Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. In the anime film Your Name, Taki and Mitsuha swap bodies ...

Your Name is a stirring tale of rescue with a boisterous edge of YA mischief. It's also a love story with a swoony romantic affinity for the age-old tussle between chance and fate. The movie ...

Your Name. was the most popular film in the world for the first two months of 2017. ... Taki and Mitsuha, who live a few hours by train apart, and couldn't be more different.

Your Name. pulls you in with humor and jokes, from Taki constantly grabbing Mitsuha’s breasts in shock when he wakes up in her body, to her little sister walking in and commenting in disgust, to ...

Makoto Shinkai’s overly complicated anime feature buries an original story about body-swapping teens in a pile of science-fiction tropes. Rating: 1.5 stars out of 4.

Since Your Name was released in Japanese theaters over last Summer, the film has gone on to be one of the most successful anime movies of all time. It’s with good reason though, as it is a ...

I had no idea what to expect upon sitting down to Your Name and the first few minutes definitely had my head spinning.We’re ushered in via the voiceover narration of two high schoolers we’ve yet to ...

Your Name., the highest-grossing anime film in history, finally hits U.S. theaters this month, having already beaten Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle, and Pokémon: The First Movie at the box ...