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Naoko Takeuchi opened "5 Centimeters Per Second" to the title page and stared at the five words "Mirai Tori Akino" on it, feeling troubled.

Hanako looked at her expectantly, and Naoko Takeuchi wrote with great skill before handing it back.

"Thank you! Thank you for the autograph, teacher! Wait...wait...Tori Akino Mirai..."

Hanami was stunned when she saw the name "Tori Akino Mirai" on the cover of the manga.

Naoko Takeuchi smiled and said, "Because this is Akino Tori's manga, you're welcome."

Hua Hai was on the verge of tears: "Waaah, teacher, how could you do this..."

Despite these complaints, she still treasured the collected volumes.

Three minutes later, "Your Name" officially began airing.

Naoko Takeuchi was worried that the little girl next to her would disturb her, but after the movie started, the little girl didn't say a word and stared straight at the screen like a statue.

This focus astonished even Takeuchi.

The combination of screenwriter Tori Akino Mirai and the word "romance" has excited, excited, and made a lot of people serious.

If a Slam Dunk movie were released, the readers from back then would be just as passionate and unable to tear themselves away.

With that in mind, Naoko Takeuchi also began to watch "Your Name" attentively.

A shooting star streaks across the sky.

"When I woke up in the morning, I didn't know why I was crying."

"Such things happen from time to time."

"I can't remember the dreams I've had."

"only……"

"I just feel like something has disappeared."

"This feeling will linger for a long time even after you wake up."

"I've been searching for something... searching for someone..."

"I started to be bothered by this feeling."

"It probably started around that day..."

"That day, the day the shooting star fell, the scene was like..."

"It's like a scene from a dream! I just think the scenery is so beautiful."

Under the same shooting star, a man and a woman, in different times and spaces, are conversing about the same thing.

The animation's opening theme song begins here.

"My heart is pounding with anticipation..." Naoko Takeuchi touched her chest, feeling her barely suppressed emotion.

How many years has it been? After so many years, I've finally seen another work in Tori Akino's romantic style...

Chapter 412 A Love Story Across Time

The visuals in "Your Name" are stunning.

Each screenshot can be used as a beautiful computer background image.

"Seven years of polishing, it seems to be true."

Hua Hai initially thought this statement was just for publicity, but now, seeing the dedication put into the production of this film, she realizes it truly is one of the most visually outstanding animated films in recent years.

It once reminded her of Hayao Miyazaki's animated works.

Hana was already very much looking forward to it, and the animation still surprised her.

"It's so beautiful."

Naoko Takeuchi rested her chin on her hand, watching the comet streak across the sky on the screen. A colorful band of light appeared in the sky, and the twinkling stars and clouds made her feel dazzled and amazed.

"With such a huge workload, the original illustrators must be working really hard."

……

Miyamizu Mitsuha woke up and looked at the rise and fall of her chest. Her pajamas were bulging under her full breasts, revealing a glimpse of her fair skin.

She blinked in confusion, then began to knead.

This looks like a boy acting like a hooligan.

She seemed to be possessed by a ghost; she behaved terribly all day. She went to school with her hair disheveled and untied, and even forgot her seat and locker room once she arrived.

The next day she finally regained her senses, and apart from a few friendly jokes from her teacher Yukino, her daily life returned to normal.

Itomori is a small and crowded town. The tram only runs once every two hours, the convenience store closes at nine o'clock, there are no bookstores or dentists, and if you want to drink coffee, you can only go to the vending machine. Mitsuha Miyamizu wants to leave here and go to Tokyo.

As a shrine maiden, she must chew rice grains in public during a ceremony to make "kuchikami sake" (rice wine made by chewing rice).

She'd had enough of the monotonous life and the shameful performances; she wanted to be a handsome guy in Tokyo in her next life.

When Mitsuha woke up the next day, she had a dream in which she was a handsome Tokyo guy named Taki Tachibana.

Here, skyscrapers stand tall, cars stream by, several tram lines run together, and there's even a rare coffee shop. She was having a beautiful dream.

"So Mitsuha and Taki are switching bodies?" Hanami whispered, rubbing her chin.

She watched it very attentively. The Easter egg that the female lead's teacher was Yukino-sensei from "The Garden of Words" excited her a lot, but ultimately, she was more interested in the plot.

There are two locations in the anime: Tokyo, where Taki lives, and the small town where Mitsuha lives, and they are very different.

Is "Your Name" a story about a boy and girl who would never meet falling in love because of body swapping?

She was somewhat worried. This difference in distance between the two countries could easily lead to tragedy, like that of Takaki Tono and Akari Shinohara, who loved each other but could not be together.

The more cheerful the animation is, the more tear-jerking it becomes at the end.

……

The body swapping brought trouble to both the male and female protagonists. They found it difficult to look directly at the bodies of the opposite sex. Taki would always inadvertently provide benefits, and Mitsuha would also use Taki's money to enjoy life in Tokyo.

However, there were also positive aspects. Mitsuha helped Taki get closer to the beautiful headmistress, and Taki also charmed the classmates who had been mocking Mitsuha into shutting up.

Two to three days a week, the two of them enjoy different aspects of their lives.

Mitsuha helps Taki ask the manager out, but she silently bursts into tears.

Taki also realized his own feelings.

They fell in love with each other without ever meeting.

Before the autumn festival in Itomori began, Mitsuha suddenly cut her hair short, her red hair tie disappeared, and she looked much more forlorn.

A comet streaked across the sky, suddenly splitting in two; one fell and magnified in Mitsuha's eyes.

Taki discovers that he can no longer switch bodies with Mitsuha.

He tied a hair tie around his wrist and drew all his memories of the town, intending to use these drawings to find Mitsuha.

Three years ago, a meteorite that broke off from a comet struck Itomori Town during the autumn festival. More than 500 villagers perished, including... Mitsuha Miyamizu!

"Hey!"

Hua Hai screamed in shock, but the others didn't frown, because the movie theater was noisy at this moment, and everyone was amazed by the unexpected plot development.

What was originally an ordinary slice-of-life romance movie has now become unusual.

Neither "The Garden of Words" nor "5 Centimeters Per Second" contains these elements.

"Is Taki in love with... Mitsuha, who died three years ago?!"

"How will the story unfold from here on out!"

"A love that transcends time and space, how interesting!"

The audience members were buzzing with discussion and whispering among themselves.

Mitsuha's grandmother once said that the knots they made were the work of the gods, embodying the flow of time.

The same applies to Mitsuha's kuchikami sake.

Taki found the sake made by Mitsuha and drank a cup. Then he traveled through time, witnessing Mitsuha's birth and growth, seeing her begin to switch bodies with him, seeing Mitsuha go to Tokyo, return and cut her long hair, and finally...

Comet attack.

He suddenly woke up and found himself back inside Mitsuha's body, and began to massage Mitsuha's chest as usual, tears streaming down his face.

It was both touching and hilarious.

Taki returns to the morning of the day the comet struck, and together with Mitsuha and her friends, they devise a plan for evacuation.

He suddenly remembered that his body was now in the place where the kuchikami sake was stored, which meant that Mitsuha was there.

He borrowed his companion's bicycle to go see Mitsuha.

Midway through, he remembered that three years ago, Mitsuha, with a girlish heart, went to Tokyo.

She was so nervous, excited, and filled with the stirrings of first love as she prepared to see him.

But three years ago, Taki didn't know Mitsuha.

The two met on the tram, within a fist's distance.

So close, yet so far.

"Taki, that's me." Mitsuha pointed shyly to herself, and after a long silence, she said softly, "Don't you remember?"

Taki asked, "Who are you?"

I just felt that this girl was really strange.

As Mitsuha was pushed off the train by the crowd, Taki, on a sudden impulse, asked, "What's your name?"

"Mitsuba! Miyamizu Mitsuba!" Mitsuba untied her hair tie and gave it to Taki.

Taki wore that hair tie for three years afterward.

Mitsuha awakens in the spirit body that holds the sake made by chewing kuchikami; she is now Taki.

She remembered that she had died three years ago.

On the circular earthen mound surrounding the divine body, they heard each other's voices.