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Yes, it was "Your name"!
You have to put the scene in the context of "anime" the genre. Anime is known for its fan service and adding such a scene in your supposedly sad and serious anime make the viewer automatically believe it will be full of it.
Tbh, I got burnout from the endless fillers of anime as a teen after watching one piece, naruto and bleach, so my level of tolerance for anime bullshit is really low, and only studio ghibli works manage to never go above zero in my anime-bullshito-meter. I actually believe that, when used correctly, anime is one of the best medium to discuss complex and adult themes.
That's the thing though, I watched it in a very serious film festival, for context the last Ghibli movie was also released there this year, I expected a quality movie and was not disappointed. It was then released as a pretty popular movie in the west, which a "trash anime" would not achieve ever.
Calling Your name anime is kinda unfair because "anime" comes with tons of baggage with it, and honestly this movie doesn't have it. It's similar to the boy and the beast and all of those movies where the only thing that makes them "anime" is the Japanese ambiance, drawing style and Japanese origin. When people think of anime, besides all of these obvious facts they also think of tons of other tropes, plenty listed by you, that make it quite hard to recommend good Japanese animated content.
I don't watch almost any anime nowadays anyways, if it doesn't have a good animation studio it's just not really worth it tbh. I just read tons and tons of comics, be it Japanese, Korean webcomics, American webcomics... You name it, I read more than 70 chapters a week easily, and there's plenty of trash manga in there.
Your name is kinda light hearted btw, it has some adult themes but it's a +13 movie at most. If you want complex and adult themes you might enjoy psicho pass, it's a cyberpunk themed futuristic environment where citizens are controlled by the greater good, the protagonist is a cop. Not many apparent tropes, adult themes, typical cyberpunk-esque society challenging themes.
Or you know, just don't watch it lmao, live is too short to spend it in dubious content.