Your Name.

by Makoto Shinkai

The background music that was playing in my head a minute ago has disappeared, and I remember that

this town, without a soundtrack, is an absolutely suffocating place.

Please don’t ask me “Who goes there?” I’m waiting here for my love, in the September dew.

“Tasokare,

taso...

twil...

I really love this word. There is so much imagery so much creativity in this one word. That beautiful intersectiom between day and night where magic feels so real. The only equivalent is dawn where the night undresses for the day.

“It’s evening, not quite day or night. It’s a window when outlines blur, making it hard to tell who people are. When you might meet something that isn’t human. It’s a time when people encounter demons or the dead, and it has another name that reflects this. They say, though, that even before that, it had other names.”

half-light?”

The “café” wasn’t exactly what springs to mind. It wasn’t Starbucks or Tully’s or one of those fantastic, fabled spaces that serves pancakes and bagels and gelato.

I remember this feeing so keenly. All I wanted to do was go someplace cool and hip with an aesthetic and choices. I wanted someplace not forgotten by time. Small town wishes.

I turn back, looking at the pair of them as they sit on the bench with the sunset-colored lake in the background, and I softly layer a lyrical piano melody over the scene.

I love how she creates scores in her head for different moments of her life. This is such a cool touch! It humanizea her even deeper:)

Make me a hot guy in Tokyo in my next life,

Well...lol!

interior. Apparently, these boys are touring different cafés because they’re interested in architecture.

I love the addition of hobbies and interests that the characters have. It humanizes them so much!

The pancakes are the heavyweight kind, a fortress solidly flanked by things like mango and blueberries. After finishing them, I sip cinnamon coffee,

Yum :)

“I like this version of you better,” Okudera-senpai says, a bit mischievously. “You’re surprisingly in touch with your feminine side, Taki.”

My heart leaps with a bo-yo-yoing. Her smile is absolutely unbeatable. It makes me want to give her everything I have for free. I think it’s the most precious thing I’ve seen in Tokyo today.

It was a colorful, thrilling day. It feels as if I spent all of it getting pelted by a rainbow-colored shower.