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When Taki went to find Mitsuha, his friends Fujii and Okudera decided to tag along with him in order to keep Taki safe. Something that was very evident throughout this trip was the fact that Taki would refer to Okudera as 「先輩」 and use the word 「はい」  when he needed to agree/confirm her claims. However, whenever he spoke with his other friend Fujii, Taki would call him by his name and reply with 「うん」  instead of 「はい」. This is a clear example of how Taki used 丁寧 with Okudera, but くだけた with Fujii, and as we know his usage of speech levels is proper due to his status in relation with his friends. From Taki's perspective, since Okudera is older, 丁寧 must be used at all times in order to show respect to the co-worker who the looks up to. But, because Taki and Fujii hold the same student status and age, informal speech would be the proper way for Taki to address his friend.

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One particular scene that highlights the differences between male and female speech styles would be when Mitsuha goes to Taki's school for the first time. When she is eating with Taki's friends she is quick to refer to herself as 「私」 and 「わたくし」 but both Fujii and Takagi find this quite weird. They stare at Mitsuha bewildered and once she notices this, Mitsuha realizes that as a boy she must refer to herself as 「俺」. This is one of the many examples that we learned about which highlight a difference in feminine and masculine speech. I was glad to finally understand why they're so many different ways to say "I" in Japanese, and I think the film portrayed this concept nicely.

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Two example that I managed to catch while watching the film was
「何をそれ」  and  「いあるすぎ」 . Here we can see that in both sentences the usual sentence order is reversed/inverted when compared to how we would normally structure our sentences. For 「何をそれ」, we would normally organize our words as  「それ何に」 or 「それを何」. And for 「いあるすぎ」, we would normally use a sentence like  「すぎいある」. I believe that both of these sentences are stated by Taki when he was on his journey to find Mitsuha, but is this inversion is particular to his character's preference and gender?

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When Taki takes over Mitsuha's body for the first time, the day after, her friends tell her how weird she acted in front of other classmates. Shocked Mitsuha explains that she has been having weird dreams and says something along the lines of, 「ずと変な夢を見とたよなきやするなけど...」. Here Mitsuha uses omitted sentences to communicate her strange condition to her friends who later on use contracted sentences to express how Mitsuha has gone home early for the day. Natori says something along the lines of  「みつは、はかいちゃっただろう」, and uses ちゃった to contract, ease and speed up her sentence.

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One example throughout the movie that helped me understand the difference in masculine and feminine speech was when Mitsuha was switched into Taki's body. Mitsuha has no idea what has happened to her, but attends school anyways. At school, she is eating with Taki's friends and not only do you see her sitting in a feminine posture, but also she refers to herself as '私’. She then says, 'わたくし', then 'ぼく', then ’おれ’ until her friends do not give her this look as if he/she is going crazy. They gave him/her this look because men do not refer to themselves as 私 but uses おれ or ぼく instead.

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Throughout the whole movie, Mitsuha uses contracted forms to talk with her friends. As they are on their way to school, their conversation uses 'ちょった’ often. Although I have not heard of that phrase used often, I mistakenly had thought they used, ちゃった instead. Overall, during the whole movie, when characters are talking to their close friends, they uses contracted forms. It was interesting to see how casual their conversations were and had thought it was very cool to listen to another style. I also knew it was contracted form because they did not necessarily finish their sentences in a way we are taught in class.

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A specific scene you can listen to the different styles of speech was when Taki works at the restaurant. To the customers, he uses the respect form. I remember asking Tony about work places and what levels you would use, and he had told me that it would be in respect (teinei) because you are serving the customers. He uses something along the lines of, 'お待たせしました’. When Taki got in trouble (Mitsuha) because he was messing up the orders, other employees would start yelling at him using informal speech such as ’おまえなにしてるんだ’. Like with other employees (friends), Taki would use casual/contracted form because they are all 'equal' as individuals.

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The inversion method is changing the order of the contents of a sentence and activate a certain effect. An example that I found in the movie was when Mitsuha is talking about how much she dislikes the town and wants to move to a city like Tokyo instead. She says 'いやや、いきたいは’. This emphasizes that she does not like where she is located. Let us say we switched up the sentence, '行きたい派、いやや’. This would technically be the same sentence but she emphasizes more on one over the other. This is also something used in English if reading a novel to show audience what is being emphasized.

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I fully agree with Himeno and Pamela, as when Taki and Mitsuha switched bodies they had to adjust to using female/male pronouns such as 「わたくし」や「私」or in Mitsuha's case, 「俺」。I also noticed that when Mitsuha is taking Taki's place, she tends to let out 「いや」as amplify her emotions, despite being in the body of a male.
Seeing Mitsuha and Taki allowing their personalities come through despite inhabiting each other's body is cute since they each have their own specific speaking quirks which are evident of their gender.

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I took particular note of improper use of speech level. For example, when Mitsuha first enters Taki's body, she runs into his father and uses 「すみません」which is 丁寧 and the level of politeness one would use for a stranger. This language is suspect though because this person is in Taki's family and would normally use 砕けた話し方. She quickly corrects herself though and replies with 「うん」to his follow up question, using informal speech.

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When Mitsuha is going to school in Taki's body for the first time, she says 「東京やあ」to express her excitement, the やあ being a feminine expression. I also noticed that when she was in Taki's body at the top of the mountain after Taki went to the shrine, she said 「しんだの？」upon seeing her entire hometown flooded. This made me realize that both characters kept using their own gendered way of speaking when there was no one around to hear, even though they had both gotten pretty good at that point at performing as the other person and using the appropriate language.

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At the time 41:35, Taki is standing on the bridge after the date and looking back on Mitsuha's journal entries in his phone. He says to himself, 「何言ってんだ、こいつ」. In a grammatically regular statement, the こいつ would go in front.

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Time stamp 1:06:23, Taki in Mitsuha's body tells everyone in the class that they are going to die, then says 「だから、私たちで」and cuts off. What would be at the end of that sentence if he were going to complete it would be 「Time stamp 1:06:23, Taki in Mitsuha's body tells everyone in the class that they are going to die, then says 「だから、私たちで」and cuts off. What would be at the end of that sentence if he were going to complete it would be 「みんなたすける」. The incomplete form of that sentence communicates the intent just fine though.

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The movie takes place around friends and family, so a lot of the dialogue takes place in contracted form. First and foremost, when Mitsuha wakes up in Taki's body and approaches his father, she greets him with 「いっらしゃい」rather than the more formal 「いっらしゃいます」. Furthermore, the use of 「すまん」in place of 「すみません」is used a lot between the more casual friend groups. It is interesting to learn the essentials of a language and then listening to a more casual setting and sounding completely different. I wonder if this movie was dubbed in English, would there be slang as well?

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One scene that stood out in particular that used 丁寧語 was Taki (Mitsuha)'s initial encounter with Okudera senpai. In any business setting, one is expected to respect their elders, but to Mitsuha's lack of self-awarness, she refers to Miki as 「奥寺さん」rather than 先輩(which of course makes the male coworkers abrasive). Taki refers to Miki (Okudera) using Teineigo whenever they are in the workplace, however during the course of the film they gradually begin to use shortened form.
Additionally, on weather reports and train loudspeaker, one can hear the use of polite form and the use of 「いただく」や「ご覧下さい」。

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As mentioned by Pamela, I noticed the use of 「____すぎ」whenever a character was referring to the intensity of something. However my initial reaction to inversion was the use of ___たら after the intended sentence ( I cant think of a clear example but it was something along the lines of 「カフェをみたいです。、東京に行ったら」。I always thought that tara (if... when...) came before the intention of the listener.