Your Name
2016 Japanese animated film directed by Makoto Shinkai
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| July 2024 | An audiobook adaptation of the Your Name novel was published by Yen Audio. |
| July 19 2024 | The film was re-released in China, revisiting the market where it previously achieved significant box office success. |
| May 19 2023 | PVR Cinemas released Your Name as the opening film of the 'Makoto Shinkai Film Festival' in India. |
| 2021 | Okudera meets Taki and reveals she is getting engaged, wearing an engagement ring. |
| 2021 | Five years after the original events, Taki, now a university graduate, glimpses Mitsuha in Tokyo. They finally meet and recognize each other at a shrine's stairs. |
| 2020 | Dethroned as the highest-grossing Japanese film by Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train. |
| December 11 2018 | First volume of Another Side: Earthbound manga was released by Yen Press. |
| August 2018 | Novel was released in audiobook format, read by Romi Park. |
| January 3 2018 | The film received its Japanese terrestrial television premiere via TV Asahi, achieving a 17.4% audience rating. |
| 2017 | Both light novels were published in English by Yen Press. |
| 2017 | Internationally released by several distributors in multiple countries. |
| 2017 | Both 'Your Name' light novels were published in English by Yen Press. |
| November 7 2017 | Funimation released the film on Blu-ray and DVD in North America with Standard and Limited Edition Combo Packs. |
| November 4 2017 | The film made its Japanese television broadcast premiere on satellite television channel Wowow. |
| November 4 2017 | The Japanese television broadcast of Your Name premiered on satellite television broadcaster Wowow. |
| September 27 2017 | Producer J.J. Abrams and screenwriter Eric Heisserer announced they were working on a live-action remake of Your Name with Paramount Pictures. |
| July 2017 | Another Side: Earthbound manga adaptation by Arata Kanou and Junya Nakamura was released through the Cycomics app. |
| July 26 2017 | The film was released in 4K UHD Blu-ray, Blu-ray, and DVD formats in Japan by Toho Pictures, with multiple edition options available. |
| June 20 2017 | First volume of the manga adaptation by Makoto Shinkai and Ranmaru Kotone, licensed by Yen Press, was released in English. |
| 2016 | Taki attempts to save Mitsuha and Itomori by convincing her friends to help broadcast an emergency evacuation signal before the meteor strike. |
| 2016 | Taki discovers the town of Itomori was destroyed by comet Tiamat's fragments three years earlier, and learns that Mitsuha was among the 500 people killed. |
| 2016 | Won Best Animated Feature at the 49th Sitges Film Festival. |
| 2016 | Received Best Animated Feature at the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards. |
| 2016 | Received Best Animated Feature at the 71st Mainichi Film Awards. |
| December 2 2016 | Released in Los Angeles for one week to qualify for the Academy Awards. |
| December 2 2016 | Your Name was released in Chinese theatres by Huaxia Film Distribution to qualify for awards consideration. |
| September 2016 | Light novel had sold around 1,029,000 copies, with an additional 112,000 copies sold in the second week of September. |
| August 2016 | Film adaptation of 'Your Name' was widely released, causing the novel to reach the top place in Oricon's weekly bunkobon sales charts for three consecutive weeks. |
| August 26 2016 | The film was theatrically released in Japan, becoming widely available to domestic audiences. |
| August 1 2016 | Follow-up light novel 'Your Name Another Side: Earthbound' was released, written by Makoto Shinkai and Arata Kanoh, with illustrations by Masayoshi Tanaka and Hiyori Asakawa. |
| July 3 2016 | Your Name premiered at the Anime Expo in Los Angeles, marking its first international public screening. |
| June 18 2016 | Makoto Shinkai publishes the light novel 'Your Name' through Kadokawa, one month before the film's premiere, serving as a novelization of the animated film. |
| December 31 2014 | Shinkai announced he had been writing the storyboard for the film. |
| September 14 2014 | Shinkai submitted a film proposal to Toho, with the original film title derived from a poem attributed to Ono no Komachi. |
| 2013 | Mitsuha travels to Tokyo to find Taki, giving him a red ribbon, though he does not recognize her at the time. |
| 2013 | Mitsuha experiences body-switching with Taki, living in different time periods. During this time, she helps Taki improve his social life and sets him up on a date with his coworker Miki Okudera. |
| 2013 | Mitsuha visits the Shinto shrine with her grandmother Hitoha and sister Yotsuha, where her grandmother explains the connection between time and human relationships. |
| July 2011 | Makoto Shinkai visited Yuriage, Natori after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, which inspired the film's story concept, leading him to want to create a film that would swap the perspectives of the town's residents with the viewers. |
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