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The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

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The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

時をかける少女 (Toki o Kakeru Shōjo)
Genre	Drama, Romance, Science fiction, Slice of life
Manga
Author	Yasutaka Tsutsui (original author) Satoko Okudera (film screenplay) Ranmaru Kotone (art)
Publisher	Kadokawa Shoten
Serialized in	Shōnen Ace
Original run	April 26 2006 – June 26 2006
Volumes	1
Novel
Author	Tsutsui Yasutaka
Publisher	Kadokawa Shoten
Published	May 25 2006
Volumes	1
Movie
Director	Mamoru Hosoda
Producer	Takashi Watanabe (Kadokawa Shoten) Yūichirō Saitō (Madhouse)
Writer	Yasutaka Tsutsui (original novel) Satoko Okudera (screenplay)
Composer	Kiyoshi Yoshida
Studio	Madhouse
Licensor	Kadokawa Herald Pictures Bandai Entertainment^[1] Anime Virtual^[2] KAZE ^[3]
Released	July 15 2006 November 19 2006 March 3 2007 March 9 2007 June 14 2007 August 23 2007
Runtime	98 minutes

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (時をかける少女, Toki o Kakeru Shōjo^?, also known as TokiKake) is a Japanese anime film produced by the animation studio Madhouse and distributed through Kadokawa Herald Pictures, first released in theatres in Japan on July 15 2006. The film was later released on DVD on April 20 2007 in Japan in regular and limited editions. A German RC2 DVD (with German and Japanese dub and German and Polish subtitles) was released on September 24 2007 by Anime Virtual/AV Visionen. A manga story, set as a prelude to the film, was serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's Shōnen Ace manga magazine between April 26 2006 and June 26 2006; the chapters were later collected into a single bound volume which went on sale on July 26 2006. On December 9 2007 Bandai Entertainment announced that the anime film will be released as a region 1 DVD. Bandai Entertainment, who had very recently obtained the North American distributing rights to the film said in a New York press conference that they are also considering releasing the film in limited release in selected theaters in Los Angeles, New York, and possibly other locations. Bandai Entertainment did not specify whether or not they will release the film dubbed or subbed for American viewers, though they are considering both options. Tsutsui Yasutaka's novel, Toki o Kakeru Shōjo (unofficial translation: The Little Girl Who Conquered Time) is the basis of the film, but the film is not a movie version of the book. Instead, the film is set as a continuation of the book in the same setting some twenty years later. Tsutsui Yasutaka praised the film as being "a true second-generation" of his book at the Tokyo International Anime Fair on March 24 2006.^[4]

1 Story
2 Theatrical run
3 Awards
4 Theme songs
5 References
6 External links

Story

Makoto Konno (Riisa Naka), a girl attending high school in Tokyo's shitamachi, gains the power to go back in time and re-do things (the time-leap) when she gets involved in an accident at a train crossing one day. A little bewildered with her new powers at first, Makoto uses them extravagantly to avoid being tardy and to get perfect grades on tests. However, things begin to turn bad as she discovers how her actions can adversely affect others. Along the way, Makoto's aunt, Kazuko Yoshiyama (Sachie Hara), offers some advice to her niece, with the hint that she herself had done something similar in the past; Kazuko is the protagonist of the novel, The Little Girl Who Conquered Time. Makoto discovers that she can only leap through time a limited number of times. However, she ends up using up more of her leaps to recklessly prevent undesirable situations from happening, including a confession of love from her friend Chiaki Mamiya (Takuya Ishida). Unfortunately, in her attempts to make things right for everyone, she ends up impulsively using her final leap to prevent a phone call from Chiaki asking how many times she has leapt through time. As a result, she is unable to prevent her friend Kōsuke Tsuda (Mitsutaka Itakura) and his girlfriend from getting killed in an accident that would have originally happened to her (her bicycle's brakes were not working, and thus the bike hits a rail crossing-gate and both people are killed by an oncoming train). Devastated and deeply regretting her actions, time suddenly stops and Chiaki reveals a startling secret. He is a traveller from the future and leapt through time in order to save a painting being restored by Makoto's aunt since the painting has been destroyed in the future. However, he has used his final leap to prevent Kōsuke's accident and has stopped time only to explain to Makoto what the consequences will be. By revealing to her that he was the one who brought the item that allowed Makoto to leap through time, he must disappear from her life. She finally realizes too late that she loves him as well. True to his words, Chiaki disappears when time begins again and Makoto is visibly upset. As she tries to come to terms with losing him, she discovers that she can still make one final leap through time. Returning to the day she got her powers, she manages to restore Chiaki to her time frame. However, she reveals everything that he told her in the future concerning who he is, the ability to leap through time, and his intention to remain in her time frame. As a result, Chiaki must leave her time-frame and return the future. They part ways, with Chiaki saying he will wait for her in the future and Makoto saying she will run towards it.

Theatrical run

TokiKake was released to a small number of theaters in Japan, taking in approximately 300 million yen (US$~3 million).^[5] The film wasn't advertised as frequently as other animation features from 2006 (such as "Tales from Earthsea"), but word of mouth and glowing reviews^[6] generated interest. At Theatre Shinjuku for days in a row, filmgoers would fill the theater, some even standing to watch the film. Following this, distribution company Kadokawa Herald Pictures took unprecedented measures to increase the number of theaters showing the film across Japan, and sent the film to several international festivals. TokiKake, translated as The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, premiered in Canada on November 19 2006 at the Waterloo Festival for Animated Cinema and went onto premiere in US on March 3 2007 at the 2007 New York International Children's Film Festival. According to Bandai Entertainment, the movie will receive a limited theatrical run in the USA in 2008.

Awards

Even though it was not a massive hit at the box office, the film did exceptionally well at the various festivals it was entered in. TokiKake took home the Gertie Award for the best animated feature film at the thirty-ninth Sitges International Film Festival of Catalonia.^[7] It won the Animation Grand Award, given to the year's most entertaining animated film, at the prestigious sixty-first Annual Mainichi Film Awards. It was also awarded the first annual Animation of the Year prize at the thirtieth Japan Academy Prize.^[8] It was nominated for, but did not win, the twenty-seventh Japan SF Grand Prize.^[9] It received the Grand Prize in the animation division at the 2006 Japan Media Arts Festival.^[10] At the sixth annual Tokyo International Anime Fair, which opened on March 22 2007, TokiKake was recognized as "Animation of the Year" and won several awards.^[11] It won the Special Distinction for Feature Film at France's thirty-first Annecy International Animated Film Festival on June 16 2007. It played to full-house theatres during a screening in August 2007 at the ninth Cinemanila International Film Festival in Manila, Philippines.

Theme songs

The theme song to the film is "Garnet" (ガーネット, Gānetto^?), and the insert song used in the film is "Kawaranai Mono" (変わらないもの, lit. Unchanging Thing(s)^?). Both songs were written, composed, and sung by singer-songwriter Hanako Oku, however the latter song was arranged by Jun Satō.