Character Relationship Map: Your Name.

Characters

• Taki Tachibana (played by Ryunosuke Kamiki) — protagonist

  Tokyo high schooler who swaps bodies with Mitsuha and becomes an architect.

• Mitsuha Miyamizu (played by Mone Kamishiraishi) — protagonist

  Rural shrine maiden who swaps bodies with Taki to save her town.

• Katsuhiko Teshigawara (played by Ryo Narita) — supporting

  Mitsuha's tech-savvy friend who helps broadcast evacuation warnings.

• Tsukasa Fujii (played by Nobunaga Shimazaki) — supporting

  Mitsuha's classmate who helps with the festival.

• Taki's Father (played by Kazuhiko Inoue) — supporting

  Taki's estranged father living in Tokyo.

• Miki Okudera (played by Masami Nagasawa) — supporting

  Taki's senior coworker who mentors him.

• Teshigawara's Mother (played by Yuka Kato) — supporting

  Katsuhiko's mother.

• Teshigawara's Father (played by Chafurin) — supporting

  Katsuhiko's father who runs a local shop.

Canonical Relationships

Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.

• Teshigawara's Mother → Katsuhiko Teshigawara (mother)
• Teshigawara's Father → Katsuhiko Teshigawara (father)
• Taki's Father → Taki Tachibana (father)
• Taki Tachibana → Miki Okudera (Professional Coworkers) — Their workplace connection introduces Taki's ordinary social world.

  Miki Okudera is identified as Taki's senior coworker, and Taki works part-time with her.

• Taki Tachibana → Mitsuha Miyamizu (Meta Body-Swapping Counterpart) — Their supernatural body exchange creates the central narrative connection.

  The plot states that Taki and Mitsuha intermittently switch bodies and live entire days in each other's bodies.

Story Dynamics

Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.

• Mitsuha Miyamizu → Tsukasa Fujii (Social Classmates) — The supplied plot supports a school-level connection but gives no direct interaction between them.

  The plot describes Tsukasa Fujii as Taki's classmate, while Mitsuha and Taki are high school students whose lives overlap through the body exchange.

• Taki Tachibana → Tsukasa Fujii (Social Classmates) — Their classmate relationship develops into practical assistance during the search.

  The plot identifies Tsukasa Fujii as Taki's classmate and states that he travels with Taki and Okudera to Hida.

Story Analysis

Two strangers connected across bodies and time struggle to preserve a town and recover a bond that memory cannot erase.

Plot Progression

1. Two Lives Begin To Intertwine — Mitsuha and Taki begin switching bodies and develop rules for managing each other's lives. Their indirect contact creates curiosity, embarrassment, and growing emotional interest.
2. The Comet's Hidden Threat — The body exchanges deepen while the festival and approaching comet establish an ominous background. When the exchanges stop, Taki begins searching for Mitsuha.
3. A Town Lost In Time — Taki reaches Hida and discovers that Mitsuha's town was destroyed three years earlier. The revelation turns a personal mystery into a desperate attempt to alter tragedy.
4. The Last Evacuation — Taki regains contact through the shrine and organizes an evacuation plan with Mitsuha's allies. Their twilight meeting gives them one chance to save the town.
5. Names Found Again — Taki and Mitsuha lose their memories after changing the disaster's outcome. Years later, their persistent longing brings them together again in Tokyo.