Your Name Trivia
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49 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
Makoto Shinkai wrote and directed Your Name, released in Japan in August 2016; critics call it the first of his 'disaster trilogy', each film shaped by Japan's natural disasters.
Q 02What is the film's Japanese title?
Kimi no Na wa
Kimi no Na wa literally means 'Your Name is...'. Two of the wrong answers are titles of later Shinkai films.
Q 03What is the name of Mitsuha's rural hometown?
Itomori
Itomori is fictional; Shinkai modelled its crater lake on Lake Suwa and used the library and station of Hida city as real backdrops.
Q 04In which prefecture is Mitsuha's hometown?
Gifu
Itomori lies in the Hida region of Gifu Prefecture; Taki's search takes him to the real Hida-Furukawa station and library, both in Gifu.
Q 05What does Mitsuha wish for, just before the swapping begins?
To be reborn as a boy in Tokyo
Mitsuha shouts that she wants to be reborn as a handsome Tokyo boy in her next life; the next morning she wakes up in Taki's body in Tokyo.
Q 06In which Tokyo ward does Taki live and work?
Shinjuku
Taki lives in the Yotsuya area of Shinjuku ward; the Italian restaurant where he waits tables is modelled on a real cafe beside Shinjuku Gyoen park.
Q 07How do the two communicate while living each other's days?
Notes on paper, their phones and their skin
They leave notes on paper, in a diary app on their phones and in marker on each other's skin; Mitsuha also sets rules such as no showering, touching or looking at her body.
Q 08In Your Name, while living in Taki's body, Mitsuha sets him up on a date with whom?
Miki Okudera, his co-worker
Miki Okudera, his co-worker, 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
Kuchikamizake is sake made from rice chewed and spat out to ferment, an ancient tradition Mitsuha resents; Taki later drinks hers to reach her.
Q 10What is the name of the comet?
Tiamat
Comet Tiamat, on a 1,200-year orbit, passes closest on the night of Itomori's autumn festival; a fragment splits off and 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
Three years: the comet struck Mitsuha's town on 4 October 2013, while Taki's side of the story takes place in 2016; the two were born on the same date, December 1, three years apart.
Q 13Roughly how many people died when the comet fragment hit the town?
500
About 500 people, a third of Itomori's population, died when the fragment struck; at Hida City Library Taki finds the Miyamizus and their friends among the names in the victims' lists.
Q 21Who voices Mitsuha in the Japanese version?
Mone Kamishiraishi
Mone Kamishiraishi, a singer-actress then 18, voices Mitsuha; Masami Nagasawa voices Miki Okudera and Aoi Yuki voices Sayaka.
Q 22Which earlier Shinkai film does Mitsuha's teacher Yukari Yukino come from?
The Garden of Words
Yukari Yukino was the heroine of Shinkai's 2013 film The Garden of Words, voiced by Kana Hanazawa in both; here she teaches the class the word 'kataware-doki', the twilight hour.
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 Yotsuha (four), the sharp-tongued little sister who wakes Mitsuha each morning.
Q 14What has Taki been wearing as a lucky bracelet without knowing where it came from?
Mitsuha's kumihimo braid
The bracelet is Mitsuha's kumihimo braid, which she gave him on a Tokyo train three years earlier when he did not yet know her; he ties it back on her wrist 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
Blowing up the substation and hijacking the emergency broadcast uses their skills: Sayaka is in the broadcasting club and Tessie's father runs the construction firm with the explosives.
Q 17What does Mitsuha find written on her hand instead of Taki's name?
"I love you"
Instead of his name Taki had written 'I love you' (suki da) on her palm; night fell during their twilight meeting before she could write hers on his hand.
Q 18Who finally orders the town's evacuation?
Mitsuha's father, the mayor
Mayor Toshiki Miyamizu, Mitsuha's estranged father, had told residents to stay put; after she confronts him he orders the evacuation that saves the town.
Q 19Where do Taki and Mitsuha finally meet in the last scene?
On the steps of Suga Shrine
The staircase is at Suga Shrine in Yotsuya, Tokyo; in the 2022 epilogue they glimpse each other from parallel trains, get off, and find each other on those steps.
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)
Yume to Shiriseba, 'If I Knew It Were a Dream', was the title on Shinkai's 2014 proposal, taken from a classical waka; Kimi no Musubime and Kimi wa Kono Sekai no Hanbun followed before Kimi no Na wa.
Q 26Which Rumiko Takahashi manga was among the plot's inspirations?
Ranma ½
Shinkai cited Ranma ½, Rumiko Takahashi's gender-swapping martial-arts comedy, alongside the Heian tale Torikaebaya Monogatari, the manga Inside Mari and Greg Egan's story The Safe-Deposit Box.
Q 27Which Christopher Nolan film did Shinkai cite as an influence?
Interstellar
Shinkai cited Interstellar (2014) as an influence: its time dilation and Cooper's messages sent back across the years to his daughter echo through the film's second half.
Q 28Which band wrote and performed the film's music?
Radwimps
Radwimps wrote and performed the score and the four vocal songs; Shinkai asked the band for music that would supplement the characters' dialogue and monologues.
Q 29Where did Your Name have its world premiere?
Anime Expo in Los Angeles
Your Name premiered at Anime Expo in Los Angeles on July 3, 2016, seven weeks before its Japanese release on August 26; it later ran a week in LA to qualify for the Oscars.
Q 30Which company distributed the film in Japan?
Toho
Toho will also handle Japanese distribution of the planned Hollywood remake.