Your Name is a 2016 Japanese animated youth science fiction fantasy film written and directed by Makoto Shinkai, with animation by CoMix Wave Films and distributed by Toho. Masayoshi Tanaka is the character designer while Radwimps composed the music for the film. It premiered at Anime Expo 2016 convention in Los Angeles, California on July 3, 2016, and later premiered in Japan on August 26, 2016. A novel also written by Shinkai that inspired.