LogFAQs > #941626231

So...Your Name. On the one hand I do rather like it, but for me personally it doesn't really enter into the upper echelon of anime films. What it boils down to is that I just don't like the final third or so of the movie. The movie starts off as this quirky romantic comedy with a weird body-swapping gimmick that is actually handled unbelievably well. It does a really good job introducing/developing the characters and expanding on their relationship even though they never actually meet and it's just great to watch. However then it turns really quickly into this desperate and dramatic fantasy, and it just doesn't really feel connected at all to me? It gives me some sort of tonal whiplash, it doesn't really play off of the strengths that were on display in the first half of the movie, and I didn't think it was particularly engaging in its own right either.

I don't necessarily know what I would do instead, but at a minimum I'm pretty sure I would have liked the movie much more if the second half were even just a standard boy-meets-girl romance. There's probably also a way to make the fantasy stuff work for me if you want to go that route, but off-hand I don't know what it is.

Anyways on another note, here's my order of the films I've seen in this project. Dashes indicate large gaps between the movies above and below them.

1. A Silent Voice
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2. In This Corner of the World
3. Your Name
4. The Night is Short, Walk on Girl
5. Ride Your Wave
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6. Maquia
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7. Colorful
8. The Boy and the Beast

I will say there's several from the first list that would have finished below Boy and the Beast. So while I wouldn't say I was a fan of it, there's definitely room to be worse.
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I didn't do guru this year but azuarc can be in my sig anyways.