Characters
Taki Tachibana (立花 瀧, Tachibana Taki)
Voiced by: Ryunosuke Kamiki (Japanese); Michael Sinterniklaas (English)
A seventeen-year-old student in his second year at Jingu High School in the Tokyo Metropolis; he was born on December 1, 1998 (exactly three years after Mitsuha). He is a talented sketch-artist and aspiring architect, collecting numerous books on the subject. Impulsive, straightforward, and belligerent (when Mitsuha first awakens in his body, his cheek is bandaged, owing to his penchant for quarreling), he is nevertheless well-meaning and considerate, and holds to a rigid system of moral principles. Taki often spends time with Okudera and his best friends Takagi and Tsukasa; the four serve part-time as waiters at Il Giardino delle Parole, an Italian restaurant in Shinjuku. Taki lives with his father, who works in Kasumigaseki; Shinkai stated that he thinks "his mother divorced his father a few years ago".
A running gag throughout the film has Taki awakening then realizing he has swapped bodies with Mitsuha that day. He immediately begins to fondle "his" breasts in amazement, only stopping once Yotsuha sees "her". Mitsuha herself condemns Taki's perversions upon their first physical acquaintance during the twilight hour.
By the end of the film, Taki, who has an architectural degree, searches for employment opportunities, specializing in disaster prevention.
Taki (as an architecture student) would later cameo in Shinkai's next film Weathering with You alongside his paternal grandmother Fumi Tachibana (who does not appear in Your Name) during an Obon rite for the soul of his paternal grandfather (Fumi's late husband).
Mitsuha Miyamizu (宮水 三葉, Miyamizu Mitsuha)
Voiced by: Mone Kamishiraishi (Japanese); Stephanie Sheh (English)
A seventeen-year-old student in her second year at Itomori High School; she was born on December 1, 1995. Chronologically, Mitsuha is exactly three years older than Taki. Interested in fashion, food, drink, "cute things" (such as hedgehogs), and the latest vogue, she feels inhibited by Itomori's rural setting, where she was born and has lived for all her life. Mitsuha tends to elaborately tie her hair through a crimson kumihimo braid she wove (symbolizing the red thread of fate). When switching bodies with Taki, she forbids him from showering, touching, or looking at her body.
Being practitioners of the Shinto religion, Mitsuha and her sister Yotsuha serve as miko at Miyamizu Shrine. Following the death of their mother Futaba (whom she greatly resembles), their father Toshiki, horrified by the event, abandoned the shrine to pursue politics, eventually becoming the town's mayor. Owing to his temperament, the sisters refused to live with him, instead moving in with their maternal grandmother Hitoha.
Demure, affectionate, straightforward, idealistic, and sometimes stubborn, she yearns for a metropolitan life in Tokyo and to avoid inevitably encountering Toshiki. She resents her liturgical role, which notably includes the ancient tradition of creating kuchikamizake. Its production, which has one chew rice then expectorate it for fermentation, attracts much derision from both classmates and other residents. Notably, Mitsuha's speech is marked with a lilting accent and a lighter form of the Mino dialect (as with much of her fellow Itomori residents); while possessing Taki's body, he insists that she speak hyōjungo (Standard Japanese). When Taki possesses her body, he attempts to learn her native tongue.
Her birthday contradicts the film's setting that she is seventeen in the summer of her second year in high school; Shinkai stated: "In their mind, they both kind of assumed that they were both born on December 1."
Mitsuha would later cameo in Shinkai's next film Weathering with You as a jewelry saleswoman at a shop in LUMINE, a mall in Shinjuku.
Katsuhiko "Tessie" Teshigawara (勅使河原 克彦, Teshigawara Katsuhiko)
Voiced by: Ryo Narita (Japanese); Kyle Hebert (English)
Mitsuha's classmate, nicknamed "Tessie" ("Tesshi" in the English dub); as of 2013, he is seventeen (born January 18, 1996). He is infatuated with Mitsuha. The son of the president of the local Teshigawara Construction company, Tessie is a frequent reader of Mu, a monthly periodical devoted to the occult and paranormal. He is interested in mechanics and engineering.
Tessie is deeply ambivalent toward Itomori. In the manga, he says: "It makes me want to destroy it all, leaving only beautiful memories." He initiates measures to improve the town's situation from his own perspective, earning him Taki (in Mitsuha's body)'s sympathy.
In the epilogue, Tessie and Sayaka tease each other over their upcoming marriage. The character is namesaken from Teshigawara, a character in the seventh episode of Shinkai's 2014 novelization of The Garden of Words.
Along with Sayaka, he has a cameo in Weathering with You.
Sayaka Natori (名取 早耶香, Natori Sayaka)
Voiced by: Aoi Yūki (Japanese); Cassandra Lee Morris (English)
Mitsuha's classmate and best friend; as of 2013, she is seventeen (born February 1, 1996). Calm yet volatile, she harbors a crush on Tessie. Sayaka is part of the school's radio broadcasting club: later in the film, she is tasked by Taki (in Mitsuha's body) and Tessie with broadcasting the false emergency evacuation alert. Her elder sister, who works at the town hall, briefly appears in the film.
Like Tessie, Sayaka is named after a character in the seventh episode of Shinkai's 2014 novelization of The Garden of Words.
Along with him, she has a cameo in Weathering with You.
Tsukasa Fujii (藤井 司, Fujii Tsukasa)
Voiced by: Nobunaga Shimazaki (Japanese); Ben Pronsky (English)
Taki's classmate and best friend of both him and Takagi; as of 2016, he is seventeen (born October 1, 1999). Loyal and phlegmatic, he is, like them, interested in architecture and also serves part-time at Il Giardino delle Parole. Tsukasa worries about Taki whenever Mitsuha inhabits his body.
In his last appearance toward the end of the film, he is seen wearing a ring on his left hand. Upon inquiry, Shinkai commented: "It's just a backstory, but I believe Tsukasa is engaged to Okudera."
He would later confirm that Tsukasa and Okudera married by the epilogue; the two have an age gap of seven years.
Shinta Takagi (高木 真太, Takagi Shinta)
Voiced by: Kaito Ishikawa (Japanese); Ray Chase (English)
Taki and Tsukasa's classmate and best friend; as of 2016, he is seventeen (born 1998 or 1999). Crisp and optimistic, he has a well-built figure with an athletic appearance. Like his dear friends, he is an aspiring architect. Along with them, he has a part-time job at Il Giardino delle Parole. He is the most extroverted of the trio.
Miki Okudera (奥寺 ミキ, Okudera Miki)
Voiced by: Masami Nagasawa (Japanese); Laura Post (English)
A student at the University of Tokyo and a close friend and coworker (at Il Giardino delle Parole) of Taki's. As of 2016, she is twenty-four (born January 22, 1992). Before body-switching with Mitsuha, Taki originally had a crush on Okudera. Fashionable, extroverted, and admired for her appearance, she is popular with male waiters. She develops closer feelings for Taki when Mitsuha inhabits his body. Okudera is a smoker: Tsukasa discovers this as they spend a night together while accompanying Taki on his search for Mitsuha. She is commonly referred to as Okudera-senpai ("Miss Okudera" in the English dub) by her colleagues.
Upon her long-awaited reunion with Taki in 2021, she is seen wearing an engagement ring, and informs him of her upcoming wedding. According to Shinkai: "It's just a backstory, but I believe that Tsukasa is engaged to Okudera." In the light novel, Okudera works (as of that point) at the Chiba branch of an apparel manufacturer.
He would later confirm that Tsukasa and Okudera married by the epilogue; the two have an age gap of seven years.
Hitoha Miyamizu (宮水 一葉, Miyamizu Hitoha)
Voiced by: Etsuko Ichihara (Japanese); Glynis Ellis (English)
The abbess and matriarch of Miyamizu Shrine and maternal grandmother to Mitsuha and Yotsuha; as of 2013, she is 82 (born March 4, 1931). Her principal family tradition is kumihimo (thread-weaving). She educates her grandchildren in the history, theology, and traditions of the shrine and the Shinto faith.
Hitoha is still alive as of 2021, according to the manga.
Yotsuha Miyamizu (宮水 四葉, Miyamizu Yotsuha)
Voiced by: Kanon Tani (Japanese); Catie Harvey (English)
Mitsuha's ebullient younger sister; as of 2013, she is nine (born July 2, 2004) and in fourth grade. Yotsuha assists her grandmother and sister in preserving family tradition at Miyamizu Shrine, where the sisters participate in producing kumihimo and kuchikamizake. She finds Mitsuha suspicious and erratic, yet nevertheless supports and loves her unconditionally. At the end of the film, Yotsuha is seen attending high school.
She has a cameo in the film Weathering with You.
Toshiki Miyamizu (né Mizoguchi) (宮水 俊樹; 溝口 俊樹, Miyamizu Toshiki; Mizoguchi Toshiki)
Voiced by: Masaki Terasoma (Japanese); Scott Williams (English)
The estranged father of the sisters Miyamizu and widower of Futaba; as of 2013, he is 53 and campaigning for re-election. A retired folklorist and anthropologist who originally came to Itomori for research (having abated his career and prearranged engagement in order to marry Futaba), he carries a jaded, draconic countenance owing to the loss of his wife. Horrified by how the town's residents regarded her as a mere miko, Toshiki renounced the priesthood following her death, subsequently capitalizing on the prestige of the Miyamizu clan to be elected town mayor two years later.
He was born in Nara in 1959, and formerly lived and worked in Kyoto.
Futaba Miyamizu (宮水 二葉, Miyamizu Futaba)
Voiced by: Sayaka Ohara (Japanese); Michelle Ruff (English)
Mitsuha and Yotsuha's mother, Toshiki's wife, and only child of Hitoha; she was a priestess at Miyamizu Shrine. She appears in a scene where Taki undergoes a vision of much of Mitsuha's life. Prior to the events of the film, Futaba succumbed to severe illness, aged thirty-six.
She was born in Itomori in 1971 and died there in 2007.
Yukari Yukino (雪野 百香里, Yukino Yukari)
Voiced by: Kana Hanazawa (Japanese); Katy Vaughn (English)
An introspective teacher of Classical Japanese at Itomori High School specializing in literature and poetry; as of 2013, she is 27 (born February 27, 1986). She teaches the class about the word "kataware-doki". Yukari previously appeared in Shinkai's film The Garden of Words.
In September 2013, Yukari actually lived in Tokyo (as seen in The Garden of Words) and taught in a local high school; she would later continue educating while moving back to her hometown, Imabari, Ehime. It is, according to Shinkai, "up to the viewer's imagination" as to why she was seen in Itomori.
