YOUR NAME | 君の名は(2016) Absolutely Moved Me | First Time Movie Reaction To My First Japanese Anime!
I finally watched Makoto Shinkai's anime masterpiece "Your Name" (君の名は。) for the very first time! The animation, the music by RADWIMPS, and that massive mid-movie plot twist completely broke me. Here is my honest reaction and breakdown!
新海誠監督の最高傑作『君の名は。』を海外から初めて観た反応をお届けします！アニメーションの美しさと、まさかのストーリー展開に本当に感動しました。ぜひコメントで皆さんの感想も教えてください！
After recently beginning to explore Japanese anime, Your Name showed me something completely different.
Anime is absolutely NOT just “for kids.”
There is an incredible artistry to this medium, and Your Name is one of the most beautiful showcases of it I could have imagined.
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Written and directed by Makoto Shinkai, Your Name follows Mitsuha Miyamizu, a high school girl living in rural Japan, and Taki Tachibana, a teenage boy living in Tokyo. Despite being complete strangers, the two suddenly begin waking up in each other’s bodies.
At first, they struggle to navigate each other’s lives, friendships, families and routines. But what begins as a funny and bizarre body-swapping situation slowly develops into a deeply emotional connection that reaches across distance, memory and fate.
The Japanese voice cast includes Ryūnosuke Kamiki as Taki Tachibana, Mone Kamishiraishi as Mitsuha Miyamizu, Ryō Narita as Katsuhiko Teshigawara, Aoi Yūki as Sayaka Natori, and Nobunaga Shimazaki as Tsukasa Fujii.
The film was written, directed and edited by Makoto Shinkai, produced by CoMix Wave Films, and features an incredible soundtrack from RADWIMPS.
And visually… this movie is gorgeous.
The skies. The city lights. The landscapes. The small details of everyday life. The movement. The color. The way the animation captures emotion without even needing dialogue.
I finally understood why people talk about anime animation as an art form unto itself.
But what really got me was the story.
Your Name is funny, romantic, mysterious, heartbreaking, hopeful and incredibly heartfelt. It warmed my soul with happiness while also deeply moving me.
I absolutely loved it.
This movie made me want to dive much deeper into Japanese anime cinema, because if stories like this are waiting for me, I have clearly been missing out.
If you are an anime fan, tell me:
What anime movie absolutely HAS to be next?
And where does Your Name rank for you among the greatest anime films ever made?
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