![]() There are visual cues that point to other Shinkai works, but more importantly, the art adds another dimension of beauty that the story embodies. The city is drawn as this hyper-realistic place, but when the story takes magical turns, the artwork does as well. To say the least, Your Name features some of the greatest animation I have ever seen. The second is the artwork, and the third is the music. ![]() The first is the plot of the film (as explained). Shinkai brings these emotions to life by utilizing three things. It provides the backstory to that time you met someone for the first time, but for some reason, it feels like you’ve already met. Your Name is simply a movie about that feeling people get when they are searching for something more. Towards the end of the film, you the viewer are left with a feeling of longing as you want to see the movie end on a more hopeful note. This is because the love story is so expertly weaved into the plot that when things come to a bubbling point, nothing feels forced. In fact, one might argue that the love story is not even the main plot of Your Name. The rest of Your Name takes the audience a level above a typical love story. Much of the film’s first act is reliant on the magic of body switching and the love cultivated during it. The twists and turns of Your Name tear apart our two leads for extremely dramatic reasons. Your Name seeks to take this “idea” one step further, and explains why this phenomenon was taking place. If this were any other film, the romance would start from the body switching alone. This sets up where those feelings of loss and separation begin. The rules of this story emphasize the notion that after the body switching takes place, the two begin to forget what happens when they switch back. Taki is just an average boy from Tokyo (the city). She’d give anything to experience a life in the city. Mitsuha is a country girl who hates where she lives. This is the ground that Shinkai begins to craft his story from. ![]() Looking at the plot from a macro point of view, Your Name is essentially a body-switching movie between a boy and a girl. What makes this film so legendary within, and outside the anime community? In many ways Your Name is a spiritual successor to Shinkai’s previous work. ![]()
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