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In the film _Kimi no Na wa. (Your Name.)_ , a character from _Kotonoha no Niwa
(The Garden of Words)_ appeared as Miyamizu Mitsuha's literature teacher, that
is, Yukari Yukino:

[![Yukari Yukino in The Garden of
Words](https://i.stack.imgur.com/BeAW4.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/BeAW4.png)

[![Yukari Yukino in Kimi no Na
wa](https://i.stack.imgur.com/4qGew.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/4qGew.jpg)

So the question is, as per the events that happened in Kimi no Na wa:

> A comet fell on Mitsuha's hometown, killing a third of the people.

Did Yukari Yukino die in those events?


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What happened to Yukari Yukino in Kimi no Na wa?


I don't believe Yuki-chan sensei (that's her name in the credits, ユキちゃん先生)
died in the Itomori Accident. In the universe where Mitsuha had foreseen the
disaster, she recruited the help of her friends, Teshigawara and Sayaka, to
try to obviate casualties. Sayaka broadcasted to the townspeople to evacuate
to Itomori High School, but was shortly stopped by the arriving school staff,
which included Yuki-chan sensei.

[![Yuki-chan sensei puts her hands on her chest at the sight of the comet
splitting
apart](https://i.stack.imgur.com/V4iLL.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/V4iLL.jpg)

This means that Yuki-chan sensei was at or near the school, a place of safety,
by around 7:42 pm, one hour before Comet Tiamat would strike. There is little
sign that she would head to the festival place within one hour, as she was not
dressed in yukata (most women were dressed in yukata at the festival). She
would most likely stay for after-school duty for the remaining time.

And to refute [Anon's
comment](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/37221/what-happened-to-
yukari-yukino-in-kimi-no-na-wa#comment50470_37221), in _Kotonoha no Niwa_ ,
Yukino actually said at the start of September 2013 that she would go back to
her hometown in Shikoku in a week. Moreover, she was later seen teaching a
class in Shikoku, and even wrote a letter to Takao dated February 3, 2014. She
was definitely not dead, and Takao didn't make any altar for Yukino. All these
details entail that _Kimi no Na wa_ and _Kotonoha no Niwa_ couldn't possibly
be set in the same universe, even though Yukari Yukino appeared in both
movies.


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Spoiler alert.

If you have seen Garden of Words, in the novel that Makoto wrote after the
movie, the two main characters met again after a few years in the same garden.
The boy became a pro shoe maker and the teacher came back to Tokyo after a few
years teaching, and I can assume that the city she was teaching then is the
city in Kiwi no Na wa... So simple logic dictates that she didn't die.


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Actually if you read Japanese one of the headlines for the "village didn't
die" timeline was "0 killed, 109 injured". So nobody died in the timeline
where Mitsuha survived.


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