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Mitsuha, a high school girl living in a small town in the mountains, has a dream that she's a boy living in Tokyo. Taki, a high school boy in Tokyo, dreams he's a girl living in a quaint little mountain town. Sharing bodies, relationships, and lives, the two become inextricably interwoven--but are any connections truly inseverable in the grand tapestry of fate?
Written by director MAKOTO SHINKAI during the production of the film by the same title, your name. is in turns funny, heartwarming, and heart-wrenching as it follows the struggles of two young people determined to hold on to one another.
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2 primary booksYour Name Light Novel
Your Name Light Novel is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 2016 with contributions by Makoto Shinkai and Arata Kanoh.
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My review references the Japanese version from a learner's POV.
The anime can be seen as a classic and so is the book. The story of two young people switching bodies, a comet threatening to destroy a village and them desperately searching for each other is certainly unique.
The movie and book both match, there is nothing new that the film doesn't show. The book started a bit slow, but it got better from the middle. Sometimes it was hard to understand who is narrating as it wasn't formatted as clearly.
Language-wise it uses a lot of slang but I got used to it fast. The sentence structure wasn't too complicated either. Still, for a learner, I would consider it appropriate for high N3 or N2 due to the slang of the young people.
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