Let's Take A Look At Your Name

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So I am a bit behind on this month's AnimeRealm Quest but hey ho, life gets in the way and I keep buying awesome boardgames to play!

Today we are looking at the amazing film Your Name or Kimi no Na wa

This film is a work of beauty and amazement for me, from the artwork to the story and the downright amazing and loveable soundtrack that I can't get enough of!

The story follows 2 High School Students, Mitsuha Miyamizu who lives in the countryside and yearns to live in Tokyo as she is sick to death of living in the small town countryside. She wants lights and excitement!
On the other hand we have Taki Tachibana, a High School student who actually lives in Tokyo. He has an interest in architecture and wants to pursue it as a future career. He lives a very busy life with school and his part time work commitments taking up a lot of his time.

Year of release: 2016
Studio: CoMix Wave Films
Genre: Drame
Age rating: PG
My rating: Perfection/10
Run time: 1 hour and 46 minutes.

One morning upon waking, Mitsuha finds herself in a room that is not hers and in a body that is not hers. She is now in Taki's body, living the life of a Tokyo High Schooler. This is much to her surprise and does add a bit of humour to the first scenes.

Though Taki also finds out that he has switched bodies and is currently in Mitsuha 's body. As any young man would do, he tests things out and more humour ensues! Taki finds himself now living in the countryside, a far difference from his own life.

As the story progresses, their regular body swaps when they fall asleep start to raise more questions amongst themselves. This leads to them wanting to find each other and sort it out.

I would say that the film focuses on their action's while they are in each other's bodies. An example is that Taki has to work more shifts as Mitsuha is eating loads of nice food when she is in Taki's body. This means he has no money so he is working really hard to cover the lost money. this in turn means Mitsuha also has to cover some of them shifts during their swaps. Serves her right in my eyes 😅 Gotta work for it if you are going to be greedy!

How they both impact each others lives when switched is noticeable through how their friends comment or discuss things with them, noticing small and subtle changes that they just cannot understand.
Some beautiful and sad moments arise from these impactful changes in each others lives.

The story has it's traditional elements where the red cord that connects the 2 of them together. This is representing their fates and how they are connected. It seems to be a common belief I have found upon reading up on it.

There is a scene where they are making Sake at the shrine that Mitsuha's family run. This practise involves chewing rice in their mouths, thus crushing the rice and then spitting it into a jar. The women performing this ritual were unmarried and pure maidens. This from what I can gather is actually how Sake was made a very long time ago. it was done as part of a Shinto ritual.
Of course this is no longer done this way (I hope) as the practice became Illegal a long ol time ago in Japan. It does show that the film does incorporate some elements of Japanese culture and customs, even if it seems a bit weird to how things are done now.

Imagine cracking a bottle open to find a big ol chunk of lugie in there.... That's the only thing that goes through my mind every time I watch that scene!

Images from Title Picture and MyAnimeList

Now onto the awesome soundtrack next. If you have read any of my other posts, then this is a part I love doing, finding amazing songs that are perfect for the film/series is great. Even better is when those songs make it onto my daily playlists, this means they just have something really special about them.

Without further ado I bring to you the opening theme song Yume Tourou by RADWIMPS. To this day when I hear the first few seconds of this song it starts to tug at my heart strings. I remember this part of the film so vividly and remember how much I loved it the first time I saw the film and every time since.

Another beautiful song is Nandemonaiya by RADWIMPS.

How this song covers the end of the film is beautiful. The ending still get's me right in the feels even now. The whole movie I spend rooting for them both and hoping all ends well.
RADWIMPS were such an amazing choice to do the songs for the film as the vocals are beautiful and fit the film so well.

Even now thinking about the songs and listening to them tugs on my heart. This is a film that I cannot recommend enough, and is one of those films that I could watch again for the first time. It is just beautiful and a lovely story.

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