FIRST TIME WATCHING: Your Name (Patreon Excusive)

If you haven't seen Wolf Children, I HIGHLY recommend it!! It's my favorite anime film. Your Name is probably my second. But Wolf Children WILL make you cry and you'll love it so much :D

NEED a hit of that 3 year old spit saké

Oh no, Nat... you hit the jackpot. Unfortunately, it's not the Amazon rental version or Crunchyroll version. It's specifically the Amazon-Crunchyroll version that doesn't include the on-screen text translations. Those writings are quite meaningful and add important context to key moments in the movie.

This seals it. Nat, you need to tread into the anime series realm sometime in the near future. And maybe watch the film Suzume by the same director as Your Name! (I haven't watched that one yet and would love to watch with you for the first time :))

Nat really needs to react to KPop Demon Hunter because of the song Golden

F1！！！！

Nat, I hope you react to the new Fallout season 2 teaser when you come back.

Hopefully the first week after her break we get Superman (2025)

Theres no fucking way i’m not dreaming right now. I’ve been praying and hoping for years that natalie will watch your name and today i randomly decided to check her patreon for the first time thinking “maybe i’ll see shes reacted to your name finally… imagine that” then boom not only is it right there but on my birthday too WTF

It is a TRAVESTY that all the writing on their hands wasn't there. I was legit mad at the streaming service she used lmao. Still a great reaction!

did nat give a reason for the break or is it just holiday time?

I hope you will also watch Weathering With You sometime, it's part of the same world as this movie.

"Excusive" without the L is funny... she's being excusive about not doing videos in August :P

Now do A Silent Voice 🙏🏻

Hey, I'm one of the people who recommended this! Glad you liked it! Like others have said, it's a shame Prime didn't translate the writing, but oh well. I don't think it "ruined" anything, or that you *must* rewatch it to get the "full experience". But, yeah, the only real important point that it missed is that [SPOILER! SPOILER!] when she opens her hand, what's written there is not his name, but just "I love you", which is why her reaction is basically "Well this doesn't help" but with happy tears. And while I don't know if this is confirmed or not, there's a theory that the single stroke on his palm _could_ be the first (half) stroke of "mitsuha", it's a bit large and misplaced for that. But it _could_ be the first stroke of "I love you", implying that she was going to do the same thing but got cut off by timing. I mean, if you _want_ to watch it again that's allowed, I'm just saying you probably don't need to. Sweet film, though. When, towards the start, you were like "Aw, is it going to be a cute love story" or something I was like "hehe... kinda..." 😛

This movie is considered just the 1st of creator/director Shinkai's the "Disaster Trilogy" so I hope you get to see the two following one's as well: Weathering with You (2019), and Suzume (2022).

Its been a while since i've seen this. I forgot how touching it is and absolutely stunning the visuals are. Thanks for the reaction and have a good break!

Have to admit, as a Hafu I take for granted the ability to read Hiragana, Katakana and a bunch of Kanji and did not understand when she couldn't read the notes in the notebooks or on their hands/arms. I was actually stunned to realize that my Crunchyroll (I am a subscriber) DID have these translated and that her free trial through Amazon did not.

I just dug out my Japanese bluray box set for this movie to watch it along (that, and in Australia Prime doesn't have this movie). As others have said, this one is special. Before COVID, I traveled to Japan, and, at the time, one bus company had a bus in Tokyo that went around to all the locations from the movie, and they served the food from the cafe recreated (the pancake and coffee drink). While the tour was all in Japanese, it was great to enjoy all the scenery so faithfully recreated in the anime. But yes, without the text translated, you miss a fair bit of exposition. It's odd they didn't use the Bluray subtitles (even the Japanese disks have all the text included). Also highly recommended are the other movies from director Makoto Shinkai, they are all as gorgeous and emotionally written, especially Weathering With You, the movie he did after Your Name.

Nat, obviously not the same now that you've watched it... But I think you shoul rewatch some parts of it with a different streaming service where the written text is translated. As great as this movie is, you miss a lot not having the written text, especially at the climax of the movie. Maybe your editor can rewatch and suggest to you which exact scenes to rewatch?

And here I thought Ghibli movies had the most beautiful animated scenery I’ve ever seen, my god lol. This is my first time seeing this. At first I thought it would be just a nice cutesy story, but the whole comet part really took this story up a notch. Love the use of the color red and string visuals, like the sun beam when they finally met on the crater and the bannister at the end. Amazing visual storytelling. Definitely gonna check out the directors other movies now. Happy trails and have a great vacation!

You were robbed! ROBBED! My version had captions for all the important text on screen, and when she opens her hand, it doesn’t say her name, it says I love you. Best moment of the movie, and all we get is “it doesn’t help…” No but for real, next time screen someone you trust who watches anime, they can give you better sources for more convenient watching. This was a fantastic viewing, unfortunately seen it like 6-7 times now, so no water works, but I do hope you get to watch it sometime again on a rainy day with proper subtitles. There’s a lot of cute and funny text they leave behind for each other throughout the movie you unfortunately missed. But it has great rewatch value, especially with a first time watcher. And with that ladies and gents, I say we make her take on… JJK. It’d be so very entertaining watching her learn the gags and tropes and powers on the fly, yet give insightful commentary on the relationships and art styles and the sheer fucking chaos. I think she’s ready, I think she can handle it, she’s watched other cartoons, it’s not like she’s going full anime channel. But I think it would be really dope for her and the community and all the new viewers she’ll rack in. So there, that’s my pitch. Who’s backing me?

Also my favorite anime movie! Probably the most magical movie I've seen in theaters, the visuals floor me every time. Glad you liked it as much as us :) Really wholesome send off for summer. Hope you have a great and safe trip!

WOW...once I saw your announcement for this, I dropped everything else to watch along with you. Thank you for watching this. This movie is easily in my top 10 of all time due to the amazing visuals, the voice acting, the music. I always start to tear up when I here the songs from this movie. Also, next year, I will be climbing that staircase at the end of this movie and taking some pics when I travel to Japan again.

This movie was very successful financially too. I’m not looking forward to the inevitable Hollywood remake or knockoff 😔

Love this movie!!!!! ❤️

I've had the movie for a while now. At least on the DVD version they translated the writings. Excellent movie to start your break for a month. Have fun and relax on your vacation!

Just FYI the words he wrote on her hand at the end if you didn't know were 'I love you.' the idea is if he wrote his name it would be erased but those words wouldn't be. Something to do with a Japanese moon god, I believe, that the idea that love transcends time so even if everything else is forgotten that won't be. It's very beautifully tragic.

I hope you also watch Weathering with you! Its another movie by the same creator as Your Name, and also a masterpiece! :D

There are two other movies from the same creator, Makoto Shinkai, that have the same quality level visuals; Weathering with You and Suzume. If you like Your Name, you will love these two

oh is there no translation for the writings? Someone should sort this out finally. For some time on Crunchyroll there was no link to the sub version... but you could find the link by trickery, you could find it by internet search but not via the site itself. It may be fixed now or it might just be hard to find. And so there should be a way for Amazon to go to Crunchyroll and find the correct version - because we know it exists and it's probably just the pointer... or officially there are supposed to be different tracks encoded and they just picked the wrong track. I'll look later.

Unfortunately there are subtitles for the writing but only on crunchyroll not on Amazon prime through crunchyroll, kinda stupid, crunchyroll is a bit of a mess as a streaming service.

no subtitle for the written stuff is so harsh.. takes away quite a bit..

Happy Thursday Nat. Looking forward to watching this with you at the weekend. Another animated movie that I haven't seen before, but a lot of people here have requested it so I'm interested to see what it's about. Have an amazing time on your hiking trip Nat and enjoy your break away from it all 💛

Well I'll be on this one once I'm done work, one of my favorites, up there with a silent voice and I want to eat your pancreas as one of the few modern day anime films proper that can nearly bring me to tears every time I watch it. Have a great vacation!

I must’ve seen at least 15 reaction videos to this movie. It’s hard to capture that feeling of seeing it for the first time.