Your Name [Blu-ray]

Brilliant. Simply brilliant. Wasn't expecting to like this as much as the other animes by this director as wasn't sure about the storyline from what I'd heard, but it was fantastic. Lots of subtlety, humour, depth and layers of meaning. Superb animation. Want to give it many more stars than 5.

I've added six photos of the collectors edition steelbook so you can see exactly what you get.I happened upon this film on Amazon's Prime streaming service (where it's currently free to view if you're a Prime member) while searching for "Spirited Away" so I had to watch it. "Your Name." is my very first Japanese anime movie and I am far from disappointed. Infact, I am beyond happy and I have just watched it for a second time but this time on Blu-ray.I've chosen not to drone on about the film and what it's about as many people have commented on that already. Personally, I recommend that you watch the trailer on YouTube. Instead, I have commented on the audio and visuals. For clear information about the extras please see the photos I have shared.Graphics and visuals:The graphics are breathtakingly detailed and some scenes look dreamily hazy with a dazzling array of colours. Shadow and light have been well used as well. I'm pleasantly surprised with how well timed the characters spoken animations are too.English voice actors:Full of emotion, personality and well timed with the graphics as well.Information on the Prime streaming version:It is dubbed in English with optional subtitles but the music by Radwimps is in Japanese. From time-to-time some basic English subtitles will pop up on the screen when there is Japanese text on the screen. For example; there is a scene where Mitsuha (the girl on the cover art) and her two friends are walking pass some buildings. They are two pubs and above them it says what each pub is called.Information on the Blu-ray version:It is dubbed in English but you can select to hear it in Japanese with English subtitles as well. The Radwimps music is in English. From time-to-time some basic English subtitles will pop up on the screen when there is Japanese text on the screen. For example; there is a scene where Mitsuha and her two friends are walking pass some buildings. They are two pubs and above them it says what each pub is called.Information on the DVD version:I haven't watched the dvd version yet so I cannot comment fairly. I will update this section when I have though.Information on the CD soundtrack:I popped the disc into my laptop this morning but unfortunately my CD drive has stopped working (no discs work) so I cannot comment on it yet. I will update when I'm able to listen.I highly recommend this movie and the collector's edition steelbook to any avid Japanese anime fan and newcomers as well.

Great item, is as described.Arrived quickly and with care.

If you haven't seen it - get it.Like many people I got drawn (so to speak) into Japanese animation by films such as "Spirited Away", and Studio Ghibli in general. I'd have to say, though, that in many ways "Your Name" takes things to another level. The production values feel very high; the quality of the animation, for example, is outstanding - a mixture, I have no doubt, of human and computer, resulting both in stunning visuals, including a very 3-dimensional feel to the depth of field, and in what I think must be an unusually-high animation frame-rate, that allows the animators full scope to make character movements very smooth and expressive. All that without ever losing that quintessential feeling characteristic of the genre. And the story, too, whilst fairly straightforward, is mostly strong and subtly handled, with a couple of "which way will things go?" moments that left me in genuine uncertainty as to how it would end. It richly deserves both the plaudits heaped on it, and its recent box-office success.One caveat: I watched the film in Japanese with subtitles, so I can't comment on the quality of the English voice acting.(If that seems quirky or daunting, I'd seriously recommend it to anyone. I have only a few words of Japanese - not remotely enough to follow a film like this. But whether or not I speak a word of it, given a choice I always strongly prefer to watch any foreign-language film in the original language. I find that simply hearing the rhythms and tones of a language often adds a degree of cultural context and "feel" that dubbed versions can't possibly manage. And if you're lucky, you start to pick up nuances that no translation can do justice to ("Your Name" has a real corker, in fact - there's one short scene where a character struggles to find the "right" word to use, that is so culturally "Japanese" - and utterly meaningless in English - that I'm almost tempted to go watch that part of the English version, just to see how it's handled).)