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YOur Name vol 3 by Makoto Shinkai (writing) and Rammaru Kotone (artist) - For the millionth time I repeat my anecdote about thinking that Thesis/Antithesis/Synthesis was a literary term and the way that triologies work. Because Your Name follows it perfectly. Volume 1 - funny and weird story about body switching (and it takes place every other day for these characters for a month - so I guess we just ignore the fact that this guy is waking up in a body that's bleeding and cramping for a few of those days - I guess it would disrupt the narrative to have him screaming for 5 pages. But he's feeling her up as a running joke so yeah the author brought it up) and then volume 2 - elegaic and sad because he discovers that she's been dead when part of a comet hit her village.
So this one feels like "Ok, so you know how you're sad about this whole young death thing? Just kidding. Here's a happy ending" and you know just like in the movie, it gets to me. I might be joking about this thing. I have seen the movie 2-3 times and just read the manga collection (I even checked out the Your Name but from the other characters' perspective mangas from the library - quite sure that they were cash grabs) and it's still feels sweet when they are both trying to save the town with different plans. Like when he's in her body he's trying to plant explosives and demand that the mayor evacuates and when she's back she talks to her father for the first time (ahhh. Family reconciliation. Goddamn gets me every time). And then they forget each other until they are both in Tokyo and run into each other.
And that's it. That's the story. They tell each other their names and then promptly forget their names. And then save the town population. And then forget everything (which is a problem due to the fact that the grandmother remembers switching bodies as a teenager). And then they run into each other and we hope that they work it out. Sigh.
So this one feels like "Ok, so you know how you're sad about this whole young death thing? Just kidding. Here's a happy ending" and you know just like in the movie, it gets to me. I might be joking about this thing. I have seen the movie 2-3 times and just read the manga collection (I even checked out the Your Name but from the other characters' perspective mangas from the library - quite sure that they were cash grabs) and it's still feels sweet when they are both trying to save the town with different plans. Like when he's in her body he's trying to plant explosives and demand that the mayor evacuates and when she's back she talks to her father for the first time (ahhh. Family reconciliation. Goddamn gets me every time). And then they forget each other until they are both in Tokyo and run into each other.
And that's it. That's the story. They tell each other their names and then promptly forget their names. And then save the town population. And then forget everything (which is a problem due to the fact that the grandmother remembers switching bodies as a teenager). And then they run into each other and we hope that they work it out. Sigh.