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A Body-Switching Teen Romance Anime Disaster Flick With 'Your Name.' On It

Your Name. was the most popular film in the world for the first two months of 2017. Now, the deeply resonant body-switching anime comes to the U.S.
<em>Your Name. </em>starts like a teen rom-com but turns into a harrowing survival tale.

For the first two months of this year, the teen romance Your Name. (the period is part of the title) was the biggest box-office hit of 2017. Never heard of it? Well, it was bigger than Fifty Shades Darker; bigger than Lego Batman.

A surprise anime hit in its native Japan, and subsequently across Asia, had taken in more than a quarter of a billion dollars (as of this writing it has grossed $328 million)

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