Your Name (2016 Film)

Your Name (2016 Film) Analysis

"Your Name" is a live action anime movie of the novel by the same name, and it was directed by the same author of the novel. The primary genre of the anime movie is fantasy with supernatural elements shown alongside a love story between the two main protagonists, Taki and Mitsuha.

The movie begins with two of them telling that they live with a sensation that they lost something without a given context. The context to that is told after with their interesting love story.

Mitsuha wakes up disoriented without a memory of what she was doing the previous day. She lives in a small town called Itamari, has a few friends who have bigger dreams like her of leaving it. Her father is a mayor candidate and her grandmother, Hitoha Miyamizu, is the head of the family and in charge of the local shrine preserving the tradition of the place.

Mitsuha is unhappy living in the small town and wishes she was born as a handsome Tokyo boy. The following day Mitsuha wakes up in a body of a boy called Taki living in Tokyo. She thinks it's only a dream and decides to enjoy while she can. As the time goes on, and Mitsuha keeps occasionally waking up in this boy's body, she realizes that it isn't a dream and that the boy is in her body as she is in his. They leave messages to each other and make a deal to do their best to not reveal that something's wrong.

Mitsuha arranges a date for Taki with his longtime crush Miki and tells him to enjoy watching the comet passing by. Taki is confused after the date, as there is no comet on the sky. That was the last he heard from Mitsuha, their switching of bodies suddenly ends.

Taki is determined to find Mitsuha and meet her in person, draws the town Itamari from memory and begins his search alongside Miki and one of his other friends. He does find it eventually and discovers that the town was destroyed three years ago after the nucleus of a comet passing by broke and piece of it fell on Itamari. Taki is confused and devastated and his memory and messages on his phone by Mitsuha start to disappear.

Taki decides to uncover what happened and remember the place of gods, that he visited with Mitsuha's grandmother while in Mitsuha's body. He remembers what she was telling him about "Musubi", about the knotting and twisting of time, and how they went there to leave Mitsuha's "kuchikamizake", a drink that contains half of her. He goes to the shrine and drinks the half of Mitsuha, which brings him back into her body and her timeline.

Taki in Mitsuha's body tries to warn everyone about the disaster that's about to strike, but unsuccessfully. He devises a plan with Mitsuha's friend to make an emergency that will force the people to evacuate. Seeing that he can't convince anyone, he goes back to the hill where the shrine of gods is to find Mitsuha. Mitsuha wakes up in the shrine in Taki's body and hears him call out to her. They move towards each other and meet at "kataware-doki", at twilight where they are able to see each other from different timelines. They promise to each other to meet again.

Mitsuha returns to the town and goes through with the plan of warning the people. Everyone survives, and the movie ends with five years in the future, continuing the context from the beginning, when Taki and Mitsuha are looking for each other despite having lost all memory. They suddenly see each other in trains overlapping, and run to meet. Taki asks Mitsuha if they've met before. She answers that she thought the same thing about him.

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