Kimi no Na wa (YourName) is one of the best anime movies of 2016 and its English dubbed version just got released last week in theaters .It is directed by Makoto Shinkai based on his own novel with the same name. Many must have already seen this movie and I must say I am a huge fan of this movie’s story-line and its spectacular animation.
The storyline of this movie is about a boy (Taki) and a girl (Mitsuha) who gets body swapped with little memory of what was happening, each consecutive day. They live each other’s life helping them solve other’s issues. Later, all of a sudden the switching stops and Taki goes out to find out Mitsuha, as love as sprouted out between them. He has no clue where to look for her than the landscapes he saw but latter on finds out that Mitsuha had died 3 years ago when a comet struck and whipped out her little village. But Taki soon finds out a way to save Mitsuha and story goes on. Even though time barred both of them from each other, but fate brought them together. Do watch the movie guys it’s refreshing and touchy.
#1. It was a huge commercial success grossing around US$190 million becoming the second largest gross for a domestic movie in Japan, leaving behind ‘Spirited Away’.
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#3. Mitsuha’s family members are named after leaves – Her Grandmother’s name Hitsuha means One Leaf, Her Mother Futaba means Two Leaves, Mitsuha means Three Leaves and her little sister Yotsuha means Four Leaves. Found interesting…!
#4. Some scenes from the movie where actually taken from the real world places for example Mitsuha’s village was inspired from Aogashima Island, the lake Itomori is taken from the real lake Suwa, the place where they actually meet at the end which is used in the promotional pictures is also from a real place called Suga Shrine.
#5. Trivia!! The iconic promotional poster of teenage Taki and Mitsuha on a stairs never happened in the movie, but they do meet at the end when they were adults and not teenagers at the same stairs!!
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#6. The meteor in Kimi no Na wa that wipes out Mitsuha’s entire village is coined after Mesopotamian Goddess Tiamat who is the goddess of ocean who acts as the symbol for feminine beauty and for chaos of primordial creation…Found anything relatable!!
#7. There actually was a café opened for a month in January, 2017 in Ikebukuro Parco inspired from the anime’s theme. Their menu consisted of foods that were shown in the anime and it even had the dish that Mitsuha ordered when she first came to Tokyo. They even made an edible form of the phone that Mitusha was using to take pictures of the food!!
#8. In Japanese tradition there is a thing called Red String of Faith which resembles the joining of fated couples. In the movie Mitsuha always wore a red string to tie her hair and many a times in the movie we see the use of this symbolic red string acting like something that brings back the memories of past for Taki and Mitsuha.
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#9. Noda Yojiro composed the lyrics for the music of the movie and the director had asked him to compose it such that it can supplement the dialogue of the characters. And I must say he really has done his job well. The film’s soundtrack was the runner-up in the “Best Soundtrack” category of New-type Anime Awards, 2016.
#10. Ever wondered how Makoto Shinkai got the idea for this story? Well in the past he had worked on an advertisement video called crossroad for an educational correspondence course for a company called Z-kai. It tells a story about a girl and a boy separated by cities gets connected by this course and in the end meets on the results announcement day. Bit cheesy right!!Your Name (Japanese: 君の名は。 , Hepburn: Kimi no Na wa ) is a 2016 Japanese animated romantic fantasy film writt and directed by Makoto Shinkai, produced by CoMix Wave Films and distributed by Toho. In depicts the story of high school studts Taki Tachibana and Mitsuha Miyamizu, who suddly begin to swap bodies despite having never met, unleashing chaos on each other’s lives.
It features the voices of Ryunosuke Kamiki and Mone Kamishiraishi, with animation direction by Masashi Ando, character design by Masayoshi Tanaka, and its orchestral score and soundtrack composed by Radwimps. A light novel of the same name, also writt by Shinkai, was published a month prior to the film’s premiere. It was inspired by Japan’s frequcy for natural disasters.
Kimi No Na Wa / Your Name (2016)
Your Name premiered at the 2016 Anime Expo in Los Angeles on July 3, 2016, and was theatrically released in Japan on August 26, 2016; it was released internationally by several distributors across 2017. The film received widespread critical acclaim, with praise for its story, animation, music, visuals, and emotional weight. Grossing US$382 million worldwide, it became the third highest-grossing Japanese film of all time, breaking numerous box office records, unadjusted for inflation.
It received several accolades, including the Best Animated Feature at the 2016 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards and the Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year. A live-action remake is in developmt by Paramount Pictures.
In 2013, Mitsuha Miyamizu is a high school girl living in the rural town of Itomori, Japan. Bored of the town, she wishes to be a Tokyo boy in her next life. One day, she inexplicably begins to switch bodies intermitttly with Taki Tachibana, a high school boy in Tokyo. Thus, wh they wake up as each other on some mornings, they must live through the other’s respective activities and social interactions for the day. They learn they can communicate with each other by leaving messages on paper, phones, and sometimes on each other’s skin. Mitsuha (in Taki’s body) sets Taki up on a date with coworker Miki Okudera, while Taki (in Mitsuha’s body) causes Mitsuha to become popular at school. One day, Taki (in Mitsuha’s body) accompanies Mitsuha’s grandmother Hitoha and younger sister Yotsuha to leave the ritual alcohol kuchikamizake, made by the sisters, as an offering at the Shinto shrine located on a mountaintop outside the town. It is believed to represt the body of the village guardian god ruling over human connections and time. Taki reads a note from Mitsuha about the comet Tiamat, expected to pass nearest to Earth on the day of the autumn festival. The next day, Taki wakes up in his body and goes on a date with Miki, who tells him she joyed the date but also that she can tell he is preoccupied with thoughts of someone else. Taki attempts to call Mitsuha on the phone, but cannot reach her as the body-switching ds.
Your Name (novel)
Taki, Miki, and their frid Tsukasa travel to Gifu by train on a trip to Hida in search of Mitsuha. However, Taki does not know the name of Itomori, relying on his sketches of the surrounding landscape from memory. A restaurant owner in Takayama is from Itomori and recognizes the town in the sketch. He takes Taki and his frids to the ruins of Itomori, which has be destroyed and where 500 residts were killed wh Tiamat unexpectedly fragmted as it passed by Earth three years earlier. Taki sees Mitsuha’s messages disappearing from his phone, and his memories of her begin to gradually fade, realizing the two were also separated by time, as he is in 2016. Taki finds Mitsuha’s name in the record of fatalities. While Miki and Tsukasa return to Tokyo, Taki journeys to the shrine, hoping to reconnect with Mitsuha and warn her about Tiamat. There, Taki drinks Mitsuha’s kuchikamizake and th lapses into a vision, where he glimpses Mitsuha’s past. He also recalls that he countered Mitsuha on a train wh she came to Tokyo the day before the evt to find him, though Taki did not recognize her, as the body-switching was yet to occur in his timeframe. Before leaving the train in embarrassmt, Mitsuha had handed him her hair ribbon, which he has since worn on his wrist as a good-luck charm.
Taki wakes up in Mitsuha’s body at her house on the morning of the festival. Hitoha deduces what has happed and tells him the body-switching ability has be passed down in her family as caretakers of the shrine. Taki convinces Tessie and Sayaka, two of Mitsuha’s frids, to get the townspeople to evacuate Itomori, by disabling the electrical substation and broadcasting a false emergcy alert. Taki heads to the shrine, realizing that Mitsuha must be in his body there, while Mitsuha wakes up in Taki’s body. At sunset, the two sse each other’s presce on the mountaintop but are separated due to contrasting timeframes and cannot see each other. Wh twilight falls,
They return to their own bodies and see each other in person. After Taki returns Mitsuha’s ribbon, they attempt to write their names on each other’s palms so that they will remember each other. However, before Mitsuha can write hers,
