Your Name.
君の名は。 (Kimi no Na wa.)
- Award Winning
- Drama
- Episodes
- 1
- Duration
- 1 hr 46 min
- Aired
- Aug 26, 2016
- Status
- Finished Airing
Synopsis
Mitsuha Miyamizu is a high school girl living in the countryside who can’t help longing for the energy and anonymity of Tokyo—and even wishes she could experience life as a boy in the city. In Tokyo, high schooler Taki Tachibana keeps himself busy balancing classes with a part-time job, all while looking ahead to a future in architecture.
Without warning, they begin waking up in each other’s lives: Mitsuha finds herself in Tokyo inhabiting Taki’s body, while Taki is suddenly navigating Mitsuha’s everyday routine back home. As the bewildering switches continue, the two try to make sense of what’s happening and set out to find each other, only to discover their choices are quietly reshaping the other’s world in unexpected ways.
Otaku Consensus
Makoto Shinkai’s Your Name. is a modern crowd-pleaser that earned its elite reputation on the back of breathtaking CoMix Wave Films animation, meticulous color design, and an emotionally charged premise that resonates hard with teen coming-of-age anxieties. Fans consistently praise its cinematic sweep—especially the way it contrasts rural intimacy with Tokyo’s velocity—while detractors most often point to a plot that can feel tangled or delayed in revealing its central direction. Even with those criticisms, its impact is hard to deny, reflected in its towering MAL score (8.83 from 2,063,904 votes) and enduring popularity (#11).
Why You Should Watch
Watch Your Name. if you want a drama that feels engineered for maximum emotional lift without sacrificing craft. Shinkai turns a high-concept body-swapping hook into a textured, modern fairy tale—one that uses place (rural quiet vs. urban rush), memory, and adolescence to create a constant sense of longing and momentum. It’s also a showcase title for pure visual storytelling: luminous skies, razor-clean city detail, and color work that makes everyday life feel mythic. If you love coming-of-age stories, urban fantasy mood pieces, or romances driven by fate and near-misses, this film delivers that “can’t-look-away” pull—and it’s a single, self-contained watch.
Key Characters
- MMiyamizu, Mitsuha(VA: Kamishiraishi, Mone)
A countryside high school girl whose restless yearning for Tokyo collides with a surreal twist of identity, forcing her to grow up fast while holding onto what she values.
- TTachibana, Taki(VA: Kamiki, Ryunosuke)
A busy Tokyo teen juggling school, a part-time job, and architectural ambitions, whose grounded routine is upended by an inexplicable connection he can’t ignore.
What Makes It Stand Out
- 1
Prestige-grade visual production from CoMix Wave Films, with art direction and color design (Youko Miki) that make both Tokyo’s density and the countryside’s stillness feel tactile and cinematic.
- 2
A high-concept narrative built around body swapping and memory manipulation, using confusion and discovery as deliberate storytelling engines rather than simple gimmicks.
- 3
A strong coming-of-age core: the film treats adolescence as a real pressure cooker—identity, desire, and social expectation—then externalizes it through its supernatural premise.
- 4
Distinct sense of place and contrast (urban vs. rural), reinforced by recurring modern iconography like trains and city rhythms that shape the story’s urgency and tone.
- 5
Character designs by Masayoshi Tanaka and Masashi Andou that balance realism with expressive clarity, helping the emotional beats land even when the plot turns complex.
Fun Facts & Trivia
- Fun fact 1
- Your Name. is a single-film experience (1 episode) that premiered on August 26, 2016 and is credited to Makoto Shinkai as original creator and director.
- Fun fact 2
- It remains one of the most widely rated anime films on MyAnimeList, holding an 8.83/10 score from 2,063,904 votes—an unusually massive sample size for an animated feature.
- Fun fact 3
- The film’s staying power is reflected in its database presence: MAL Rank #33 and Popularity #11, plus 36,852 AniList favourites and an AniList score of 85/100.
- Fun fact 4
- Its tag profile highlights the specific blend that made it travel so well with audiences: body swapping, urban fantasy, coming-of-age, memory manipulation, and a teen-focused cast framed by mythology and shrine imagery.
Studios
- CoMix Wave Films
