![]() 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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