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I'm battered by so many different emotions having finished your name. Bittersweet, poignant, serendipitous. These are all words that immediately spring to mind when I think of Kimi no Na wa. Japanese animated films are never just the cutesy stories they appear to be on the surface.
It's a story about believing that there is something, someone, out there waiting and to keep searching, holding on a little longer as Shinkai said in his afterword.
The light novel is a perfect reflection of the film since Shinkai wrote this after having written the film. It feels so much more personal though as Mitsuha and Taki's perspectives are told in first person. Their emotions are their own and not observed, but felt fully by the reader.
The language is lovely, featuring repetition of their thoughts through each other as a way to show their connectedness. I thought the translation was done quite nicely, the text maintaining a form of eloquence.
I'm honestly so glad I picked this up because I adored the film so much. It was by serendipity you could say that I got to watch the film. In Australia, Japanese animated movies don't get a wide release and I was chasing this movie for ages. Event never had the right session times for me and I was sad there were no Vmax showings (there never are). I thought I'd never get to watch it and having not seen it in cinema I'd probably not invest money in a DVD if I didn't know it was good. Then by sheer luck Kimi no Na wa was an inflight film on one of my plane rides to Europe and I fell in love with this gorgeous story.
I haven't stopped thinking about it since, it's probably my all time favourite movie animated film and I cannot wait for the DVD I've preordered because I'm obsessed.
Also, this light novel is GORGEOUS aesthetically. The formatting, the hardback and the feel of it in my hands, that font... I want more light novels like this!
It's a story about believing that there is something, someone, out there waiting and to keep searching, holding on a little longer as Shinkai said in his afterword.
The light novel is a perfect reflection of the film since Shinkai wrote this after having written the film. It feels so much more personal though as Mitsuha and Taki's perspectives are told in first person. Their emotions are their own and not observed, but felt fully by the reader.
The language is lovely, featuring repetition of their thoughts through each other as a way to show their connectedness. I thought the translation was done quite nicely, the text maintaining a form of eloquence.
I'm honestly so glad I picked this up because I adored the film so much. It was by serendipity you could say that I got to watch the film. In Australia, Japanese animated movies don't get a wide release and I was chasing this movie for ages. Event never had the right session times for me and I was sad there were no Vmax showings (there never are). I thought I'd never get to watch it and having not seen it in cinema I'd probably not invest money in a DVD if I didn't know it was good. Then by sheer luck Kimi no Na wa was an inflight film on one of my plane rides to Europe and I fell in love with this gorgeous story.
I haven't stopped thinking about it since, it's probably my all time favourite movie animated film and I cannot wait for the DVD I've preordered because I'm obsessed.
Also, this light novel is GORGEOUS aesthetically. The formatting, the hardback and the feel of it in my hands, that font... I want more light novels like this!