Your Name [DVD]

Brilliant. Simply brilliant. Wasn't expecting to like this as much as the other animes by this director as wasn't sure about the storyline from what I'd heard, but it was fantastic. Lots of subtlety, humour, depth and layers of meaning. Superb animation. Want to give it many more stars than 5.

What a lovely story and the Anime was perfect. It was great for me as it was English voiced and had subtitles. Well worth watching.

Brilliant film, saw last year when it was in selected cinemas in the uk Love it Pre-ordered ages ago and received 2 days before official amazon release It’s an anime so before watching I recommend checking out the set up options, there’s 3: -English with English songs -English with Japanese songs -Japanese with English subtitles If you’re into subs, then watch the subtitled version If you’re like me and only like English, it recommend the one with Japanese songs as even though you (and I) won’t understand the lyrics, the Japanese song lyrics are just simply more beautiful and fit better Wish I knew this before playing the DVD All in all it’s a real heartwarming film and story about 2 people who’ve never met that (in the context of the film) start randomly body swapping that leads them to create better friendships with their friends and they will stop at nothing, even with impossible odds stacked against them to find each other! Again it’s a beautiful and lovely story that just melts your heart and I would recommend to anyone

I bought this based on the other reviews, and don't think I can add anything useful about the details of the film. It is quite a complex storyline and it works best if you have some surprises - but I can confirm that this is a brilliant film. I watched it with my wife, who was prepared to be unimpressed by my love of Japanese animation, but we both ended up being swept into the story and enjoying it immensely. The animation is quite as usual in anime films, with beautiful landscapes and great personality but perhaps less good animation of the characters; this is not in any way a problem though. In my view, this is not in the class of films like 'Spirited Away', but at the top of the second league of anime films - highly entertaining, well worth a second viewing, and just delightful in every way.

This film came highly recommended by my wife and daughter who are Japanese. They were happy to watch it again, which is unusual, as they don’t normally like to watch films twice. We watched it with the Japanese sound track and English subtitles. (I understand Japanese pretty well.) The main and support characters are all well done. The two MCs are attractive and believable as high school students. The animation quality is excellent. Of particular note, the way they act girlish or boyish in contrast to their body’s physical gender, when their minds are swapped into each other’s bodies. The scenery and general animation is also very good and there are some superb lighting effects. This is somewhat let down by a few very obvious digital animation scenes. I’ve got nothing against digital animation but, if it isn’t well filtered, it has a visual quality which is completely different to traditional cel animation. The contrast in this film was quite jarring. My worse complaint is the way the plot flies off into a badly explained time-jumping, parallel universe kind of situation after the comet hits the rural town where the girl MC lives. There’s some sort of plot in which the boy MC forgets about her, lives on for another three years, then goes back and resets the original disaster by some kind of dream quest. He then forgets about her again. The girl and her friends and family are saved, but it takes longer still until she turns up in Tokyo and finally the two MCs get together in the ending we all hoped for from the start. Maybe it’s me, but I just couldn’t figure out how all this worked in terms of timelines and so on, and it seemed like it hadn’t been thought through. That said, it’s still a really good animation and I certainly didn’t regret the time viewing it, and I will view it again to see if it makes more sense a second time.

I've added six photos of the collectors edition steelbook so you can see exactly what you get. I happened upon this film on Amazon's Prime streaming service (where it's currently free to view if you're a Prime member) while searching for "Spirited Away" so I had to watch it. "Your Name." is my very first Japanese anime movie and I am far from disappointed. Infact, I am beyond happy and I have just watched it for a second time but this time on Blu-ray. I've chosen not to drone on about the film and what it's about as many people have commented on that already. Personally, I recommend that you watch the trailer on YouTube. Instead, I have commented on the audio and visuals. For clear information about the extras please see the photos I have shared. Graphics and visuals: The graphics are breathtakingly detailed and some scenes look dreamily hazy with a dazzling array of colours. Shadow and light have been well used as well. I'm pleasantly surprised with how well timed the characters spoken animations are too. English voice actors: Full of emotion, personality and well timed with the graphics as well. Information on the Prime streaming version: It is dubbed in English with optional subtitles but the music by Radwimps is in Japanese. From time-to-time some basic English subtitles will pop up on the screen when there is Japanese text on the screen. For example; there is a scene where Mitsuha (the girl on the cover art) and her two friends are walking pass some buildings. They are two pubs and above them it says what each pub is called. Information on the Blu-ray version: It is dubbed in English but you can select to hear it in Japanese with English subtitles as well. The Radwimps music is in English. From time-to-time some basic English subtitles will pop up on the screen when there is Japanese text on the screen. For example; there is a scene where Mitsuha and her two friends are walking pass some buildings. They are two pubs and above them it says what each pub is called. Information on the DVD version: I haven't watched the dvd version yet so I cannot comment fairly. I will update this section when I have though. Information on the CD soundtrack: I popped the disc into my laptop this morning but unfortunately my CD drive has stopped working (no discs work) so I cannot comment on it yet. I will update when I'm able to listen. I highly recommend this movie and the collector's edition steelbook to any avid Japanese anime fan and newcomers as well.

While many others will leave a comment based on the movie, I choose to leave a review based on the actual Bluray. I chose to buy the collectors edition as I loved the movie and I was not disappointed in the slightest. For the price you pay, you get a collectors steelbook case, the movie on DVD + Bluray and RADWIMPS Japanese album. Having listened to the CD, I can say that it moved me listening to it. The music from the movie was beatuiful anyway. Tracks that stand out would be "Zenzenzense", "Sparkle" and "Nandemonaiya" (The last track on the album) The Bluray disc was good based on the quality of the movie. You have the movie in 1080p, and audio options are English 5.1 and Japanese 5.1 (both with English subtitle options) I didn't check the DVD yet as I am more of a quality nut and chose to watch the movie in the best possible resolution. In my honest opinion, the extras were a little lacking. You have a Japanese promo clip, English trailer, a sort of documentary with interviews from the cast and director and Madman (production company) trailers. In closing, I do recommend you buy if you would like this in your collection. However, if you do choose to buy this, go for the collector's edition. Thank you for your time ^.^

If you haven't seen it - get it. Like many people I got drawn (so to speak) into Japanese animation by films such as "Spirited Away", and Studio Ghibli in general. I'd have to say, though, that in many ways "Your Name" takes things to another level. The production values feel very high; the quality of the animation, for example, is outstanding - a mixture, I have no doubt, of human and computer, resulting both in stunning visuals, including a very 3-dimensional feel to the depth of field, and in what I think must be an unusually-high animation frame-rate, that allows the animators full scope to make character movements very smooth and expressive. All that without ever losing that quintessential feeling characteristic of the genre. And the story, too, whilst fairly straightforward, is mostly strong and subtly handled, with a couple of "which way will things go?" moments that left me in genuine uncertainty as to how it would end. It richly deserves both the plaudits heaped on it, and its recent box-office success. One caveat: I watched the film in Japanese with subtitles, so I can't comment on the quality of the English voice acting. (If that seems quirky or daunting, I'd seriously recommend it to anyone. I have only a few words of Japanese - not remotely enough to follow a film like this. But whether or not I speak a word of it, given a choice I always strongly prefer to watch any foreign-language film in the original language. I find that simply hearing the rhythms and tones of a language often adds a degree of cultural context and "feel" that dubbed versions can't possibly manage. And if you're lucky, you start to pick up nuances that no translation can do justice to ("Your Name" has a real corker, in fact - there's one short scene where a character struggles to find the "right" word to use, that is so culturally "Japanese" - and utterly meaningless in English - that I'm almost tempted to go watch that part of the English version, just to see how it's handled).)