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 ...

What starts out as a "Freaky Friday"-type body exchange becomes a rumination on time travel, cataclysmic fate, rural-urban dynamics and, of course, a love story in novelist-turned-anime director ...

Meet Dev, an avid writer, cat lover, and anime enthusiast. He has a passion for storytelling, traveling, and new adventures. Your Name, an acclaimed movie directed by the visionary Makoto Shinkai, ...

The Japanese animated movie “Kimi no Na Wa,” or “Your Name“ in English, is truly a wonderfully produced movie. Everything about the movie strikes a chord in the viewer’s heart. “Your Name” tells the ...

Makoto Shinkai’s Your Name has been such a big hit for anime film fans in both 2016 and 2017, even making it the highest grossing anime film of all time, so it was only a matter of time before the ...

One fan uploading a “what-if” scenario imagining what Your Name would look like if it starred Sasha and Connie from Attack on Titan instead. Attack on Titan x Your Name Crossover from ShingekiNoKyojin ...