Kimi no na wa / "Your name" - anime review
Genre drama, fantasy
Directed by Makoto Sinkai
The roles were voiced by Mitsuha Miamizu (Mona Kamisiraishi), Taki Tachibana (Ryunoske Kamiki), Miki Okudera (Masami Nagasawa), Yotsuh Miamidzu (Canon Tani), and others.
CoMix Wave Films Studios
Year of production 2016
IMDb site
"Your name" is an amazingly bright, very kind and romantic anime created by Makoto Sinkai, who is called the new Hayao Miyazaki. And this is the most commercially successful anime in history.
Her name is Mitsuh Miamiuzu, she lives in a small town a couple of hours drive from Tokyo, goes to school, helps her grandmother and dreams of going to a big city. His name is Taki Tachibana, he is a high school student, is interested in architecture, draws well and dreams of fleeing the city somewhere to the province. One day the characters ... change their bodies.
Yes, "Your name" begins as a banal comedy about the exchange of bodies. With all its attributes, frivolous jokes about the difference of sexes; funny moments in which the characters fall through the fault of each other; Confusion caused by interference in your life of another person, etc. But only "Your name" is not really a romantic comedy, although it is a very romantic film.
Naturally, at some point, characters who exchange notes and sketches on pages of notebooks, as well as messages on other people's phones, decide to meet in reality. Here it turns out that Mizuhu and Taki share not only a couple of hundred kilometers of the railway, but more serious, almost insurmountable obstacles.
Makoto Sinkai has always been a master of the picture, paying great attention to detail, and "Your name" is no exception to this rule. The film is simply amazingly beautifully drawn, it literally can be dragged to screenshots for wallpaper, especially it concerns sketches of nature. However, the detailed interiors of the rooms of Mitsuhi and Taki are also good.
And in this anime there are no negative characters at all. No one. Even the father of Mitsuhi, the mayor of the city in which she lives, who does not pay enough attention to her daughter and does not want to listen to her, is more likely just an allegory of an adult who does not trust a teenager than a negative character. Both Mitsukha, and Taki, and their relatives, friends and girlfriends, are all positive. Just an amazingly positive company, it would seem, where to find conflict here?
Nevertheless, despite such a benevolent environment, there are enough moments in "Your name" when even adult men find it difficult to restrain emotions, unless they are very insensitive robots. Keep this in mind before viewing. Naturally, such a film is worth seeing exclusively in the company of a person who is not indifferent to you. And it's better on the big screen, the picture is worth it.
"Your name" tells a very simple, but very moving story of a young man and a girl who are created for each other, but can not be together. What starts as a comedy ends like a drama. However, miracles happen, even in anime.
PLUSES: A touching story; cute characters; style and quality of drawing MINUSES: No CONCLUSION: One of the brightest, kind and romantic stories told in the anime
