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scythefranz 's review for:
your name.
by Makoto Shinkai
I liked the idea of Your Name. It is like a time travel/paranormal/magical fantasy blended into one and it's up to you which one you want to choose. I chose the time travel one so I've looked (me being an intellecteual jk) for some "technical" or even not-so technical explanation about the time travel (and body-exchange) phenomena in this book. Sadly, I think I haven't read one? Thus, I've just reflected my dismay on the rating i.e. 3 stars. Lol.
Anyway, I think I just didn't connect with the main characters. Mitsuha and Taki. They read (for me) like characters devoid of emotion especially on the first to middle part. It's just not convincing. Pretentious. I thought I'm reading a journal. Sorry. It was plain bland and flat.
However, they grew on the latter part of the book on the emotion department. So there's that. Also, the narrative is also confusing sometimes.
Nevertheless, as I've said in the beginning I liked the idea of Your Name. Body exchange with a person in the past and all that. It's interesting and unexpected from my part since I have zero idea of what this book is all about. The resolution to conflict is also the reason why I still ended up liking this book. I mean, it gets me to be excited and pushed me to finish the book already.
That is all.
Anyway, I think I just didn't connect with the main characters. Mitsuha and Taki. They read (for me) like characters devoid of emotion especially on the first to middle part. It's just not convincing. Pretentious. I thought I'm reading a journal. Sorry. It was plain bland and flat.
However, they grew on the latter part of the book on the emotion department. So there's that. Also, the narrative is also confusing sometimes.
Nevertheless, as I've said in the beginning I liked the idea of Your Name. Body exchange with a person in the past and all that. It's interesting and unexpected from my part since I have zero idea of what this book is all about. The resolution to conflict is also the reason why I still ended up liking this book. I mean, it gets me to be excited and pushed me to finish the book already.
That is all.