Once Shinkai was asked, who would he wanna be if he can choose. He answered: a high school girl, because high school girls have everything. But still, with that in mind, I still felt the huge commercial success of 'your name' is at the cost of some real emotions. (for example, a much less known anime called Wandering Son does much better job at portraying transgender issues and 5cm/s does a much better job at portraying distance.) 'your name' does a decent job portraying karma, but if you dive into literature and movie there's just tons of much better example (Cloud Altas, for example). So besides the novelty of body swapping and a decent explanation of karma, 'your name' is simply a relatively imaginative and very commercial animated love story. It does aligns with some of Jung's anima/animus theory, if you think bit more carefully so it's a pretty reasonable narrative, but there's nothing really superb about it.
