Your Name is a visual masterpiece with a compelling story

Story

Your Name tells the story of a teenage boy named Taki who lives in Tokyo who inexplicably switches bodies with Mitsuha, a teenage girl who lives in Itomori, a town in the Japanese countryside.

You are familiar with this story archetype, two people from different worlds who are connected by…something. You’ve seen movies and tv shows with that premise, however not like this.

There is so much more to this story than what the synopsis tells us and I didn’t know that going in. And for that, I am grateful because there was so much to experience in this movie.

Unlike most animes I watch, I watched this dubbed in English and before you throw tomatoes at me, this was the only version I could find online (it wasn’t on Netflix so I had to get creative) and because of that, I didn’t experience it the way it was originally intended. That being said, the English voice actors still did an amazing job at conveying the emotions of the characters. Given the nature of the story and the fact that the characters switch places

Michael Sinterniklaas who plays Taki and Stephanie Sheh who plays Mitsuha have an interesting task.

Michael Sinterniklaas has to play a teenage boy who as well as a teenage girl inside the body of a teenage…