Your Name (Deluxe Edition Blu-ray & DVD) Unboxing Redux

Your Name (君の名は。, Kimi no Na wa.) is a 2016 original theatrical anime film by director and writer Makoto Shinkai and animated by studio CoMix Wave Films. The film was theatrically released in August 2016 for Japan and published by TOHO Animation.

Brief Unboxing Redux Note:

I first acquired Your Name in November 2017. This was unboxed over on my Normanic Vault blog via Blogger. This post is a remaster of that unboxing with better photos, updated information and any added extras. Enjoy!

Background:

“Mitsuha and Taki are total strangers living completely different lives. But when Mitsuha makes a wish to leave her mountain town for the bustling city of Tokyo, they become connected in a bizarre way. She dreams she is a boy living in Tokyo while Taki dreams he is a girl from a rural town he’s never visited.

What does their newfound connection mean? And how will it bring them together?”

Plot Synopsis via Anime Limited, November 2016.

Makoto Shinkai is a Japanese director that has animated a number of films over the years but ever since Your Name, more and more people started taking notice. Personally the anime community recognised him ever since he animated The Place Promised in Our Early Days, Voices of a Distant Star and 5 Centimeters per Second. While Your Name released in the same year as A Silent Voice and In This Corner of the World, it blew up in the box office virtually everywhere and became one of the highest grossing anime films of all time.

The film had its world premiere at Anime Expo 2016 with Funimation acquiring the United States and Canada rights. Anime Limited were able to acquire the United Kingdom and Ireland rights early as well and similarly to Your Name, the UK distributor took action faster than Funimation by not only providing a theatrical release but an English dub with NYAV Post also. I first watched the film at the cinema with my University’s anime society in November 2016 and it was a great experience.

Both distributors as well as Madman in Australia released the film on home video before the end of 2017 to some interesting results which we’ll go through later this post.

Deluxe Edition Contents:

Anime Limited has a couple editions for their titles over the years; standard, collector’s and ultimate. For Your Name what we have instead is a deluxe. To my knowledge the deluxe term is basically the middle ground between a collector’s and ultimate, so you have more content but it’s not massive to spike up the price. That being said Your Name does feel like an ultimate edition considering the amount of physical content it comes with.

The general idea of using their traditional collector’s packaging with clean artwork all around, a digipack to house the discs and an additional physical item included remains once again. The digipack houses not only the film but also the original soundtrack composed by RADWIMPS in CD format. This soundtrack does not include the English versions of the songs as those were released separately.

The physical items include a 128-page booklet which goes over the character artwork, essays and also translated Q&As from director Makoto Shinkai and his readers. Also included is a fold-out poster, 10 art cards with one of them including a certification number and a Mitsuha Bracelet. The bracelet I did get but it’s somewhere in my house or vanished so it won’t be featured in this redux post, but essentially it’s a small orange thing that is neat but isn’t part of the actual box set as Anime Limited managed to get approvals for its inclusion at the very last second.

The SRP for this release was £59.99 with 2000 units total exclusively through Anime Limited’s webstore and Zavvi. The release did sell out after a couple of months so it was a success in terms of sales. I acquired the title as part of the AllTheAnime Early Bird offer.

Physical Contents:

• Rigid Box with Digipack packaging and clean artwork
• Info Sheet for BBFC details, Desc. & Specs
• Original Soundtrack CD by RADWIMPS
• 128-page Booklet
• 10 Art Cards
• Fold-out A3 sized Poster
• Mitsuha Bracelet

On-Disc Contents:

Distributor: Anime Limited
Released: 27th November 2017

The deluxe edition release for Your Name is presented across a single Blu-ray and DVD disc each and the option to watch the film in Japanese audio with English subtitles and the NYAV Post English dub. The encode and authoring was done by Madman twice.

I say twice because the first authoring from the Australian distributor was controversial for being pretty bad in terms of video quality. The new author is an improvement but still comes with one or few hiccups but for the most part it won’t affect the viewing experience completely. I did receive the replacement disc and sent Anime Limited the original so this redux post reflects that. Standard edition reprints will also use the new disc.

The film can be viewed with either the English or Japanese version of the RADWIMPS music which Funimation doesn’t provide an option for their dub viewers. The white subtitles are not locked during Blu-ray playback, and the discs are region restricted to B for Blu-ray and 2 for DVD.

Blu-ray Specs:

Languages	English, Japanese
Audio	English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 for both English & Japanese Songs Japanese DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
Video	1080p High Definition Native format 1.78:1 aspect ratio
Region	B
Subtitles	English
Locked Subtitles	No
Discs	1 BD-50

DVD Specs:

Languages	English, Japanese
Audio	English Dolby Digital 5.1 for both English & Japanese Songs Japanese Dolby Digital 5.1
Video	Standard Definition in NTSC format 1.78:1 aspect ratio
Region	B
Subtitles	English
Locked Subtitles	No
Discs	1

Blu-ray On-Disc Extra Features:

• Japanese Promos
• English Trailer
• Makoto Shinkai Filmography
• TV Special
• Madman Trailers

DVD On-Disc Extra Features:

• Japanese Promos
• English Trailer
• Makoto Shinkai Filmography
• TV Special
• Madman Trailers

Unboxing Photos:

Final Notes:

Your Name is available to order through multiple retailers across the United Kingdom. Both the collector’s edition steelbook and deluxe edition are out of print. You can still acquire the standard edition Blu-ray on Amazon UK.