A Transcendental Storytelling: Kimi no Na wa

Document Type : Short Article

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University of Tehran - Farabi College

Abstract

It is too grand, too transcendental to call upon words. The haunting beauty of Itomori lake, enclaved by twinkles of houses› lights, silences every observer. Any intelligible sound, even the breathless whispers, is drowned in the circular, central, and centripetal lake. As an audience, you intrinsically know that tonight is too sacred to summon words. Mitsuha should›ve known better too. She should›ve known that any careless word can be granted in the face of the unfolding rebirth. But the unruliness and defiance of a teenager cannot be chastised either. We›ve all been there, done that. So when she wishes upon the stars to be a «handsome boy from Tokyo in her next life,» life doesn›t disappoint her.

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