"B...bomb?"
"Yes, there are industrial water-gel explosives in my family's storage warehouse."
"Hijack the radio waves?"
"It's easy to hijack a rural disaster prevention broadcast like this if you know the activation frequency."
"When the time comes, we can broadcast an evacuation notice to the town from the school's broadcasting room. Since this area is outside the disaster zone, we've decided to designate the school playground as the evacuation site."
"This... this is a crime."
"Sayaka, I'll leave the broadcasting to you. I'll take care of meeting with the Mayor."
"If the Town Hall doesn't step in to resolve this in the end, it really will be hard to arrange for so many people in town."
"I'm his daughter; if I explain it to him properly, I'm sure I can convince him."
The plan to save Itomori Town was perfect. On paper, it seemed like it would really succeed. However, when it came time to actually implement it, they hit a wall immediately.
The male lead thought that since he was possessing Mitsuha, the Mayor's daughter, he would surely be able to convince the Mayor. But after actually meeting with the Mayor, not only did he fail to convince him, but he was also thought to have lost his mind, and the Mayor even offered to send a car to take him to a hospital in the city.
The Mayor's attitude made the male lead furious. He stepped forward and grabbed him by the collar, shocking him. The Mayor then realized something was wrong: "Mitsuha, no, wait... who exactly are you?"
The attempt to persuade the Town Hall had failed.
After leaving the Town Hall, the male lead felt very dejected.
On the way, he ran into his younger sister, Yotsuha.
He told Yotsuha to take their grandmother and leave the town before dusk, which confused her: "Wait, what are you talking about? You suddenly went to Tokyo yesterday, sister, you're acting really weird."
"Tokyo?" The male lead was stunned.
Afterward, his friends Tesshi and Sayaka arrived on a bicycle, asking how the persuasion of the Mayor went.
The male lead, however, was looking into the distance, suddenly struck by a possibility: since their bodies had swapped again, could Mitsuha be at the Shintai of the Miyamizu Shrine right now?
Thinking this, he borrowed the bicycle from Tesshi, told Tesshi and Sayaka to proceed with the plan, and rode off to find Mitsuha at the Shintai of the Miyamizu Shrine.
On the other side, the heroine Mitsuha's soul had indeed arrived in the hero's body. She wondered, "Why is Taki here?"
She left the cave, went outside, ran to a high point, and looked in the direction of Itomori Town. Seeing that the whole town was gone, she was shocked.
Soon, she recalled the scene of the comet striking: "I... at that time... did I die?"
At this very moment, the hero was riding a bicycle, on his way to find Mitsuha.
Scenes of the heroine's memories were interspersed.
Just the previous morning, the heroine and her sister had left the house as usual, but instead of going to school, she suddenly told her sister she was going to Tokyo, and then boarded a train to Tokyo all by herself.
Sitting on the train, she was still thinking:
"Will I cause him trouble by suddenly coming to see him? Will he be surprised?"
"Will Taki hate me?"
After getting off the train, she first called the hero, but the prompt she got was that the number she dialed was out of service area.
"I won't be able to see him, will I?"
"If I really do see him, what should I do? Will I be bothering him? Will it be awkward?"
"But, is it possible... that he might be happy to see me too?"
She was all alone, in the unfamiliar city of Tokyo, filled with a touch of unease as she rode trains here and there, searching everywhere from morning until afternoon.
She called the male lead again in the afternoon, but it still wouldn't go through.
"I won't be able to see him, will I?"
She began to feel a bit dejected, but immediately thought: "One thing I can be sure of: if we do meet, we will definitely recognize each other at a glance. I'll know that the person who swapped bodies with me is you, and you'll know that the person who swapped bodies with you is me."
She kept walking and searching until her feet ached. Then, while she was sitting on a bench at a train station waiting for her train, a train pulled in, and there, on the train, was the male lead.
She quickly stood up, got onto the train, and squeezed her way in front of him. However, she didn't know that for the male lead, the body swapping would happen three years in his future.
At this very moment, the male lead was still a middle school student who didn't know the female lead at all. He was flipping through a small English vocabulary booklet on the train, using his spare time to study.
At this moment, the male lead is still a middle school student who doesn't know the female lead at all. He is on the train, flipping through a small English vocabulary booklet, studying during his spare time.
The female lead had been looking forward to meeting the male lead, but she never expected that after they met, he would be completely indifferent, with his mind solely on studying.
She froze for a moment, stood there watching him for a while, and finally couldn't help but speak up: "Taki-kun."
"Hm?" The male lead looked up, puzzled.
"Um... it's me, don't you remember?" The female lead blushed, pointing at herself, feeling a bit embarrassed.
"Who are you?" the male lead asked mercilessly.
"Eh?" The female lead was stunned.
Such a reaction left her with nothing to say but "I'm sorry."
The train swayed, causing their bodies to brush against each other, but neither of them spoke again. One was thinking, "He is definitely Taki," while the other was thinking, "A strange girl."
The train arrived at Yotsuya Station. The female lead glanced outside, shouldered her bag, and prepared to get off. Just as she reached the train door, she suddenly heard the male lead say: "Um... what's your name?"
There were quite a few people getting off, and the flow of people swept the female lead along. She had no choice but to untie the hair tie from her hair.
"Mitsuha!"
The male lead said, "I've come to see you. It wasn't easy; you're so far away." As he spoke, he smiled slightly.
The female lead, puzzled, asked the male lead how he managed to do it.
The male lead said he drank the kuchikamizake, which made the female lead blush furiously and call him a pervert.
Afterward, the female lead noticed the braided cord on the male lead's wrist. She pointed at it and asked, "This is..."
"You said not to see you before we met, so of course I wouldn't recognize you," the male lead said, untying the cord from his wrist and handing it back to her. "Here, take it. I've worn it for three years; you wear it from now on."
The female lead tied the cord in her hair and asked the male lead how it looked.
The male lead answered somewhat bashfully, "I think it looks pretty good."
After some laughter and playfulness, the male lead began to talk to the female lead about saving Itomori Town.
Once he finished, kataware-doki was almost over.
The male lead took a pen from his pocket and proposed, "Hey, Mitsuha, so we don't forget when we wake up, let's write our names."
He took the pen and wrote his name in the palm of Mitsuha's hand.
Mitsuha happily agreed.
However, just as she took the pen and drew a single stroke on the male lead's palm, before she could write her name, kataware-doki suddenly ended.
The pen fell to the ground, and in front of the male lead, the female lead vanished completely.
The male lead was stunned: "Mitsuha? Mitsuha!"
He looked around, then gazed at the palm of his hand: "I wanted to tell you that no matter where you are in this world, I will definitely go to see you..."
As he spoke, he looked up at the moon in the sky.
"Your name is Mitsuha."
"It's okay, I remember."
"Mitsuha, Mitsuha, Mitsuha, your name is Mitsuha, your name is..."
As he spoke, he was shocked, because the name was being forcibly forgotten.
He hurriedly crouched down and picked up the pen, but when he went to write, he could no longer remember the name.
"Who... are you?"
"Why did I come here?"
"I came to see her! I came to save her! I wanted her to live!"
"Who was it? Who did I come to see?"
"Someone important! Someone I don't want to forget! Someone I must not forget!"
"Who is it? Who? Who! What is your name?!"
He muttered to himself, tears falling uncontrollably, soaking his entire face.
Interlude "Sparkle" begins:
"It seems that this world still wants to tame me
Then as you wish, I will struggle beautifully until the end
Looking at each other's hourglasses, let's kiss gently
Let's make a promise to meet in the farthest place after we part."
The earlier flashback scenes of the heroine searching for the male lead, and the sequences of the male lead, while possessing the heroine's body, running desperately to find the heroine Mitsuha—this whole extended stretch was incredibly moving, making one feel how beautiful a mutual, trans-temporal love truly is.
The meeting of the male lead and heroine across time also brought "maternal smiles" to the faces of many in the cinema.
But once the male lead was forced to forget the heroine's name, many in the theater could no longer sit still.
Shiga Taka even heard the faint sound of people slapping their thighs.
He himself didn't slap his thigh in anger, but he couldn't help thinking to himself, "Damn it, why were they forced to forget? Don't tell me this is going to be a depressing ending?"
Having watched it earnestly from the very beginning up to this meeting between the male lead and heroine, the viewing experience has been fantastic. If it ends with them both forgetting each other, after saving Itomori Town, each just going on to live their own separate lives—or even worse, if it's like 5 Centimeters Per Second where the heroine marries someone else—that would be just way, way too depressing.
He really hoped that wouldn't be the ending; otherwise, he was afraid he might have the urge to commit a crime after the movie finished.
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