Mitsuha Miyamizu, a high school girl living in the fictional town of Itomori in Gifu Prefecture's mountainous Hida region, is told by multiple of the people around her that she acted strangely the previous day, while noting that she is normal today. Mitsuha exclaims about wanting to live as a handsome boy in Tokyo. It was nothing more, nothing less than a beautiful view.' It appears to fall on the town below it but that is left ambiguous as it cuts to the two main characters, Taki and Mitsuha, talking about how they feel as if they are missing something ( Yume Tōrō), and that the feeling had lingered since the day that 'The stars came falling.

In the opening, a comet fragment is seen falling through the layers of clouds in the sky. But as they discover more about each other and the other's life, they uncover some disturbing hints that their distance is more than just physical and tragedy haunts them. Soon they start to communicate and try to leave notes about who they are and what they are doing. At first, they both think these experiences are just vivid dreams, but when the reality of their situations sinks in, they learn to adjust and even enjoy it. They find for unknown reasons, they wake up in each other's bodies for weeks at a time. Expand it by clicking to right of the section title.Ī comet appears and mysteriously affects and connects the lives of two teenagers of the same age, a boy in the big, bustling city of Tokyo and a girl in a country village where life is slow but idyllic. The film has received critical acclaim, being praised for its animation and emotional impact, and was also a commercial success, becoming the fourth highest-grossing film of all time in Japan and the highest-grossing anime film worldwide, with, as of January 15, 2017, a gross of over $330 million USD (United States Dollars). The film premiered at the Anime Expo 2016 convention in Los Angeles, California on July 3, 2016, and premiered in Japan on August 26, 2016. Your Name was animated by CoMix Wave Films and distributed by Toho. ( 君の名は。, Your name.) is a 2016 Japanese anime romantic fantasy drama film directed, written, and edited by Makoto Shinkai, based on his own novel of the same name.

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