Your Name

 

Your Name (Japanese: 君の名は。, Hepburn: Kimi no Na wa) is a 2016 Japanese animated romantic fantasy film produced by CoMix Wave Films and distributed by Toho. Premiered in Japan on August 26, 2016, it quickly becomes Shinkai's most successful film so far, being one of the highest-grossing Japanese film both in Japan and worldwide.

It depicts a high school boy in Tokyo and a high school girl in the Japanese countryside who suddenly and inexplicably begin to swap bodies. High school girl Mitsuha Miyamizu lives in the town of Itomori in Japan's mountainous Hida region. She is bored with the country life, and wishes to be a handsome boy in her next life. She begins switching bodies intermittently with Taki Tachibana, a high school boy in Tokyo when they wake up.

Rating :

IMDb - 8.4/10

Rotten Tomatoes : 98%

MyAnimeList : 8.9/10

Some important characters in the anime :

1. Taki Tachibana (立花 瀧 Tachibana Taki)

He is the male protagonist of Your Name. He is a 17-year old high-school student who is busy with his part-time job at an Italian restaurant, spends his free time with his friends, and hopes for a future in architecture. His lifestyle takes a turn when he starts switching bodies with a high-school girl named Mitsuha Miyamizu in his dreams, who wished to live as a handsome boy in Tokyo.

2. Mitsuha Miyamizu (宮水 三葉 Miyamizu Mitsuha)

Mitsuha is the female protoganist of Your Name, she is kind, caring, organized and supportive girl who is also determined and sometimes persistent, frank, as well as adventurous. She is a 17-year-old girl living in the rural town of Itomori who has a strong desire for living a life in the bustling city of Tokyo. Her family runs a shrine, for which she participates in its old traditions as a shrine maiden with her younger sister. Mitsuha feels dissatisfied with her small-town life and due to the strained relationship she has with her stern father and the criticism she gets when performing as a shrine maiden. She is tired of her close-knit lifestyle in the small and rural town of Itomori, and as so she is also flaky and uninterested in her family's traditions and wishes to explore outside of her hometown. This is why when she starts switching bodies with Taki Tachibana, she appreciates every small thing in his life and makes the best out of it. She also becomes enamored with Tokyo city.

My Review :

Your Name has a very interesting story. It pulls us in with the plot of a girl and boy switching bodies, basically doing activities in each others' lives. I recommend everyone to watch the film. Movie is great I like the story, its different from what you might think from the trailer, it has some nice twist it in. I would say this movie is 9/10 because it has very few flaws.

The Verdict :

With excellent characters, motivating story, beautiful art, and a finally happy ending, Your Name is no doubt a great anime, with the sole flaw being the crucial main plot devices never delved too deeply in detail, leaving some viewers with no doubt scratching their heads in confusion, but nevertheless enjoying the other parts of the movie.