He also posted a comment on his official Twitter: “This is the first terrestrial broadcast for ‘Your Name.’
It is officially announced today that Makoto Shinkai’s mega hit anime film Kimi no Na wa./Your Name. will be broadcast terrestrially for the first time on TV Asahi’s 24 stations in Japan at 21:00 on January 3, 2018 (JST).
The 107-minute youth sci-fi film was released in Japan on August 26, 2016, and earned a gigantic 25 billion yen from its domestic run, becoming the second top-grossing film in the Japanese cinema history.