Box office
Your Name became a huge commercial success, especially in Japan,[62] where it grossed ¥25.17 billion.[63] The film achieved the second-largest gross for a domestic film in Japan, behind Spirited Away, and the fourth-largest ever, behind Titanic and Frozen.[64] It is the first anime not directed by Hayao Miyazaki to earn more than $100 million (~¥10 billion) at the Japanese box office.[26] It topped the box office in Japan for a record-breaking 12 non-consecutive weekends. It held the number-one position for nine consecutive weekends before being toppled by Death Note: Light Up the New World in the last weekend of October. It returned to the top for another three weeks before finally being dethroned by Hollywood blockbuster Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.[26][65][66]
The success of the film also extended beyond Japan. In China, it became the highest-grossing Japanese film in the world's second-largest movie market on December 17, 2016.[67] It has grossed $81.3 million in China and is the highest-grossing 2D animated film in the country.[68] Its opening screened in over 7,000 theaters. It made an estimated $10.9 million on its opening day from 66,000 screenings and attracting over 2.77 million admissions, the biggest 2D animated opening in the country.[69][70] It also held the record for the highest-grossing non-Hollywood foreign film in China, up until it was surpassed by two Indian films, Dangal and Secret Superstar, in May 2017 and February 2018, respectively.[71][72]
The film was number-one on its opening five days in South Korea, with 1.18 million admissions and a gross of $8.2 million,[73] becoming the first Japanese film since Howl's Moving Castle to reach number one in the country.[74] The film eventually drew 3.81 million admissions in South Korea[75] and grossed $23.6 million,[76] making it the highest-grossing anime film in South Korea until it was surpassed by The First Slam Dunk and Suzume in 2023.[77][75]
In Thailand it grossed ฿44.1 million ($1.23 million).[25] As of December 26, the film has grossed US$771,945 in Australia.[78] and US$95,278 in New Zealand.[79] On a December 20 blog post, the Australian distributor Madman stated that the film had made over AU$1,000,000 in the Australian box office alone before closing its limited release run.[80]
In the United States and Canada, the film grossed $5,017,246.[81] In the United Kingdom, it grossed £500,000 ($675,000) in 2016, making it the year's fifth highest-grossing non-English and non-Hindi film in the UK.[82]
Critical response
The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports that 98% of critics have given the film a positive review based on 118 reviews, with an average rating of 8.2/10. The site's critics consensus reads, "As beautifully animated as it is emotionally satisfying, Your Name adds another outstanding chapter to writer-director Makoto Shinkai's filmography."[83] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 81 out of 100 based on 26 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[84]
Mark Schilling of The Japan Times gave the film a rating of 4 out of 5 and praised the film's animation for its "blend of gorgeous, realistic detail and emotionally grounded fantasy".[11] He also described the film's "over-deliver[y]" of "the comedy of adolescent embarrassment and awkwardness" and its ending for being "To the surprise of no one who has ever seen a Japanese seishun eiga (youth drama)".[11] Reception outside of Japan was also very positive.[62][85] Mark Kermode called the film his ninth favourite film to be released in the United Kingdom in 2016.[86] US reviews were mostly positive. The New York Times described it as "a wistfully lovely Japanese tale",[87] while David Sims of The Atlantic said it was "a dazzling new work of anime".[88] Furthermore, The Boston Globe had a positive opinion of the film, saying that it was "pretty but too complicated".[89] Mike Toole from Anime News Network listed it as the third-best anime film of all time.[90] John Musker and Ron Clements, directors of the Disney animated films The Great Mouse Detective, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Hercules, Treasure Planet, The Princess and the Frog, and Moana, praised the film for its beauty and originality.[91]
Despite the praise he received, Makoto Shinkai insisted that the film is not as good as it could have been: "There are things we could not do, Masashi Ando [Director of Animation] wanted to keep working [on] but had to stop us for lack of money ... For me, it's incomplete, unbalanced. The plot is fine but the film is not at all perfect. Two years was not enough."[92]
Legacy
Nekotofu, the creator of the manga series Onimai: I'm Now Your Sister!, cited Your Name as an influence, saying that the popularity of the film motivated the creation of the series.[93][94] According to Crunchyroll, the phenomenal success of Your Name helped push non-Ghibli anime into a more mainstream place in Japan, and changed trends in not only how anime films were made but also how they were promoted.[95]
