]The story begins as you'd expect, with typical awkward body swap shenanigans. Every once in a while the two protagonists will wake up in each other's bodies.
However, the two of them only remember their bodyswaps as very faint dreams, so they initially assume they're just forgetting what they did the other day instead. Only after they begin writing messages to each other during the bodyswaps do they start remembering their experiences in each other's bodies more clearly and begin communicating by writing journals.
The girl finds out he has a crush on his senpai at work, and begins making romantic advances on his senpai for him, eventually setting up a date. However, the date goes south because the senpai was in love with his other personality (the girl), who she found much more entrancing. Dejected about his disastrous date, he decides to try calling the girl for the first time, but finds that his call won't go through. He soon also discovers that the bodyswaps have stopped completely.
Eventually he decides to meet the girl in person for the first time, and calls in absent at both work and school to go on a journey to the countryside to attempt to find the town she lives in, with only sketches of the landmarks he remembers to go off of. His senpai and best friend stalk him to the station and insist on coming along because they were worried about him. Eventually, after a long journey, he finds one man who recognizes the landscape he had sketched. However, a shocking truth awaits him.
The town was destroyed three years ago in a meteorological disaster. As soon as he realizes this, he finds that the journals the girl wrote in his phone are quickly disappearing from existence, as are his own memories of her and his experiences in her body as well. As the amnesia sweeps over him, he becomes extremely distraught that he can't remember something that he feels should've been extremely precious to him: that girl's name.
What a tweest. Bravo Shinkai.
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That's quite literally the same premise of some random keitai-like manga people used to post some months ago.
>another bad end
>this time it's a mindfuck as well
Fuck you Shinkai.
When will this cancer end?
Is this literally fucking Keit-Ai
>That's quite literally the same premise of some random keitai-like manga people used to post some months ago.
Which one?
Source? This sounds too much like an elaborate Keit-Ai troll for me to buy it.
This guy usually makes great stuff
As he stares at the mysterious braided cord on his wrist, his memories flood back to him. The braided cord was given to him three years ago by the girl, but because he hadn't started body swapping with her yet, he had no idea who she was. He realizes that the body swaps happened over an expanse of three years, and his experiences in the girl's body happened three years ago. He recalls one of his last memories in the girl's body, when he visited the shrine of the local god with her grandmother and little sister, located at the center of a crater created over a thousand years ago. The grandmother told the 2 of them that the sake they were offering up as a sacrifice were half of their souls, required for them to enter the underworld. The boy quickly travels to the crater and finds that not only is the shrine still there, but so is the sake he had placed there while in the girl's body. Remarking that this sake contained part of the girl's soul, he pours some and drinks it in preparation to enter the underworld. However, he suddenly slips soon after and strikes his head.
He then wakes up once more in the girl's body and realizes it's on the last day of her life. He quickly begins to plea with the townspeople, including the girl's father, the mayor, to escape the area to avoid the ensuing disaster, but they just thinks he's speaking nonsense. Faced with no other choice, he stages a plan with the only two people who believe him, the girl's best friends. They plan on staging a terrorist attack on the power plant and broadcasting a fake emergency evacuation announcement to save everyone from the comet. The boy, however, suddenly gets a strange feeling and makes his way to the crater where the shrine was. Three years in the future, the girl wakes up in the boy's body to the sight of her destroyed town. The two suddenly hear each other's voices but are unable to see each other, until the sun passes the horizon and twilight falls on the crater.
The twilight creates a miracle and let's them meet each other in the crater for the first time. He tells her of the plan he had hatched in her body and tells her that she must save her town and live. He returns the corded braid she gave to him three years ago. They then write their names on each other's palms so they do not forget a second time, but before the girl can write her name, the twilight ends and the boy is left alone in the crater in his own body.
The girl, back in her own body, successfully carries out the plan with her friends. However, before the townspeople can evacuate fully, her father catches on to their actions and stops their broadcast, telling the townspeople to stay where they are. The girl then runs to the town hall, intent on doing what the boy was unable to and convince her father to issue a genuine evacuation order. She becomes distraught when she starts forgetting the boy's name, however, and slips on a hill, falling to the ground. She then glimpses what the boy wrote on her hand. "I love you." Laughing how she really won't be able to remember his name now, she rises again and runs to town hall with renewed vigor to face her father.
Three years in the future, the boy awakes, having completely forgotten why he had journeyed to that crater in the first place. He goes through the next five years of his life with a nagging feeling in his chest, constantly searching for something he has forgotten.
During his daily commutes, he begins to catch glimpses of a girl with a corded braid in her hair, but barely misses meeting her each time. He also recalls how the crater he had visited once was located near a town destroyed by a comet. However, the townspeople had evacuated successfully due to a "miraculous coincidence".
Eventually they finally reunite on a staircase, unable to remember anything about each other but having a painfully nostalgic feeling in their chest. They then ask each other a question.
"Your name?"
OP could have gone to Anime Expo or have heard from someone who did since the movie was shown there.
>"Your name?"
BRAVO
Is this the closest we'll ever get to an actual Keit-ai anime? Anything closer to the original pasta would just feel like a rip-off of this movie from now on.
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There are plenty of anime that are just as cringey, nonsensical and all around juvenile as the keit-ai pasta.
But I think this might beat the lot of them. I think this might even top the keit-ai pasta as the most ridiculous plot ever.
I lost it at the part where the town was destroyed by a "meteorological disaster".
Fucking really? Are we supposed to take this seriously?
And how much amnesia can you fit into one plot?
Fuck off. I'm physically laughing at the whole premise.
Thank you to whoever made this. You've made something worse than keit-ai ever could have been and it's hilarious.
OP copypasted this from an earlier Shinkai thread
I saw this at AX this year. It was actually pretty damn good.
Really? Because it sounds like a damn trainwreck.
Is this just an elaborate ruse?
I can't wait for the full soundtrack.
YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS SHIT UP.
Should I read or just wait for it to come out.
I cant decide
The first part was okay, but then it just got stupid.
>youtube.com
>mfw they had this trailer on loop the entire time before the movie premiered
>only subtitles are japanese
Why.
user you're an autist
This is confusing as hell and makes no sense at all.
It's basically the plot to the Lake House.
Saw this at AX, makes much more sense in concept.
The sudden amnesia makes no sense and you know it.
Literally Keitai ai
If you relate the concept of body swapping to dreaming it makes sense.
Forgetting a dream doesn't suddenly make your iPhone wipe your entire dream diary.
tl;dr:
>Boy and girl are bodyswapping
>Once the boy figures out what's going on, he goes to try and find the girl
>Finds out her town was hit by a meteor three years ago and she's dead
>At some point prior to the body swapping, the boy and the girl met and she gave him a bracelet, which is implied to be what's making them bodyswap
>Time travel hax ensue, the boy swaps into the girls body the day of the meteor hit her town, and he tries to evacuate it but fails
>They "meet" at the site of the destroyed town in a dream, the boy tells the girl about what's going to happen and that she has to save herself
>The girl wakes up in her own body the day of the meteor strike. She successfully pulls off the plan but the pair forget one another and stop bodyswapping after that.
>The town however is saved, closing the time loop.
>Years later, they meet up and feel like they know one another, and ask each other's names.
>At some point prior to the body swapping, the boy and the girl met and she gave him a bracelet, which is implied to be what's making them bodyswap
It's not, it's a spiritual ability passed down in her shrine maiden family, her mom and granny had the same thing happen to them.
How good was the ED song? I fucking love ED of 5 CM and Garden of Words.
How is the OST? I'm guessing usual saft piano keys?
What is the runtime?
there were multiple insert songs throughout the movie, all of them really good imo. Radwimps did a good job with them
Radwimps did the ED. And the OST was a lot more upbeat than your usual Shinkai fare.
It's also pretty damn long. Regular movie length rather than "short film" length.
>"Your name?"
I can't. I just can't.
Makoto Shayalayamalamalayan finds a way.
I really liked this movie out of all his works.
The rest of his movies are too boring for me as the interactions are usually very bland. The scenarios this time around are very good. The characters are likable. The motions are all better thanks to a talented AD.
His wild color palettes are kept in check. I would say that this is his best film yet. In terms of overall movie experience, it's nothing too ground breaking. Definitely an 8/10. Worth the hype? Yes I would say because of a particular scene that you know he's gonna dickslap us with.
Definitely would recommend this movie. Everyone gave him a standing ovation which is actually deserving in my opinion.
Oh and to add, I kinda sensed some Hosoda inspiration.
>Hosoda
Picked up.
There were furries in the movie?
No not that. Rather I felt a kind of Summer Wars vibe to it. Though nothing related to the rural settings.
Saw this at AX as well, it was really fucking good.
A lot of the critique that I've been reading the last few days (from people that haven't seen the movie) is towards the whole amnesia thing. What these people are missing is that the movie uses the metaphor of the braided cord to explain people's lives, saying how they "come together, tangle, unravel, and meet again." The two protagonists are separated by space and time, two separate cords that were never supposed to meet but somehow tangle, unravel, and meet again. Their timelines run parallel to each other for a time and interact, but when the female character dies, the male character loses his memories of her. Think of it as two cords running next to each other; when one of them runs short, the other cord doesn't suddenly stop. It runs on, undeterred by the other cord's lack of existence.
So does it require a bit of mental flexing to decide why it "makes sense"? Sure. But thematically, in a movie that leans so much on the braided cord metaphor (her family of shrine maidens makes braided cords, she gives him a braided cord as something to remember her by, a dream sequence where they're connected by a literal red cord of fate), it's easy to see why it was written into the story.
So this one will show up in NA theaters. What are the odds the Koe no Katachi will get the same fate?
Yamada has a tough competition right now.
Wait for the movie. Nothing you read now will make sense or will be probably lacking detail.
You sure you're not in the wrong thread familia?
I know. I'm drunk.
The usage of tracks here are far better than what Shinkai did to his other movies. Really fitting each of the scenes.
Kimi ni Shika Kikoenai
> keit-ai pasta + sci-fi bullshit + end with MCs using title as cheap attempt to be clever
Doesn't need to make sense. Shinkai really has become the Japanese Shyamalan. Only reason to watch his stuff is for the background porn.
>Kimi ni Shika Kikoenai
Why someone always gotta die?
>end with MCs using title as cheap attempt to be clever
Why are people so upset by this? Them shouting "KIMI NO NA WA?!" was literally in the fucking trailers from months ago. It was coming from a mile away and then some.
>movie involves cell phones in some minor way
>IT'S TOTALLY KEITAI GAIS!!!!!!
Sure whatever floats your boat then.
You can say whatever the hell you want without even watching it yet.
Just read it.
Of course it was, that's the problem. He started from there and vomited out the rest of the story just to accommodate it.
Hosoda ripoff using keit-ai pasta but with retarded sci-fi elements thrown in to pad story and get to predictable ending.
Take out the stupid meteor aspect and the film would be a lot better.
Radwimps fanatic here, was there a range of genres in the insert music? The last thing I want is for them to be remembered for one style.
Apparently Shinkai had Noda (Radwimps' main vocalist and lyricist) involved in the screenplay writing. From Radwimps blog
>週に2回、3回と監督が洋次郎の家を訪ね、脚本について、主人公の園田宏について語りあい、お互いの理解を深めていった。
I guess it was because Shinkai became a fan of them 8 years ago in London to the point of making a blog about it.
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Seems to be special tailored ie music made specific for each scene. Probably why there's 20 songs composed by Radwimps for this film alone.
>もう1年以上に渡り、制作は続いている。
基軸となっているのは、絵コンテを動画にしたビデオコンテ。
鉛筆で描かれた絵に、うっすらと色が塗られている。
そこに、監督がセリフを吹き込んでいる。
RADWIMPSのメンバーはそれをスタジオで観ながら、音楽をつけていく。
セリフが終わって、すぐピアノが入った方がいい。
ここの画面が切り替わるタイミングで、楽器も一緒に入る。などなど、丁寧に作りあげていく。
それに対して監督が、あるシーンでは、登場人物の心情をセリフにしようと思っていたが、ピアノが心情を表現しているから、セリフをなしにしたり、変更した。と言ってきたり。
この映画はミュージカルではないが、ミュージカルのように、映画と音楽が密接に深い部分で結びついている。
監督が、このようなことを言っていた。
The insert music was pretty damn diverse, yeah. The music was important enough for Makoto Shinkai to talk about it for an extended amount of time after the showing, about how he was a big fan of Radwimps and how he secured the deal with them, etc.
It's been a while since I've seen an opening sequence for an anime movie.
The sakuga was stronk (as expected of a Shinkai movie), and the Radwimps song gave it even more life.
Did anyone cringe when that first guy told Shinkai that his movies saved him from being suicidal?
my group and I just straight up left as soon as the crowd q&a started. we have no time for that level of autism
>Did anyone cringe when that first guy told Shinkai that his movies saved him from being suicidal?
I was willing to overlook it as long as he ended on a good question but when he concluded with "you're my hero" and didn't ACTUALLY ASK A FUCKING QUESTION IN A Q&A SESSION WITH ONLY ENOUGH TIME FOR LESS THEN HALF A DOZEN QUESTIONS I WANTED TO FUCKING STRANGLE HIM.
>Did anyone cringe when that first guy told Shinkai that his movies saved him from being suicidal?
What else would you expect from a Shinkaifag?
Dem my boys doing good, so glad they got into a passion project like this for their first anime gig.
Can't wait for August 24 (album release).
Now I wonder how long till they break into TV anime stuff.
Was the OP Zen Zen Zense? Sad that it wasn't their composition though it didn't sound that detached from Radwimps themselves
The way every person prefaced their question with a straight minute of asskissing was terrible.
Yea, it was.
Any word on when it's supposed to hit US theaters? I know Funimation said in their press release that it would get a limited release out here.
I timed the film during the AX premiere. It was about 1 hour 40 minutes long
Any info on the DVD/BluRay release?
It hasn't even premiered in Japan yet.
Probably in 7 months though.
According to Radwimps blog, release of the movie in Japan will be August 26
>August 26
>spoilers will be floating around on the web for almost 2 months
>tfw being spoiled by waitto piggu baka gaijin
Nips must be furious.
Ah yeah. He did talk about approaching Radwimps for composing specific tracks for specific scenes.
A shame though the Q&A panel was quite short.
>A shame though the Q&A panel was quite short.
And was wasted by retarded faggots.
>that first one spilling his spaghetti
That was such a waste of time. It took more or less 5 minutes before he said his question properly.
>Mitsuha manages to bag Taki's senpai in his body by acting like a total fucking fruit
Did senpai just have really weird tastes in guys?
topnep
You joke but this movie was basically keit-ai
I almost wish someone had asked him at the end if he'd been influenced by it
Why do people keep saying it's Keit-ai when Shinkai obviously ripped off this film instead?
>time travel
>three years apart
>one of them dies
>somehow the one who dies is saved by a warning
Jesus Christ, Sup Forums.
How does Shinkai's wife tolerate that her husband mourn his long-lost childhood love in his every fucking work?
Because she is the long-lost childhood love (or so he tells her).
>How does Shinkai's wife tolerate that her husband mourn his long-lost childhood love in his every fucking work?
You do realize that this has a happy ending right? They meet each other at the end.
The girl is probably married by then.
You keep on posting this and keep on getting ignored. Time you realize nobody agrees and fuck off already.
>ignored
Except it's true. Shinkai plagiarized a movie that was a remake of a Korean movie. I see no arguments from you refuting that.
>post say it's literally Keit-ai
>post say it's legitimately good
Is it possible that both are true?
And Umineko ripped off a Danish movie. Literally no one cares, and this happens way more often than you think. Fuck off.
>yo dude you were acting weird as fuck yesterday
>I was? Come to think of it I don't remember what I did yesterday
How the fuck is this not a huge red flag for both MCs? If people told me I was acting like a weirdo yesterday and I couldn't remember ANY of it the only assumptions I could make would be that I was somehow blackout drunk the entire day or I have literal brain problems.
And yet they both kind of just ignore the problem (it happens more than once) until they stumble on the fact that they're bodyswapping.
>The girl is probably married by then.
They're still in high school. Nice try trying to bait people with false NTR claims shitposter kun
Nice, I really wanted a Kokoro Connect sequel
This doesn't refute user's point at all. If anything, it strengthens it.
Shinkai is fucking junk
>implying the keit-ai meme wasn't a 5 year viral marketing campaign to make gaijin interested in shinkai's new project
Nice job not watching the movie or even reading the summary. The epilogue takes place after the male MC graduates college. The female MC is already around 25 by then.
It's pretty much all but confirmed that both of them didn't date anyone because they forgot something.
When they see each other they drop everything they have on train and run towards each other. It's pretty much confirmed that they end up married, shitposter kun
How long was this? I don't want another 40~ minutes long rushed shit.