Your Name
A romantic fantasy about Mitsuha Miyamizu, a high-school girl in rural Itomori, and Tokyo student Taki Tachibana, whose body-swapping bond crosses a three-year gap and compels them to change both a comet disaster and each other's fate.
- Genre:
- 青春 / 恋愛 / ファンタジー
- Medium:
- Anime / Film
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Mitsuha chafes against shrine tradition and small-town life
Living with her grandmother and sister apart from her mayor father, Mitsuha serves as a shrine maiden and offers kuchikamizake. Stifled by local scrutiny and her father's campaigning, she cries out to be reborn as a Tokyo boy.
Vol.劇場アニメーション映画 冒頭・糸守町／宮水神社の奉納Ch. — Official film STORY opening and the shrine-offering scene; 2013 follows from the three-year gap later revealed. ↗
Mitsuha and Taki awaken in each other's bodies
Mitsuha spends a day as Tokyo student Taki Tachibana, while Taki lives a day as Mitsuha in Itomori. Reactions from friends and gaps in their memories make them realize the exchanges are real rather than dreams.
Vol.劇場アニメーション映画 入れ替わりの発覚Ch. — The official film STORY explicitly describes the body swaps and the missing memories and time. ↗
The pair manage each other's lives through notes and rules
To cope with swaps occurring several times a week, they leave records on phones and notebooks and establish rules. Even as they quarrel, Taki improves Mitsuha's relationships and Mitsuha gradually changes Taki's life for the better.
Vol.劇場アニメーション映画 入れ替わり生活のモンタージュCh. — The official STORY's account of coping through notes left for each other, together with the film scenes. ↗
Mitsuha arranges a date for Taki and Ms. Okudera
While in Taki's body, Mitsuha brings him closer to his admired coworker Ms. Okudera and secures a date. Forced to attend in his own body, Taki finds his thoughts increasingly occupied by Mitsuha instead.
Vol.劇場アニメーション映画 瀧と奥寺先輩のデートCh. — The official character profile states Taki's restaurant job and crush on Okudera; confirmed by the date sequence in the film. ↗
Mitsuha entrusts her braided cord to a younger Taki
When the swaps cease, Mitsuha travels to Tokyo to find Taki, but the Taki of three years earlier does not know her. She tells him her name on a train, gives him the braided cord from her hair, and returns to Itomori.
Vol.劇場アニメーション映画 回想・三葉の東京行きと組紐Ch. — The train scene later recalled in the film; official production material also identifies the braided cord as Mitsuha's character motif. ↗
Taki searches for Itomori using the landscape in his memory
After the swaps abruptly stop and Mitsuha cannot be reached, Taki sketches Itomori from memory. Traveling with Okudera and Tsukasa, he identifies the town when a ramen-shop owner recognizes the landscape.
Vol.劇場アニメーション映画 糸守町を探す旅Ch. — The official STORY states that Taki decides to search for Mitsuha after the swaps cease. ↗
Taki learns that Itomori was destroyed and Mitsuha died
The Itomori Taki sought was destroyed three years earlier by a fragment of Comet Tiamat. Finding Mitsuha, Tessie, and Sayaka in the casualty records, he realizes that he and Mitsuha had been living in different years.
Vol.劇場アニメーション映画 糸守町の災害記録と犠牲者名簿Ch. — The film's library and records sequence, corresponding to the 'unexpected truth' foreshadowed by the official STORY. ↗
Taki drinks the kuchikamizake and returns to Mitsuha's final day
Taki reaches the Miyamizu shrine's sacred body, which he visited during a swap, and drinks Mitsuha's offered kuchikamizake. After visions of the Miyamizu lineage and the comet impact, he awakens in Mitsuha's body on the disaster day.
Vol.劇場アニメーション映画 御神体での口噛み酒と再入れ替わりCh. — The film sequence at the sacred body involving the kuchikamizake and Miyamizu family memories. ↗
Taki launches an evacuation plan with Mitsuha's friends
Back on the disaster day in Mitsuha's body, Taki warns Tessie and Sayaka about the impact. They begin a plan to stage a wildfire by destroying the substation and use the emergency broadcast system to evacuate residents to the school.
Vol.劇場アニメーション映画 彗星落下当日の避難作戦Ch. — The film's evacuation-operation sequence on the day of the comet impact. ↗
Mitsuha and Taki finally meet face to face at twilight
On the sacred crater rim, twilight briefly lets the pair in different years see each other. Restored to their own bodies, they rejoice and try to write their names on each other's hands, but are separated again when twilight ends.
Vol.劇場アニメーション映画 かたわれ時の再会Ch. — The film's twilight reunion at the sacred body. ↗
Mitsuha moves her father to save Itomori's residents
Sustained by the words 'I love you' that Taki left on her hand, Mitsuha runs to town hall and presses her father Toshiki to order an evacuation. The comet fragment strikes, but later records show that nearly all residents had escaped the town.
Vol.劇場アニメーション映画 町長への直訴／糸守町避難Ch. — The film sequences of Mitsuha's run to town hall, the impact, and the later newspaper report. ↗
Mitsuha and Taki reunite in Tokyo and ask each other's names
Now adults with the names and events faded from memory, Mitsuha and Taki spot each other from passing trains. They search the city, cross on the Suga Shrine steps, turn back, and simultaneously ask for each other's name.
Vol.劇場アニメーション映画 エピローグ・須賀神社の階段Ch. — The film's epilogue and final scene. ↗
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