Your Name.: w/ Beneath the Tangles on Shinkai’s Melancholic Filmography

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Twwk (Charles) from Beneath the Tangles joins Melvin to discuss the hugely popular anime film Your Name. from Makoto Shinkai. From its Studio Ghibli-esque accessibility, its stunningly detailed animation, and Shinkai’s filmography, the two discuss all sorts of topics in this dense episode! Tune in now!

Topics:

• (PATREON EXCLUSIVE) 43-minutes playing an “Anime Draft” where-in Charles & Melvin each draft 5 anime in competition, discuss each show/movie mentioned along the way, and then decide which projects they’d watch in the end. (PATREON EXCLUSIVE)
• Beyond the Tangles has a lot of functions and contributors: a blog, cosplayers, twitch streamers, podcasts, and a social media presence. Charles shares all about it, and Melvin asks about their mission.
• Charles was surprised to hear that Your Name. is still a critical success in the west, as he never saw the film as a “critic’s movie”.
• Melvin was disappointed he didn’t connect with the film, and distinctly remembers being in the movie theater during its western premiere and thinking during a pivotal scene, “I wish I was emotional right now. I wish I was crying right now.”
• It seems Your Name. is playing with a mixture of various anime tropes, Japanese folklore, and even details in Shinkai’s filmography.
• Discussing themes of threading relationships.
• Melvin complains about the twist, and how it didn’t really work for him.
• The whole film functions on a breakneck pace. Mundanity is thrown to the wayside.
• Discussing and appreciating the ending.

Recommendations:

• Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End (2023) (Anime)
• Chainsaw Maid (2007) (Claymation)

Your Name. is Rated PG for thematic elements, suggestive content, brief language, and smoking. It features Ryunosuke Kamiki, Mone Kamishiraishi, Ryo Narita, Aoi Yûki, Nobunaga Shimazaki, Kaito Ishikawa, Kanon Tani, Masaki Terasoma, and Sayaka Ôhara. Directed by Makoto Shinkai. Your Name. is available here.

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Melvin Benson is the Founder, Editor-In-Chief, and Lead Host of Cinematic Doctrine. Whether it’s a movie, show, game, comic, or novel, it doesn’t matter. As long as it’s rich, he’s ready and willing to give it a try! His hope is to see King Jesus glorified as far as the east is from the west!

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