Kimi no Na wa

This manga is totally same as the movie and light novel.

8/10 story - Two teenagers, totally stranger to each other living in two different places starts to body swap and a melodramatic and romantic story sprinkled with a bit comedy follows.

8/10 art- above average, the few color pages that this manga have are very beautifully drawn and pleasing to look at at just like the movie.

7/10 chatterers - not much to say they are just average,seriously.our main guy is a shy boy who is nervous to ask out his coworker while our main girl is a country bumpkin who has father issues and wants to get out of her town.hehe

8/10 enjoyment - well i enjoyed it.though the open ending killed a bit of my enjoyment but still it was above average.

overall score - 8/10

Really enjoy time travelling stories.

Beautiful story written in only three volumes. Read it all in no more than two hours. Perfect if you want to read something in a short time but with a good story development.

I would really like to know more about the protagonist’s past life. Maybe adding a prequel volume were you can learn more about their stories would be great.

Art 10/10 !! Great design, beautiful drawings specially the landscapes where you can appreciate the contrast between city and country. The manga really makes you want to watch the anime movie to see every scenery in detail and colored.

Your Name.
A movie that I decided to watch one night out of boredom and a lack of shows to watch.
A movie that changed the way I percieved anime to this day.
And a movie that I absolutely do not regret watching.
But enough about the movie, how does the manga adaptation square up?

// Story // 9/10
The manga follows the same story as the movie does, makes sense, it's an adaptation of the movie into the manga form. There are a few subtle additions in the manga that I find great, scenes that were cut from the movie or just added for the manga, I'm not really sure which. These scenes focus mostly on Mitsuha, happening in volumes 1 and 3. Vol. 1 at the very start, after the color pages, and shows in a few panels her desire for freedom from her life in the countryside, and at the end showing her new life in Tokyo after the comet disaster. The one key flaw to this story however, and this goes for both the manga and the movie, is that towards the end, it gets pretty hard to follow. Volume 3 especially, with Taki going back and forth, from the past to the present and back again, but I think that with a careful re-read and the establishment of a timeline, this could be fixed.

// Art // 10/10
Probably Your Name's biggest selling point, it's art. The art in the movie was impeccable, looking beyond anything seenn in most anime today. It's on par with Makoto Shinkai's other works, notably Kotonoha no Niwa/Garden of Words. The art in the manga is still very good, but the character designs for Taki and Mitsuha do look quite different, but I'm actually very open to this change. I always felt like something was off with their original character designs, but I brushed it off due to how good the movie was. Here, Taki and Mitsuha look amazing, Taki's face is a bit shorter, and same for Mitsuha, and her hair looks less...big? I don't really know how to qualify the changes in Mitsuha's design. I know they're there, but I can't seem to put my finger on it.
The scenery is amazing. The few colored pages we get reflect that perfectly. The scenery is very true to the source, and, having watched the movie almost a year ago now (yikes), it allowed me to re-discover elements of the scenery that I may have forgotten.

// Character // 10/10
It's easy to fall in love with these characters. May it be from their personnalities, to their designs or even the way they act, I found myself overwhelmed with joy when i saw the two of them on top of the hill, before Mitsuha disappeared at the end of the katawaredoki. Again, the design for some characters is quite different, but that doesn't hinder the experience in any way (for me at least).
Throughout the manga, we really get to see how they got closer, the little notes they'd leave each other, and even their breif moment shared together, to their reunion in the end on the steps. The facial expressions make it all feel so real, making it easy to fall into the story, making it feel as though you're reading about something that actually happened instead of a fiction.

// Enjoyment // 10/10
I read this over a period of one afternoon. I didn't want to rush it, and I wanted to take my sweet time in reading this to really get the full experience, and boy, it did not disappoint. I could genuinely feel happiness in the moments that expressed them, and despite knowing what happens, my heart dropped again when I saw the crater left behind by the comet, and again when Mitsuha disappeared after the end of the katawaredoki. I also felt immense relief at the end, seeing Mitsuha alive and well, despite knowing full well that she'd make it, and the staircase scene almost made me cry. (It made me cry in the movie for like, the seventh time...)

// Overall // 10/10
Overall, this is a work of art.
A short story, but one that, in my opinion shouldn't be overlooked. It is in no way better than the movie, I don't think any adaptation could beat it, but it definitely adds a little touch of detail and "heartwarming-ness"(?) to an already great story.

Thanks for reading!

Manga adaptations based to Shinkai Makoto's movies have been very rewarding and practically obligatory reads in the past. There where the movies have been simplistic feel-good experiences that are -arguably doing their job - but still aren't much more than pretty to look at, the manga alternatives have been pushing the characters and story much further: offering the real emotional content.

Voices of a Distant Star manga build an incredible melancholic atmosphere with powerful, bittersweet conclusion. 5 centimeters per second manga, on the other hand, continued the story much further, introduced a whole new aspect to the narrative, and utterly focused on character feelings. Kimi no Na wa is thus far the only manga adaptation that is inferior to the anime.

Despite Kimi no Na wa movie's mediocre cast and below average story, the amount of details and pretty scenes made the thing worth of my while to a point where I watched it twice and bought it on bluray. It wasn't very good, but it was enough for sure. This manga version is not enough. They somehow managed to make the story inferior, too fast paced, and completely lack in spirit and polish. An empty shell: a polar opposite of what the movie was.

Our characters convey zero personality and emotions. The art, especially during those gender bender boob touching moments, is hideous. Simplistic sketches of faces that are typically drawn for side characters in gag comedies. The panel to panel transition is awkward and random and most of all, makes it look like the series was drawn simply by pausing the movie at certain points and remastering the seen in paper. That's not how you make a manga, that's a collection of still, reference-based artwork. Nothing more.

I can only recommend this to those who insist that the story and characters in the movie are of good quality: read this and realize how half of all romances are better written than Kimi no Na wa: the movie was good for completely different reasons.

It’s bland. It’s unseasoned, raw, mushy, oily, boring, take it back, thank you.

On tonight’s Manga Nightmares we have a manga adaptation of Your Name. I guess most of us can agree that the greatest part of the movie was the animation. Now who the hell though it would be a good idea to make it into a manga without hiring the greatest manga illustrator they could get their hands on? No, instead we get an artist that rings no bells (no offense to the artist, but that’s just how it is) who delivered an adaptation that only highlights how the plot of the movie wasn’t exactly that great.

The protagonists have no personalities beyond being a love interest (and, for half the duo being a country girl), rest of the cast is so irrelevant you won’t even remember their names and of course the glaring plotholes from the movies are kept (yeah, yeah, somehow when being in a capital city have you seen the full date anywhere, sure, yeah yeah you’ve conveniently forgot about something that would get heavy coverage as a national tragedy, of course, yada yada).

In a way, this manga is a fitting adaptation. As a whole it feels okay-ish but not that great, which is exactly what you’ll get from most of Shinkai movies If you ignore the animation. Really, without that his stories would get nowhere near as many praises as they get. They’re a visual treat, not a mental one.

So yes, I wouldn’t recommend reading this if you haven’t seen the movie and even then only if you really, really liked the movie. Ignore the main score for this one, it’s irrelevant as most of the high ratings are given because of the movie, not because the manga itself is being rated.

So to start, I haven't seen the movie, nor have I read the novel. This is just the 9 chapter manga version. So here's a totally honest review, from someone with 0 knowledge of this story beforehand...

Story: I gave it a 6. To be completely honest, this is where the whole thing falls apart. The start is good, I feel like this could go somewhere great, and unfortunately it doesn't. I won't get into specifics, but *SPOILER WARNING* you're left at the end of the manga like "wait, that's it?". This is one of those stories that might actually do better on film, then in a book. You don't get a sense of time and the speed of things as much when you're reading through a chapter (well you do, but not as well as in real time in a movie). To be honest, my first thought after watching it was that this is a prequel to something. Another movie, or manga, but it leaves you feeling like you've been caught up or told the story prior to the real one.

Art: Since this art is essentially the movie, it's fantastic. Like really really good. Everything from characters to backgrounds, it's outstanding.

Character: This story had a lot of emotion in it, but it wasn't built enough. Some characters become emotional and even though I'm sitting here understanding why, it's not enough for me to want to cry with them. There's a sweet spot for waiting before you cry. Good example is Violet Evergarden. That series mastered that sweet spot.

At 9 chapters, you can read this thing within an hour easily. It's good, but I don't recommend it. You're left feeling kind of empty. But again, this is it as a manga, not as a movie, so I may be totally wrong and people who have seen the film find it good.

go watch the movie. The manga is the same with the movie, with some few additional scene that were cut from the film. if u read this b4 watching the movie, you are doing a disservice. Because the movie was the true superior adaptation. The visual and sounds of the movie will add layer and depth to the experience. More than reading the manga will ever done. But if you finish the movie and like it i suggesting reading it on your free-time. Because it has some scene that were cut from the film, but sadly if your looking for a OVA or extended ending. Your not lucky the manga end right where the movies ends.