"This is a story about an ordinary boy from a family in Flame Capital and a young girl from a small town in East Sun District who switch bodies..."
Under the bright light of the teacher dormitory's desk lamp, Le Yu scribbled furiously, beginning to adapt Your Name to the local setting and lay the emotional groundwork for Qing Lan to later see him and think, How did he become like a completely different person?
In fact, localizing it was quite simple. If the Imperial Academy was the highest honor a student could achieve, then making a trip to Flame Capital was the lifelong dream of most people from outlying regions.
How much did outsiders yearn for Flame Capital? Put it this way: in many of the local romance novels from Star Engraving Prefecture and Profound Candle Prefecture, the male lead was often an "official's son from Flame Capital," a "young master fallen on hard times," or a "prince traveling incognito." The ending was usually the female lead following the male lead to Flame Capital to live happily ever after—Le Yu had never read any of those romance novels. Qing Lan had told him about them.
Thus, localizing Your Name was exceptionally easy. The Radiant People could completely understand the female lead's longing for the big city. It was just that the meteor destroying the town was too surreal. Le Yu decided to incorporate current events: the male lead's timeline would be three years in the future, while the female lead's would be the present, three years earlier. The female lead's town had not been destroyed by a meteor, but had instead been flattened by the Coastal Army under Lan Yan's command.
Perfect. The anti-war content was getting stronger.
Framing Lan Yan (1/1).
After writing roughly a third of the