was widely known, but not as much as Your Name.
But, in the end... Who cares? Just because the public opinion prefers one doesn't mean the other can't be good, lol.

Both are good. Go watch now "A Silent Voice"(Koe no Katachi) and "I Want To Eat Your Pancreas"(Kimi no Suizou wo Tabetai) and maybe also "Patema Inverted"(Sakasama no Patema)

I'd heard of Weathering With You, was planning to watch in the coming months (got a long backlog :P) haven't heard about Your Name, thank you

I watched 4 movies from Makoto Shinkai in this order:

1. Kimi no Na wa (Your Name)
2. Kotonoha no Niwa (The Garden of Words)
3. Tenki no Ko (Weathering with You)
4. Suzume no Tojimari (Suzume)

Your Name is my favorite and probably for these reasons:

• It was the first I saw
• The graphics and animation are great (the ambient and locations favours his style)
• The story captivates me in a personal level

Weathering with You is the 2nd best to me, not very far from Your Name. But the rain ambientation didn't favour the artstyle like the other, and the story is more depressive. The other 2 I didn't like a lot.

In the end, personal preferences dictates which is better to someone.

having watched both... I can safely say A Silent Voice was better.

... but between the two I preferred weathering with you.

IMHO, both are very good, loved both endings. But I still go with "Your Name", I found it more entertaining throughout.

I wish there was an option for "both suck": a more controversial opinion that I hold is that Makoto Shinkai's films are nothing to write home about.

All films of Makoto Shinkai are pretty much the same. You've seen one - you've seen them all. They are not bad, picture is nice, but hardly something new or surprising in the plot. Good anime if you just want to spend time, but nothing much to discuss.

Something more controversial: I haven't watched either.

I have seen both, don't remember either of them. But my IMDB rating say that I gave Your name 9/10

Haven't seen Your Name, but I wasn't impressed with Weathering with You

Only seen your name out of those two.

Although lot of great films out there; wolf children, kappa no coo, eve no jikan, sword of the stranger, hells, Palme no ki, Heart and Yummue, Patema Inverted.

For me, Weathering with You is much more deeper than Your Name. No big spoiler, but I cried with Weathering with You, can't be said for Your Name. This will soon turned into popularity contest since Your Name is just much bigger on promotional budget and intense marketing outside Japan.

There is no better. You enjoyed one more. I didn't mind either of them, but I wasn't a fan of either enough to bother comparing them.

I still haven't seen Weathering with You, but my experience with Shinkai's movies has been mixed - Voices of a Distant Star and The Place Promised in Our Early Days were terrible, but I loved 5 Centimeters per Second, She and Her Cat (technically not a movie, still a story worth mentioning), The Garden of Words and Your Name. That being said, I've been watching them in no particular order, for about 10 years now, so who knows if I'd feel the same about all of them now.

I'd say "Kimi no Na wa"(Your Name) earns it's first place for how the story is structured, something which "Tenki no Ko"(Weathering with You) structured itself around strongly due to the success of "Your Name" and these are released within 3 years of each other, both from the same creator. I also enjoy the art style of "Your Name" more.

What I'm more surprised is all the people recommending other works from this creator, and no one mentioning "5 Centimeters per Second" which is my favorite from his works.. Also would recommend "Voices of a Distant Star" and "The Place Promised in Our Early Days".

edit: I guess in the 1 hour I started this comment and was looking at trailers before I actually posted it, 2 people mentioned it. Must be a murphy's law for this.

5 Centimeters per Second Trailer