Plot
Mitsuha, a high school girl living in the town of Itomori, is fed up with her life in the countryside and wishes to be a handsome Tokyo boy in her next life. Later, Taki, a high school boy living in Tokyo, wakes up and realizes that he is Mitsuha, who herself has somehow ended up in Taki's body.
Taki and Mitsuha realize they have been transported into each other's bodies. They start communicating with each other by leaving notes on paper or leaving memos in each other's phones. As time passes, they become used to the body swap and start intervening in each other's lives. Mitsuha helps Taki in getting closer to his female coworker, Miki Okudera, and eventually landing a date with her, while Taki helps Mitsuha in becoming more popular in her school. Mitsuha then tells Taki about an upcoming comet and how she is excited to see it, as it will arrive at the same day as her town's festival.
One day, Taki suddenly wakes up back in his body. After an unsuccessful first date with Miki, he tries contacting Mitsuha but fails. He later finds that they have stopped switching bodies and eventually decides to visit Mitsuha in her hometown. Without knowing the name of her village, he travels around rural parts of Japan, relying solely on the sketches of the village's scenery that Taki drew from memory. Finally, a restaurant server recognizes the town in Taki's sketch as Itomori. He is then told that a fragment of the comet Tiamat had actually fallen to earth three years ago and destroyed Itomori, killing a third of the town's population. As Taki looks through the records of fatalities from the incident, he finds Mitsuha's name.
Attempting to reconnect with Mitsuha, Taki goes to Mitsuha's family shrine. Realizing that his and Mitsuha's timelines were actually out of sync the whole time, Taki drinks kuchikamizake that Mitsuha made and left behind as an offering, hoping to reconnect to her body before the comet strikes. He wakes up in her body and sees that he still has time to save the town. Convincing her friends about the comet, he gets their help in trying to evacuate the village. While they continue with their plans, Taki realizes that Mitsuha might be in his body at the shrine and heads there to meet with her.
Mitsuha's spirit awakens in Taki's body and wanders to the top of the mountain where the shrine is. Although they feel each other's presence, they are unable to see each other due to the two still being out of sync. As the sun sets, both Taki and Mitsuha realize it is twilight time, when they are transported back to their own bodies and are finally able to see each other. Taki tells Mitsuha to convince her estranged father, who is the mayor, to evacuate the town. They decide to write each other's names on their hands as they return to their respective timelines, but Mitsuha disappears before she could start writing her name, while Taki wrote "I love you" instead of his name. They desperately try to remember the name of the other, but eventually forget each other's names and events that had happened to them. Mitsuha and her friends appear to have failed in evacuating the village as the comet fragments hit.
Eight years later, it is revealed that all of Itomori's residents managed to survive, due to Mitsuha having persuaded her father in time to conduct an emergency evacuation drill over the surrounding districts. Taki has graduated from university and is trying to find a job, but still has lingering feelings that something important to him was missing. He finds himself attracted to items relating to Itomori, such as magazines and people he thinks are familiar (whom he actually knew when he was in Mitsuha's body). While riding separate trains, Taki and Mitsuha see each other when their trains pass by. They get out of their next stops and try to find each other. They end up meeting at a staircase and, feeling like they know each other somehow, ask for each other's name.
Plot
Mitsuha, a high school girl living in the town of Itomori, is fed up with her life in the countryside and wishes to be a handsome Tokyo boy in her next life. Later, Taki, a high school boy living in Tokyo, wakes up and realizes that he is Mitsuha, who herself has somehow ended up in Taki's body.
Taki and Mitsuha realize they have been transported into each other's bodies. They start communicating with each other by leaving notes on paper or leaving memos in each other's phones. As time passes, they become used to the body swap and start intervening in each other's lives. Mitsuha helps Taki in getting closer to his female coworker, Miki Okudera, and eventually landing a date with her, while Taki helps Mitsuha in becoming more popular in her school. Mitsuha then tells Taki about an upcoming comet and how she is excited to see it, as it will arrive at the same day as her town's festival.
One day, Taki suddenly wakes up back in his body. After an unsuccessful first date with Miki, he tries contacting Mitsuha but fails. He later finds that they have stopped switching bodies and eventually decides to visit Mitsuha in her hometown. Without knowing the name of her village, he travels around rural parts of Japan, relying solely on the sketches of the village's scenery that Taki drew from memory. Finally, a restaurant server recognizes the town in Taki's sketch as Itomori. He is then told that a fragment of the comet Tiamat had actually fallen to earth three years ago and destroyed Itomori, killing a third of the town's population. As Taki looks through the records of fatalities from the incident, he finds Mitsuha's name.
Attempting to reconnect with Mitsuha, Taki goes to Mitsuha's family shrine. Realizing that his and Mitsuha's timelines were actually out of sync the whole time, Taki drinks kuchikamizake that Mitsuha made and left behind as an offering, hoping to reconnect to her body before the comet strikes. He wakes up in her body and sees that he still has time to save the town. Convincing her friends about the comet, he gets their help in trying to evacuate the village. While they continue with their plans, Taki realizes that Mitsuha might be in his body at the shrine and heads there to meet with her.
Mitsuha's spirit awakens in Taki's body and wanders to the top of the mountain where the shrine is. Although they feel each other's presence, they are unable to see each other due to the two still being out of sync. As the sun sets, both Taki and Mitsuha realize it is twilight time, when they are transported back to their own bodies and are finally able to see each other. Taki tells Mitsuha to convince her estranged father, who is the mayor, to evacuate the town. They decide to write each other's names on their hands as they return to their respective timelines, but Mitsuha disappears before she could start writing her name, while Taki wrote "I love you" instead of his name. They desperately try to remember the name of the other, but eventually forget each other's names and events that had happened to them. Mitsuha and her friends appear to have failed in evacuating the village as the comet fragments hit.
Eight years later, it is revealed that all of Itomori's residents managed to survive, due to Mitsuha having persuaded her father in time to conduct an emergency evacuation drill over the surrounding districts. Taki has graduated from university and is trying to find a job, but still has lingering feelings that something important to him was missing. He finds himself attracted to items relating to Itomori, such as magazines and people he thinks are familiar (whom he actually knew when he was in Mitsuha's body). While riding separate trains, Taki and Mitsuha see each other when their trains pass by. They get out of their next stops and try to find each other. They end up meeting at a staircase and, feeling like they know each other somehow, ask for each other's name.
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