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Spoilers ahead about Your Name and also The Lake House...
Yo! Dango desu with a..blog that MIGHT make the Your Name fans go Coo coo.. For the 1st time in my life, I actually made a blog that is somewhat serious.. u.u
Possibility of rabid fans trying to strangle me virtually: 85%
Lettsu Sutatto!
The majority of us consider Kimi no Na wa, also known as Your Name, as a masterpiece. I mean, MAL doesn't lie..
It is true that the movie had a great impact on the viewer's feelings.
(A review in MAL by Jgaaar) The film holds true to all the expectations of Makoto Shinkai production, from heartfelt smiles to crying the 5th time within the last 30 minutes. His signature metaphorical use trains the idea of a hopeless and distant love, and beautiful scenery really dive you emotionally into the story even for how genetic and simple it may seem.
People argue if Teki and Mitsuha are in two different parallel worlds or both of them are just in different timelines. In how I understand the movie, the concept presented is time travel, travelling through body swapping. So they're just in different timelines.
However, Kimi no Na wa might not be as original as you thought it would be. You see, when Teki (girl) saw that he actually keeps a diary, first thing he'd, if not We would(if ever we're in the same situation as them), do is to write something in it in order for the "real" Teki to know what happened when they were exchanging bodies. I paused the video and literally said to myself "Hell Nah..noooo..nope..."
Ok first of all, what really is "The Lake House"?
It is an American film made in 2006. A remake of the south korean motion picture II Mare(2000). The story centers on an architect living in 2004 and a doctor living in 2006. The two meet via letters left in a mailbox at the lake house they have both lived in at separate points in time; they carry on correspondence over two years, remaining separated by their original difference of two years. For Alex the time goes from 2004 to 2006. For Kate the time goes from 2006 to 2008.
And without further adieu, here are the "evidences" or should I just say the concepts that are used in both films. Because I wouldn't want to hurt the Your Name fans out there if I really do say these are all "evidences" that KIMI NO NA WA IS A RIP OFF.
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Yes there are times when I don't make sense.... ha.. hahaa.ha...BUT FCK IT.
I'm not used to making blogs like dis okies~ em not good wid english 2 
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The Same Concepts
1.) Way of Communication
Anime: Through Diaries/cellphones
Film: Mailbox/Letters
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Of course in the anime film, they wrote diaries in order for them to know what happened when they were exchanging bodies like I said before. Not only that, but also writing on their palms, arms, faces.. until they're black from all the marker .-. Jk I'm exaggerating...
But unlike in the anime where both mc's travel through time by switching bodies, in the lake house, Kate and Alex did not. They send each other letters through the mysterious mailbox. The mailbox didn't only represent as their way of communication, but it was also the main reason why the story existed. If it weren't for the mailbox, Kate and Alex MIGHT have never met each other in the first place. So yah let's just say there's some sort of magic inside that mailbox XD.
I'm actually just ok of stories if there is something that is unexplained. Like how the mailbox was able to deliver letters and stuff.
Example is the anime Erased. It was never explained how he got his powers of "travelling back through time" right? Kinda like that.
2.) Time Gap
Anime: 3 years. Boy: Future. Girl: Past
Film : 2 years. Man: Past. Lady: Future
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Mhmmmm...
Ye if I were Makoto Shinkai and if I really was copying the idea in the lake house, I would do the same changes. Instead of the main female character being the one in the future, she would be in the past in my movie. As well as for the main male character~ For the time gap, instead of 2, make it 3. I mean like it's not like anyone actually knows about this move Lake House right? (Heck I bet most of you don't even know the lake house). They won't know, they won't know~ and 3 is a lucky number ye? Yoshi!....yeah that's actually just all for this part XD.
On to the next concept.
3.) A Disaster will Happen
Anime: The Comet
Film: Alex dies from car accident
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Yes...every anime that has drama in it...someone's gonna die ~(u.u.
Kimi no Na wa. We already know what happened. The comet split into two, the other half hit the place where Mitsuha lived..a lot if peeps died..Teki tried saving them by going back through time again to warn all the people..BY DRINKING MITSUHA'S SALIVA. HAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!
In the Lake House: in Kate's timeline, she saw a man got hit by a car, tried saving him(she's a doctor) but failed. A year passed and when her relationship with Past Alex already started, she remembered that incident. It was Alex who had that car accident. She requested Past Alex to forget and never to look for her, explained that he will be hit by a car in the future, wait for two years and meet her in the lake house. He reason why got hit was that, he saw Kate from the other side of the road and crossed.
4.) How They First Met
MOTHER....FCKN.....TRAIN....
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You think Makoto Shinkai's the only one who gets to have train scenes! Ohohoho wrong~ Luckily I had the time to actually rewatch the lake house and remembered that scene -^-
Let's start with Your Name; the reason why they ended up meeting each other was because Mitsuha wanted to see Teki for real, but it was only for a short period of time..too short .>. Because there were too many peeps inside the train and all, pushing Mitsuha away from Teki. Luckily Mitsuha was still able to give Teki her
... her...sigh...THAT STRING —^—" so that Past Teki might still remember her in the future...
In the lake house tho...it went something like this: Future Kate requested Alex to go to a certain train station in a specific date. It was because Past Kate once lost a precious book(given from her father) in that train station. So what Future Kate wants Alex to do is get that book back and put it on the mailbox in order for her to retrieve it back. While he was in the train station he did saw the book, only to find out that past Kate just entered the train. He tried chasing her..But we all know it's already impossible .>. Still in the end he got the book.
But Alex didn't put it inside the mailbox because he wanted to give it her in person whenever he and past Kate might meet again. Or maybe when he and future Kate will meet up.
5.) Both male mc's in both films are good at art
I actually just realized this yesterday, and it made me more pissed off. I didn't want to believe Your Name was really a rip off, but this just did the opposite..
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Ok this is actually a big issue I believe. You might be saying "dude what the hell. They're both good at drawing, it's just a coincidence" or "I mean in most anime/s there's always that character who's an artist or whateva~"...ok I kinda lied on that last part but I think SOME of you are thinking of it right?....k... ;-;
Back to my point, big issue. Why?
Let's go back to Kimi no Na wa~ Remember guys. If it weren't for Teki's drawing, he would have never found that place where Mitsuha lived..so if he wasn't good at drawing....the movie would be total Bullsht..
And in The Lake House. No, he wasn't the one who designed the lake house(bcuz it was his father), but rather "beautified" the it again. You see, the lake house was actually abandoned for many years and he decided to buy it. The house was originally a present for his mother from his father. But sadly she died ;-;. (Alex got his skillz as an architect from his father). So again, if he never bought that house and "beautified" it, Kate would have never lived in that house in the future..and there would be no story.
6.) ENDING
In both films, the mc's survived in the accident they were in.
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Yes. We all know. Mitsuha survived, years passed and she wa reunited with Teki -^- . It's also the same for Alex and Kate. I already explained what happened(in Concept 3). Turns out, Alex did what Kate said and waited for two years. He went to the lake house finding Kate crying near the mailbox. Kate saw him, ran after him and the two hugged one another :') . And kissy kissy 
