Your Name [DVD]

Ok, so having read the description of this movie I wasn't initially convinced that it'd be much good. It sounded like another 'complicated for the sake of being complicated and ultimately pretentious' types, BUT, I was completely wrong. While the story itself is unconventional, the execution is just beautiful. Amazing art. Amazing sound and genuinely emotionally inspiring. Buy it!, you won't be disappointed.

I've added six photos of the collectors edition steelbook so you can see exactly what you get. I happened upon this film on Amazon's Prime streaming service (where it's currently free to view if you're a Prime member) while searching for "Spirited Away" so I had to watch it. "Your Name." is my very first Japanese anime movie and I am far from disappointed. Infact, I am beyond happy and I have just watched it for a second time but this time on Blu-ray. I've chosen not to drone on about the film and what it's about as many people have commented on that already. Personally, I recommend that you watch the trailer on YouTube. Instead, I have commented on the audio and visuals. For clear information about the extras please see the photos I have shared. Graphics and visuals: The graphics are breathtakingly detailed and some scenes look dreamily hazy with a dazzling array of colours. Shadow and light have been well used as well. I'm pleasantly surprised with how well timed the characters spoken animations are too. English voice actors: Full of emotion, personality and well timed with the graphics as well. Information on the Prime streaming version: It is dubbed in English with optional subtitles but the music by Radwimps is in Japanese. From time-to-time some basic English subtitles will pop up on the screen when there is Japanese text on the screen. For example; there is a scene where Mitsuha (the girl on the cover art) and her two friends are walking pass some buildings. They are two pubs and above them it says what each pub is called. Information on the Blu-ray version: It is dubbed in English but you can select to hear it in Japanese with English subtitles as well. The Radwimps music is in English. From time-to-time some basic English subtitles will pop up on the screen when there is Japanese text on the screen. For example; there is a scene where Mitsuha and her two friends are walking pass some buildings. They are two pubs and above them it says what each pub is called. Information on the DVD version: I haven't watched the dvd version yet so I cannot comment fairly. I will update this section when I have though. Information on the CD soundtrack: I popped the disc into my laptop this morning but unfortunately my CD drive has stopped working (no discs work) so I cannot comment on it yet. I will update when I'm able to listen. I highly recommend this movie and the collector's edition steelbook to any avid Japanese anime fan and newcomers as well.

If you haven't seen it - get it. Like many people I got drawn (so to speak) into Japanese animation by films such as "Spirited Away", and Studio Ghibli in general. I'd have to say, though, that in many ways "Your Name" takes things to another level. The production values feel very high; the quality of the animation, for example, is outstanding - a mixture, I have no doubt, of human and computer, resulting both in stunning visuals, including a very 3-dimensional feel to the depth of field, and in what I think must be an unusually-high animation frame-rate, that allows the animators full scope to make character movements very smooth and expressive. All that without ever losing that quintessential feeling characteristic of the genre. And the story, too, whilst fairly straightforward, is mostly strong and subtly handled, with a couple of "which way will things go?" moments that left me in genuine uncertainty as to how it would end. It richly deserves both the plaudits heaped on it, and its recent box-office success. One caveat: I watched the film in Japanese with subtitles, so I can't comment on the quality of the English voice acting. (If that seems quirky or daunting, I'd seriously recommend it to anyone. I have only a few words of Japanese - not remotely enough to follow a film like this. But whether or not I speak a word of it, given a choice I always strongly prefer to watch any foreign-language film in the original language. I find that simply hearing the rhythms and tones of a language often adds a degree of cultural context and "feel" that dubbed versions can't possibly manage. And if you're lucky, you start to pick up nuances that no translation can do justice to ("Your Name" has a real corker, in fact - there's one short scene where a character struggles to find the "right" word to use, that is so culturally "Japanese" - and utterly meaningless in English - that I'm almost tempted to go watch that part of the English version, just to see how it's handled).)

Brilliant film, saw last year when it was in selected cinemas in the uk Love it Pre-ordered ages ago and received 2 days before official amazon release It’s an anime so before watching I recommend checking out the set up options, there’s 3: -English with English songs -English with Japanese songs -Japanese with English subtitles If you’re into subs, then watch the subtitled version If you’re like me and only like English, it recommend the one with Japanese songs as even though you (and I) won’t understand the lyrics, the Japanese song lyrics are just simply more beautiful and fit better Wish I knew this before playing the DVD All in all it’s a real heartwarming film and story about 2 people who’ve never met that (in the context of the film) start randomly body swapping that leads them to create better friendships with their friends and they will stop at nothing, even with impossible odds stacked against them to find each other! Again it’s a beautiful and lovely story that just melts your heart and I would recommend to anyone

While many others will leave a comment based on the movie, I choose to leave a review based on the actual Bluray. I chose to buy the collectors edition as I loved the movie and I was not disappointed in the slightest. For the price you pay, you get a collectors steelbook case, the movie on DVD + Bluray and RADWIMPS Japanese album. Having listened to the CD, I can say that it moved me listening to it. The music from the movie was beatuiful anyway. Tracks that stand out would be "Zenzenzense", "Sparkle" and "Nandemonaiya" (The last track on the album) The Bluray disc was good based on the quality of the movie. You have the movie in 1080p, and audio options are English 5.1 and Japanese 5.1 (both with English subtitle options) I didn't check the DVD yet as I am more of a quality nut and chose to watch the movie in the best possible resolution. In my honest opinion, the extras were a little lacking. You have a Japanese promo clip, English trailer, a sort of documentary with interviews from the cast and director and Madman (production company) trailers. In closing, I do recommend you buy if you would like this in your collection. However, if you do choose to buy this, go for the collector's edition. Thank you for your time ^.^

This film came highly recommended by my wife and daughter who are Japanese. They were happy to watch it again, which is unusual, as they don’t normally like to watch films twice. We watched it with the Japanese sound track and English subtitles. (I understand Japanese pretty well.) The main and support characters are all well done. The two MCs are attractive and believable as high school students. The animation quality is excellent. Of particular note, the way they act girlish or boyish in contrast to their body’s physical gender, when their minds are swapped into each other’s bodies. The scenery and general animation is also very good and there are some superb lighting effects. This is somewhat let down by a few very obvious digital animation scenes. I’ve got nothing against digital animation but, if it isn’t well filtered, it has a visual quality which is completely different to traditional cel animation. The contrast in this film was quite jarring. My worse complaint is the way the plot flies off into a badly explained time-jumping, parallel universe kind of situation after the comet hits the rural town where the girl MC lives. There’s some sort of plot in which the boy MC forgets about her, lives on for another three years, then goes back and resets the original disaster by some kind of dream quest. He then forgets about her again. The girl and her friends and family are saved, but it takes longer still until she turns up in Tokyo and finally the two MCs get together in the ending we all hoped for from the start. Maybe it’s me, but I just couldn’t figure out how all this worked in terms of timelines and so on, and it seemed like it hadn’t been thought through. That said, it’s still a really good animation and I certainly didn’t regret the time viewing it, and I will view it again to see if it makes more sense a second time.

I remember seeing this heavily advertised when I visited Japan in 2016 and had been excited to see it ever since and it really was worth the wait. The story had me a little confused at the beginning, however shortly after things start to fall in place. The story was intriguing and had me guessing what was going to happen throughout the film, not only that, it hit me with different emotions from extreme laughter to anticipation and a bit of an emotional roller-coaster. The change of characteristics when they swapped bodies was well done, the animation is beautiful and a great soundtrack to go with it, making it a complete package; I was also very happy with the ending, it was perfect in my opinion. This is definitely one of my favourite anime films to date and would highly recommend it.

I bought this based on the other reviews, and don't think I can add anything useful about the details of the film. It is quite a complex storyline and it works best if you have some surprises - but I can confirm that this is a brilliant film. I watched it with my wife, who was prepared to be unimpressed by my love of Japanese animation, but we both ended up being swept into the story and enjoying it immensely. The animation is quite as usual in anime films, with beautiful landscapes and great personality but perhaps less good animation of the characters; this is not in any way a problem though. In my view, this is not in the class of films like 'Spirited Away', but at the top of the second league of anime films - highly entertaining, well worth a second viewing, and just delightful in every way.

Meine Bewertung bezieht sich ausschließlich auf den Kauf durch "Amazon Warehouse Deals" für dieses Steelbook. Achtet bitte unbedingt darauf, das ihr das Steelbook nicht dadurch kauft, denn ich bekam meines in einem dünnen Pappumschlag und was soll ich sagen, es war übersät mit Kratzern und für maximalen Spaß hat Amazon einen fetten sehr schwer zu lösenden (natürlich mit massig Rückständen) Aufkleber auf die Front geklebt, in der Größe von mindestens 3 Finger breit. Das Teil ging natürlich gleich wieder Retoure, da ich den Aufkleber im Leben nie hätte vollständig entfernen können udn die Kratzer gaben dem Ding dann dne Rest, also paßt gut auf, bevor ihr dieses vermeintliche Schnäppchen machen wollt.

This version says japanese & French language audio and only subtitles in French. However the disc master is shared with uk, so does contain english. Mysterious but amazon listing details are correct.

As Hayao Miyazaki has gotten whiter of hair and older in age, the quest to find the next Miyazaki has steadily increased with mixed results for any anime directors so described. On the one hand to be publicly described as the “Next Miyazaki” is a great honor; on the other hand, it is also a stupefying burden, worst of all largely decided more by mere opinions than anything one can measure,.. with a single exception. The latest “Next Miyazaki”, Makoto Shinkai, earned his designation the old-fashioned way: by writing and directing the highest-grossing anime film of all time in 2016, actually beating the legendary Miyazaki himself for the first time in a long time, with “Your Name”. Though knowledge of Shinto and Japanese can make some things a good deal clearer, it was Shinkai’s genius to tell a story that doesn’t really require said knowledge; Americans and other foreigners should have no trouble grasping the main premises. After some decidedly interesting opening scenes (that will be more fully revealed when repeated and expanded later), “Your Name” opens with what seems to be Yet Another version of Freaky Friday : a boy living in Tokyo, Taki, and a girl living in the boondocks, Mitsuha, mysteriously find themselves switching bodies for a day, two or three times a week, and after realizing this, set some ground rules and leave each other notes on their cell phones and notebooks, sometimes even writing on each other’s skin, in order to cope with this mysterious problem. They also use their talents to help each other out: Mitsuha builds Taki’s potential relationship with the college student he has a crush on, Taki boosts Mitsuha’s popularity, and everything proceeds along very nicely. But there is a dark side looming, and the indicators can be seen more clearly upon rewatching. In a twist reminiscent of the first season-ending of Steins;Gate a truly horrific fate is coming, and soon Taki and Mitsuha are desperately trying to save over 500 lives,... including one of their own. The price for doing so is high, and the movie fades to what appears to be a sad end as the price for the miracle,... only to end with another miracle. “Your Name” was such a box office smash that it suddenly focused a huge amount of attention on the previously barely known Makoto Shinkai, and most people were astonished to learn that far from being his first film, “Your Name” was actually his eleventh, the seventh made available over here, though none before were anywhere close to being as successful. (“Your Name” earned over fifty times more than anything else he ever did.) And while none of these previous films were quite as good as “Your Name”, there was clearly genius at work in all of them, and they are certainly worth viewing. One thing that becomes clear upon doing so is that Makoto Shinkai is that rare thing, a short story writer rather than a novel writer, and that he has a tendency to cut too much that needs to be corrected, proven by the fact that he has later written 6 mangas and worked on 3 light novels based upon his animes and every single one of them is an improvement, ESPECIALLY in the additional scenes and much clearer endings. Anyway here is what you can find and see so far: She and Her Cat (1999) a short about a cat and his lady owner that made Makoto Shinkai a professional and got him a contract from CoMix Wave Films, available in three different versions (5, 3, and 1.5 minutes) on the same DVD with noticeable differences between the three. Voices of a Distant Star (2002) his breakthrough 25 minutes long CoMix Wave short about two young school children falling in love who are separated by an alien invasion; she is sent off to fight it, while he remains at home awaiting her cell phone messages, where the wait for light-speed transmission grows from 6 months, to a year, to 8 years. The movie ends with him after all this time preparing to enter the military and (hopefully) be reunited with her. It is another stunningly beautiful short story, showing bits and pieces of their lives. The Place Promised in our Early Days (2004) his first feature-length, 90 minutes long, the story of two middle school best friends who share a dream and love for a girl. The dream in this altered reality in which Japan has been divided between Hokkaido and the rest, between the USSR and the USA, is to build and fly a plane to a mysterious, impossibly tall tower on the island of Hokkaido, allegedly used by the Soviets for the exploration of alternate realities; the girl is fellow student Sayuri Sawatari that they are both in love with. However, her disappearance fractures their friendship and stops work on their plane, but three years later they are reunited by circumstances leading towards a world war. 5 Centimeters per Second (2007) his second feature, though of only 63 minutes in length, and arguably the original version of the love story used in "Your Name", though this one had an extremely sad ending instead of the extremely happy ending in "Your Name". Interestingly, as in so many other cases, Mr. Shinkai wrote a happier ending to the much-expanded manga version. Children Who Chase Lost Voices (2011) his third feature, 116 minutes long, and IMHO Makoto Shinkai’s biggest failure yet (I call it “Viewers Who Chase Lost Endings” for a reason), an attempt by a short story writer to do a Miyazaki style film, an epic adventure into a Hollow World about which it reveals almost nothing. Garden of Words (2013) his fourth feature (and most successful before “Your Name”) and at only 46 minutes in length, yet another short story about a couple of misfits, divided by age, but nevertheless drawn together by circumstances and weather until they are driven apart but with hope for the future. It is also notable for being much improved in the later written manga and as-yet-unseen light novel by Makoto Shinkai. Note: It is not uncommon for animators to briefly insert characters from previous films into later films (Miyazaki did this a lot) without necessarily needing to logically be considered connected to the originals, but there is a huge difference between something like that and the character of Yukari Yukino, a small character in “Your Name” who was also one of the two main characters in “Garden of Words”, with the same look, the same name, the same profession (literature teacher), and was portrayed by the same voice actress, Kana Hanazawa. What is significant about this, though unstated, is the presumed character arc of Yukari, who has gone from being saved by Takao Akizuki from being all but immobilized in her life and her career in “Garden of Words” to surviving a comet strike in “Your Name” thanks to the frantic efforts of Taki and Mitsuha. I wonder what she did and what she became as a result of it all? And I wonder if Makoto Shinkai will ever tell us? Note: The contents of the various versions are a little more complicated than usual so let me explain them. First, the Blu-ray of the movie contains a couple of special features, subtitled specials about the movie, not present on the DVD. Second, the three versions are set up like this: the DVD version contains only the DVD, the Blu-ray version contains both the Blu-ray and the DVD, and the Limited Edition version contains the Blu-ray, the DVD, and a couple of soundtrack CD’s: one containing all the BGM plus the 4 songs in English, and another containing only the 4 songs in Japanese.

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Your Name is a brilliant movie that didn't need to be animated in order for it to be a success. I heard about it through anime circles and because everyone said that it was so brilliant I knew that I had to give it a shot. When I watched it I still wasn't sure exactly what to expect, but what I got was a story about two people who fell into each other's lives, and fell in love while still being faced with an insurmountable barrier keeping them separated. It's a story about being in your everyday life and being disappointed with how your life is going even as someone else might wish with all of their heart to have the boring things that you take for granted in their life. It is a story about the bittersweet feelings of love, and the empty feeling that you sometimes experience while you are waiting to find the person who will fill the hole in your heart. I am not so macho a guy that I can't admit that this movie made my cry. The characters feel real and the emotions, both good and bad, that they feel flood out from the screen and will grab your heart if you let them. The Limited Edition comes in a very nice and solid box with a foil finish. It also comes with a hard-back art-book which consists of a handful of pages of stills from the film, some of the promotional art that you can find on google and a couples of pages of sketches and design stuff. It's your standard limited edition art-book. More importantly, it comes with the two-disk "Bilingual" (English/Japanese) soundtrack by RADWIMPS. If you have already bought the two-disk bilingual soundtrack, then this will not be a selling point as the soundtrack here does not appear to have anything that was not available on the soundtrack that you can purchase separately. If you haven't already bought the soundtrack, you may be asking yourself "Is it worth it to spring for the limited edition?". The answer is that it probably isn't worth it if you aren't also interested in the art-book, and premium box. I did some price-hunting for you here, and at the time of this review, buying the standard edition, and the soundtrack itself, would cost you around $50 while the limited edition will cost you $75, so if you want to save yourself some money, or just aren't interested in the premium box and art-book, there are cheaper ways to go than the route that I took. If the shiny thick cardstock box, and artbook sound like they are worth $25 to you, then definitely spend the extra. If you have already purchased the soundtrack, then be aware that you are buying another copy of it when you buy the limited edition. It is a very beautiful soundtrack, and you might decide after thinking about it that it is worth it to have a second copy of it for some reason, but like I said, there doesn't appear to be anything on the soundtrack included in this collection that wasn't on the soundtrack that you could buy as itself.