ABS-CBN’s digital terrestrial channel Asianovela Channel has announced on Monday that they will air Makoto Shinkai’s highly-popular anime feature film your name. this Sunday.
The anime film will air on Easter Sunday, April 21, at 11:00am, with an encore telecast at 09:00pm.
The day the stars fell, two lives changed forever. High schoolers Mitsuha and Taki are complete strangers living separate lives. But one night, they suddenly switch places. Mitsuha wakes up in Taki’s body, and he in hers. This bizarre occurrence continues to happen randomly, and the two must adjust their lives around each other. Yet, somehow, it works. They build a connection and communicate by leaving notes, messages, and more importantly, an imprint.
When a dazzling comet lights up the night’s sky, it dawns on them. They want something more from this connection—a chance to meet, an opportunity to truly know each other. Tugging at the string of fate, they try to find a way to each other. But distance isn’t the only thing keeping them apart. Is their bond strong enough to face the cruel irony of time? Or is their meeting nothing more than a wish upon the stars? (Synopsis from Funimation Entertainment)
your name., also known by its Japanese title “Kimi no Na wa.” (君の名は。), is a Japanese animated film written and directed by Makoto Shinkai, known for anime films like Voices from a Distant Star, 5 Centimeters Per Second and The Garden of Words.
The highly-popular anime film was based on the novel with the same name, also written by Shinkai, which was published by Kadokawa in June 2016. The film was produced by CoMix Wave Films, which was distributed by TOHO.
The anime film earned more than JP¥25 billion (about PHP11.7 billion) in Japanese cinemas when the film premiered in August 2016, making it the country’s fourth highest-grossing film of all time, as well as the second highest-grossing Japanese film and anime film.
The film also grossed about US$355 million (about PHP18.4 billion) in the global box office, becoming the highest-grossing anime film worldwide, beating Studio Ghibli’s award-winning anime film Spirited Away.
your name., which was distributed in the Philippines by Pioneer Films, was screened in local cinemas on December 14, 2016, which ran for about two weeks before the All-Filipino Metro Manila Film Festival started.
Media conglomerate ABS-CBN initially announced that the popular anime film will air on Filipino-dubbed movie channel TAG in 2017, but the movie channel, together with the Filipino language anime channel HEROtv, ceased broadcast in January 2018.
The anime film had its Filipino-dubbed television premiere on its flagship free-to-air channel in February 2018, which was made available on its video-on-demand service iWant TV (rebranded as iWant) a day later.
The film was also aired on the company’s digital terrestrial channel YeY, which is the sister channel of Asianovela Channel, last August.
The Filipino voice cast was lead by Leslie Paraboles (“Shimura Shinpachi”, Gintama) as “Taki Tachibana”, and Denise Gail Tumibay (“Yuriko Kogami”, Beautiful Bones: Sakurako’s Investigation) as “Mitsuha Miyamizu”.
Makoto Shinkai’s newest anime film project, Tenki no Ko: Weathering with You, is set to premiere in Japanese cinemas this July.
