The boy and the girl walk past each other on the staircase full of nostalgia and regret.
"Anou!" – the boy broke the silence.
The startled beauty in the pink overcoat stopped.
"Haven't we met?" - he goes on.
She slowly turned her face back to look at him with tears starting rolling down on her cheeks from her eyes.
"I thought so too" - she responded with obvious happiness on her face.
The two started crying slightly. They can't hide their happiness anymore.
"...your name is...?" - they ask each other.
*Nandemonaiya starts playing in the background*
Oy! Oy! Wait what, is this the end? and that's it? So this is what I literally received after spending more than 1 hour watching this anime? They two didn't even confess to each other yet, yeah I know the boy did it, but...like...are you kidding me?
Watching anime is supposed to be relaxing, especially for a student after his hard weekdays in school. So why the hell am I more depressed after watching this?
Huh? Hey you, yeah you, the one that's reading this.
You are definitely wondering "Who the heck this guy is?", ain't I right?
Yare Yare, I'm Saiki Kusuo, a psychic filled with loads of super abilities that you will never be able to think of with your imagination.
Sure I'm not a Chūnibyō or any kind of paranoid you are thinking of.
In case you have no clue who I am, I guess you should google "The Disastrous life of Saiki K.", watch my pathetic life first then you can get back here and carry on reading this. I'm not gonna sit here and tell you my own full story, there's an anime with 2 seasons and 8 special episodes about me out there, do it yourself.
So, what am I doing here? Simply, just like you, enjoy a story of some Anime characters.
Two days ago Teruhashi-san (watch the anime already or don't ask me who this girl is) asked me to watch an anime with her, by using Telepathy to read her mind I know it's a romance anime named "Kimi no na wa", sounds good but no way I would watch that kind of stuff with this girl alone.
So I managed to inform her perverted older brother and...yeah, she now has to watch the anime with her "gorgeous" brother. Sorry Teruhashi-san.
Hmmmm but this anime seems to be good stuff, it's the weekend today anyway, so I decided to spend time watching it alone.
And just a few minutes ago, the film ended, as you have seen my reaction to it and I bet that most of you guys have the same reaction as I did during the last scene of this film.
Yare, yare, While talking with you, I have been storming and wandering around the internet to search for all kind of stuffs relate to the film, such as the official mangas, the Light Novels and the Fanfics, I finished them all in just a few seconds, hey, this is supernatural anyway so don't ask me why I'm that fast. And now I ended up with nothing left to read. Some of them are still in progress.
But now I'm actually coming up with an idea, why don't I just do it myself?
Many people did that before me, I read many of the fanfics, some of them are amazing, especially Afterstory of Nanakotone, Okashii one-chan of Nekotofu and my most favorite series Thoughts & Dreams from Bleda, lol, this guy is badass, he literally made a whole fanmade manga project himself after having nothing left to read.
For text only fanfics, I read many as well, like the "Rediscovering the Future" of KralizecCL, this one is also a good stuff among many other good stuff, I would highly recommend.
But, just what is running through your mind? Are you thinking that I'm gonna make fanmade stuff? I'm a psychic, remember?
Yeah, that's right, I'm gonna change the whole story of this myself.
How? Good question.
Since I'm an Anime character, which also means each Anime is a universe and this is a multiverse. Being a psychic gave me an ability to enter another universe, just don't ask me how, I have just known it recently, I'm just like you, no clue.
*Saiki flashback*
1 month ago:
"You said you were in the Doraemon universe somehow?" - Kusuke interestingly asks.
"Yeah, It seems I have the ability to enter another anime universe, there's still many mysterious abilities of mine that I'm not yet finding out."
"Hmmmm, hard to believe, can you prove?"
"Hand me that Dragon balls manga and I will show you"
"Here"
*Saiki disappears*
"Huh? Okay, I would say you were just teleporting to somewhere else, lemme guess, you will come back here and tell me that you did enter Dragon balls universe, haha, your onii-chan is smart, I'm not gonna buy it, unless you could bring here the evidence like the dragon ba...OH SH*T WHAT THE F*CK IS THIS?"
"You meant these 7 ones right?"
"Ah...yes...I actually expected another "balls"."
"Aren't you even thinking of it?"
"Well nevermind, SUMMON DRAGON TIME!"
"Hey! You dumbass bastard, don't summon that thing, we're in another univers..."
"I'm Shenron, please make a wish...wait, where is this?"
"AGHGGGGHGHHGHGHGHGHGHHHHHHHHHHHHH" - the Saikis screaming in an extreme panic.
*5 minute later*
And Saiki explained everything to Shenron.
"Okay I got It, so I'm being dragged by you into your universe, it's okay, just make sure you won't use this ability to mess up with the other universes, I guess I will ask you to get me back to my universe, I got a lot of business to do their, tho I'm really curious on how did you collect all the 7 balls in just such a short time like that"
"I'm a psychic, and this dumbass brother of mine asked me to prove my ability is real, so it is, sorry!"
"I see, okay, so you guys won't wish, right? I'm happy that you guys aren't abusing the powe..."
"I wish I could meet Douglas MacAthur and Bernard Montgomery in person" - Kusuke naturally interrupts.
"Eh?" - both Saiki and Shenron.
After that I managed to put things back in order, about that wish, yeah, I did let him meet those two guys, I'm not sure what's with that "Hey , lemme show you this bomb which is much more powerful than the atomic bombs in your time, so you wouldn't need 60 nukes drop on the border anymore" that he spoke to General MacAthur. I mean, this guy is a mad onii-chan you know, he sure had mad ideas, can't blame him for that. But since we're in a different universe, it's easier for me to put things back in order in my own universe, so don't worry.
So, with the situation you have heard from me so far, you knew that I'm having an ability that allows me to enter any Anime/Manga universe I want, as long as I touch the manga or the anime, with the anime I just need to touch the screen with it being screened, no need to buy a CD or some physical thing. So that means Kimi no na wa is no exception.
Sorry Shinkai-sama, since you are not working on this universe anymore, allow me to enter this one, I'm out of patience.
Hey, what are you thinking of? You are looking for a scene where I will get there and punch the shit out of the comet like what I did in my universe and Saitama did in his universe, aren't you?
Yare Yare, I do have the ability to do so, but I'm not gonna do that. Why? Because the comet is the icon of the movie, what's the point of wiping out the existence of such a symbolic entity?
And the moment that the comet strikes Itomori with Mitsuha down there is enjoyable. Now don't get me wrong, I do want Mitsuha to be alive and reunite with Taki more than any others. But the comet striking scene is beautifully animated, and worth making a wallpaper. So comet-sama is allowed to exist with my interference.
So what am I gonna do? You will know.
LET'S ROLL.
*Itomori's cater during Kataware-doki*
The Kataware-doki is about to end, the two young people have many things to talk about, but sadly fate doesn't allow them to do it. After telling Mitsuha about the plan to save Itomori. The two look at the sky.
"It's coming"
"Don't worry, you've still got time"
"Yes, I'll try"
"Kataware-doki is almost..."
"over"
"Hey Mitsuha, so we don't forget when we wake up..."
*Grab Mitsuha right hand and starts writing*
"Heh?"
"Let's write our names on each other. Here!"
"Uhm!" - Mitsuha's eyes shining.
*Makes a line on Taki's hand and disappears to her timeline*
"Eh?"
"Mitsuha?"
"Hey, Mitsuha?"
"I wanted to tell you in the world, I'll search for you"
*Taki trying to remember Mitsuha's name by repeating it multiple times*
"Your name is..."
*Grabs the marker, makes a line and stops*
*Struggling to remember her name and starting to forget her existence*
"Who are you?"
"Why did I come here?"
"I came here to see her!"
"To save her. I want her to be alive!"
"Who was it, who? Who did I come to see?
"Someone dear to me. I don't want to forget. I shouldn't forget!"
"Who? Who? Who? Who?"
"WHAT IS YOUR NAME?" - Screaming in impotence.
Saiki.
"Saik...wait what?" Taki confusingly turned his head back towards the strange voice behind him and then saw nothing.
Nevermind, her name is Mitsuha, Mitsuha Miyamizu.
"Oh! I remember! She is Miyamizu who I had swapping events with and just a moment before she disappeared, I remember everything!.Tho I didn't expect for the full name, no need that much details"
"Wait, WHO THE HELL ARE YOU? WHO IS TALKING TO ME?" - Taki freaked out and started panicking.
Behind you.
"AGGGHGHHGHGGHHG!" - Taki turns, screams and goes unconscious.
Sigh, what a weak reaction I didn't expect from this Tokyo boy. RECOVERING! You aren't allowed to go unconscious during this critical time.
*Taki gets recovered thanks to Saiki ability*
"AGGGHGHHGHGGHHG!" - Taki did get up but still in panic state.
Yare Yare, STOP IT!
*Taki stopped in fear*
"Who...who are you? and...why...why do you know..." - Taki tremblingly asks
I'm Saiki Kusuo, a psychic, literally I have supernatural abilities to mess around with anything. That's it. I came from another universe after tired of watching the end of an Anime about you guys. So I'm here to help you guys and stop making that stare while I'm talking to you, I'm not an alien you dumbass. Let's go back to 2013.
"Wait...what? Are you serious? Are you joking? hey...what's with that psychic? and what's...what's the anime? - Taki confusingly keeps asking things.
I knew it, no one's gonna buy this story, even people in my universe, can't blame them, but simply I don't have time to literally explain 2 seasons and 8 special episodes of my Anime for this guy here right now. So I might have to use my supernatural ability, THE MIND CONTROL.
So I managed to control his mind, I'm not changing anything much, he still acknowledges the existence of mine, still confused, still curious, still panicked, but much less than he initially was. In other words, you could say I have decreased his concern about me and increased his concern about his relationship to Mitsuha, making his mind seeing Mitsuha existence is much more important than questioning who I am.
Since this is mind control, which means this is also adopted for Mitsuha in real time so I won't need to do this twice. They will still question me, but much less.
"Wh...who...who are you...? The anim...okay, anyway, so you said you will help me with Mitsuha, right?" - Taki quickly takes his sanity back.
Yes, that's why I'm here.
See?
By the way, from now on, bold italic texts will be used to show my texts whenever I talk to you, yeah, that's right, you, the reader.
Okay, so, shall we?
"Yeah, thank you, let's go!"
Okay, let's meet your girlfriend.
"Ahh...no...I mean, she is...just...a..fr..." - Taki blushed.
Oh shut up man, you said you love her, you even wrote that on her hand.
"Wait...WHAT? HOW DO Y..."
TIME LEAP!
Yare Yare, I bet that you are confused why Taki got his memories back that fast. Plus, I didn't tell him anything about it since, except the full name, he remembered the other details himself.
So this is why.
*A few minute ago*
"This couple is adorable, but sadly, I will have to temporarily separate them for a few years. And more importantly, I will have to delete all of their memories and evidence. I'm sorry Taki and Mitsuha, this is a traditional thing I would have to do anyway." - a strange man whispering while standing in a nothingness place and looking at Taki and Mitsuha during Kataware-doki.
Oy, are you Musubi?
"Huh, who's there?" - he frantically looked around.
Right here.
So I ended up scaring the shit out of him.
Since he's also a supernatural entity, it's much easier to chill him down and have him acknowledge the situation than with normal human being like Taki and Mitsuha.
By the way I'm a human, just a normal high school student, I just have some supernatural abilities, so stop looking at me like that. Musubi is the only supernatural entity here.
And I'm standing here seeing him with my own eyes, he's an old guy, maybe his appearance is around 80-90, though his existence is counted by a million years. Just like a fairy man among Asian myths. Such a stereotype. Since he's a dang old man, I'm not gonna use "they/them" or anything else, so stop wondering If you are.
"Sigh, so you want them to remember each other and reunite sooner?"
"I understand why you said so, I know, they're adorable, but since this is my duty as Musubi, this is a tradition and I must do what I have to do. Don't worry, they will just temporarily separate from each other, they will be reunited after 8/5 years. So don't worry, everything will be fi..."
Yare Yare, I think you got what I said wrong.
"Huh? What do you mean?"
When I said "I want", It didn't mean I was begging you for something, I meant I ordered you to do what I told you to do.
In the other words, I'm not here asking you If you can do or not. I'm here placing an order to do If you are still loving your existence.
"How in the world...what happened with this guy? How dare he..."
Yes, I'm that "dare", so what's up? I can read your mind.
"Nani? What kind of thing are you?"
It should have been me asking that question since I'm a human being.
"Whatever, I'm a god, I'm not listening to a kid like you literally coming from nowhere."
"I will teach you how to respect a god, YOU WILL SEE, HAHAHAHA"
*BONK!*
"HA, couldn't even scratch me..." - Musubi collapses.
Hmmm? Hey, don't look at me with those eyes, I'm a psychic, an Anime character, this guy Musbubi here is also a fictional anime entity, which means I can have a full impact on him.
I simply can't touch any superior gods such as Christ, Abraham, Buddha or Mohammed or some god else of the official religions. So don't worry, there will not be some bullshit thing like "there's no god" or "I'm the god '' in this. I can only have influences on other fictional anime characters.
But with this god Musubi, he's nothing to me.
Yare Yare.
"Why are you so strong?"
My author Shuichi Aso gave me this strength, go ask him. Your author Shinkai only gave you the strength to swap people and wipe out their memories and such. Poor you.
"You can't do this *cough* letting them remember each other will cause paradox for the timeline, and supernatural things must not be acknowledged in their world, please just let me delete their memories, let them reunite sooner could might be compromised, but the memories."
I know I will have my own way of solving this. Instead, I'm thinking of a much better thing for you. Instead of making them forget each other, I will make the Miyamizu family forget what the hell is Musubi. Yare Yare, sounds good isn't it?
"Wait what? No! You can't!"
Yes I can , just imagine it makes me laugh so hard inside. They would go like "Let's write Musubi on our hands so we won't forget him after we wake up" Hehe.
"YAMERO!" - Musubi screams.
Oy, calm down, I was just kidding, you're not acting like a venerable god.
I'm not gonna do that so just chill it down.
"Well...that's a relief" - Musubi said it like his body was falling apart.
Doesn't mean I don't have the ability to do so, so you better not provoke me otherwise the next tangled and twisted one will be your neck and the braided cord.
"Okay I swear I will do whatever you tell me to do"
Hmmmmm, Yare Yare, It seems I did it a little bit too far, you aren't a bad god, you are just doing your job, can't blame you for this. If it wasn't you, there would be no swapping events, also Taki and Mitsuha wouldn't have a chance to develop their feelings towards each other. I guess I will have to thank you for your magnificent job anyway.
"Does that mean..."
No, don't even think about that, I will still stick to my plan.
Now, release their memories!
And that was how I made Taki and Mitsuha remember anything without telling tall tales.
Okay, let's go back to my mission.
*2013 Itomori village a few minute before the impact of the comet*
Mitsuha is running down the street, struggling to remember her dear one's name.
"Who, who, who is that?"
"Someone dear to me, I shouldn't forget, I didn't want to forget!"
"Who? Who? Who are you?"
"What's your name?"
She looks at the comet.
"It's broken!"
She stumbles on a rock and starts falling and rolling down the street.
Her body is now scratched and she's hurt. But what will make her much more hurt and pain in heart is until she opens her right hand to see the handwriting words.
Her eyes are tearing. Heartbrokenly say:
"I can't remember your name with this..."
Taki is now invisible standing in front of her meter. Thanks to Saiki's invisible ability, Taki is now Invisible as well.
His eyes are tearing as well.
"She cried...means she loves me too...I'm sorry Mitsuha, I wasn't able to write my name on your hand...I'm sorry for making you this".
Mitsuha doesn't aware of the existence of Saiki and Taki, starts running towards the Town mayor's office building.
He intends to drag her hand back, hug her and tell her his name. But Saiki immediately locks his body and doesn't allow him to do so.
"Hey Saiki, you four eyes! let me out, make me visible again so I can catch her up! You are supposed to help us, aren't you?
Yare Yare, Are you crazy?
"What do you mean?"
The comet is falling down here and Mitsuha is doing her job to carry out the plan you left for her. There's not much time left for chat. So stop acting childish. I can assure that she will succeed and you can have your time with her at the evacuation site. Just not for now you idiot.
"Come to think of it, aren't you a psychic? You should have the ability to stop the comet, such as destroying it or anything. Why don't you?"
I can't, I'm a psychic but I'm also a human being, my abilities are limited, it's not ultimate.
Yare Yare, I'm feeling so sorry for Taki because literally I'm lying. Yes, not only I'm having the ability to stop the comet fall but also the ability to stop a space war. Just simply my selfishness, the comet scene in this movie is enjoyable and it's an icon of this film, I just don't want to ruin this film that much.
"You're a useless psychic, you can't even save her town" - Taki looks at Mitsuha running while crying hopelessly.
Well, Taki might hate me now, but the Mind control will take care of it anyway, he will not be concerned about this for long. About the town, year, this town is such a holy place for them, many memories here. I guess I will have to deal with this later, just not now.
"Anyway, what are we gonna do next?"
See? He stopped concerning and telling me that I'm a useless psychic in just 1 minute. This is how mind control works.
Yeah, he didn't forget it, he still hates me and the "useless psychic" is still in his mind, it's just no longer the top important thing in his mind now.
In case you are wondering why Mitsuha is not yet able to remember Taki, it's because I used Mind Control to temporarily block the memories out of her mind. Because I want her to fully focus on the plan, not gonna let those memories interrupt the plan. She must do what she has done just like in the film already set for her. I'm so powerful ain't I?
Like I said, we will just wait until your plan is done and everyone is safe then you will have your time with Mitsuha.
"What? Just wait? why don't we help her? I mean just help, we don't need to be visible to help her, right? We can still do something, it's much better than just standing here and watch"
Oy Taki, are you a high school student?
"Sure I am, what's with that?"
Because you are so dumbass.
"...what?"
Have you ever heard of the Butterfly effect on time traveling?
"Oh...I know that...okay sorry, I almost forgot that."
I just want to make sure that you're not a different guy in 2016. Maybe a thief, a pervert or World War 3 happening or something. So stop being so annoying.
Shinkai showed in the film that your plan to save Itomori will not affect anything negative to the future, so it's fine, just let it be.
"Shinkai? Who are you talking about?"
Nevermind.
"Okay, anyway..."
Mind control works so smoothly.
"I'm sorry but I can't stand here and just see anything, you know...once you are in my situation, watch your lover have to do many things to save her town and you can't do anything...it's hurt..."
Oh, I see, I forgot that.
"So I'm asking you if we can..."
*BONK!*
Taki collapses.
He is "sleeping" now so he won't have to watch this.
Since there's only me and you the reader left, the bold italic texts are no need. When we have someone else get in the conversation, we will be back with that bold italic text.
So, I'm literally inside the Mayor Office with Mitsuha standing solidly in front of her old man. This is fun, enjoying the movie in person.
And Toshiki (the father) eventually agrees to evacuate the town as of the chapter 2 of Another Side Earthbound described, it's an official manga, highly recommended.
But I'm not gonna tell you what will happen next after that, because it's simply just everyone heading to the High School and then all of them are safe with nothing much to tell. For more details you could look for some fanfics like the "Rediscovering the future" of KralizerCL which is kinda close to what I'm witnessing here by my own eyes. Such a privilege to be a psychic huh?
Okay there we go, so now the comet blew up the whole town, everyone including Mitsuha is safe now, the timeline is altered. Good.
But I guess I will wait for a little bit more since Mitsuha is still with Sayaka and Tesshi, they are still in panic and freaked out about the incident.
The Japanese Self-Defense Force will get here in the morning of tomorrow, it's now almost 9PM which means there's loads of time to mess around here. No need to rush.
*0:00AM*
Yare Yare Sayaka is sleeping within Tesshi's hands wrapping around her. Hmmmm, so they started their relationship at this point. Above all, they're all asleep and Mitsuha is the only one who stays awake alone sitting on a chair in a corner of the school.
Good time for them to reunite. But to prevent someone from interrupting their meeting, I will use Mind Control to make everyone see that Mitsuha sitting alone or talking with someone is not a strange thing and it is a very normal thing to see, I will make people find nothing interesting here so no one will have a chance to disturb.
It's time to wake Taki.
Wake up you sleepy head!
Mitsuha is sitting there alone, sticking her eyes on the phrase "I love you" on her right hand with tears rolling on her cheeks. She's still struggling to remember that dear one.
"Who are you...I can't remember your name..."
"Why didn't you just...write your name...on my hand..."
"With this...it really hits me in my heart...but I still can't remember anything..."
"Who? Who? Who are you?"
She places both of feet on the chair, wrapping herself up and crying.
She stares at her right hand once again and then growls.
"Why...why?...Taki is a short name, it's much shorter than writing this, why didn't...why didn't you just write your name in my hand? You are a lier Taki, you told me to write our names...why...why this...? Now I can't remember you anymore with this..."
"Taki, I swear I will beat you If I can ever meet you again...I hope I can meet him once again...but...all my memories...no longer...I can't remember any...WAIT I CAN ACTUALLY REMEMBER ANYTHING!"
"What's this? Suddenly all the memories came back and I can remember exactly anything, even the smallest details!"
"This is...this is...I'm so happy...okay, okay... it's fine, I can remember him now, I remember his house address, his face, the swapping events...I will never forget you again Taki!"
"Once everything is okay here, once everything is stable here, I will find you Taki! Regardless how far you are away from me, there's one thing I can assure you, as long as we see each other, we will recognize each other!"
"Wait for me Taki, once I find you..."
"You will beat me for revenge, right?" - Taki interrupts her self-talk.
Mitsuha freezed for a while.
She is currently not yet getting herself together after hearing that voice. She is still looking at the ground with tears on her cheeks, she is not yet ready to look around her place to find where that voice came from.
A minute has passed.
She partly got herself together, started looking around and saw nothing around her.
"Maybe I was just hallucinating, I have just been through one of the most tragic events of my life, so It could be it."
"Speaking of Taki, he's 3 years apart from me, let's say he can remember things, he still won't be able to travel back in time to see me. Hahaha, I'm just so paranoid, what am I even thinking of?"
"If only there's a god that could bring you back here so I can meet you again." - Mitsuha joking to calm herself.
"What's with that bad joke?" - Taki places a chair and sits beside her.
"I don't know, I just can't think of anything else better than that...UUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" - Mitsuha The Speaker.