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'Your Name' director thanks Filipino fans after movie's ABS-CBN re-airing trends online

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Anjo Bagaoisan, ABS-CBN News

<p>MANILA -- Japanese animator and director Makoto Shinkai thanked his fans in the Philippines after a local television airing of his 2016 movie &quot;Your Name&quot; topped the country&#x27;s trending topics on Maundy Thursday. </p><p>The Filipino-dubbed version of &quot;Your Name,&quot; also known by its original title &quot;Kimi no Na wa,&quot; was shown on ABS-CBN 2 as part of its Holy Week programming. </p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Thank you to all the fans in the Philippines!<br/>The world is tough time now please take care of your days. <a href="https://t.co/lPbRUwiZPZ">https://t.co/lPbRUwiZPZ</a></p>— 新海誠 (@shinkaimakoto) <a href="https://twitter.com/shinkaimakoto/status/1248141949049028608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 9, 2020</a></blockquote><div><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script></div><p>&quot;Your Name&quot; soon became the most talked about topic on Twitter as viewers and anime fans reminisced about the romantic fantasy drama flick, which holds the title for the highest-grossing anime film of all time. </p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">📢 𝗧𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗡𝗢𝗪: The re-airing of Makoto Shinkai&#x27;s &quot;Your Name&quot; on <a href="https://twitter.com/ABSCBN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ABSCBN</a> is the top trending topic in the Philippines on Twitter this Maundy Thursday!<br/><br/>&quot;A Silent Voice&quot; will make its channel premiere tomorrow.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ABSCBN?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ABSCBN</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HolyWeek2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#HolyWeek2020</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/YourName?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#YourName</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/KimiNoNaWa?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#KimiNoNaWa</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%E5%90%9B%E3%81%AE%E5%90%8D%E3%81%AF?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#君の名は</a> <a href="https://t.co/NnnHS0Rsew">pic.twitter.com/NnnHS0Rsew</a></p>— Anime Pilipinas LIVE (@APNLive) <a href="https://twitter.com/APNLive/status/1248069061193293824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 9, 2020</a></blockquote><div><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script></div><p>After a viewer in the Philippines tagged Shinkai in a post about his movie&#x27;s trending status, the director tweeted:</p><p>&quot;Thank you to all the fans in the Philippines! The world is tough time now please take care of your days.&quot; </p><p>Tokyo and some areas of Japan have been declared under a state of emergency on Wednesday due to the COVID-19 pandemic.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/04/09/20/japan-coronavirus-cases-pass-5000-as-state-of-emergency-fails-to-keep-people-home">Japan coronavirus cases pass 5,000 as state of emergency fails to keep people home</a></li></ul><p>The Philippine island of Luzon has been on lockdown for nearly a month to prevent the spread of the infection as positive cases in the country breached 4,000.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/04/09/20/philippines-coronavirus-covid19-cases-updates-4000-mark">Philippines&#x27; coronavirus cases cross 4,000-mark</a></li></ul><p>&quot;Your Name&quot; was first shown on ABS-CBN 2 in 2018, 2 years after a local cinema run.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/12/11/16/japans-smash-hit-kimi-no-na-wa-to-be-shown-in-ph">Japan&#x27;s smash hit &#x27;Kimi no Na wa&#x27; to be shown in PH</a></li></ul><p>Aside from the hit movie, the Kapamilya network also slated 2 other Japanese romantic drama animation films to air this Holy Week, both being carried on the channel for the first time. </p><p>The 2016 movie &quot;A Silent Voice&quot; airs on Good Friday at 8 a.m, while &quot;Fireworks, Should We See It from the Side or the Bottom?&quot; from 2017 will be shown on Holy Saturday at the same time slot. </p>

<p>Japanese animator and director Makoto Shinkai shared his gratitude to fans in the Philippines after a local television airing of his 2016 movie "Your Name" topped the country's trending topics on Maundy Thursday. </p>

Japanese animator and director Makoto Shinkai shared his gratitude to fans in the Philippines after a local television airing of his 2016 movie "Your Name" topped the country's trending topics on Maundy Thursday.

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'Your Name' director thanks Filipino fans after movie's ABS-CBN re-airing trends online

Anjo Bagaoisan,

ABS-CBN News

Published April 10, 2020 11:03 AM PHT

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