Your Name
Your Name, (Volume 1), by Makoto Shinkai(MANGA)
Blurb:A story of two people determined to hold on to one another. Mitsuha, a high school girl from a town deep in the mountains, dreams of an unfamiliar life in Tokyo. Taki, a high school boy from Tokyo, dreams that he is a girl living in the mountains. As the two begin swapping lives, a miraculous story is set in motion.My ReviewThis is the bilingual copy of this manga, so it has both Japanese and English in it. I originally brought it in the hopes that, by the time I got around to reading it, my Japanese would be better. As it turns out, I'm still a long, long, LONG way from being able to read Japanese, so I'll be honest and say I only read the translations and I can only pick out a few of the Japanese characters. :-( This was a very quick read, due to the fact that there’s very little writing! I enjoyed the drawing style, but the story itself I found a little confusing, it sort of hops from scene to scene assuming the reader already knows what’s going on. I’d be interested in looking at the purely English to compare and see if something was lost in translation because a I said the copy I read is the Japanese/English bilingual version, but all the translations in my copy were… strange. They weren’t wrong necessarily and did make sense, but they just didn't sound right. The dialogue felt mismatched and just strange, quite often it also felt irrelevant as if the author had simply put it down for the sake of having something else on the page.I may try the second volume, since I did start to get into it nearer the end and I’d like to see where the story goes next, but I’m not a huge fan yet… 
Blurb:A story of two people determined to hold on to one another. Mitsuha, a high school girl from a town deep in the mountains, dreams of an unfamiliar life in Tokyo. Taki, a high school boy from Tokyo, dreams that he is a girl living in the mountains. As the two begin swapping lives, a miraculous story is set in motion.My ReviewThis is the bilingual copy of this manga, so it has both Japanese and English in it. I originally brought it in the hopes that, by the time I got around to reading it, my Japanese would be better. As it turns out, I'm still a long, long, LONG way from being able to read Japanese, so I'll be honest and say I only read the translations and I can only pick out a few of the Japanese characters. :-( This was a very quick read, due to the fact that there’s very little writing! I enjoyed the drawing style, but the story itself I found a little confusing, it sort of hops from scene to scene assuming the reader already knows what’s going on. I’d be interested in looking at the purely English to compare and see if something was lost in translation because a I said the copy I read is the Japanese/English bilingual version, but all the translations in my copy were… strange. They weren’t wrong necessarily and did make sense, but they just didn't sound right. The dialogue felt mismatched and just strange, quite often it also felt irrelevant as if the author had simply put it down for the sake of having something else on the page.I may try the second volume, since I did start to get into it nearer the end and I’d like to see where the story goes next, but I’m not a huge fan yet…
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