Shinkai's films are about loss and meeting again. Mitsuha without her mother, Hina without her family, Suzume who lost her mother as a small child — every protagonist sets off carrying a wound in their attachment. What is being drawn under all that sekai-kei scenery is the fear of losing the person who matters and the courage to connect anyway: attachment theory's own subject.
This page reads 10 Makoto Shinkai's films (Your Name, Weathering With You, Suzume) characters through three layers: MBTI as the outward personality, attachment style as the hidden side, and a Big Five type. Rather than simply assigning a type, Why this type from what they do in the story and where they came from — that is how this site works.
📊 Attachment styles across the Makoto Shinkai's films (Your Name, Weathering With You, Suzume) cast
The comparison baseline is the attachment split across 42,256 quiz responses: 30.1% secure, 15.5% anxious, 13.7% avoidant, 40.6% fearful-avoidant.
What the three films share is the shape of a girl carrying a loss, anxious or fearful-avoidant, and a boy going after her. Suzume in particular, as a recovery in which a fearful-avoidant closes her own wound with her own hands, is the most complete of them in attachment terms.
🧩 Reading the relationships in Makoto Shinkai's films (Your Name, Weathering With You, Suzume) through attachment
Makoto Shinkai's films are consistent as stories that choose one person over the shape of the world. Taki and Mitsuha lose the memory of the swap and go on looking for each other; Hodaka chooses the world with her in it over the shape of the world. Suzume lost her mother in the disaster and keeps closing doors with little hold on wanting to live. Under a premise nobody can resist — catastrophe — the films keep asking how far an individual choice can mean anything.
📖 Character list (tap to jump)
The artwork is 16 MBTI types × 4 attachment styles = 64 combinations character images. When the same picture appears twice, those two match all the way down to the 64-type level.
🎀 Miki Okudera: MBTI ESFJ, attachment secure
Taki's senior at his part-time job. Even if he notices the other person's affection, he does not step in, but quietly withdraws after observing the change in the other person.
MBTI radar (ESFJ dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Miki Okudera is ESFJ × secure
Reads the room and shapes it so the other person is comfortable in it — an ESFJ of extraverted feeling (Fe) and introverted sensing (Si). The grounds for calling her secure are that she had feelings for Taki and never tied him with them.
🚧 Katsuhiko Teshigawara: MBTI ISTP, attachment secure
Tessie. A childhood friend who logically accepts unreasonable plans, turns them into workable forms, and runs with them.
MBTI radar (ISTP dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Katsuhiko Teshigawara is ISTP × secure
Builds the shortest move out of the tools and the conditions in front of him — an ISTP of introverted thinking (Ti) and extraverted sensing (Se). The grounds for calling him secure are in how he responds to Mitsuha's outlandish request.
🍡 Yotsuha Miyamizu: MBTI ESTJ, attachment secure
Mitsuha's younger sister. Feel free to point out any abnormalities in your sister. He has a sense of reality and calmly accepts his role at home.
MBTI radar (ESTJ dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Yotsuha Miyamizu is ESTJ × secure
Gets through the practical steps evenly and puts fact ahead of feeling — an ESTJ of extraverted thinking (Te) and introverted sensing (Si). The grounds for calling her secure are in how she responds to what is wrong with her sister.
🧵 Hitoha Miyamizu: MBTI INFJ, attachment secure
Mitsuha's grandmother. He entrusts meaning to the braided cord and kuchikamizake, and takes on the role of inheriting things that cannot be fully explained.
MBTI radar (INFJ dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Hitoha Miyamizu is INFJ × secure
Holds what cannot be put into words on a long timescale and entrusts the meaning to be carried on — an INFJ of introverted intuition (Ni) and extraverted feeling (Fe). The grounds for calling her secure are that she hands over what cannot be explained without explaining it.
🌠 Taki Tachibana: MBTI ESTP, attachment secure
A high school boy in Tokyo. Whether it's a replacement or a comet disaster, he's a man of action who takes action before thinking.
MBTI radar (ESTP dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Taki Tachibana is ESTP × secure
Thrown by swapping with Mitsuha and adapting to it at once, and at Itomori his feet move before the plan does — an ESTP of extraverted sensing (Se), strongly connected to the present.
🌠 Mitsuha Miyamizu: MBTI ESFJ, attachment anxious
A shrine maiden at a rural shrine. A girl looking for a place to belong shouts, "Please make me a good-looking guy from Tokyo in my next life!"
MBTI radar (ESFJ dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Mitsuha Miyamizu is ESFJ × anxious
Minds what her family and her town think, looks after her little sister, and puts herself last for the sake of the room — an ESFJ of extraverted feeling (Fe).
☔ Hodaka Morishima: MBTI INFP, attachment anxious
A 16-year-old who ran away from home and came to Tokyo. An idealist who chose "the world with her" over the shape of the world.
MBTI radar (INFP dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Hodaka Morishima is INFP × anxious
I'd rather have Hina than a blue sky — weighs the entire world against one girl and picks her without hesitating. An INFP of introverted feeling (Fi).
☔ Hina Amano: MBTI ESFJ, attachment fearful-avoidant
A girl with the power of a sunny woman. A 15-year-old who pretends to be an adult and smiles in order to survive with his younger brother.
MBTI radar (ESFJ dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Hina Amano is ESFJ × fearful-avoidant
From the day her mother died she became her brother's guardian with no time to grieve — an ESFJ of extraverted feeling (Fe) who locates her own worth in clearing the sky for other people. Smiling as she says it will clear up, and deciding alone on the sacrifice in which she disappears.
🚪 Suzume Iwato: MBTI ESFP, attachment fearful-avoidant
A high school student from a port town in Kyushu. Even if a handsome man turns into a chair or a door opens, he will run without hesitation.
MBTI radar (ESFP dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Suzume Iwato is ESFP × fearful-avoidant
The drive to follow a man she has just met across the length of Japan — an ESFP of extraverted sensing (Se), answering the present moment with everything she has.
🚪 Souta Munakata: MBTI ISTJ, attachment avoidant
A master who shuts the door of disaster. A young man who aims to become a teacher but continues his mission without relying on anyone.
MBTI radar (ISTJ dominant four axes + attachment stability)
Big Five radar (five factors + hidden-side axis)
Why Souta Munakata is ISTJ × avoidant
Carries out a duty handed down through generations exactly and without complaint — an ISTJ of introverted sensing (Si), defining herself by role and responsibility.
❓ Frequently asked questions
How many Makoto Shinkai's films (Your Name, Weathering With You, Suzume) characters are listed here?
Makoto Shinkai's films (Your Name, Weathering With You, Suzume) currently has 10 characters listed. Each one carries MBTI, attachment style and a Big Five type, with the reasoning for the call. (Miki Okudera, Katsuhiko Teshigawara, Yotsuha Miyamizu and others)
Which attachment style is most common in Makoto Shinkai's films (Your Name, Weathering With You, Suzume)?
Of the 10 listed here, the most common is secure at 5 (50%). On MBTI, ESFJ leads with 3. Ways of keeping distance differ even inside one work, so the same MBTI does not mean the same way of relating to people.
Is this type assignment official?
Not official. This is our editorial reading, based on actions and descriptions in the work. It is not a psychological diagnosis and not the view of the people or studios involved.
Can I find out my own type?
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So which of them is closest to you
Among the 10 characters from this series, the most common attachment style is Secure, with 5 (50%). The most common MBTI is ESFJ. Once you know your own combination, the same list starts showing you who you are close to.
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