When Mitsuha answers, we get a solid joke that builds on the body switch mechanique and uses the different variants you can refer to yourself in Japanese.
There, the two ask their friend how he could have possibly gotten lost. Their goal is the rooftop where they eat their lunch together with another friend of Taki who is called Shinta. The boy drags Mitsuha with him and says that Taki ignored his messages, from which Mitsuha can gather that this boy has to be Tsukasa, a friend of Taki. Mitsuha then carefully looks into Taki’s classroom and just as she is about to enter, someone appears behind her. This once again serves to make the film feel more alive since schools tend to generally not be graveyards in terms of the atmosphere. She arrives in school by noon and firstly we get a few shots of different students who are simply talking about everyday things during their lunch break. From her face we get meanwhile how happy she is to be in Tokyo and everything else would have been surprising since she wanted to go to Tokyo so much. With the help of her smartphone and the name of the school she could read on the school uniform, Mitsuha goes out to find the school. Since Mitsuha is pretty late for school now, she gets dressed and leaves the apartment, only to astonishedly realise that her big dream seems to have come true, since Tokyo extends before her eyes. Apropos, Mitsuha describes the whole situation as an odd dream that is way too realistic. Important to note is therefore that we learn absolutely nothing about Taki’s family life or his relationship to his father.
We do not even learn his name and will never see him again besides a very short scene later in the movie where he does nothing. Mitsuha then inspects Taki’s body, like he did in her’s, and turns red when she reaches between her, or rather his, legs.Īfter she washed herself, we get a short impression of Taki’s father who notes that today would have been Taki’s turn to make breakfast, whereupon he immediately leaves for work, thus we do not really get a reaction from him to the body switch. Meanwhile, we see sketches of big buildings and bridges hanging on the wall that show that Taki likely has a big interest in architecture. She then looks around the room in confusion and poses the obvious question where she is, which also makes it crystal-clear that Mitsuha is now in Taki’s body. When he falls off the bed while trying to grab his phone, we immediately see the first sign that Mitsuha is now in his body, because she usually sleeps on the ground and not in an elevated bed, as we saw in the scene where Taki woke up in her body. The mandatory close-up of a smartphone that somewhow lets a drawn smartphone look more real than an actual oneĪfter the end of the first Itomori section and Mitsuha uttering her wish, we see Taki in the next scene, who is just getting up since his alarm clock rang.