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7. Your Name
It's obvious from the first few frames of Your Name that its writer and director Makoto Shinkai is a huge fan of Hayao Miyazaki, although you'd expect anyone working with traditional animation shares that view. Still, Your Name is clearly indebted to the great master of Ghibli.
At the same time, however, Your Name feels like the work of someone who not only understands the master (character design and colour palettes are as perfectly crafted here as the best Miyazaki films), but is also capable of pushing the style in new and interesting directions.
Your Name might be a standard Young Adult body-swapping drama on the surface, but Shinkai's understanding of the importance of the little details is what elevates this to the level of the very best of Studio Ghibli's output.
Just as Miyazaki knew to take time out from the action to depict something simple like a frog crossing the road (as with My Neighbour Totoro), so too does Shinkai draw you into his world with the minutiae of everyday life, from steaming breakfast plates to sunsets glinting on glass skyscrapers. No wonder it's the highest grossing anime film of all time.