SUSI, Rayley Daven M. Mrs.

Luzviminda Yabut
STEM 12 – Hawking October 15, 2021

LEARNING PAPER 3
Your Name (Kimi no Nawa) is a Japanese anime movie that is directed by Makoto Shinaki which is all about the romantic
love of a man and woman wherein their conflict in their relationship is time. The movie implies some concepts of
philosophy in which a human person is an embodied spirit, since the anime movie involves body/spirit switching
between Mitsuha Miyamizu and Taki Tachibana.

Mitsuha is a teenage girl from Miyamizu family in which their bloodline involves some unexplainable phenomenon
wherein their spirit will be switched to some stranger. Some of the women in the Miyamizu family experienced the
phenomenon, including Mitsuha, her mother, and the mother of her mother (grandmother). The family of Mitsuha
always continue their family tradition in Itomori province, like making braid cords and performing a ritual of making
kuchikamizake or rice wine. The kuchikamizake is a wine made by a maiden in a process of chewing and spitting of the
rice, since their tradition explains that a maiden’s spit is pure and clean that’s why Mitsuha and her younger sister
perform the ritual. After the ritual, Mitsuha was embarrassed by her classmates watching her doing the ritual, so she
suddenly wishes to be a handsome Tokyo boy in her next timeline. After a day, Mitsuha unexpectedly wakes up in
someone's body, and that body belongs to a Tokyo boy named Taki Tachibana, and Taki wakes up to Mitsuha’s body.
They switch spirits/bodies time by time until the Comet Tiamat splits strikes to Itomori, causing some damage and
casualties. When they stopped switching each other’s body not knowing Itomori was destroyed, Taki was bothered so he
went with his friends to visit Mitsuha. After exploring where Mitsuha lives, he discovered that Mitsuha was already dead
three years ago. He was puzzled because it was only a few days when they switched their spirits, and he suddenly
realized that three years ago, Mitsuha visited him in Tokyo but at that time, Taki didn't know her, though Mitsuha gave
the red braided cord to Taki and told her name. After knowing that Mitsuha is already dead, Taki didn’t stopped to
search for Mitsuha and he remembered that he was on Mitsuha’s body when they offered kuchikamizake on the
Miyamizu shrine, so he went there and drink the rice wine because Mitsuha’s grandmother explained that the
kuchikamizake is a wine that is offered to the God named Musubi and the wine represents the half of you. After drinking
the wine, Taki suddenly woke up on Mitsuha’s body before the comet struck, and Mitsuha woke up on Taki’s body at the
Miyamizu shrine. At the mountains, they find each other but the concept of time separates them, but when it is already
tasogare-doki (is a time where it's not day nor night), they found each other, and planned how to save Itomori before the
comet strikes. They were supposed to write each other’s name in each other's palm in order to remember each other,
but the tasogare-doki already passed by. After that, Mitsuha saves Itomori but both of them don't remember any
memories for each other but they felt something is missing. After several years, they coincidentally found each other and
asked each other’s name.

The movie was a masterpiece implying about supernatural things that might happen to people. In philosophy, the body
is dependent and the spirit is independent and it was proven in the movie in which both of their spirits traveled through
time but their body cannot. Philosophy also states about the embodied spirit view that man is the unity of his/her body
and spirit. From that statement, I want to add that every part of you is you. This was proven in the movie in which
Mitsuha’s spit and kuchikamizake reconnects both of them. In conclusion, all of the unexpected phenomena in the movie
can be hypothetically all Musubi’s doing. Musubi is the local guardian God in the Itomori, and Musubi has many
meanings, in which Mitsuha’s grandmother states, “Musubi is the old way of calling the local guardian god. This word has
profound meaning. Typing thread is Musubi. Connecting people is Musubi. The flow of time is Musubi. These are all the
god’s powers. So the braided cords that we make are the god’s art and represent the flow of time itself. They converge
and take shape. They twist, tangle, sometimes unravel, break, and then connect again. Musubi – knotting. That’s time.”
All of the threads, rice wine and everything that Mitsuha and Taki share, it connects them that intertwine each other’s
fate, spirits and bodies.