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Today marks an entire decade since #YourName☄️ originally released in Japan. I had the pleasure of watching the film in theaters again for it's 10th Anniversary, and in the midst of reliving all of those beautiful moments on the big screen that had utterly captivated me nearly a decade ago, it hit me how fast time really seems to fly. Fittingly, one of the biggest messages in the film is about time itself; how it isn't a straight line, but "twists, unravels, and connects things together," and maybe that's the best explanation for why ten years can paradoxically feel like only one year at the same time. I've always appreciated Your Name. for telling a pretty simple romance story, and I think that alone was the key to its major success. But for me, the true spectacle was in its gorgeous visuals, and deeply moving score by RADWIMPS. I'm proud that I've maintained my Twitter account long enough so that my initial reactions to the film all the way back in 2017 are still intact. I spent the next year praising every aspect of the film in many of my tweets, and in that time it was freeing for me to shed the "anti-anime" persona that I had boxed myself into during my early "Cringe-Time" streams. I'd like to thank the creator of the film, Makoto Shinkai, for sharing his passion and creativity with the world. 🙏 In the past two and a half years, I've come to find that it takes a lot of courage for artists to "put themselves out there," so-to-speak. I attribute Your Name. for allowing me to look at the world with less negative judgment and cynicism- as hokey as that may sound. Although I did record some of my favorite scenes during this new anniversary screening, I want to also direct you to a few tweets I made about the film back in 2017-2018 below. ⏬