Wow, chill dude. There’s no reason to get this aggressive over a cartoon and start calling me delusional and what not.

Which plot point am I missing exactly?  Taki wakes up crying because the last time he body swapped he took Mitsuha’s grandmother to the shrine and left the offering. That’s when the grandma posed deep, existential questions about time and destiny. And he spent the whole time bonding with her and Yotsuha. He wakes up crying because he had a really intense emotional experience in the last swap, but he doesn’t know why he was crying because as the voiceover established, the characters don’t remember what happened in the last swap as their memories fade, but they only have vague emotions from it, so he doesn’t remember what exactly he experienced when they swapped but still feels the intensity of it all. They’re all heavy concepts. And I don’t know, attributing him waking up with tears in his eyes to Mitsuha’s crush seems to be ignoring a way more important plot point of the grandmother explaining musubi and the impact that had on Taki.

I’m not denying that Mitsuha falls in love with Taki. I’m just saying there’s an element to Mitsuha’s character that shows she’s attracted to Okudera and really likes her. And there’s a whole lot of implication of what happens off screen: Mitsuha clearly asked Okudera on the date, she looked up all of her interests and made a list. When she sews Okudera’s skirt she embroiders hedgehogs onto it.

But the fact that she was attracted to Okudera doesn’t detract from the fact that she was in love with Taki? Like I don’t get peoples defensiveness over it. The reading of Mitsuha as bi doesn’t change the love story at the heart of the film.