Your Name. turns ten, and our body swap shelf holds 64 free episodes
The anniversary lands on a film we hold nothing of. Here is what the whole body swapping shelf actually gives you, and why the episode count flatters it.
By Riley Kuroda · AnimeSphere staff · August 26, 2026
Ten years have passed since Your Name. opened in Japanese cinemas, and to mark the date the film's director released an early piece of concept art. Anime Corner has the report on the illustration.
We hold no free episodes of the film itself. Your Name. sits in our index as a 2016 film with a recorded running time of 107 minutes, and its page states no free episode count. The same is true of every other film by that director in our index: Voices of a Distant Star, The Place Promised in Our Early Days, 5 Centimeters per Second, Children who Chase Lost Voices, The Garden of Words, Weathering With You and Suzume. All eight pages were requested today, all eight returned, and not one of them states a free episode.
So the more useful question is what the body swapping shelf as a whole holds. AniList records descriptive tags against entries in our index of 20,498 anime, and 103 of ours carry the tag "Body Swapping". Every one of those 103 pages was requested today and every one returned. Four state a free episode count. The remaining 99 state none.
Sixty-four episodes, seven hours
Between those four entries, the pages state 64 free episodes. That number flatters the shelf. Fifty-two of the 64 come from two short form runs on the same channel: BanG Dream! Girls Band Party!☆PICO, 26 episodes at 180 seconds each, and BanG Dream! Girls Band Party!☆PICO FEVER!, 26 episodes. The first of those runs is complete against the episode count we record, every upload title carries the number we store against it, and it carries no country restriction.
Adding the lengths we store for all 64 uploads gives 25,299 seconds, which is 7 hours and 1 minute. That is our arithmetic on recorded figures, not a timed watch. The two short form runs account for 2 hours and 39 minutes of it. The single largest block is You Yao, an ONA on the verified iQIYI Animation channel: 11 free episodes totalling 14,327 seconds, or 3 hours and 58 minutes. Its page carries the note "Chinese audio, English subs". The free episodes are numbered 1, 2, and 4 through 12, so episode 3 is not among them.
What a reader can start today
Two things on this shelf are worth naming plainly.
- Yamada and the Seven Witches, episode 1, on the verified Crunchyroll channel. The upload runs 1,456 seconds against a recorded episode length of 24 minutes, so it is the whole episode and not a clip, and its title and caption tracks both mark it as an English dub. Only that one episode of the 12 is free.
- BanG Dream! Girls Band Party!☆PICO, all 26 episodes, three minutes apiece, with authored English subtitles on the five episodes we checked and Japanese audio underneath. Not an English dub.