Hodaka Morishima

**Hodaka Morishima** (森嶋帆高, *Morishima Hodaka*) is the main protagonist in *Weathering With You* and the deuteragonist in *When Smoke Meets Rain*. His name is mentioned in Dragon Quinx but he is not seen in the series. He is the boyfriend of Hina Amano and the beloved friend of Shouta Magatsuchi, who he declared himself to become Shouta's 'brother'.

## Appearance

Hodaka is a teenager of average build and height with short, messy dark hair, and light brown eyes. He wears a plain white t-shirt, four-quarter rare-folded pants, and carries around a small over-the-shoulder bag at all times.

## Background

Hodaka Morishima was born to an upper middle class couple sometime on the island of Kozushima. In his teen years, he seemed to be going through a rebellious phase and his relationship with his father was strained. He physically abused him, controlled his actions and, along with his school, “chained him down“.

## Plot

### History

Hodaka was born in either September or May to upper-middle class parents on the detached island of Kozushima, located south of Japan. Nothing is said about his childhood, but in his teen years, he seemed to be going through a rebellious phase. The light novel reveals that his relationship with his father was strained; he physically abused him and controlled his actions. Hodaka also felt that his father and school were "chaining him down".

### Weathering With You arc

In summer, Hodaka, tired and unhappy with his shallow lifestyle as well as the stifling environment of his hometown, decides to run away to Tokyo. On the trip, he almost gets thrown off a ferry when a freak rainstorm hits it. However, he is saved by a man named Keisuke Suga, who Hodaka then treats to a meal as a thanks for his help. Keisuke gives him his business card in case he ever needs help as they depart the ferry. In Tokyo, Hodaka struggles to support himself because he is unable to work legally due to his status as a runaway minor. He spends a few nights at a cybercafé as he asks online for job opportunities, but is ultimately unable to find a position anywhere and thus decides to save his money by staying on the streets. He briefly meets Nagi Amano, Hina's younger brother, along with Ayane and Kana on the bus, exclaiming to himself that Nagi is a player.

One night, while taking shelter in the doorway of a lift lobby, Hodaka meets a stray cat who he feeds, recognizing that he and the animal are in similar situations. After passing out there, he's awoken by the club's host, who kicks him out and sends him crashing into a trash can that spills garbage everywhere. As Hodaka's replacing the trash in the can, he picks up a package that he later opens as he sits in McDonald's. The package holds a gun, which initially scares him, until he convinces himself that it must only be a toy and decides to keep it as a good-luck charm. Hina approaches him as he sits without ordering anything, offering him a free meal out of pity.

The next day, Hodaka contacts Keisuke and is hired as an assistant to his small publishing company, K&A Planning Co., Ltd. At the office, Hodaka meets Natsumi Suga, Keisuke's niece who Hodaka mistakes as his mistress. He and Natsumi investigate urban legends relating to the unusual weather in Tokyo; from a psychic, they hear the legend of a 'Sunshine Girl' and a 'Rain Girl'—beings who can control the weather.

On a rainy day, Hodaka watches as Hina is being intimidated into working at a sketchy club by the same man who kicked him out the day before, and attempts to rescue her. He recognizes her as the girl who was kind to him, and they then run away together as the club host pursues them. The host pins Hodaka down, but he manages to shock the man by firing the gun he had found earlier. Not expecting the gun to be real, Hodaka freezes, and Hina quickly pulls him away so that the two can escape to a nearby abandoned building—the same one Hina saw as she sat with her mother. Hina chides Hodaka for interfering, explaining that she needed the job to support herself and her sibling after being fired from her previous job at the fast food restaurant. She criticizes his use of the gun before turning to leave, and Hodaka, also scared by what he'd done, throws it across the floor of the building. Seeing that he'd recognized his mistakes, Hina returns and guesses that Hodaka is a runaway before telling him that she wants to show him something. At the building's rooftop, Hina demonstrates her ability to clear the sky by praying for Hodaka. She introduces herself to an impressed Hodaka as he does the same, boasting to him that she's 17 and thus older than him. They organize a meeting at Hina's house.

Soon after, at K&A, Hodaka talks Natsumi about Sunshine Girls and the woman swoons at the idea of being a Sunshine Girl, then asking Hodaka when his date with her was. Hodaka protests that it's not a date as Natsumi gets up to leave.

Later that day, he meets Hina and later her younger brother, Nagi, at their home and she cooks lunch for Hodaka as they discuss jobs. Inspired by the idea of the Sunshine Girl, Hodaka proposes that they start a business together; Hina could provide her mysterious ability to people who want clear weather for special events. Their business becomes a great success and they attract a large number of clients ranging from kindergarten students to corporate giants.

The Jingu Gaien fireworks festival is held a few months into the job which Hina is asked to provide a clear sky for. After doing so, she sits on the building's roof with Hodaka, telling him that she's really glad she started her job as they watch the fireworks together.

Hina, Nagi and Hodaka take a job for Fumi Tachibana at her house, clearing the sky for her so that she can light a fire for her deceased husband. Fumi says it's a shame that they're quitting the job, but Hodaka explains that they have no choice since Hina was caught on camera at the festival and thus wants to lay low for a while. Taki Tachibana arrives at Fumi's house and lights her fire for her, Fumi encouraging her to do the same for her deceased mother when she reveals her passing. Taki and Hodaka discuss Hina as she, her brother and Fumi play in the garden. Hodaka says that it's Hina's birthday in a week and Taki encourages him to buy her a gift.

As he watches Nagi's school soccer match, Hodaka asks online what the best gift to get an 18-year-old girl would be, receiving no useful responses. Nagi finishes his game and sits with Hodaka, Hodaka explaining to him that he doesn't know what to get Hina since Natsumi and the Internet had been no help. Nagi asks him if he's in love with Hina, and he blushes furiously as he denies it. Nagi coaches Hodaka on love as the two discuss Hina together. Hodaka eventually decides to buy a ring for Hina, and heads to a jewellery store to make the purchase. He asks the saleswoman, Mitsuha Miyamizu, if she thinks Hina will like it, to which Mitsuha responds that she's bound to considering how long Hodaka took to pick it out, then wishing him luck.

At the park, Keisuke and his daughter Moka Suga are playing together with Nagi as Hina and Hodaka sit and watch them. Hina's last job had been to clear the sky for Moka so she could go outside and play despite her asthma. Keisuke comes over to sit with the two and Hodaka asks him how he knew this was his job and about him having a daughter, but he's ignored as Keisuke instead praises Hina for her abilities. The trio talk for a while until Natsumi arrives, at which time Hodaka exclaims, turns to Keisuke and asks him if he'll be in trouble with her since he has a wife. Keisuke laughs at his misunderstanding and Hina and Natsumi accuse him of being a pervert. Nagi and Moka call Keisuke and Hodaka over to them and the four play together in the park.

It gets dark and the rain begins again so the six depart and split off, Nagi going with the Sugas to a restaurant and Hodaka and Hina walking back to the Amano abode together. As Hodaka walks along behind Hina, he worries over giving her the ring and confessing his love to her, but before he has the chance, Hina interrupts to tell him something. She's cut off as a gust of wind spirits her away, shocking Hodaka as she floats back down to him from the sky. He realizes that she's turning invisible due to the Sunshine Girl's curse. Hina tells him the story of how she became a Sunshine Girl at the rooftop shrine as they walk back to her place, the ring and confession forgotten.

At Hina's apartment, Hodaka hides in the bathroom as the police interrogate Hina about Hodaka's whereabouts. It is revealed that Hodaka's parents filed a missing person report and the police officers are investigating his use and possession of illegal firearms. An officer informs Hina that social services will be called in to take away Nagi, Hina's younger brother, because they are minors with no legal guardian. Once the police officers left, Hodaka visits Keisuke in his car, who fires him from his job and gives him severance pay. Keisuke apologizes for his inability to help Hodaka any further because he doesn't want any complications that could deter his filing for custody for his daughter.

Hodaka decides to run away with Hina and Nagi, but the weather worsens even more abnormally as it starts to snow. On the streets, the three are apprehended and Hodaka is caught by two police officers as he attempts to run away but is saved by Hina, who distracts the police by praying for lightning to strike nearby. This then allows the trio to escape to a hotel.

They spend the night at the hotel. As they're about to sleep, Hina confesses to Hodaka that her body is slowly being turned into water, and that she learned from Natsumi about the story of the weather maiden who becomes a living sacrifice; the weather will only return to normal if she disappears permanently into the clouds. He refuses to let this happen and promises to protect her. But the next day, Hina goes missing and the rains have consequently stopped. Hodaka sets out to find her but he and Nagi are taken by the police before they can leave the hotel. Hodaka manages to escape the police station to find Hina and gains the help of Natsumi as she is passing by. The police chase Hodaka until he reaches the building with the shrine, where Hina first got her powers. Inside, he encounters Keisuke, who attempts to stop him from running away any further. The police manage to infiltrate the building and has Hodaka surrounded. Driven by his concern for the desperate Hodaka, Keisuke helps him escape from the police, followed by Nagi appearing and stopping Yasui. Hodaka manages to reach the top of the building and jumps through the shrine. He is then transported above the world in the sky and rescues Hina. As they fall to earth, Hodaka begs Hina to start living for herself and the rains resumes with no foreseeable end.

Despite his life on Kozushima improving for the better (his parents having a change of heart, gaining more friends in school as well as becoming a successful student), Hodaka never truly forgets Hina, despite never speaking about her to anyone, not even to his parents, schoolmates or his probation officer.

After graduation, Hodaka heads back to Tokyo to find it three quarters submerged into the sea. He finds a new apartment, went to find Fumi and Keisuke to see how they were doing, and, after reminiscing about his choice, he and Hina were reunited on a road, with Hodaka reassuring her that everything would be all right in the end.

### When Smoke Meets Rain arc

Hodaka and Hina started dating for 8 months until they met Shouta in McDonalds'. The two start to befriends with him after he showed his kind personality and knowing that he is the same age as them. The two invites him to a night supper at Hina's home, in which Shouta agrees to. After their night supper, Hodaka insist on escorting Shouta home, so that he would not get detained for walking out alone. He asks him if he likes Hina, and which he denies. During their conversation, a military truck crashes in the middle of the road. Shouta urged to observe the crash to see any survivors but Hodaka tells him not to, but Shouta disobeys and goes and helps a "half-ghoul half-conduit" known as Taiko to his feet. When the riot police arrives, Taiko grabs Shouta and holds him hostage. Hodaka told the riot police not to open fire as he is being held back from the scene by the police. The riot police threatens to shoot him if he does not let him go, only for Taiko to use his power to manipulate smoke against them. Shouta grabs Taiko in an attempt to free himself, only to unknowingly absorb his powers, causing an explosion. As Shouta is knocked out unconscious, Hodaka went forward to help him. He immediately contacts rescue to bring him to the hospital.

While Shouta is in the hospital, it is seen that Hodaka placed his contact number in his phone. After Shouta's discharged from the hospital on the next day, Hodaka found Shouta fleeing from McDonalds', he immediately pursues him, commanding him to stop which results Shouta accidentally shoots out a smoke from his hand, dropping a water containment and falls on Hodaka. Shouta arrives and using his new abilities and frantically throws the container off of him. Shouta panics about being a Conduit, but Hodaka calms him down and tells him they will find a cure for him. Upon hearing sounds of an explosion, Hodaka asks Shouta to come with him, but not to use his newly absorbed powers. When they come up to Hina's home, the gate is locked, leaving Shouta no choice but to go through with his smoke powers and scaring nearby witnesses. Hodaka leaves to try and convince them that Shouta is merely just having smoke come out of his fingers, but fails.

### Minato City

After Shouta wakes up and they start to head for Minato City, Hodaka hears a bus load of people asking for help. After Shouta clears the road of the concrete, Hodaka calls him and says he can't let him on the bus because the passengers saw him using his Conduit abilities, and are afraid of him. After dropping off the passengers, Hodaka tries to go back for Shouta, but the Tokyo Gate Bridge he crossed was set decommissioned, causing Hodaka to have to cling onto the side of the riverbank for dear life until Shouta arrives and helps him up. As they look on the decommissioned bridge, Hodaka asks Shouta if he is getting use to his new symptoms, but he couldn't find the right answer. At the checkpoint into the city, Hodaka and Shouta acted normally as a normal civilian before they soon discover Shouta is a Bioterrorist when the scanner read his fingerprint. Hodaka pushes a guard down just as they realize their cover has been blown. Upon seeing some guards with Concrete abilities, Hodaka tells Shouta to absorb the power from one and they could go home, but since they were only forced Conduits, Shouta doesn't receive it and informs Hodaka while climbing the Tokyo Skytree.

### Ghoul Serial Killer

After Shouta makes his own tag on a DUP flag on the top of the Skytree, Hodaka informs Shouta to be careful for a murderer that is murdering people. When Shouta takes a photo of one of the victims, Hodaka discovers the victim was an armed gangster who is known as a 'Ghoul Hunter' and Shouta finds the murderer's perch, after the murderer tries to kill Shouta. Inside. Shouta finds amputated limbs all over, revealing the murderer is a ghoul. He also saw a drawing of a masked man covered in blood, named Hide. Hodaka informs Shouta "Hide" is Hideyoshi Nagachika, he was found dead with an unknown puncture wound through the chest. Upon confronting the murderer, who was later revealed as Ken Kaneki, the same man that Shouta meets when he was in the hospital. Shouta absorbs his Rc cells and they fight in a abandoned restaurant, before Shouta soon sees Kaneki's flashbacks. Hodaka soon comes in and helps Shouta up, while figuring what to do with Kaneki. He soon decided to put him in Cochlea, but Shouta tells him that he will be his responsibility.

### Angel Kidnapping

When Shouta manages to get to Koto City and finds suspected Conduits being taken, Hodaka comes up with an idea and changes into one of the DUP's yellow vests that they use to identify suspected Conduits, so he can attract an Angel to fly him to the location while Shouta tracks his phone. After Shouta finds Hodaka by the entrance of the Conduit summoning Angels, Hodaka walks away to get out of the vest while Shouta confronts the Conduit. After Shouta absorbs the power of the angel Conduit, who was Makoto Shichiro, Hodaka comes in and picks up the boy, threatening to throw him in a cage, but Shouta tells him that he and Shichiro need to talk alone and thanks him for his help on looking for Shichiro, before remembering he already did, which Hodaka replies that it "wasn't funny the first time".

### Double Crossed

Hodaka decides to help Shouta out to save Kaneki and Shichiro, for the first time referring to them as "people", instead of the usual "Bioterrorists" or Conduits. Although Hodaka doesn't trust "the bald idiot" Taiko, he goes to Concrete Island via boat to help Shouta fight Augustine. As soon as he gets the concrete cuffs off him, he assists Shouta in freeing Kaneki and Shichiro from a concrete cage. However, Augustine throws a monkey wrench into their efforts: she encases Hodaka's legs in concrete, and proceeds to drop the concrete cage near Shouta and Hodaka. This leaves the two dangling from the edge of the platform.

As Hodaka holds onto Shouta, who is keeping the both of them from falling into the icy water, he realizes that the concrete is expanding across his body. He tells his brother to let him go, as the concrete would reach and encase him too. Accepting his inevitable fate, he tells Shouta, *"Dammit, I'm so happy to have you as a friend. I love you, brother. Take care of her for me".* Despite his protests, Hodaka then lets go. Shouta screams in anguish as he watches him fall to a watery grave. Distraught and enraged, Shouta unleashes his newfound God-like ability, Rage. He then attacks Augustine, and the ensuing battle destroys the island.

### Finale

After healing Hina and other victims from Augustine's concrete power, Shouta tags a memorial billboard in memory of Hodaka. When Hina asks about Hodaka, Shouta admits that Hodaka "saved his life" and "did what he had to do" to prevent any grief and sorrow.

## Relationships

### Hina Amano

Ever since Hodaka saves Hina from the club owners and Hina reveals her power to clear the sky, he starts to develop romantic feelings for her. Inspired by the legend of the weather maiden, Hodaka proposes to start a business with Hina by clearing the weather for events such as weddings and parties which later becomes a success. After the fireworks festival, Hodaka began to realize that using the power to change the weather is taking a toll on Hina, so he decides to go on hiatus with fulfilling Keisuke's request for one sunny day to spend with his daughter Moka as their last job.

Soon after, the police arrive at the apartment where Hina lives with her younger brother Nagi and interrogate her; Hina realizes that because they have no legal guardians, with their mother having died recently, social services is going to take them into their custody and Hodaka is asked by Keisuke to return home. Hodaka and Hina then decides to run away together with Nagi, but they are halted by a heavy rainstorm and falling snows. After a long search for hotels and accommodation, they finally found a luxurious hotel to stay in for the night. Hina then proceeded to ask Hodaka whether he wants the rain to disappear or not, Hodaka carelessly responded yes without knowing the implications to Hina. Hina reveals that she is the cause of the abnormal weather and her body is slowly turning into water, intending to be a human sacrifice for the weather will go back to normal. Hodaka promises to protect her, but the next morning, Hina has vanished into the sky and the rain has stopped. Hodaka, having already fallen in love with Hina, decides to bring her back to Earth. With the help of Keisuke, Natsumi, and Nagi, Hodaka was able to evade the police, jumps through the shrine gate, and is transported into the sky, where he finds Hina and asks her to leave with him together. Despite being worried about the weather afterword, Hina was deeply touched when Hodaka confesses his feelings for her, saying that he wants her more than the blue sky. As they fall to Earth together, Hodaka asks Hina to let it go and start living for herself; upon descending to the rooftop shrine, the heavy rains resume but Hodaka is forced to return to his island home by the police.

After finishing his probation three years later, Hodaka graduates from high school and returns to Tokyo where he tearfully finds Hina praying on a street overlooking the drowned city. Being both shocked and overjoyed to see each other again, they embrace each other once more and the film ends with Hodaka promising Hina that they will be fine from now on.

### Shouta Magatsuchi

Hodaka met Shouta when they were at McDonalds' and befriends him after being invited to their night supper. Fortunately, Hodaka is very caring for Shouta. When Shouta is traumatized after discovering that he has superpowers, Hodaka embraced him, trying to calm him down. As Hina was physically wounded by Brooke Augustine, Shouta and Hodaka journeys across Tokyo to get Augustine's power to heal Hina. Along the way, Hodaka asked if Shouta had a brother. Shouta, deeply saddened, stated that he had no siblings at all. Hodaka then tells Shouta that he will be his 'brother'.

When Hodaka and Shouta heads to rescue Kaneki and Makoto after being captured, Hodaka falls to his death, saying his last words "I love you bro, take care of her for me". After Hodaka's "death" and healing Hina, Shouta made a memorial that dedicates Hodaka, saying his last words "*I love you brother, and I'm sure we're gonna miss you.*"

## Etymology

* Morishima (森嶋) means "luxuriant island", while Hodaka (帆高) means "high sail".

## Trivia

* He is the first male main character in a feature movie other than *Children Who Chase Lost Voices* whose name is not started with "Ta-", unlike Taki Tachibana, Takao Akizuki, Takaki Tōno and Takuya Shirakawa.
* As said that he will be Shouta's close brother, Hodaka's last name is named as Hodaka Kaneki, after Shouta was adopted by Kaneki and Touka.

## Quotes

* (To Shouta describing his powers) *"Doing those things with your hands is not normal man!"*
* (To Shouta in his last words) *"Listen, we can't let this stuff get to you, too!... Dammit, I am very happy to see you {...} I love you, bro {...} take care of her for me."*