你的名字。

There exists quite a lot of criticism to Your Name., like excoriating that the mixture of various high-end literary forms and concepts revealed the director's full ambition and aggressiveness. Lacking in a bit of rigorousness as control over the time line, it still outstands as one of the most prominent masterpiece amongst the Japanese animated films which the author has watched till now.

By contrast with From Kokuriko Hill written by Miyazaki Hayao and directed by Miyazaki Goro, music and film art of Your Name. never performed inferiorly than did the former, nor did plots underperformed in any respect. Works of Genre Miyazaki were adept at utilising abundant and variegated classical symphony and soft female vocals to decorate themselves as exquisite French banquets in beautification; Shinkai Makoto got used to applying more elements of popular music, and more boldly, he chose RADWIMPS, a Japanese niche rock band, which presented just as a Japanese dessert in average home, with catchy commonness full of favour and precisely targeted emotion expression. From the perspective of film art, Your Name. inherited the exquisiteness in every frame, since 5 Centimetres Per Second was issued, and revealed more integrity as well as smoothness than did the works of Genre Miyazaki. Speaking of plots, the film was not merely as fresh and romantic as Garden Of Words, but full of delectable ups and downs as well, which indeed displayed his thorough sincerity and effort to tell a tale.

With no resemblance to the works of Genre Miyazaki in seek of grand themes and profound thoughts, instead, Shinkai Makoto prefers to realise life and emotion of modern men and women, to render magnificent dreams and explorations beyond times, and to pursue briskness, exquisiteness, elegance as well as tenderness. Moreover, he even contains sort of Naturalistic charm. Bold applications of new technologies or even cutting-edge technologies feature Shinkai Makoto distinctively and endow his works with excellent painting techniques and visual rendering. Yet due to such innovation, these trials incur disdain from some conservatives of Hand-Painted Genre along with harvesting appreciation.

Cartoonists of Genre Miyazaki hold a philosophy that even a flower can reflect a universe, while Shinkai Makoto is in favour of depicting trivial life with delicacy and nihility. The two genres are not two antagonist blocs like ice against fire but twin stars of Japanese animation industry, mutually attractive, yet independent. To be concluded, the author reckons that New Rococo High-Tech Group headed by Shinkai Makoto are the emerging next generation who can completely relay cartooning from Genre Miyazaki or coexist with them to expand the Japanese cultural pattern.

Note: "Rococo" and "High-Tech" are both derived from architecture. Although there are derived concepts of Rococo in literature and painting, but the author knows little but Rococo in architecture. Hereby the concept used in the text is derived. The concept of High Tech refers to the transformation and application of achievements of contemporary new technology, in accord with the core the High-Tech in architecture. The concept of New emphasises its epoch-making innovation.

对《你的名字。》批判挺多的，说高大上的文学形式和概念杂糅一起上，看得出导演十足的野心等等。尽管时间线的把控的确差一丝严谨，但它仍不失为笔者看过日本目前最杰出的动画电影之一。

与宫崎吾朗导演、宫崎骏编写的《虞美人盛开的山坡》相比，无论是音乐、美术还是情节，《你的名字。》毫不逊色。宫崎系擅用层次丰富且变化多端的古典交响乐和柔线女声，每次都如一场精美的法宴；新海诚运用流行音乐元素较多，此次更是选择了日本小众摇滚乐队RADWIMPS，这倒像百姓家的日式甜点，上口的寻常中仍饱含心意，感情传达直击靶心。在美术上，电影则传承了《秒速5厘米》以来一贯的帧秒精致风，也比宫崎系更一体和流畅。情节上，不仅有《言叶之庭》的清新和浪漫，更有极具观赏性的起伏跌宕，看得出新海诚这次是在用心讲一个故事。

新海诚不像宫崎系追求宏大的主题和深邃的思考，而紧贴现代男女之间的生活与情感，展现瑰丽的梦幻和超脱现代的探索，追求轻快精致、秀雅温柔，但也含有几分自然主义韵味。大胆运用新技术甚至尖端技术是新海诚的鲜明特点并使其作品拥有精湛的绘画工艺和视觉渲染，收获赞誉的同时也因其拓新遭到坚持“手绘至上”的部分保守势力的轻蔑。

宫崎系秉信用一草一花讲述宇宙的理念，新海诚则爱以精致与虚无刻画琐碎的日常。两派不是对立的冰火，而是日本动画界的双子星，各自珍惜也特立独行。总之，笔者认为以新海诚为首的洛可可世新高技派是完全能够接力宫崎系画派或与之共存的拓展日本文化格局的新生代漫画家。

注：“洛可可”与“高技派”皆源于建筑学。尽管“洛可可”有文学和绘画领域的概念，但笔者对此少有涉猎，仅对建筑学领域的“洛可可”略知一二，因而由此引申本词；“高技”此指对当代新技术新成果的转化和运用，契合“高技派”内核。“世新”强调其划世代性的创新。

22.07.2018

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