Your Name/Kimi no Na wa

[bomaye]

Extremely high maximum level recommendation for this. Don't even watch the trailer, go into it as blind as you can (I did, it's worth it).



If you absolutely need a genre and aren't going to watch the trailer, then it's got elements of

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in it.

This is the first non-Miyazaki and non-pre-existing-series anime movie to gross over $100 million (and that was only in Japanese theaters), and it's absolutely in Miyazaki's league.

Only thing is I don't think the official English language versions are out yet (next few months depending on where you are, it sounds like), and the version I saw was a multi-language version that explicitly made it clear that I shouldn't have been watching it in the first place, if you catch my drift <.<

[Werel]

Finally saw this and wasn't expecting to be so moved, surprising tearjerker.

I did laugh inappropriately when

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But hey why did

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Also, I now want very badly to live in a small Japanese town's shinto shrine.

[Enail]

Japanese nerd notes to spoil the joke

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[bomaye]

Japanese nerd notes to spoil the joke

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Basically, what she's saying is

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[bomaye]

Simultaneous watched it over the internet again with two people last night

Me: "Okay, I know all the eye-watery parts (fucking bamboo waterslides), so I should be good this time."
*40 minutes in*
Me: "Uh Oh"
*An hour later*
Me: "Fucking bamboo waterslides, someone should really move those, there's puddles up to my ankles in here "

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