Never in my lifetime did a movie wake me up until 3:53 am just because of the profound emotional attachment that it created in me. "Your Name" is probably one of the greatest romance fantasies that I have watched in my lifetime. To be honest I have a mixed feeling about this movie (feelings that I cannot recognize myself, weird). But one thing is for sure, I searched the internet for a sequel after I watched it and I will argue that this could be one of the greatest romances that I have ever seen and left me wanting to see a sequel.

Your Name tells the story of two individuals who when they sleep will switch places making themselves and the people around them clueless about what has happened to them. But the switching doesn't seem to happen on the same timeline (how powerful love can be).

I have nothing but praise for the animation style of the opening scenes like the one with a hand water pump and the bridge scene where the female protagonist Mitsuha and her friends were walking on their way to school. To be honest the opening scenes made me confused and then made sense at the later part.

Your Name made me so fixated on my seat that I am waiting for the moment that the two protagonists will eventually meet in person. Taki embarked on a journey with his friends to find Mitsuha only to find out that the town had been hit by a meteor three years ago and more than 500 people died. The findings made me think that Mitsuha is just actually a fragment of reality that happened three years ago and that it only seems real because of the switching places that are happening.

The words of Mitsuha's grandmother made me think that she and Taki will not be going to ever meet just because the time that they are switching places is three years apart. Also, a meteor that struck Itomori (the hometown of Mitsuha) killed more than 500 people. The meteor impact made me believe that Mitsuha was one of the victims, again, making me think that the switching of places was just a coincidence of something.

But then the unthinkable happened. Taki embarks on a journey one last time, finding the shrine where Mitsuha left a "Sake" as an offering for the gods. Taki drank the Sake and found out that the Sake seemed to be an offering to the gods to prevent another meteor impact. Taki passed out and when he woke up he ran through to the top of the highest point of the crater there, Mitsuha and Taki met for the first time. This meeting led me to believe that the two were dreaming and their time finally coincided with each other. The meeting was short-lived as Taki finally woke up all alone.

As the scenes get intense my emotional attachment to the movie grows deeper. And with that being said, the thought of Taki and Mitsuha will never get to meet made my chest tighter and tighter. No movie has made me feel this way but "Your Name" did.

To be honest, in the later part of the movie I lost hope that the two would not be going to meet ever and I would be brokenhearted but then a glimmer of hope provided me some relief that the two could meet each other. But when? Where? And how?

The premise of the two seeing each other on different trains is brilliant. Never did I know that it is also one of the opening scenes that happened to be one of the ending scenes. I thought they would meet at the train station, but I was wrong. The running to find each other again made my chest higher and tighter making me think that they were only dreaming. But then they finally met each other, this time, for real. End of story.

After watching the movie it made me think that "it is now my favorite romance of all time" I think it beats Romeo and Juliet, haha. With that being said, I tried to write the most emotionally attached words that I could. So, I just made this blog a part of me (a part of my emotion). To be honest, I wanted to see a sequel to this one which of course I want to be made by Makoto Shinkai. I wonder what is going on right now mind of Makoto's mind regarding "Your Name".

That is all for now guys, catch you up with the next one. Wishing you all safety, good health, and abundance.