Taki Tachibana and Mitsuha Miyamizu are two people who have always felt something lacking
in their lives despite being completely fine with it. They don’t know why is it they are
feeling empty inside, and always seem to be searching for something. All they know is
that it began on that day. The day the stars fell.
In the town of Itomori, Japan, Mitsuha wakes up one day. It is meant to be like any other morning,
but something isn’t quite right. Taki has woken up in her body. He can still remember
the dream he just saw. Taki looks around and then looks at the body he is in. Confused,
the first thing he does is feel up his new female body. Just then, Mitsuha’s sister,
Yotsuha, comes in to call her for breakfast and notices her acting weird. Like any odd sibling,
she ignores Mitusha’s and leaves, telling her to hurry for breakfast. A confused Taki goes to the
mirror, only to let out a cry of horror. The next day, as Mitsuha enters the room,
Yotusha and her grandmother notice that Mitsuha has returned to normal. The family gathers around
to have breakfast and watch the news. The Comet Tiamat is said to be appearing soon, after its
1200 year long orbit, it will be passing close to the earth. and will be visible all around the
world exactly one month from now. Mitsuha and her Sister then head to their respective school.
On her way, Mitsuha meets her friends, Sayachin and Tessie. As the friends make
their way to their school, they tell Mitsuha that she seems great today considering
what had happened a day earlier. Naturally, Mitsuha is confused as to what they mean.
Even in school, Mitsuha realises that she was truly not herself yesterday. She finds weird
notes in her notebook and even her teacher teases her for being super confused the day
before. During breaktime, Tessie and Sayachin tell Mitsuha how she was weird and not at all
like herself yesterday. However, Out of all the weird things she had done,
Mitsuha gets shocked at the fact that she hadn't worn her ribbon and had bad hair.
If only she knew. The friends conclude that it must be
the stress giving her amnesia and so they brush off the topic and return to their daily tasks.
Slandering their hometown. Sayachin and Mitsuha, can't bear the lack-luster nature of Itomori,
everything is peaceful and quiet here, which is just boring for the girls. Even their so-called
Cafe, is a roadside park bench where they have drinks from the vending machine.
Mitsuha in particular can't bear her lifestyle. Being constantly embarrassed by her politician
Father and returning home to the same stories from her grandmother. The highlight of the day
ending with their traditional dance, a preparation for the upcoming festival, and making the famous
kuchikamisake and braided chords, an alcohol made by chewing rice and letting it ferment. It has
been a long tradition in Mitsuha’s family, to make this sake. A history that goes back
two hundred years, as per her grandmother. Granny tells them about their culture and the chords and
how the threads of the chords unravel time itself. This is a story that she tells them every day,
which is why it makes Mitsuha ignorant of it. Mitsuha just can't bear it! Unlike her sister,
she can't get excited with this modest life. She only wishes she was a hot boy in Tokyo in
her next life. Little did she know, her life would turn upside down. Soon.
In the bustling busy town of Tokyo, Taki wakes up from his sleep but it's not quite him. For
some reason, he goes to feel his chest but finds it empty. The missing ‘objects’ have
been replaced by ‘something’ in his pants. It feels like a weird dream,
but Mitsuha has woken up in Taki’s body. Taki’s father asks him to finish his dinner and head to
school as he goes to his work. Mitsuha still can't believe that it’s a dream, but she doesn't forget
to enjoy it. Tokyo has been one of the places she wanted to visit and she enjoys her stay there. She
wanders around town for so long that he forgets to head to school and gets lost on the way.
Later during her break, she catches up with Taki’s friends, Tsukasa and Shinta. Hoping
to make sense of the things happening to her. She gets confused many times with her pronouns while
talking. Classic Gen Z issues right there. They then go to a cafe and spend their time
until evening. Mitsuha, who had always dreamed of a more interesting life, enjoys her day in Taki’s
body. She roams the streets, clicks pictures of her food and even helps Taki’s senior at work,
Miki, with her dress. That last one really doesn't do any justice to Taki’s character.
Before going to bed, Mitsuha leaves a message on Taki’s phone and writes down
her name in his palm. Almost as if she knew that they would switch back the next day.
The next day, like Mitsuha predicted, Taki is back in his own body. His friends find
him lacking his previous cuteness and all his co-workers, who apparently had a crush on Miki,
are all angry at him for spending time with her yesterday. Taki who is super confused at this
point only has one explanation, a message on his phone saying “Thanks to my Girl Power”
both of them now realise that during their dream, they switch bodies.
A few more days pass, and they begin to make sense of all that is happening. A few times every week,
they switch bodies when they sleep, randomly. When they return back to their own bodies they have no
memory of what happened yesterday so the pair start laying ground rules and leaving notes of
Do’s and dont’s on each other’s cellphone for when they have switched bodies. Taki’s list contains
things like “Don't waste money! ” while Mitsuha’s list contains:
You guessed it “Don't look.” It really doesn't make sense for
her to be stuck in that. Taki could have frame her for grand larceny if he wants,
but what Mitsuha is most concern about is that he doesn't look.
Then, The day of the arrival of the comet is near and Mitsuha’s grandma,
decides to take the sister to their family deity “Musubi”’s shrine. Taki who is now in
Mitsuha’s body makes the journey with Yotsuha and her grandma to the beautiful shrine at the center
of a great crater. When they reach there, grandma asks Mitsuha to offer her kuchikamisake. Offering
this to Musubi means to offer half of yourself. Taki makes the offering on her behalf. It's almost
twilight when they return, and Taki jolts up from his sleep suddenly. Tears in his eyes.
Taki takes a look at his phone and he realises that Mitsuha has fixed
him up for a date with Miki. Flustered and Hurried, He races to meet Miki.
Back at Itomori, Mitsuha feels the need to go to Taki’s date. She has started developing feelings
for Taki, which is why Mitsuha wishes to meet Taki for real. She tells her sister that she is
leaving for Tokyo and skips school that day. She scours Tokyo for Taki and finally meets him on a
train. Hoping to get together for a chat she goes to him, but Taki has no idea who she is.
Seeing Taki ignoring her very presence, Mitsuha feels wronged and sad and excuses herself to
leave. Taki asks for her name, but she is already on her way out. She screams her name to Taki and
barely hands him her braided cord as she is pushed out of the train by a swarm of exiting people.
On his date, Taki spends his time nervously around Miki and by the end of the date, he is
glad for it to be over. Even Miki realises that Taki, while having had a crush on her earlier,
doesn't seem to like her anymore. After the date, Taki takes a look at
the notes Mitsuha has left. He is confused at her mentioning of the comet that appears on
that night because the sky above him was clear. Taki decides that he should tell Mitsuha about
everything the next time they swap bodies. However, somehow, they never switch places again.
Days pass and after realising that it might not happen at all, Taki starts to research
where Mitsuha lives. He starts searching for the place in maps, in his drawing and even on the
internet. until one day, he decides that he will go to find it. He heads to the train station.
When he reaches there he is surprised to find Tsukasa and Miki waiting to go with him. They
are just worried that he is getting catfished and want to be there for him. The three of them then
head toward their unknown destination. Since they don't have much info about the place,
Taki is forced to use his drawings to ask for directions and get little idea in response.
After getting no progress with all the day's work, the trio decides to have lunch at a
local restaurant nearby when the waitress recognizes his drawings as Itomori.
As soon as they hear the name, Miki and Tsukasa realise that it's the same village where the Comet
Tiamat had struck. They rush to where the village was to find that it was completely decimated and
nothing but the lake remained. Three years ago when Comet Tiamat was closest to earth,
It had split causing one half of it to land into Itomori, killing several hundred people.
Suddenly the realisation hits him, it was true that Itomori, along with all its residents,
had been destroyed by the astray meteor. The friends head to the library to gather details and
find that over five hundred people who gathered at the festival had died because of the meteor.
They check the names of the dead people and find Tessie Sayachin and Mitsuha’s names mentioned.
Taki is saddened and confused even more. Just a few weeks ago, he had known her. However,
He doesn't lose hope and continues reading books on Itomori. When Miki checks the book
she finds that braided cords like the one on Taki’s hands were a specialty of Itomori,
she asks how he got it but Taki has no idea about it, he only knows that he has been wearing it for
over three years now as a lucky charm. He suddenly remembers that someone had told
him about the power of the chords that can unravel time itself and remembers the day he
went to the Musubi shrine with Mitsuha’s granny. So he decides to go there.
The next morning, on a rainy day, he heads to the shrine. He believes that
with the kuchikamisake, he can travel back in time from before the comet struck.
I know it sounds crazy, but the guy had been switching bodies with a girl
for the past month. Nothing would be a crazy idea for him at this point.
Taki carefully takes Mitsuha’s kuchikamisake, and drinks it pouring half of Mitsuha's soul
into his. Her memories from childhood start flowing into him, everything up
to the point she had died is now a part of Taki. The world suddenly stops and Taki blacks out.
When he opens his eyes again, he is Mitsuha once again. She hasn't passed away yet. Taki
can't stop himself from crying at this. In the news, he finds that the comet would be
striking today. Granny then sits him down and tells him that she knows he’s not Mitsuha. She
tells him that it's been a thing that happened with herself and Mitsuha’s mother as well. She
has long forgotten whose life she was in and so she wants him to cherish it while it lasts.
Taki then rushes to Mitsuha’s school, determined to save everyone in Itomori before the comet
strikes. He somehow talks to her friends, Sayachin and Tessie to help her out. They plan to use the
emergency speakers to evacuate the people out of town to the highschool which is outside the
danger zone. Tessie will be placing explosives in the powerplant on the outskirts of the village,
to make sure the threat seems real and Mitsuha will try to persuade her father,
who is now the mayor, to help them out. Taki goes to Mitsuha’s father’s office and
he is called stupid for making such assumptions. This makes Taki angry,
who almost hits the man. Controlling himself, Taki leaves to persuade the people in town but
not even Yotsuha agrees with his intentions. He realises that only Mitsuha can convince them,
so he rushes to the Musubi shrine on Tessie's bike asking them to go ahead with the plan.
On top of the Musubi shrine’s crater, when the sun had just hit the end of the earth, when it was
neither night nor day, Taki and Mitsuha re-unite once again. They return to their respective bodies
and Taki tells her that she had met him before. The two of them were on a three year delay. Then
He gives her the braid chord back and they promise to meet again after all of this. For
just in case they forget everything again, they decide to write each other’s name in their hands.
Taki does it first but just as Mitsuha tries writing her name in Taki's hands, the twilight
ends and they are separated once again. The comet comes near and Mitsuha rushes back.
She chants Taki’s name all the way, promising to herself that she won't ever forget his name.
She meets up with Tessies who has planted the bomb. They go ahead with the plan and
the power plant explodes, Sayachin makes a fake announcement in the emergency speakers
asking people to evacuate to the highschool as there is fear of further explosions.
There is just one problem, Mitsuha cannot remember his name! What was his name! She is troubled
by it but there is no time, as the city council announces that the previous announcement was fake
and everyone should stay where they are. Mitsuha rushes to her father’s office, her mind still
wanting to remember that name. She runs and runs so fast that she stumbles and hurts herself badly.
Just then she notices that there is something written on her palm. However, instead of a name,
she finds “ I love you” written on her hand. She laughs and cries with joy. While she couldn't
possibly remember him with that, she is glad that he feels the same way as her. This fills
her up with determination and she rushes once again to reach her father’s office.
Her sister and Grandmother are already there. At the city festival. Tessie is frustrated that
their plan didn't work when he suddenly realises that the meteor had split,
just like Mitsuha said it would. The sky turns beautiful and red exaggerated by the fact that
the town’s electricity had shut down. Soon enough, the meteor strikes.
Buildings and bridges are destroyed along with half of the town.
The next day, Taki wakes up on the Musubi shrine crater with no memory of what had
happened. He has no idea what he is doing there. He watches over the large lake in confusion.
Several years have now passed and Taki has always a feeling that he is missing something,
someone but he doesn't know who or what. Ever since that day, the day the stars fell.
One day, he meets Miki again and they reminisce about that one time, Taki had dragged them to the
musubi mountains of Itomori. He had no reason to be so obsessed with the place and tells himself
that it was probably because of the miracle that had happened in Itomori. Years ago when
the Comet had hit the town, miraculously all the citizens were safe and unhurt,
because the mayor had asked for an emergency evacuation drill at the very last moment.
Later that day, as he was on his way to another interview, he sees her on a
train heading in the opposite direction. The face that he had not seen in a long while,
someone he knew but couldn't quite remember. Their eyes meet and they know instantly that they should
meet. They get off their respective trains as soon as it stops and rushes toward each other.
Finally, they meet. Stranger and yet with such a connection. They look at each other for a long
while, each waiting for the other to speak and finally they do so at once and ask.
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