Your Name (Kimi no Na wa) is perhaps the best anime film and one of the best animated features I've seen (if you haven't seen it yet, go watch it right now. Leave this page and go watch it. Go. Seriously. It's really good). It's even secured a place on my top films in general (live action, animated, or otherwise), and it's perhaps the only "short" feature (compared to TV shows that have multiple dozens of episodes) where I've become so helplessly attached to the characters. I won't go too much into the actual premise; you can read what I've written on my website (located in my profile). I've already talked enough about the ending. As of writing this I have been dealing with its emotional fallout for just about a week now. I've had time to process my own emotions and deal with my thoughts, so this fic is definitely less about coping with the film's emotional effects than my last one. What this is about is trying to tailor the film's lore to my own satisfaction. Somehow, if something related to a fandom is written down, it becomes pseudo-canon because it feels more "official" than any sort of headcanons. I'm not trying to make the claim that my storytelling is somehow better than Makoto Shinkai's; no, Your Name is a masterpiece in almost every sort of category I can think of. This fic, then, is my attempt to reconcile certain aspects of the film that to me should have been dealt with or spoken about to some degree within the fictional universe. In other words, it's my extension on what was likely to happen or what I would have liked to see happen; a headcanon of a headcanon, if you will.
About this fic:
This fic takes the perspective of Miyamizu Hitoha, or Mitsuha's grandmother. Because the movie was quintessentially about the two protagonists and their connections, all other characters are given a sideline part. Therefore, unlike my previous fic, this is written in a third-person narrative. I also don't feel the urge to write this in the "right" way as I have in other fics, so this allows me the freedom to experiment with methods I'm not entirely familiar/comfortable with (in Our Names, I mention how I'm a terrible creative writer). In terms of storytelling, it's split up into two parts: one before the night of the comet strike (but after Hitoha realizes Mitsuha's body-swapping), and the other immediately after Our Names.
Updates:
January 5, 2017: Diction changes, minor edits to more accurately reflect the events of the film.
