Your Name — Watch Online, Cast & Plot

Your Name follows Taki Tachibana and Mitsuha Miyamizu as unexplained body swaps connect Tokyo and Itomori, until a three-year gap and an approaching comet turn their relationship into a race against time.

At a Glance

Full titleYour Name

DirectorMakoto Shinkai

CountryJP

LanguageJapanese

StudioCoMix Wave Films

GenreAnimation · Romance · Drama

Why Your Name is worth your time

Your Name succeeds because its supernatural rules remain tied to ordinary intimacy: schedules, handwriting, habits, and places become how two strangers learn one another.

The early body-swap comedy establishes personality through action. Taki and Mitsuha change each other's social lives before they can speak directly.

The shift to the comet mystery reinterprets every earlier scene without discarding its warmth. Small records become evidence of a connection operating across time.

Itomori's traditions, braided cords, shrine ritual, and local language give the time relationship a cultural structure rather than presenting it as arbitrary magic.

Forgetting prevents the ending from becoming a simple reunion. The characters lose facts but retain an absence powerful enough to shape years of searching.

Taki and Mitsuha can change history only after living enough of each other's lives to recognize a loss everyone else accepts as finished.

The genre shift is carefully prepared

Comedy, romance, mystery, and disaster emerge from the same body-swap mechanism.

Place is part of the relationship

Tokyo and Itomori shape what each teenager desires and what the other learns to value.

Tradition organizes time

Braided cords and shrine rituals express connection, separation, and reunion visually.

Memory survives as longing

The final search remains credible because emotion outlasts names and explicit recollection.

Story

Makoto Shinkai turns a playful body swap into a romance across a three-year divide, where remembering a name becomes the only proof that the connection existed.

Two lives begin exchanging

Taki and Mitsuha initially believe the strange days are dreams, then recognize changes through missing memories, reactions from friends, and messages left behind.

Rules create a shared routine

Phone notes and written instructions help them protect one another's relationships, responsibilities, and reputations while each explores an unfamiliar life.

The messages disappear

When the swaps stop, Taki's records begin vanishing and the absence pushes him to search for a place he knows only through Mitsuha's memories.

Itomori belongs to the past

A restaurant owner recognizes Taki's drawing and leads him to the town's crater, where records reveal the date and scale of the comet disaster.

Twilight joins the timelines

At kataware-doki, Taki and Mitsuha see one another in their own bodies and try to preserve their names before the brief overlap ends.

Saving the town without a memory

Mitsuha, Tessie, and Sayaka attempt an evacuation while the emotional reason for the plan fades, leaving conviction where specific recollection once was.