Alternative Titles
Japanese: 君の名は。
English: Your Name.
German: Your Name.
Spanish: Your Name.
French: Your Name.
Information
Episodes:
1
Status:
Finished Airing
Aired:
Aug 26, 2016
Source:
Original
Duration:
1 hr. 46 min.
Rating:
PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
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Score:
8.821 (scored by 20761412,076,141 users)
Ranked:
#34 2
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Popularity:
#11
Members:
3,014,737
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95,220
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Ranked #34Popularity #11Members 3,014,737 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.
[Written by MAL Rewrite] Kimi no Na wa. won the LAFCA Animation Award in 2016 and the Best Animated Film in 2017 by Mainichi Film Awards. It also won the Grand Prize Award on the 20th Japan Media Arts Festival. | |
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Reviews
Apr 10, 2026
I watched Your Name in theatres back in 2023, and it was a once in a lifetime experience. The animation was superb with beautiful backgrounds and lighting, so many frames can be wallpapers. Blends of blue and green with a shine of sunlight kissed from the artist.
It's a Freaky Friday story told on a deeper level, delving into life experiences and tragedy. It's THE Ghibli movie not created by Ghibli. Even if you don't enjoy the story or it doesn't touch your heart, the art will touch your soul. A coming of age tale that opened my mind to what is possible for the genre.
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This movie will have a special place in my heart, and I definitely need to rewatch it.
I recommend Your Name as a good introduction into anime, and what it's artistically capable of.
sincerely, EuphoArsTaa
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Dec 17, 2025
It's a visually stunning film with an immediately captivating premise, and it’s easy to see why it left such a strong impression on audiences worldwide. The animation is immaculate, with richly detailed backgrounds and atmospheric lighting that elevate nearly every scene. RADWIMPS’ soundtrack is equally memorable, seamlessly enhancing the emotional beats and carrying much of the film’s emotional weight.
That said, beneath the polish lies a story that can feel uneven. The film’s pacing is rushed, especially in its transition between ideas, giving the impression of two different movies stitched together. While the body-swap concept is initially engaging, it is treated more as a narrative gimmick
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than a tool for meaningful character development, leaving the central romance underexplored.
Emotionally, the film often relies on spectacle and music rather than fully earned character bonds. For some viewers, this results in powerful resonance; for others, the characters feel distant and the drama less impactful than intended. Logical leaps and plot conveniences further weaken immersion, particularly as the story leans heavily on fate to justify its turns.
Ultimately, it's a beautifully crafted experience that shines in presentation but stumbles in structure and depth. It’s an enjoyable, unique romance with standout audiovisual elements, even if its storytelling doesn’t fully live up to its ambition.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Feb 18, 2026
Original review date: 2025-02-26
Re-review because the last review was terrible and receptive to be confusing. After all that, I could see why; though, this film is still overrated garbage for reasons that were largely unheard of earlier.
The actual review:
Kimi no Na wa is a mawkishly sentimental romance story that essentially does with both its first and secondary premises, in addition to both of them feeling like two films in one. It may look stunning, but there are more factors that contribute to engagement aside from being visually appealing. There’s more to a film than art direction, such as the setting, the plot, the characters, and
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whatever else actually gives the film substance beyond a collection of visually stimulating imagery. To the film’s ultimate and untimely demise, it can only really be engaged with the eyes and ears. The story, at its core, is nothing more than a generic hodgepodge of "starborn lovers" and "we were meant to be together" nonsense, in spite of whether the astronomicalbabble thrown into the mix or not.
The film is clearly divided into two acts; though, the matter of these “acts” merely exists as a less-blunt way of stating that the film feels like two separate stories that were conglomerated into one. The first of these acts involves a body-swap premise involving a teenaged boy and girl living on opposite sides of the country. It’s a common trope, so its implementation is not really rooted in anything else aside from random astronomical buzzwords thrown together. Even without being reliant on any sort of logic at all, there is nothing new being added to the trope because the body-swap premise essentially goes nowhere. Usually, one might predict that this premise would be used to explore gender roles in society so that both characters involved can learn about the positive and negative aspects of each role. However, from the very first scene, the film makes it apparent that the “body-swapping” premise is mostly presented as a running gag rather than something that may pose a challenge for the two characters involved. The typical challenges are involved such as taking on someone else’s job or finding a class, yet this says nothing about what each character is passionate about. At best, the premise is handled by slightly inconveniencing the two given that both their lives and characterizations are simplistic in nature.
The characterization is vapid and the audience learns next to nothing about them. Taki is the worst of the bunch, because his presence doesn’t tie into any potential themes the film hopes to convey. He’s mostly spineless and the film only touches on his passion for architecture—which is never explored—in addition to the few aspects of his character that only exist to give him basic life skills. Did the film need to explore his interest in architecture? No, but when nothing else rings much of interest, one can’t help but see a huge misstep in his characterization. Aside from his unexplained passion for the arts and architecture, the film only gives him the additional “timid guy” characterization. It’s a romantic fantasy after all, so his characterization is set up for a future superficial love interest for his coworker. Of course, the viewer may assume that he likes her because he thinks she’s attractive; yet, this line of reasoning is an interpretation, not a conveyed reason. The romance between the two characters is built upon a body-swapping phenomenon, which supposedly aids in fostering an already established connection. However, there is little to suggest that they underwent much character growth as both characters remain as cardboard cut-outs throughout the screening.
Mitsuha is slightly less one-dimensional, as the film does take the time to explore her family dynamic; though it was conveyed by use of a piss-poor flashback. Instead of being someone who seems to have nothing going for him, she lives in the countryside and lives with her family to keep some sort of tradition alive. Nevertheless, she occasionally runs into issues with her family when she is partaking in said traditions because she gets made fun of by other people or whatever. In fact, her father seems to enjoy partaking in the harassment she faces. Maybe if their relationship was elaborated on, his introduction would’ve aided in conveying the film’s themes; however, his introduction concerns himself with a one-note conflict that appears to have no probable cause. By reason of pushing through her situation, she loudly exclaims that she wishes she was a boy that lives in the city for reasons that only align with unsubtle foreshadowing. As a result, the film has a particular tendency to value Mitsuha’s desires, which weighs on Taki receiving a disproportionate amount of screen time.
In regards to the body-swap premise—whether or not it actually attempted to say something about gender—its purpose can be interpreted as a means for the two to learn about each other. However, this is instead used as a ruse to hamfist the two characters together in addition to reaffirming gender stereotypes. For example, Taki is not particularly masculine by any conventional standard; he is shy, not assertive, and his hobbies don’t involve much manual labor. When Taki is in Mitsuha’s body, there are gag scenes which involve him acting way out of character. These gags are largely insignificant in the grand scheme of the story, though they could be summarized as an insatiable desire to act like a dick. It’s quite the stretch in character, though this may stem from the film lacking a strong establishment in character. Therefore, it tends to bring them out in scenes where they “learn” about each other’s lives through several “gags “that are repeated throughout the screening. All the same, they are able to “learn” about each others’ lives by the film flaunting its budget in the form of boob jiggle physics.
Mitsuha adjustment towards Taki’s body is similarly expressed in gag scenes, though these tend to be much more specific. Examples include her incompetence as she is unable to work at Taki’s job, unable to find his class, and angering other boy’s at his workplace. Apparently, all of the other boys at the workplace liked the only other female coworker that worked there for some reason. So, why didn’t they bother shooting their shot? No reason given other than the fact that a guy with feminine powers (real quote btw) tried to out-do them, to which Taki appears to be embarrassed by. However, this is perhaps the only scene where Mitsuha does learn something positive about the conventionally masculine trait of assertiveness, in addition to getting a woman’s attention by expressing perceived femininity in a male body. In spite of this scene being a highlight, she is never truly the central focus of the film. Her character progression is otherwise linear and only concerns convincing the father to listen to her for just once. Otherwise,
Given that the two characters are bland and uninteresting, their relationship tends to reflect that. The lack of chemistry between the two is made clear by the scene where Mitsuha helps set up a date for Taki. Although, it would be kind of hilarious if the film expresses cuckoldry as something a woman should partake in. Otherwise, the writers assume that the audience should take their likeness towards the two’s relationship development because it ties into its theme of fate, without further elaboration. Their relationship is entirely one-note as Mitsuha does all of the heavy lifting—as explained earlier. Additionally, the emotional connection between the two is rather idealized as Taki seems to have nothing going for him; he just looks like any other isekai protagonist ever that just so happened to not be isekaid. Like many other aspects of the film, the development aspect never takes place. No, crying after you wake up after a supposed “dream” is not indicative enough of a naturally developed feelings for each other. The romance is written in purely because the first half of the film is inharmonious with the second. Ergo, the writers expect us to just “go along with it” despite there being nothing in their relationship worth investing in.
The second act isn’t much better, and it can be argued that it’s worse simply because of its stark contrast to the emotionally manipulative and aimlessly pointless first arc. Instead of failing at everything it does, the second act also… fails at everything it does. Their romance never develops into anything meaningful aside from the Hallmark-esque/Disney-esque tropes of “girl moves into the big city to move in with guy” as well as “love at first sight” with no other justification as to how the film establishes its logic. The film is largely concerned with developing a relationship that would’ve otherwise fizzled out realistically (Taki’s crush did exactly that) so that the characters in the film can save the day or whatever. There's more than one climax of the film—with none of them being particularly memorable—so the plot also feels directionless. Further, the number of plot conveniences and contrivances detract from immersion even more. Without spoiling it, the characters are conveniently written to forget past events, including those that have happened mere seconds ago. It may seem as if it tied into the film’s aspect of fate; however, the film seems to write around this premise rather than with it. Ultimately, it’s a very contrived way of passing off all critique of the film under the guise of it being thematic.
Kimi no na Wa can succeed as a motion picture were one to take it as a mere sequencing of images. In doing so, the film tends to show the artstyle off whenever they can, usually crafting a few scenes with the intention of them being made into desktop wallpapers. Otherwise, there's not much else to pull from in terms of artistic merit. Congrats on having a high budget I guess.
All in all, the story is a bland showcase of an unreliable trope involving two characters who share zero chemistry with each other. In addition, the themes are uncompelling and the story has a difficult time establishing its own logic. In spite of wanting to potentially develop a heart-throbbing climax, the film lacks the finesse to even build steam on the way there. It's quite difficult to view this from a metric that isn't an appeal to emotion, that being boredom, intrigue, or otherwise. Regardless, I felt nothing in a genre that thrives of “feels” or whatever the main appeal of the genre is; I only picked it up because of the high rating.
***MAJOR SPOILERS BELOW***
Specific illogical inconsistencies in the film:
1. Taki forgets the name of the town that Mitsuha lives in and draws a sketch of her town from memory. Owing to the fact that the world’s information exists at the tip of his fingers, it does not bother him that a Google Maps adjacent exists. In this case, he is intelligent enough to have a well-above average photographic memory and art skills, but not intelligent enough to search for a small business that he might’ve come across in Itomori.
2. Modern technology persists as a problem in that small devices that fit into your pocket carry loads of information that the average person would keep track of on a daily basis. For example, the phone often replaces several old technologies which have been designed for a specific purpose, instead prioritizing convenience in one place (clock, calendar, camera, etc.). The diary entries that are written on the phones are conveniently deleted upon Taki taking his phone out of his pocket.
3. Taki conveniently forgets both the major impact disaster that happened in his country as well as the girl who he remembers the first name of in the conveniently placed book of names in the library he goes to. Even when accompanied by his friends he still fumbles remembering her name and doesn’t bother trying to tell his friends to make a note of it or anything. After all, it’s the one thing he's adamant about.
4. Taki and Mitsuha conveniently meet each other on the train when the plot needs them to.
5. Taki hesitates to write the hand of the girl he’s trying to remember the name of, only to then conveniently forget her name after the first penstroke.
Of course, fate is a common theme, which could help address a few of the inconsistencies listed above, as the film doesn’t contradict its established logic; rather, it contradicts a real-world application of human behavior. Basically, using fate as a means to put a band-aid over a crack in the asphalt isn’t convincing, nor does it add to the premise of “fate” at all aside from a surface-level viewer interpretation of its theme. In retrospect to what the film attempts to convey thematically, the film’s conception of “fate” never makes a case for itself aside from the faux-symbolism within the appropriately titled “Red String of Fate.” The film may seem particularly contingent upon fate based on either the plot conveniences that drew them together or the main twist the body-swapping premise presents. Having said that, this still answers next to nothing because the film seems particularly unbothered by the weak character interactions. The only conclusion one can potentially pull from is that some sort of g0d is interfering with their affairs, but as stated previously, the film mostly uses this as a ruse to appear more logically consistent.
***SPOILERS END***
Jhintelman puts it best: “it's like a sh!t wrapped in tin foil, looks shiny, smells and tastes really bad.”
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Poll: How many times have you watch the movie (YOUR NAME)? ( 1 2 )
Haigen - Aug 27, 2025 |
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Apr 4, 8:07 PM |
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Kimi no Na wa AMV
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Dec 17, 2025 12:19 PM |
My name is...
24frame - Jul 26, 2025 |
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Aug 7, 2025 4:57 AM |
Plot hole much?
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