

Vague title, I realize, but I don't want to spoil any passersby. Here's my
question, spoilered to keep people browsing /questions from seeing it:

> How long was it from the first time that Taki and Mitsuha swapped until the
> last time (the day before the comet struck)? Relatedly, how long was it from
> when they _realized_ they were swapping until the last time they swapped?

The sense I got is that it had to be a fairly long time (some number of
months, perhaps), based on details like how they had pinned down that the
swaps occur 2-3 times a week, and how each of them had gotten quite good at
fitting into the other's life.

However, during the first scene that is set in Mitsuha's present with her in
her own body, the TV news indicates that the comet is due to approach perigee
within a month, and at this point, they hadn't yet figured out that they were
swapping, which suggests to me that at best they could've had a few weeks
where they were aware of the swapping phenomenon. (Granted, the swapping
could've been going on for considerably longer with both of them still
believing the swaps to just be vivid dreams.)

So the timelines seem a bit wonky to me. Can we pin down the duration of the
"first" part of the movie more accurately?

I suspect that we should be able to get relatively tight bounds at least on
how long they were aware of the swapping by examining the details of the diary
entries Mitsuha was keeping on Taki's phone. (Or maybe this info could be
found in the novelization?)


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In in-universe time, how long did the "first" part of the movie last?


It's never stated. However, judging by the amount of different coloured diary
logs in Taki's phone, it's likely to be that they switched for at least 2
months. The section where Zen Zen Zense plays can't be used as reference as it
is unlcear as to when each event happened.

In terms, I'd say that they took a week of switches to realise the changes,
and took another month getting completely used to it. Add a month after that,
and that should fufill the timeline.


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The wiki to the movie has a full timeline with as many dates and times as
people could find: <https://kiminonawa.fandom.com/wiki/Timeline#Story>

According to it, the first switch was on the 3rd of September 2013/2016, the
last regular one on the 2nd of October 2013/2016 (so exactly one month) and
the very last one on the 4th of October 2013 and the 22nd of October 2016.


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