A lot of people are saying that exact same comment. I kind of hate to refer to the body swap genre. But ya, it sure does.

That was one time though. I didn’t get the sense that he was particularly assertive in his own life. His personality wasn’t really defined beyond “typical Tokyo boy”.

Another very important part is how confident he tend to be, which goes with always going into fights despite the fact that he is “”weak”” if we are to believe other characters. Mitsuha was pretty much a doormat to everyone the whole time but thanks to their experiences, and partly thanks to him, she learns to stand for herself (which is important at the end of the movie). We also see that he’s a good guy despite being a bit of a brut; when he gets angry over people talking about Mitsuha in their art class, while he’s in her body. Basically, Mitsuha never defended herself and he did it for her, before learning to be more assertive from him, which, as said earlier, is a key point in the ending.

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I will. Thanks for letting me know

Try garden of Words. That’s my personnel favourite. It’s on Netflix together will all his work.

That’s the truth! Ironically I never thought to place the film into that genre and thankfully the film doesn’t go down that heavily traveled road.

I agree! It goes so much deeper than you ever expect a body swap movie to go

It’s important that, while Mitsuha realizes that she’s a bit confined to her hometown, it is Taki who’s compelled to leave Tokyo to solve the forces behind their body-switching. She finds it difficult to escape her quaint little village, while he finds it difficult to leave the relative comforts of his Tokyo life.