Yeah, just gonna have to agree to disagree, and leave it at that.

Eh, I think you are reading way more into there being any romantic feelings on the part of the “older lady”. I never once got the feeling that she had anything approaching romantic feelings for the protagonist.

**POSSIBLE GARDEN OF WORDS SPOILERS**

I watched Garden of Words last night (7 day trial of some anime channel on Amazon Prime), based purely on reading this article yesterday and becoming interested in Shinkai’s other work.

Hoy shit you aren’t kidding.

Based purely on this article, which lead to watching the Your Name trailer, which then led to looking into Shinkai’s other works, I watched The Garden of Words last night.