By far one of my favorite animations of all time is Kimi no Na Wa (also known as ‘Your Name‘ in English) written by Makoto Shinkai and produced by the company CoMix Wave Film, which is a Japanese animation film studio and distribution company based in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan.
Kimi no Na Wa is about two high school students, Mitsuha Miyamizu and Taki Tachibana, witnessing a century old comet, but what they don’t know is that from that point on their lives will change forever. Mitsuha lives in a small mountain town, Itomori, in Japan with her grandmother and sister in a Shinto religious temple, her father is the mayor of the town but isn’t close to him due to tragic family history. Mitsuha dreams of leaving this small boring town and living life in the busy city of Tokyo, where no one knows her or her family history and she can be free to do whatever she pleases. Taki lives a completely different life of Mitsuha who lives in Tokyo, has a waiter job at an Italian restaurant, and dreams of becoming an architect or artist. Every night both Taki and Mitsuha have a dream of living a completely different life to which they currently live in, what’s even better is that they are living in each other’s life. But suddenly, when witnessing the comet, the dreams stop and they try to figure out why..
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