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In 2016 there was one movie on every Otaku's mind
Before Your Name (Kimi No Na Wa) went on to gain so much claim Makoto Shinkai had a few different names for the film before settling on Your Name production of this film went back to 2014 and in its initial proposal to Toho Animation the film was first called
The film was first released at Anime Expo in July of 2016 before was shown in Japan in August of that same year it would get a wider North American release and a dubbed by Funimation in 2017. Your Name (Kimi No Na Wa) release was massive, to say the least on release this film made up 10% of Japan's total box-office. Your Name was the second highest-grossing anime film in Japan behind
The film presents its events out of order and to make things, even more, complicated the two main characters spend a majority of the movie at different times. Mitsuha exists in a small city of Itomori three years past and Taki lives in Tokyo three years ahead well actually they're the same age but they switch bodies three years apart from one another.
The film begins with our two main characters Mitsuha and Taki reciting a cryptic yet poignant massage Once in a while when i wake up i find myself crying the dream i must have had i can never recall but the sensation that i have lost something lingers for a long time after i wake up I'm always searching for something for someone this feelings has possessed me I think from that day when the stars came falling it was almost as if scene from a dream nothing more beautiful view.
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This is said while the comet flies over Itomori but actually, this event takes place near the middle of the film our film actually began 1,200 years ago when a comet first appeared and struck the earth creating the lake that Itomori would be built upon. This comet would come again spelling disaster when it strikes
when Mitsuha grows up she and her sister performed the ceremony to create her
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She does not remember who wrote this or how it had gone on her hand but she can feel something inside her something that gives her the strength to push on against the impossible odds. She reaches her father in time and manages to evacuate the city in time before the comet strikes. Now that the town is saved the timeline merges into one and because Mitsuha's had never died she and Taki live in the present and because Taki returned Mitsuha's ribbon neither of them remembers the other's name it's like all the events that led up to this point suddenly vanished. However, that's not to say that they have completely forgotten each other another 12 years have passed and the two leave their lives normally though both of them get the feeling that something or someone is missing from their lives.
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We see Taki has graduated college and is now looking for work in Tokyo but he is not having any luck then while he is on the train another train passes by and someone catches his eyes he can't remember where but he feels like he might have met that person in another life. Mitsuha is living in Tokyo now and on the train see's a man she thought she knew once at the next stop the two frantically look for one another and they finally meet. Taki meets Mitsuha they ask for one another's name the camera pans up and credits roll the movie's over and our two literal star crossed lovers are left to remake the relationship they had started 12 years ago when a strange phenomenon allowed them to experience each other's lives in more than most people develop a relationship.
Kimi No Na Wa ( Your Name)
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