Your Name.
Kimi no Na wa.
What is Your Name.?
Your Name. is a feature film rather than a series, which makes it one of the easier entry points into modern anime for someone who does not want to commit to a season. Mitsuha, a girl in a rural town, and Taki, a boy in Tokyo, begin waking up in each other's bodies without warning or explanation, and the comedy of two strangers managing each other's lives gradually gives way to something far less comfortable.
The film released in 2016 and is complete, so there is nothing to wait for and no viewing order to work out. It runs as a single sitting.
What lifts it above the premise is how carefully the second half reframes the first: details that read as jokes early on turn out to be doing structural work. It pairs a romance with a disaster narrative, and the animation of landscape and light does a great deal of the emotional lifting. Release details and the platforms currently streaming it are listed below.
Mitsuha Miyamizu, a high school girl, yearns to live the life of a boy in the bustling city of Tokyo—a dream that stands in stark contrast to her present life in the countryside. Meanwhile in the city, Taki Tachibana lives a busy life as a high school student while juggling his part-time job and hopes for a future in architecture. One day, Mitsuha awakens in a room that is not her own and suddenly finds herself living the dream life in Tokyo—but in Taki's body! Elsewhere, Taki finds himself living Mitsuha's life in the humble countryside. In pursuit of an answer to this strange phenomenon, they begin to search for one another. Kimi no Na wa. revolves around Mitsuha and Taki's actions, which begin to have a dramatic impact on each other's lives, weaving them into a fabric held together by fate and circumstance. (Source: MAL Rewrite)
Episode Schedule
Frequently Asked Questions
- What is the latest episode of Your Name.?
- The most recent episode is Episode 1, which aired on August 25, 2016.
- When did Your Name. come out?
- Your Name. premiered on August 26, 2016.
- Is Your Name. finished?
- Your Name. has finished airing and every episode has been released.