Pulp Fiction currently dominates Your Name. 76–24
Tarantino's crime anthology overwhelms Shinkai's animated romance.
The Verdict Decade Duel
These films don't share a metric. Pulp Fiction is assembled from Los Angeles crime and pop-culture debris, performed by actors who seem to be having the time of their lives. Your Name. is built from Tokyo commuter melancholy and body-swap fantasy, animated with Shinkai's characteristic light effects, scored to Radwimps. A bracket forces a comparison the films themselves don't acknowledge, and at 76 to 24 the comparison favors Tarantino's ironic cool over Shinkai's unguarded sincerity. Both are masterworks within their traditions. The margin says one tradition traveled further in this particular contest, not that it traveled further in general.
The Numbers
| Pulp Fiction | Your Name. | |
|---|---|---|
| Head-to-Head | 76% | 24% |
| Overall Win Rate | 57% | 44% |
| Championships | 38 | 13 |
| Avg Decision | 1.4s | 0.6s |
| Budget | $8M | $8M |
| Return | 26.7x | 54.0x |
Where This Matchup Sits
Your Name. is in the bottom quarter of Animation among 21 on BingeBracket.
When matched against other films, Your Name. can handle Titanic but Pulp Fiction can't. What one film wins comfortably, the other loses.
Round by round within tournaments, later rounds favor Your Name. while Pulp Fiction fades — the gap between them widens as the bracket deepens.
The championship record tells the same story: Pulp Fiction has 38 tournament wins to Your Name.'s 13. The pedigree gap matches the head-to-head gap.
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