• "Your Name" was first released in Japan last August 26, 2016 and is slated to be rolled out in the U.S. soon.

"Your Name" was first released in Japan last August 26, 2016 and is slated to be rolled out in the U.S. soon. (Photo : YouTube/TOKYOPOP TV)

The body switching themed anime featurette - "Your Name" (Kimi No Na Wa) has awed anime fans from all over and has grown to become a box office success. With such achievement, the animated film is slated to set foot on western shores this 2017.  

The anime movie is still doing pretty good at the worldwide box office with its current earning now reaching to $330 million. It is now deemed as the top grossing anime film eventually dethroning Studio Ghibli's "Spirited Away" that garnered $289 million.  

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With its impressive animation blended with a heartfelt storyline, it has been expected that the huge chunk of its earnings came from Japanese moviegoers as it garnered $192 million. "Your Name" was also a top grosser in other Asian regions like China where it raked in $81 million and Japan's neighboring nation - South Korea, according to Comicbook.  

In July 2016, the film was featured at the Anime Expo that was held in Los Angeles, California. It was then announced that the movie was already licensed to the Texan anime distributor Funimation. In line with this, the movie is now set to hit the U.S. and is prepping up for its North American release on April 7, PR Newswire has learned.   

Moreover, the film will be released in both English subtitled and English dubbed versions. The film has reached such acclaim that it is currently in the roster of films being considered by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to be included on its list of nominees for Best Animated Feature.  

Directed by Makoto Shinkai, "Your Name" tells the story of Taki Tachibana and Mitsuha Miyamizu who are both in their high school years. A strange turn of events occurred and changed their lives literally as both woke up one day discovering that they have switched bodies.   

The said set up continued as they have learned to live with it somehow as time went on. Both of them managed to keep in touch with each other through messages and even leaving notes. The two, later on, grew curious and the longing of meeting the other in person grows by the day.  

Watch the Japanese trailer of Shinkai's acclaimed anime film "Your Name."