Kimi no Na wa.

Mitsuha Miyamizu, a high school girl, yearns to live the life of a boy in the bustling city of Tokyo—a dream that stands in stark contrast to her present life in the countryside. Meanwhile in the city, Taki Tachibana lives a busy life as a high school student while juggling his part-time job and hopes for a future in architecture.

One day, Mitsuha awakens in a room that is not her own and suddenly finds herself living the dream life in Tokyo—but in Taki's body! Elsewhere, Taki finds himself living Mitsuha's life in the humble countryside. In pursuit of an answer to this strange phenomenon, they begin to search for one another.

Kimi no Na wa. revolves around Mitsuha and Taki's actions, which begin to have a dramatic impact on each other's lives, weaving them into a fabric held together by fate and circumstance.

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Miyamizu, Mitsuha Main

Kamishiraishi, Mone Japanese

Tachibana, Taki Main

Kamiki, Ryunosuke Japanese

Yukino, Yukari Supporting

Hanazawa, Kana Japanese

Okudera, Miki Supporting

Nagasawa, Masami Japanese

Miyamizu, Yotsuha Supporting

Tani, Kanon Japanese

Teshigawara, Katsuhiko Supporting

Narita, Ryou Japanese

Miyamizu, Hitoha Supporting

Ichihara, Etsuko Japanese

Fujii, Tsukasa Supporting

Shimazaki, Nobunaga Japanese

Natori, Sayaka Supporting

Yuuki, Aoi Japanese

Takagi, Shinta Supporting

Ishikawa, Kaito Japanese

Bezerra, Wendel Producer

Kawamura, Genki Producer, Planning

Itou, Kouichirou Producer

Takei, Katsuhiro Producer

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Jan 8, 2025

cappuccino12

Recommended

i have this anime's manga for quite a long time but i never read it, yesterday after finished watching silent voice i wanted to watch this since they were being compared a lot and here i am having finished the film and unfortunately, i have very mixed feeling about this anime i want to preface it by saying i liked it but never get the hype i mean it is good and but neither did it hit harder that a silent voice nor it could get any close and i am feeling very sad about that because i had high expectations going into this however, ... it cemented sour taste in my mouth.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Dec 20, 2024

SenseiLaba

Mixed Feelings

Honestly, Your Name left a good impression on me the first time I watched it fondly. The fact that the two main characters could swap bodies is a good idea, but I only liked the half of the movie when the characters were messing around in different bodies, interesting right? Well, towards the end of the movie things started to get more boring, the action seemed to start to creak somewhere. I'm not saying it maliciously, on the contrary, the film has a top animation, well-defined characters, but the story doesn't seem to have been to my liking. It didn't have a solid foundation to ... continue the story, to take it to a point where it made you understand that it was well worth it. The idea is good, but the starting point has failed. For the rest, leaving this aspect aside, we can enjoy a movie with an excellent animation quality. Shinkai knew what he was doing, of course he has a lot of nice movies, but it feels like something is repeating itself.
I still liked that I was able to see this anime, but on the other hand I don't really think it deserves such a high mark, obviously, I said it before, I don't say it maliciously but the story is not something out of the ordinary.
To conclude, Your Name is a decent anime, it keeps the narrative thread like any other anime, but the idea, the characters, the soundtrack, and let's not forget the lavish animation it gave us, are downright amazing. So the anime is worth watching, it's something new.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Feb 26, 2025

Mythhead

Not Recommended

Kimi no Na wa is an illogical, pseudoemotional, slogfest of a movie.

Slogfest:
The first part of the movie is kind of a time waster, because it primarily serves as a really long and drawn out exposition focusing on a concept that if removed, wouldn’t meaningfully change much of the movie. Nevertheless, the story must begin somewhere, so it gets its foot in the door with as a basic slice of life as lived by two highschoolers of different families. The additional premise to the scenerypornographic slice of life would be the body swap. Well, given the lack of setup and the fact that this film is ... rated PG-13, the writers can only go as far as making it a cheap gag. Near the end of the film, it receives a cheap explanation, but it ultimately contradicts the two characters’ behavior (but not motivations) in the beginning (see paragraph 2 title). Additionally, the characters aren’t even endearing or interesting in any sort of way because they’re barely indistinguishable from each other. It honestly feels like both of the characters were added in to be [generic male protagonist] and [generic female protagonist], to make the writing easier. At best, the body swap premise works as a simple plot device to both waste the viewer’s time and move the plot forward.

Illogical:
The second part of the story is frustratingly illogical because it relies on characters written to be stupid for the sake of drawing the story out longer than it needs to be. Plot conveniences are practically everywhere, so, without delving into spoilers, the generic male main character (not even gonna try with this one) forgets practically anything vital that is necessary for the story to continue. To illustrate an example to make it less vague (awkward working because of spoilers), he is written to forget how to read something that most people are expected to do throughout their life in order to function in the modern world. However, he somehow remembers because he just so happened to remember one of the special places they’ve been together, which then makes him remember one specific clothing piece of the other main character. Basically, the explanations provided in the series only goes as nothing other than random astronomical and time travel bullshit thrown in for the sake of conveying a really corny message.

Pseudoemotional:
The movie tries to be emotional, but it just fails. For a romance to be heartfelt, the characters need to be interesting. The main issue with the characters is that they aren’t realistic and the “emotional connection” between the two is extremely forced. This can be noted by the characters’ lack of chemistry with each other. I mean, the generic male protagonist had already developed feelings for his coworker. Surprisingly, the story handles this in the most hilarious way possible (funnier than all of the other “comedic” moments of the series), because the generic female protagonist helps set up a date between the two. This would only make sense if she has a weird cuckoldry fetish or something, but even then, she needs to firstly convince him to indulge in the same depraved fetishes she does. In addition to this, writing can be seen as being incredibly corny. Barely any of the dialogue spoken by the two felt natural and grounded in reality. For example, the generic female protagonist, after helping the the generic male protagonist with a girl, texts to herself “it’s all thanks to my feminine side,” or whatever. What… no real human texts like this.

Oh, a lot of the astrological bullshit also ties into both of the characters needing to save the day together and stuff, as if the movie couldn’t be any more of a mess.

The art is phenomenal, but that’s all Kimi no Na wa has going for it.

At the end of the day, the entire story is a generic teenage “star-born lovers” and “we were just meant to be together,” garbage. The movie is incredibly boring, characters as well; their motivations, behavior, and romantic feelings for each other don’t make sense. To top it off, the only explanation this series offers is utter nonsense. I felt absolutely nothing from start to finish, I was just immensely bored.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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