Your Name
English Title: Your Name — “your name.”
Japanese Title: 君の名は。– Kimi no Na wa.
Author: Makoto Shinkai
Illustrator: N/A
Translator: Taylor Engel
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Original Run: June 2016
English Run: May 2017
Japanese Publisher: Kadokawa
English Publisher: Yen On (Yen Press)
Volumes in Japanese: 1 (Completed) (plus side-story volume)
Volumes in English: 1 (Completed) (plus upcoming side-story volume)
Average Price Per Volume: Hardcover $14 — Kindle $8 — Nook $8
Synopsis: 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 Makaoto 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.
Volume 1
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Released May 23, 2017 — ISBN-13: 978-0316471862
Upcoming Releases
- Your Name – Another Side: Earthbound (October 31, 2017)
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Reviews of Your Name
(forthcoming)
Related Anime
MAL Entry — movie — Aired August 2016
Manga Adaptation
MAL Entry — 3 volumes — Published May 2016 – January 2017 (English release by Yen Press)
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If you liked Your Name, you might also want to try…
- The Boy and the Beast — anime film tie-in novels
- Time of Eve: Another Act — anime film tie-in novels
- Calling You — a girl and boy reach other through supernatural means
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