This Taki she meets is still 3 years before he experiences any body-switching with Mitsuha. Over the many switches, Mitsuha falls in love with Taki. I’ll get to the details of Taki’s timeline and the switching a little later. She assumes that she’s switching with Taki in the same timeline. But this is something that she doesn’t realize. So when she switches, she is in Tokyo and 3 years in the future. A very important, and the central crux of Kimi No Na Wa, is that Mitsuha is switching with Taki from 3 years in the future. When she is in his body in Tokyo, he is in her body in Itomori. While initially she thinks that they are mere dreams, she soon realizes that the switches are for real. Mitsuha’s Body SwitchingĪround this time of Mitsuha’s life, she magically starts to switch bodies with a boy named Taki Tachibana who lives in Tokyo. While this part is very metaphorical, the long-story-short is that the red thread that Mitsuha is shown wearing throughout Kimi No Na Wa, has the power to bind her to another – the other being Taki. She also explains how the thread also represents the very flow of time. No matter how life unfolds, the string brings the two together. A belief where an imaginary thread connects and binds two people. She explains how this is connected to the Red String of Fate. The grandmother teaches Mitsuha and Yotsuha the art of knitting yarn into a special kind of thread. However, they remember them as dreams and nothing more came out of it. What we need to understand here is that the Miyamizu family (the women) have a history of magically switching bodies with other people. At one point she even wishes to be born a Tokyo boy in her next life. Mitsuha is embarrassed when other school mates see her doing the ritual. This sake, once formed, is then offered at the shrine to the god. This is where they chew on rice and spit it out into a container and let that ferment to become alcohol. As a part of this, they make kuchikamizake. She and her sister are Shrine maidens and perform the ritual of the sacred Kagura dance. Mitsuha is burdened by her boring life and the boring town of Itomori. There is a light hint of a mutual liking between Teshi and Sayaka that is shown in Kimi No Na Wa and confirmed towards the end of the movie.
Mitsuha hangs out with her two friends Teshi and Sayaka. Years pass and he becomes the mayor of the town. He feels no connect towards the shrine and as a result, separates from the family. Their father, Toshiki, has ambitions that are in the direction of town administration. When Mitsuha and her sister are very young, their mother passes away. There is a family shrine that her mother’s side has taken care of for generations. Our female lead, Mitsuha, lives in this town with her sister (Yotsuha) and grandmother (Hitoha Miyamizu). This town is drawn so beautifully, you’d want to go there for a nice long holiday. The fictional town of Itomori is situated near this lake. This lead to the formation of a lake over the years. Here’s the plot of Your Name explained.Īround a thousand years ago, a meteorite strikes creating a huge crater. It helps to understand the plot of Kimi No Na Wa easier this way. I’m going to destroy the brilliant non-linear storytelling by laying out the plot in chronological order. Kimi No Na Wa Explained (Your Name Explained) Here’s the complete timeline diagram for the events in Your Name: While in English it’s not grammatically correct to ask “Your Name?”, this form in many Asian languages is perfectly fine. So “Kimi No Na Wa” is basically a question which means “What Is Your Name?” or a short representation of the question being “Your Name?”. “Kimi No” translates to “Your” and it is informal. Native Japanese speakers, please correct me if I’m wrong. Now, I don’t know Japanese but I could find out a few things from a couple of friends.
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