One Fact and Spoilers page for Your Name — the hub tab, not a repeating news dump. Built like the Tensura facts model: what the movie quietly assumes, what spoilers actually change, and where to click next.
What the film rarely explains up front
Your Name. (君の名は。) is a 2016 CoMix Wave / Makoto Shinkai feature (~106 minutes). Legal watch options vary by region (Crunchyroll / digital / disc). Itomori is fictional; landscapes borrow real Japan without being a documentary tour.
- Leads: Mitsuha Miyamizu · Taki Tachibana
- Music: RADWIMPS (the songs are plot-adjacent, not wallpaper)
- Studio: CoMix Wave Films
Body-swap logic (why notes matter)
Swaps aren’t a power fantasy skill tree. They’re intermittent, gendered-comedy-friendly, and dependent on the pair leaving each other instructions. Friends and coworkers — Okudera, Sayaka, Tsukasa, Takagi — become truth serum: they notice when the “wrong” personality is driving.
Miyamizu shrine language around musubi (connection / threads) and ritual practice is the film’s thematic OS. Grandmother Hitoha is the living manual; sister Yotsuha keeps the household human.
Spoiler zone — comet, town, time
Stop here for a clean first watch.
A comet fragment destroys Itomori in Mitsuha’s timeline; Taki’s “present” sits years later. The body swaps bridge that gap — which reframes every early comedy scene as accidental time contact. Mayor father Toshiki and classmates Teshi / Sayaka matter because evacuation isn’t a solo romantic gesture; it’s a town plan. Mother Futaba appears in backstory; teacher cameo Yukari Yukino nods at Shinkai’s wider film web without requiring homework.
Manga / novel context (light)
The film is the main text most viewers mean. Tie-in print exists; don’t let that distract from the theatrical cut’s pacing. If a detail isn’t on screen, we don’t invent it here.
Watch order tip
Watch Your Name alone first. Weathering With You and other Shinkai titles can wait — shared cameos are dessert, not prerequisites. Then use Characters for cast click-throughs and the film review / overall review for the worth-watching verdict.
Full cast (click to read)
- Mitsuha Miyamizu — lead
- Taki Tachibana — lead
- Miki Okudera — supporting
- Sayaka Natori — supporting
- Katsuhiko Teshigawara — supporting
- Tsukasa Fujii — supporting
- Shinta Takagi — supporting
- Yotsuha Miyamizu — supporting
- Hitoha Miyamizu — supporting
- Toshiki Miyamizu — supporting
- Yukari Yukino — supporting
- Futaba Miyamizu — supporting
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Your_Name · https://anilist.co/anime/21519/Kimi-no-Na-wa/ · https://myanimelist.net/anime/32281/Kimi_no_Na_wa