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6.0/10
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33%
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âTo be honest, I didnât intend to write this novel. It may be rude to the readers for me to say something like that, but I though Your Name worked best as an animated film.â - the afterword of Your Name novelization If you ever wanted read a speeded up version of a movie script with the best aspect of the movie removed entirely, this is your chance. Truly â Kimi no na Wa works best as the movie, as by far the best parts of the movie are the animation and visuals. So much that it can distract the viewer from the weaker storyline. But thisis a novel â not even a light novel, just a novel. There is no animation here. There arenât even any visuals as the novel is void of any illustrations. Itâs just the story alone. There is no extra story content here. On the contrary, the story proceeds faster, giving the already underdeveloped characters even less time to develop â the relationship between the two leads suffers the most and feels even less believe thanks to this. Iâs say thatâs pretty much all you need to know about this novel â it doesnât offer anything more than the movie does, just less. The story itself of course suffers from the same plot holes like the original, but pointing out that itâs absurd the characters didnât notice anything denoting the current date in the world or that the boy wouldnât remember whatâs pretty much the biggest catastrophe of modern Japanese history just few years after it happened and didnât notice the connection and so on, thatâs already been done many times in greater detail by other reviewers. Either youâre a fan of the movie and you donât mind these inconsistencies, or youâre not and in that case I wouldnât recommend picking this up at all in the first place. The only reason this is getting a positive reception is because of its association with the hit movie. If it would be judged on its own, itâs really just weak.
Frustrated with her mundane high school life in the town of Itomori, Mitsuha Miyamizu has longed to live as a boy in the Tokyo metropolis. One day, the fantasy she has always dreamed of comes trueâawakening in a boy's body and experiencing the thrills of the city. Meanwhile, high school student Taki Tachibana finds himself waking up as a girl living in a lakeside town by the mountains, the complete opposite of the Tokyo life that he is familiar with. As Mitsuha and Taki discover they are living the lives of one another in their dreams, the two begin working together to adjust to this new reality. Little do they know, their fragile relationship soon prompts the pair to search for each other in fierce defiance of the thin thread of fate that connects them. [Written by MAL Rewrite]
The interaction between the characters is somewhat interesting at times, but not enough to please. Shinkai, as always, wrote a cliché script for the film, and in the novel it is the same thing, during history it is possible to notice a significant amount of errors in the plot, but it is useful in general. The film is clearly the best way to consume this work, the excellent visuals and animation distract you from the decadent script. I recommend it if you really loved the movie and want to have something to remember it even more, but if you are going to read it just to have apleasant moment I don't recommend it. Note: it has exactly the same thing as the movie, you will not be losing or adding anything to your experience.
This novelization of the movie is meant for the fans who just can't get enough of the your name lore. It is almost the same as the movie. Note that I said almost, because depending on who you are you might find some little interesting details which you might have missed in the movie. Also there is not much more we can know about the characters with this book than what we already do. There is also a little bit more dialogue in the book than the movie. It is also written in a good way switching the narration back and forth between Taki and Mitsuha. Iwould recommend this book to anyone who wants to experience this story through a whole new medium.