Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. In the anime film Your Name, Taki and Mitsuha swap bodies resulting in some comedic fun along the way but the reasons behind this ...

"Your Name" opens up and introduces its two protagonists: Taki, a high school student living in Tokyo, and Mitsuha, a high school student living in the small town of Itomori in Japan's Hida region.

There is a new anime box office champ. It’s Your Name, one of the best animated films ... and goes to incredible emotional places. School boy Taki lives in Tokyo, while Mitsuha lives in rural ...

Makoto Shinkai’s Your Name has been such a big hit for anime film fans in both 2016 and ... The scribbling on the face seen here mirrors how Taki and Mitsuha communicated with one another ...

A surprise anime hit in its native Japan, and subsequently across Asia, Your Name. had taken in more than ... The story concerns two teenagers, Taki and Mitsuha, who live a few hours by train ...

a love story in novelist-turned-anime director Makoto Shinkai’s “Your Name.” Mitsuha is a high school girl in a a remote village in the mountains. Taki is a high school boy in fast-moving ...

Early in “Your Name,” the anime blockbuster that’s conquered ... Soon afterward, Mitsuha begins switching bodies with Taki, a teen-age boy at a Tokyo high school. Such a film seems like ...

Your Name begins as a straightforward body-swap story between two strangers: a high school girl named Mitsuha, and a teen boy named Taki. For U.S. viewers, it may call back to the heyday of mode ...

In the charming and soulful Japanese anime Your Name, two teenagers who have never ... small-town girl of Miyazaki-type vintage, and Taki, a Tokyo high school boy, have also swapped the country ...

Between Makoto Shinkai's anime movies Your Name or Weather ... For example, Yukino from Garden of Words appears in Your Name, while Taki and Mitsuha later appear in Weathering with You.