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If anybody here already watched the movie , mind to tell me what is mitsuha's first hairstyle called ? 

 

I kinda curious about that as nobody knows the hairstyle is called in either my workplace nor my home  ...

 

about the movie :

 

https://myanimelist.net/anime/32281/Kimi_no_Na_wa

 

 

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First few minutes:
- loose bedhair; noname
- loose short hair, school days-like; noname
- short japanese yukata hair
- short hair tied with some japanese hair tie into a low bun with short ponytail/loose end, with loose front
- multiple hairstyles showing within a second

- hair tied with that miko paper hair tie thing
- bedhair again; noname
- children twintails/pigtails (girl)
- ponytail with loose front (grandma)
- less messy bedhair
- two bottom or side-bottom braids tied tightly upwards at the back with some japanese hair tie, with a short ponytail at the end and loose front; animu loves loose, elrond fronts; it's probably called "mitsuha's hairstyle" (random googling: http://happy-time07.com/327.html, google translate fails at making instructions clear so not sure)

Any mistakes I blame on stream's low quality.

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- short japanese yukata hair

 

Try to look at mal's pic , is it the same with your answer ?

 

I looked up too at my local forum and dweller site , but it seems the quoted is the correct answer , but i just need to verify this enough to make it valid 10/10 ...

 

Is it possible for people who dislikes Japanese-culture (non-japs of course) to know about this hairstyle and used it almost daily ?

 

I am sorry , because it is somehow my late lover's favourite hairstyle ...

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Try to look at mal's pic , is it the same with your answer ?
 
I looked up too at my local forum and dweller site , but it seems the quoted is the correct answer , but i just need to verify this enough to make it valid 10/10 ...
 
Is it possible for people who dislikes Japanese-culture (non-japs of course) to know about this hairstyle and used it almost daily ?
 
I am sorry , because it is somehow my late lover's favourite hairstyle ...

>short japanese yukata hair
I meant this (intro scene just before the opening song starts):

because yukata. and short-haired animu characters usually looking like this on festivals.

 
>mistuha's hairstyle©®™ (tying shown around 6-7 min of the movie)
Unless this being influenced by some festival gets explained in the movie or in animumaker's notes somewhere, it's more that people just tie hair into buns/braided buns/wrap them around their head/etc. for wearing yukatas; googling shows loads of different suggestions of tying hair for that purpose and the basic idea seems to be "if it's long, tie your hair somehow so it's firmly attached to your head and not loose on your back" (in addition to looking fancier because festivities?). Apparently you're also supposed to put your hair into a (simple) bun for funerals. Or when you're a geisha. You'd have to read more on japanese hair-related etiquette to find out if there are any situations where a highly specific hairstyle is required, but here it's either a case of the character liking to tie her hair that way/finding it practical/whatever, or character designers finding it fitting/expressive/beautiful/sexy/whatever. tl;dr - it's not this particular tied up hair being yukata hair, but yukata hair being tied up hair in general.

 

>can I haz use it

The only limitations I can think of are time required to tie your hair daily and dress code requirements? And if you mean something like people pointing the hairstyle with their fingers and making "y japanese" comments, unless your gf/long-haired bf ties their hair to look like a geisha or a samurai, no one will even consider it being influenced by japan/animu.

How to tie vid

Edited by OMGWTFBBQPONIES, 16 September 2016 - 01:44 AM.

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Apparently , the term braided bun also referring to yukata hair , according to the japs in other forum , well i don't have any good placing in the information , how do i say it in english , i don't have any reliable nor solid information about this hairstyle ... ... ... so thank you for your explanation ...

 

fyi , she did that kind of braided bun herself almost everyday , and was particularly picky about her hair length , also she kinda hate anime because she dislike my Doraemon collection and saw it as a childish hobby . She also saw japs culture not suited to our country because they colonise us in inhuman way , yet both of us were descendant of those very same japs colonialist that time ... 

 

last question : is the hairstyle seen in other culture ? or it is exclusive to Japanese ? 

 

thanks 

 

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is the hairstyle seen in other culture ? or it is exclusive to Japanese ?

Buns/braids/braided buns existed all over the world since ancient times at least. More iconic ones or ones with additional cultural/practical meaning to them tend to have names or some sort of region/country association, but there's nothing stopping a single hairstyle to exist independently in multiple cultures with or without little variations to it.

 

The "short ponytail/loose end" bit of mistuha's hairstyle might be considered something of youth fashion I guess, or just a natural result of thicker braids with ends that weren't concealed in any way. Loose front hair strands is something I see way more often in animu and on fantasy elves than where I live, but in modern times it can be considered a fashionable, slightly messy (as in - front hair prone of getting onto your face when you look down/bend over/wind blows in wrong direction + depending on how messy, not sure if intended or hairstyle partially undone) look without any external influences. Not idea if more common in japan/asia or just something animu/manga promote (like tsunderes, childhood friend romances and long spiky hair on protagonists). Can also think of (ancient) greek/roman hairstyle depictions with some curly (asian hair tend to be thicker and straighter iirc?) loose front hair strands in addition to otherwise braided-around-head hair. If a combination of loose front with braided back is mostly seen in japan on people wearing yukatas (historically? nowadays? because of it being considered too fancy and more modest looks being preferred in normal situations?), then it's a case of calling (a group of) hairstyles after their usual use for easier recognition locally (like a bald or almost bald haircut may be called monk/soldier/hooligan/weightlifter haircut depending on where you live). No yukata/japanese-specific monopoly on these though afaik.

 

If you want to argue with her about it, find some pre-movie occurence of it (might be hard though, seeing as japanese internets at first glance calls this particular hairstyle after the heroine) and suggest that she must've gotten influenced by it.

Otherwise, it doesn't look special enough imho.

 

 

oh, right. saber bun is kinda similar too I guess.