Taki Tachibana

"Separated by distance, connected by fate.

High schoolers Mitsuha and Taki are complete strangers living separate lives, but one night, they suddenly switch places.

Mitsuha wakes up in Taki's body, and he in hers.

This bizarre occurrence continues to happen randomly, and the two must adjust their lives around each other."

Yep.

Okay, let's go through this movie more chronologically, sure.

Yeah, I think that's probably our, our, our best bet.

So, like, let's start talking about, like, Taki first because I think he's the easier one to understand.

Part one, when love feels like something other people understand.

Have you ever watched a scene in a movie or anime and thought, wait, people actually feel like that? Like in Your Name, when Mitsuha and Taki slowly realize their lives are connected in ways they can't explain.

Or that moment in Spirited Away when Haku tells Chihiro he knew her when they were children, and suddenly the whole story shifts.

Those scenes hit people so hard because they capture something deeply human, the feeling of being seen.

...

I watch it once a year, and I'll never forget the one scene of when they're writing each other's things on their hands, and Taki disappears, and Mitsuha's running, and she's running, and she falls, and she looks at her hand, and it, it just says, "I love you." Ah.

Oh, my God.

I, I cry every single time.