50 free Your Name trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Your Name trivia quiz covers Makoto Shinkai's 2016 anime film Kimi no Na wa, the body-swap romance that became the highest-grossing Japanese film ever until Demon Slayer. The story questions run from Mitsuha's wish to be a Tokyo boy and the rules the two teenagers write for each other, through the comet Tiamat, the ramen-shop owner in Takayama, the ruins of Itomori, the sake in the crater and the twilight meeting where night falls before Mitsuha can write her name. The harder half covers how it was made and received: the tsunami visit that gave Shinkai the idea, the film's discarded working titles, the novels and manga that inspired the plot, the Radwimps soundtrack, the light novel released before the film, the twelve weekends at number one in Japan, the Chinese and South Korean records, and the Hollywood remake that has been through four directors. Easy questions suit anyone who has seen it once; the expert ones will test devoted anime fans. Every answer was checked against the film's Wikipedia article and its cited sources before publishing. For more Shinkai and Japanese animation, try our anime and Studio Ghibli quizzes.
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Q 01Who wrote and directed Your Name?
Makoto Shinkai
Critics call it the first of his 'disaster trilogy', all three films shaped by Japan's natural disasters.
Q 02What is the film's Japanese title?
Kimi no Na wa
It literally means 'Your Name is...'; two of the distractors were among the discarded working titles and later Shinkai films.
Q 03What is the name of Mitsuha's rural hometown?
Itomori
The town is fictional, but Hida city and its library provided real backdrops.
Q 04In which prefecture is Mitsuha's hometown?
Gifu
Mitsuha speaks with a lilting Mino-dialect accent that Taki has to learn when he is in her body.
Q 05What does Mitsuha wish for, just before the swapping begins?
To be reborn as a boy in Tokyo
She gets a version of it: Taki is a Tokyo boy who works part-time as a waiter.
Q 06In which Tokyo ward does Taki live and work?
Shinjuku
The Italian restaurant where he waits tables is called Il Giardino delle Parole, an Italian nod to an earlier Shinkai title.
Q 07How do the two communicate while living each other's days?
Notes on paper, their phones and their skin
They also write rules: Mitsuha forbids Taki from showering, touching or looking at her body.
Q 08Whom does Mitsuha, in Taki's body, set him up on a date with?
Miki Okudera, his co-worker
Okudera senses on the date that Taki is preoccupied with someone else.
Q 09What is kuchikamizake?
Sake made from rice chewed and spat out to ferment
Mitsuha resents making it as a shrine maiden and is teased for it; Taki later drinks hers to reach her.
Q 10What is the name of the comet?
Tiamat
Comet 279P/Tiamat is due to pass closest on the day of the autumn festival, and a fragment destroys the town.
Q 11Who recognises Taki's sketch of the town and offers to drive him there?
A ramen-shop owner in Takayama
Taki cannot remember the town's name and has to draw it from memory.
Q 12How many years apart are Taki and Mitsuha living?
Three
The comet fell in 2013; Taki is in 2016. Both, Shinkai says, assumed they were born on the same day, December 1.
Q 13Roughly how many people died when the comet fragment hit the town?
500
At Hida City Library, Taki finds the Miyamizus and their friends among the names.
Q 14What has Taki been wearing as a lucky bracelet without knowing where it came from?
Q 21Who voices Mitsuha in the Japanese version?
Mone Kamishiraishi
The English dub pairs her with Stephanie Sheh, while Michael Sinterniklaas voices Taki.
Q 22Which earlier Shinkai film does Mitsuha's teacher Yukari Yukino come from?
The Garden of Words
She teaches the class the word 'kataware-doki', the twilight hour when the two finally meet.
Q 23What is the name of Mitsuha's younger sister?
Yotsuha
The Miyamizu women's names count upward: Hitoha (one), Futaba (two), Mitsuha (three), and then four.
Mitsuha's kumihimo braid
She had given it to him on a trip to Tokyo three years earlier; he returns it to her at twilight.
Q 15What does Hitoha reveal when she realises Taki is inside Mitsuha?
The swapping has run in the family for centuries
Hitoha, 82, is the shrine's matriarch and keeper of the kumihimo tradition.
Q 16How do Taki, Tessie and Sayaka try to force an evacuation?
Blowing up the substation and hijacking the emergency broadcast
Sayaka is in the broadcasting club, and Tessie's father runs the construction company with the explosives.
Q 17What does Mitsuha find written on her hand instead of Taki's name?
"I love you"
Night fell during their twilight meeting before she could write hers on his.
Q 18Who finally orders the town's evacuation?
Mitsuha's father, the mayor
Toshiki had told residents to stay put until his estranged daughter persuaded him otherwise.
Q 19Where do Taki and Mitsuha finally meet in the last scene?
On the steps of Suga Shrine
They spot each other from parallel JR East trains on April 8, 2022, and race to find one another.
Q 20Who voices Taki in the Japanese version?
Ryunosuke Kamiki
Kamiki also voiced characters in Spirited Away and other Ghibli films as a child.
Q 24What real event inspired Shinkai to conceive the film?
The 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
Visiting the flattened village of Yuriage, he thought 'this could have been my town' and imagined swapping residents with viewers.
Q 25What was the film's original working title when Shinkai pitched it to Toho in 2014?
Yume to Shiriseba (If I Knew It Were a Dream)
It comes from a waka attributed to Ono no Komachi; 'Your Connection' and 'You Are Half of This World' came next.
Q 26Which Rumiko Takahashi manga was among the plot's inspirations?
Ranma ½
Others were Inside Mari, the Heian tale Torikaebaya Monogatari and Greg Egan's story The Safe-Deposit Box.
Q 27Which Christopher Nolan film did Shinkai cite as an influence?
Interstellar
Its time-slipped lovers and messages across years echo through the film's second half.
Q 28Which band wrote and performed the film's music?
Radwimps
Frontman Yojiro Noda composed the score so it would supplement the characters' dialogue and monologues.
Q 29Which song, whose title means 'Past-Past-Past Life', was runner-up for Best Theme Song at the Newtype Awards?
"Zenzenzense"
All four songs were recorded in Japanese and English versions.
Q 30Where did Your Name have its world premiere?
Anime Expo in Los Angeles
July 3, 2016, seven weeks before its Japanese release; it later played one week in LA to qualify for the Oscars.