Kimi no Na wa.

This is unfortunately a case where I have a dissenting opinion on a very popular anime. I'm upset with myself and jealous that so many can adore this film while I had a mediocre experience.

Matoko Shinkai is a hit or miss director for me. All of his films are gorgeous and he has a unique animation style I wish was utilized more. However, he sometimes struggles with making an engaging story and relies on pure raw emotion to carry the films.

The Place Promised in our Early Days, 5 Centimeters per Second, and this film are examples of that. All of these films barely kept me ... interested and was eventually bored by the end.

However, he has made truly great films in the past such as Children who Chase Lost Voices and Voice of a Distant Star which is why I will always try to watch all of his films because I know he has the potential to create another classic.

The big problem I had was that the film centers around a romance blossoming between two characters who learn more about each other in a gender bender plotline which is a unique concept. However, I never got the sense the two were developing romantic feelings for each other - I was seeing their interactions as more becoming best friends behavior. So when the characters eventually said out loud their romantic feelings for each other it both felt out of nowhere and hollow.

This was also the first time in a Shinkai film where I also felt the direction of the film had strange decisions. The film has a TV style opening theme credits with a lousy band singing over a montage. It was jarring and didn't fit at all. In fact, all the song choices throughout the film were bad honestly.

Also, certain character choices and behaviors were executed awkwardly which took away from the immersion.

Ultimately, its a miss for me. Its by no means a terrible film, and I can still understand why someone casual to anime would love it. I just couldn't get immersed into the story and care about the characters and was being distracted too many times by the story choices. There are better animes out there that can deliver the same amount of feels and with unique stories to boot.

The first time I watched Kimi no Na wa I immediately purchased the film on Blu-ray but the more I rewatch the film the more the entertainment value drops for me. I'm not saying it's necessarily a bad film but throughout my reruns I could see more and more of its flaws.

Without the surprise of the twist it just seems like they shoehorned this apocolyptic plot line to add more drama to the film. I admit it worked on me the first time but now it just seems kinda dumb and lazy. It was somewhat decent with the whole switching bodies thing. I would've ... been fine if it was just a simple romantic slice of life comedy. But adding the whole cataclysmic event sort of cheapens the film.

And I can't really see that much chemistry between the two leading roles. Sure, they might know each others' individual lives but that doesn't necessarily mean they know how the other person themselves is actually like. They just send messages to each other from time to time and that's it. You never really see them talk or spend time together to get to know each others' personality. In fact the only times you see them together is at the climax of the film and at the very end of it which are both only a few minutes long. And yes, I know it's because of the twist in the middle of the film but that's another reason why I don't like it. You don't even have that much time to see the characters live out the other person's life because it's skimmed through to make room for this subplot.

Now with all that being said I don't think the film is awful. I would be lying to you if I said I didn't think that the animation in this film is gorgeous, especially in the intro, and I really enjoyed the Japanese rock songs placed throughout it. And again I wouldn't necessarily call this a bad film. I've even rewatched it here and there to see if my opinion on it has changed over time. The message that one day we'll find the missing piece in our lives and that everything will be okay is an uplifting one. But the way that they present the message could've been done better with a more grounded plot and more solid character chemistry and development. I'm sorry but I really don't see the hype to this film. I just found it perfectly tolerable.

Your name. One of the most disappointing anime I've ever seen.
Story: 4/10
Two random teens meet each other through changing bodies? Then they fall in love with each other? Some may say it is creative story, but I think it was very creepy. And then they forget each others name for an hour and 30 minutes. I just didn't feel that it was the right way to tell the story.
Art: 10/10
Art was impressive in this one. Animation was stunning, outstanding, it was just wow. That might be the only thing I like about this movie.
Sound: 7/10
I liked the soundtrack, some of the songs used ... in the movie were bops, but it wasn't anything special.
Characters: 2/10
The lamest excuse for characters in entire anime history. They were wayyyyy to shallow. They didn't have any personality. Even the blank walls in my room have more personality than them.
Enjoyment: 5/10
I've seen a lot of people on the internet saying that this movie was fantastic, beautiful and one of a kind. After I watched it, I was very disappointed. Expected more from such a high score on this website.
This is it. I hope you liked my review. This is just my opinion, you are allowed to have a different one.

[DISCLAIMER: The following review is based off of my thoughts, opinions and observations and if you choose to read the following your are responsible for your response and reaction.

Your name or Kimi no poopoo as a wise man once said is an overhyped dumpster fire.
[This review contains heavy sarcasm and I do not intend to come off as harsh)

Story:2/10
It's based off of a cliché trope known more commonly as "freaky Friday" in the online world where basically two (or more) people switch others place.
The "plot twists" in this movie are just so random, like what was the point of the whole earthquake arc? Basically the ... second half just doesn't make sense at ALL, it's just fillers to make it a sob story and convinces you into thinking that it's an amazing movie which it ISNT.

The first half was pretty decent, they introduced the characters and their point of view in the situation although it was pretty boring because some of the fillers where the protagonist has meaningless conversations with her friends which contribute nothing to the story. Although the second half is very very poorly written.
The point of the second half? "True love will find itself no matter where you go", nice message, but, again, where does this add to? The romance? Yes. The plot? No.
The plot was that two people switched minds and you're supposed to turn that into a "romance" and no, this is not how you turn it into a romance. You can't just add unrealistic scenarios and somehow make the two characters find each other when they are in different TIMES. This is just for the romance aspect and doesn't contribute to the plot progression at all, although we did get character development.
The ending? It was really disappointing, I was expecting so much more but I'm not gonna spoil it.

Characters: 3/10
Mitsuha is a cliché, she's made to just fit the ideal waifu type but she has no personality whatsoever, she's naive, stupid and whatever adjective fits her personality.
The other guy (forgot his name) has no personality, it's like looking at human being who is hollow with nothing inside.
The characters were extremely boring to watch and felt so empty to me.
I wouldn't have minded a few more characters who could've contributed to plot progression of this story more, focusing on only 2 characters who are really boring is just not cool.

I get that this is supposed to focus on the two protagonists but if you want to make an entertaining movie then add personality to the characters, well written and thought out plot twists and not random ones which just fit the convenience of the romance and drama aspect of the show. Its a really cliché romance, that's all.

Sound: 8/10
One of the best soundtracks ever, even though I hated the movie and characters, the soundtrack itself gives me nostalgia when I hear it.

Art: 10/10 Excellent, brilliant, show-stopping, incredible, amazing. The art was so beautiful and it's like eye candy, the backgrounds and overall aesthetic is just so pleasing to the eye.

Overall, The art and sound track is what made me give this a 5, but even though I didn't enjoy it, it's still average and isn't worthy of anything below a 4.

Kimi no Na wa

[Review contains some Spoilers]

Story/Characters: 3/10
The story revolves around two adolescents who mysteriously switch bodies for sporadic periods of time across the span of an unknown amount of time. They end up building a relationship with each other in the process of this mess and eventually develop a desire to meet up. However, that goal becomes hard to reach as even more bizarre things occur, seeking to prevent them from that goal.

The story is poor, it’s so superficial, backwards and shrouded in vagueness that it makes my head spin. The more I think about it the lower I want to rate it. I ... was originally going to give it a 5/10 because, at the time, I didn’t give notice to just how bad the narrative was. And it’s not just the narrative; the characters are severely undeveloped blank slates that have no reason for anything they do because none is given to us. Instead, a pathetic attempt at "showing not telling" is made, pathetic in that what it shows us is irrelevant to the plot.

So the story is really poor because it doesn’t have a solid foundation from which to build off of and that becomes more evident the more you try to follow the logic/flow of the story. A good story requires a solid, believable foundation and this lacks that. The mystery of the body-switching, which allows for the subsequent budding relationship/romance sub-plot to emerge (which a good portion of the movie focuses on), isn’t given any depth at all and there’s no reasoning given as to why such a key theme is glossed over.

Imagine finding out that you’ve been switching bodies with someone you don’t know. What do you do? Don’t you try to find a fix for it or at the very least understand what’s going on? Isn’t it an inconvenience to your life, goals, dreams etc.? A lot of intrigue like this isn’t even explored, and the little of it that is is glossed over by vagueness and a fast pacing. For example, one of the characters (Mitsuha) actually wished to be a handsome boy living in Tokyo. Why did the writer even bring up that point? Was it supposed to off-set the shock of becoming such a boy moments later? I don’t think so because there’s no serious backing behind her wish. It’s just one of those moments where you just say the first thing that comes to mind without much thought. No point in giving much thought into it anyway as she is an undeveloped character that doesn't care about anything other than what the writer demands of her. So yeah, it might be fun for Mitsuha to be a guy for a while….but to be a guy for an unknown amount of time (could be forever for all she knows, after all, she doesn’t understand much of how it’s possible or why it’s even happening to begin with) and on top of that to have a guy you don’t know living in your shoes while you’re taking his place. Who would want that? As for why that specific guy (Taki) is picked, well, we’ll never know.

When the switching first starts, the shock of such an event is played off as a dream, which leads to some humorous occurrences. It isn’t until a day later that it’s realized that it isn’t a dream, as they switch back to their respective bodies afterwards and find that they did things the previous day that they don’t remember doing. After that, the shock sets in and failed attempts at rationalizing and dealing with the situation are made. I say failed attempts because rather than working together to try and understand what’s going on and maybe fix things in the process, they focus on understanding and respecting each other’s personal space whilst they’re bodies are switched. I would’ve been fine with that had it not been for the fact that it isn’t until several weeks pass (? Unsure on the timeline as the story is vague on those details… though weeks are mentioned at one point) that the idea comes to actually get into contact with each other, as up until that point they had just been communicating through each other’s diaries. So yeah, potential weeks of awkward body-switching go by and THEN they decide “Oh, it might be a good idea to get into closer contact with each other and work things out” Sike! What really happens is that they want to get into contact because all of a sudden they have feelings for each other, for no reason. Yep, totally believable.

If you thought the madness ended there, you couldn’t be more wrong! Even more madness ensues as a random time-warp and subsequent amnesia sub-plot is introduced to spice up the romance sub-plot and give it the tragic edge that is a staple of the genre. Yes, it turns out that they don’t get to meet up right away because all of a sudden one of them doesn’t exist because they died several years ago…and all of a sudden the other character doesn’t remember them and only has a faint feeling and a mental scene to go off of. Don’t worry though, because LOVE CONQUERS ALL and defies reason in the process! Stuff happens, happy ending, all of it is contrived, meaningless and an utter childish fantasy that doesn’t teach anyone anything.

Art: 10/10
Stunning visuals. Director did a good job showcasing them as well in the various camera shots. This movie contains one of the most beautifully animated rain scenes I’ve ever seen. The detail is on-point.

Sound/Music: 6/10
Nothing amazing but nothing bad either. The choices fit the themes and moods.

Overall: 5/10
The story is ridiculous, the flow and focus of events is ridiculous. It is an affront to the genres that it is tagged with, Romance and Supernatural in particular. Regardless of that I enjoyed writing this review so I have no regrets about watching it, especially since the movie only took up 1hr. 40 min. of my time. =D

The only thing I really enjoyed from the movie, aside from the stunning visuals, was the humor.

The movie may have fooled many people but it didn’t fool me. Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha!

There are two types of people who enjoy this movie, one is hyped by their friends or the internet and decide to see. Because if you say something bad about this movie, you literally get bashed by salty fanboys/girls.

The second one are people who under age the of twenty and are easily manipulated in their emotions, with other words they think anime like clannad are the greatest of all time.

The concept is this movie is ripped-off from the visual novel remember 11 (author of ever17,999,ZTD).

The romance is rushed, there is literally so few interactions between them that are only showed in the flashback sequence ... etc. The other characters are just fillers in this movie, weak developed and unnecessary.

Not a single memorable soundtrack in this movie.

Visuals are the only good part about this movie, beautiful and stunning.

This movie is just okay. It's kind of sad that Japanese animation peaked back in the K-ON!! movie by KyoAni in 2009, and now with Kimi no Na wa (aka Your Name in USA) we get Japan telling us the exact same story and exact same animation and exact same characters and exact same scenes as 5 Centimeters Per Second, which literally came out 15 years ago, without any kind of plot twists. Or Plot turns, in my humble opinion.

I defy you tell me the tone and ending of this movie's and 5 Cm/s was any different! Judging by this movie, Japan still is ... a country of adults stuck in arrested development with no future and pathetic social skills just waiting for the world to end. SAD! (And perhaps BAD?)

Plot:7
Art: 10
Music:9
Character:6

I write this knowing I'm 4 years late but God knows it had to be said, moreso because it's an unpopular opinion. Your no name is one of the most disappointing things I've ever laid my eyes on and hands down the most disappointing anime I've ever laid my eyes on( and yes I've watched oreimo, Tokyo ghoul root, neon genesis evangelionetc)

Considering how much hype it has gotten I was expecting a masterpiece rivaling Miyazaki's greatest works, or even more recently and released the same year, something like a silent voice. Imagine my surprise when halfway into the movie, I realise that the film ... is nothing more than a Ferrari with the engine of a farm tractor. Heck even Makoto himself doesn't think his work is that good.
Before I watch anything audiovisual, I always make a point to look at its ratings on sites harbouring critics who I believe objectively watch the particular show in question.
As I watch anything audiovisual like movies, anime, series etc I consciously make a wish that the rating I saw is truly reflected or at the very least close to what I lay before my eyes, largely because I hate wasting my time on dismal quality shows.
When I began watching your name, myself like many others were entranced by the vibrant backgrounds, the fluid animation of even the most unimportant things like birds flying, water surfaces etc. But I've watched enough anime to know that breathtaking art and animation does not a masterpiece make in the anime medium. The first few minutes were really good but with Mitsuha and Taki coming to terms of the body swapping arrangement, and I thought that the film would build up on that to a fulfilling peak and maintain the tempo until it culminates in a crescendo of genius writing such that anyone who would have keenly followed the happenings minute by minute would have absolutely no doubt that what they watched was a masterpiece. Instead why we got was poor character development (at least we know a little about Mitsuha, but what about Taki,what makes Taki tick lol), poor plot delivery (what the hell is musubi? How could the characters not tell they were in different years despite going to school daily). All this was sacrificed for what felt like a forced love story living me with a lack of emotional connection with the characters and even less emotionally invested in their "fated love story". I understand that not everyone is this cynical while watching something meant for enjoyment and which is why I believe many loved the idea of it. Yes, it is my strong belief that many viewers who watched the film, wanted it to be something more and meaningful, but were hoodwinked by the animation, music placement and the unnecessary melodrama meant to Tug at viewers heartstrings, such that by the end of the film in spite of it being an incoherent unrelatable mess, all they could remember is boy and girl swap body, boy and girl start liking each other(for no reason) it stops suddenly because girl dies and it all becomes a giant tribulation to reunite across space and time in their love. Very easy to chew and swallow nonsense.
Anyway this is my first major review of any anime mainly to get the frustration out from my chest since I was extremely unsatisfied at the end of it all. Still I had no doubt that the film was worth a 7, but settled on a 6 as a fine for my time which I will never get back smh!

You know, the main problem about Makoto Shinkai is that he doesn't know how to tell a different story. Everything he writes is just the same. Your Name is nice, but Shinkai took like about ten failed attempts to finally make something passable. It's not essentially different from Voices of a Distant Star, The Garden of the Words or The Place Promised in Our Early Days.

If I didn't know about Shinkai and any of his work before and watched Your Name without any previous knowledge, it definitely would be a more enjoyable movie. Reminds me a lot fo La La Land, but with a pretty ... happier ending.

And I still don't know why this movie is such a phenomenon. Is not like anything that hasn't been made before. Ok, it’s a good movie, the first Shinkai work that is entertaining and not just plain boring, but I’ve seen a lot of Japanese anime movies that are a lot better, like Bakemono no Ko, Omoide no Marnie, Kaguya-Hime no Monogatari and Hotaru no Haka. Damn, even Redline is more refreshing, innovative and bold than Your Name.

Review made by a french speaker, I hope it's okay !

How do I have to watch something ? It's the most existential question that I could ask to myself, because, I will never find an answer.

Here, we can see this movie in three way : for it's beauty, for it's story/originality or for it's staging. If you watch juste for the beauty of the movie and the little existence of the plot line, well, this movie is fabulous ! If you watch for the staging, it's okay, near perfect. If you watch for some uniqueness, originality or story....well, better watch ... for the beauty of the sceneries...

Story :

Plote hole, stupidity, cliche, cliche and one panty shot somewhere in the forest. The idea is something déjà-vu, but is always interesting. By how the two protagonist try to live with each other, that was fantastic. But, the movie is in three part : 1. Slice of life comedy 2. Beginning of the story, interesting, but cliche use of ideas. 3. Well shit.

The beginning promises many interesting things like politics or religion/mythology criticism, but nothing got really detailed like every other work of Makoto Shinkai (I'm looking at you The Place Promised In Our Early Days). Urgh ! That trap that promises intersting things for nothing always got me ! Well, if you are okay with deja-vu story, again and again, I think it's possible to like it. One thing is sure, the staging is beautiful and some ideas have the merit to exist, nothing less, nothing more

Animation:

Eveyrthin is top notch, perfect, beautiful, in every sens of the word. Really, not many thing to say. If I could, I would say that there is not enough of onirism, what is shaping every work of Makoto (principally the snow and the metal). Here, everything is just beautiful, there is not really something unique, and that's pretty sad knowing the director.

Sound :

Nothing exceptionnal, nothing original, nothing bad, so well, it's okay. The voice acting is pretty good. One complaint is the four singing song in the entire movie that seems more like a big advertising for some album than a piece of the movie. It's wearisome. But everything else is really good.

Characters :

One thing that I hate in every movie of Makoto is how every character are the same. The protagonist are always clones of some cliche and the women are always stupid for some cuteness... Place Promised was just monstruous ! Here, the author tried to work with the two protagonist at the same time, and that was a pretty good idea. But, well, cliche still here. Why change when everybody love this ? It's simple and efficient. But, it's BAD !

Overall :

A good and bad movie. If you are searching for some entertainment, well it's near perfect and I understand the hype for it. If you are searching for some romance... well, it's okay, I guess ? Go watch 5 Centimeters insted (cliche too, but better feeling, more unique because of the winter). If you are searching for something not just good, but original, you will want to cry. This is hard to give a grade, because it's one of this popular thing that is neither bad, good or between the two. It's perfect for entertainment and fast romance emotion. But for some second tought, this movie is really bad. Nothing unique. I had a good time watching it and I liked it, but, oh well. It's sad, because, it's soooo beautiful !

Kimi no Na wa, or "Your Name", leaves me with only two words to describe my thoughts immediately after viewing: impressively unimpressive. It is a beautiful, beautiful product, a masterful combination of film-like cinematography and anime's best in coloring, shading, and rendering motion and vista. If you were to watch it mute, you'd still be left in awe of just how lovely the animation is--but that would be cruel as well, as the sound design and music serves perfectly to compliment every piece of motion, every pebble cast aside and twig snapped, the sliding door of wood in the town and metal of the trains ... of the city.

But animation does not save a product's story, the most important asset of any piece of media. Simply put, it's dull. There's no real substance to it. Some concepts are interesting (and others, not so much) but the execution lacks any real meat to it, instead leaving the movie feeling more like an inoffensive boardroom creation. The characters themselves are nothing. A small assembly of side characters makes up those who support the two main heroes, but they are devoid of any roundness. Attempting to describe any of the side characters in more than five traits is an impossible task. Now, do not mistake my words to mean that every character blasted onto a projector screen demands to have a fully realized arc--this is silly and not always true. However, if the side characters are merely going to be two dimensional support beams for the protagonists, they better be amazingly realized and fully fleshed out.

They are not.

Mitsuha, the female protagonist of the story, has an interesting premise to her at first. She feels trapped in a scenario in which she serves the temple while her father serves the government, leading her to desire fleeing this lifestyle and seek a new one in the city. Taki, the male protagonist, has absolutely nothing. He's just a guy. A dude. A stand-in. Funnier, Mitsuha's premise is soon dropped as the center of attention revolves around their trading places, but there's nothing REALLY done with it. It's all just sort of goofy and silly and then it's over. Her premise seems dropped even as she doesn't seem to have any more of an issue living where she does, so... was the beginning just a bad day for her or something? The issue becomes that their characters pretty much just become devotees to each other no more than forty minutes in, and the rest of the story is just that empty, senseless devotion. They're open ended enough so that anyone can juxtapose themselves onto the girl or boy, thinking "Oh, he's just like me... I would do that for my love..." A symptom of a movie trying as genuinely hard as it can to reach widespread appeal, I guess.

The other main issue is that the concept is quite interesting, but handled very poorly. The movie is based around the concept of not only switching bodies, but switching timelines, and there is magic there. However, it becomes bogged down not only with a boring romance (as discussed above) but the concept of losing memories, an enormously unnecessary plot motif that serves no other purpose than to... what, exactly? Confuse people? Make it seem more heart wretched? Give me a break. It's an annoying concept that does nothing for the movie whatsoever, and, in fact, little about the movie would change regardless of whether someone could remember a name. Let me go a step further: it is my firm belief that this ridiculous plot element exists only so that they could call the movie Your Name. That's it. That's the only reason. I would bet sums on this.

In conclusion, give me a movie that plays up the duality of time travel and body swapping along with more realized characters--and if you're going to crowbar in a romance, do so LATER in the movie when everyone has been more than fleshed out--but not this.

It's one of those animes that pulls at your heartstrings by ramping up its sentimentality because why the fuck not? This anime will have you believe that there is a person out there somewhere that you're destined to be with. If this movie made you cry then I'll just assume that you're one of those people who cry every time a commercial about a dog with a Sarah McLachlan song comes on. This thing is really trying to hone in that message of "if something is worth fighting for, go at it and never falter". I wouldn't travel hundreds of miles just to see a ... girl I barely know. Just because you happen to know something personal about her that nobody knows, that doesn't mean you know her better than everyone else. This is what twitch simps feel like when they've donated thousands of dollars to their favorite streamer, hoping they've made that personal connection through money. Get a fucking grip, you delusional moron.

It's a goddamn Shinkai movie, of course, it's gonna be pretty, atmospheric, and awe-aspiring. That's pretty much his staple.

The whole soundtrack itself evokes that feeling of longing and sentimentality. I believe RADWIMPS carried the fuck out of this movie. The way each score enhances every scene is astonishing. They could turn a scene with a pretty backdrop and a dull dialog into a charming moment. One of my least favorite parts of the score was the piano. The piano felt like a cue for people to start crying. It was utterly distracting.

If you really wanna know more about the characters, just read the lyrics of Avril Lavigne's sk8r boi.

Sorry Shinkai, it's going to take more than two high schoolers falling in love, to convince me that destiny is real. lol, what is up with this dude and his obsession with star-crossed lovers. He's recycled that concept at least 3 times now. I may not like this movie as much as everyone else, but I still appreciate his work. I'm also hoping that he would diverge from concepts where romance is its main element.

Characters are mediocre at best in an story that seems interesting but quickly becomes ANOTHER poor explained and simplistic TT story. It´s decent and enjojable, and the art and music elevates the whole package, but nothing more.

A big disapointment because people refers at it as one of the best animation movies ever, but it couldn´t shake my feelings at all and his developement wasn´t solid.

Yeah, it has a few good moments and the BSO adds some, but when you are talking about the most popular anime movie in years and you got those terrible characters that i didn´t care about, i can´t elevate the grade ... more than a C+.

Simple but with a good package.

Kimi no Nawa, is as most know one of the most praised anime movies, but, is it really that good? The plot is really simple at the start a boy and a girls swapping bodies for aparently no reason. A bit later the plot starts to mess with timelines.
I may had miss something but I never was conviced of what was happening, even if its fiction I expect the story to justify its own elements somehow and that never happened in this case. It just happened and thats it.
The art style and animation was really good altough not enough to consider this movie as a ... good one.

The story had so much potential and had me at the edge of my seat, and then just ripped me right out of the experience with a poorly placed song sequence that didn't fit the mood or flow of the scene. These songs made it feel like the movie was composed of short episodes with anime openings in between. This was my biggest issue with the movie. Other than that, the characters just felt like plot devices at times, having no consistency in the way they act and at times changing their entire personality at the drop of a hat. It felt like they were ... doing things because they had to do them in order to advance the story. There was no reasoning behind it, but you could tell what they would do because that was where the story was going.
Also, this one is a really small gripe but I hate the cliche of having a character act odd, then another character asks "Who ARE you?" as if nobody acts strange in real life. It's dumb and feels like an unnatural response every time I see it used.
Overall an enjoyable movie if you can look past everything I've said here, the animation is gorgeous and the story really is very good. For me the experience is just overshadowed by these small but numerous flaws. It really depends on what you value, personally I think the movie had potential which was ruined by the delivery.

[STORY: 4/10]
The story was kind of interesting and had surprising turns, but nothing mindblowing or very original. Some parts can be incredibly slow or boring, but overall you will have a cinematic experience through other means, as the story itself does not carry this movie.

[ART: 10/10]
The visuals are truly amazing. Everything from the animation to the detail of the world we're presented with, it really is a spectacle to behold. You may never see another animated movie that looks as good as this one unless you're watching a Ghibli film or another of Makoto Shinkai's works.

[SOUND: 7/10]
Sound effects and music are solid and the voice ... actors fit and do very well in their roles. Not much else to say here, it was just quality work.

[CHARACTER: 3/10]
This is where the movie really lacks. The only dynamic character I can think of is Mitsuha, as the others just feel undercooked or placed there to serve as fillers to make the world feel real and believable, even the other main character, Taki. If this department was more focused on, this movie would easily be much better.

[ENJOYMENT/OVERALL: 5/10]
While this movie has outstanding visuals and solid audio, the actual story and characters bring it down in the end. The characters and story aren't very original or creative, leaving me wondering why this movie is so praised. I"m guessing the visuals, but you could watch "Byousoku 5 Centimeter" or "Kotonoha no Niwa" by the same director and have a better experience that shares the same visual excellence this movie has. Even if this movie is extremely overrated, it is still an alright movie, and if you haven't seen many anime or even movies in general, you will likely enjoy this.

Well, as most of Makoto Shinkai's works, this anime had such potential. But, things got way too cheesy in some parts, though that was a very small issue. The character developments were good enough. The animation was fantastic. The only thing that bothered me is, the story is incomplete. They never told us how they connected with each other in the dreams, weather it was some genetic thing or something else, they just never told us. Well, it was romance, but it was of new kind, something we never saw before. So, I appreciate that part. But, as I mentioned before, they just cant leave ... the story incomplete. And people just ate it because it's "romance". Well, I get that.

So, quite a good movie. If you love "school romantic anime", it will be a worthwhile to watch it. But don't get too analytical and enjoy what it has to deliver.

Once again, it would had been a great anime if only it was "complete".

I hope you get some idea about it. Thank you for reading. Keep watching animuuuuuuu!!!!! :)

Your name is a film that thrives on simplicity, but it doesent go as far with it as i hoped.
its a film that does things that other, big budget movies LOVE to do.
trick your brain into thinking the movie appeals to you when it really appeals to everyone.
Just like Marvel films, and some other anime films, Your name does alot of things in an attempt to appeal to as broad an audience as possible. it never goes far into one genre, wallowing in sci-fi, comedy, romance, and slice of life specifically, and as a fan of all these genres it would appeal to me on ... paper, right?
exactly.
by having such a broad appeal, Your Name fails to inject any uniqueness into the film. and while Your Name is said to make people cry, my eyes were dry as bone. it is by no means a terrible movie, just like some marvel films and anime, it feels unfair to say it isnt good, it is good. but unlike some truly great peices of media, it doesent want to appeal to a specific audience, afraid of insulting other ones.
this is why it made so much money, because it uses a trick that i hate. make the film broad and samey in order to maximise profits. i liked the film, but i felt manipulated or shoved in a certain direction. I originally watched this film expecting the body swapping to remain the main plot point, but i got too much of too little. And thats why its a 6. its Art is amazing, and the studio probably neglected alot of animators to make it that good, the sound design is nice, but it lacks identity. i enjoyed the characters, but only because there wasnt a reason to hate them or love them, they didnt appeal to me or turn me off in the same way the plot does.
in my opinion, characters make the story, and plot is super important in any peice of media. and by having such a broad range of appeal, it ticked the popularity box, but its sadly shallow and unassuming. it avoids any risks and plays it safe. i dont regret watching it, but i wont be again

Yah, Nah, Meh

TLDR: Nah, overhyped and the story sucks, pretty pictures though

Story: Nah
This story is suppose to be a romance yet the two main characters don't actually spend time together. The story is full of plot holes and the plot twist along with the final act feels tacked on only to add unnecessary stakes and drama to the story that didn't need it

Art: Yah
The visuals are nice and its animated well

... Sound: Meh
Honestly the soundtrack is kinda forgettable but its not bad

Characters: Nah
They feel like cardboard and the romance between certain characters feels completely forced

Enjoyment: Nah
Watch it only for the pretty pictures and nothing more

Overall: Nah

I wasn't really satisfied with this story for many reasons:


The story wasn't well made. I mean, all the time they were switching (yes, the story is about that they switch their bodies every day when they wake up and forget the day before) and it was really hard to keep an eye on who is who and where. So half of the film I was confused and thinking about that, where are they and who is who.

Second. The characters are great, but I didn't fall in the story, it didn't make me convinced they are in love. All the time they are changing their bodies, ... but how did they fell in love with this?

Third. An ending is just... Nah. It is as you think from the first minute or the reading any review of this anime. I didn't like it, as it doesn't make any sense and it's quite boring and usual expectable ending.

6/10 I guess.