Your Name Ending Explained (In Detail)
Your Name’s ending wraps up a beautiful and emotional story, but one that can also cause some headscratchers due to its time travel storyline. In Your Name, a 2016 production from CoMix Wave Films, audiences are introduced to Taki and Mitsuha, two high school students who seem to have a strong bond even though they do not know each other. However, the way the narrative progresses in Your Name is not exactly linear, which can make the story quite hard to follow.
Despite its complex time travel plot, Your Name managed to charm audiences with a heartwarming story about a connection between two people so strong that it could travel time and space. Your Name claimed $358 million at the box office, which currently places it third in the list of highest-grossing Japanese movies of all time, only behind Studio Ghibli’sSpirited Away (2001) and Demon Slayer the Movie: Mugen Train. Despite being a relatively new movie, Your Name is already regarded by many as one of the best anime movies of all time, along with all-time classics like Akira and Ghost in The Shell.
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Your Name's story spans from 2013 to 2021 – not to mention the first time the comet hit Earth thousands of years ago. While the film makes it clear from the start that Taki and Mitsuha are somehow switching bodies, how exactly that was happening is only revealed towards the end of the movie. More than the body-switching, the key to understanding the end of Your Name is to better comprehend its two timelines.
From Back to the Future to Avengers: Endgame, time travel can make any story tricky, and that is not different for Your Name. After realizing she had feelings for Taki, even though they hadn’t still met,
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