The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
- The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
One of the better directed anime films,
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
was a work of genius. The film starts by only giving glimpses of the
characters and the setting. In the meantime the credits role in between
these scenes. You get the feeling you are watching a big budget drama
film. The movie will fool you over and over again.
The Plot of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
- Leaping Through Time
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time starts
out a bit slow. Makoto Konno is a very clumsy high school girl. She is
not smart, but not dumb either. She is average. She has two male friends
which she plays baseball with, Chiaki Mamiya and Kōsuke Tsuda. Makoto
goes to put up note books from her class. She stumbles into the science
room after hearing a noise and falls onto a shell of some kind. On her
way home her brakes on her bicycle stop working and she hits a RR
crossing guard. She is thrown from her bike and the train hits her. She
wakes up a few feet before the train tracks and is still alive. This is
where she begins to notice she has the ability to leap through time.
Literally, she leaps through time. To activate this ability she has to
get a running start and leap. Once she learns of this, she goes back
through time (only to recently passed months) to fix mistakes such as a
bad grade or a clumsy mistake.
All the while she tells her aunt,
Kazuko Yoshiyama, about her ability to leap through time. Her aunt works
as an art restorer at the Tokyo National Museum in
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time.
Kazuko suggests that Makoto may be hurting other people while changing
her own past. Makoto starts to take notice of this when a classmate is
given her misfortune in cooking class. She also uses this to escape a
love confession from Chiaki. But she does not only use it for herself,
but to help out her friends. She is able to get Kōsuke a girlfriend,
Kaho Fujitani, whom has been in love with him for a while.
By the end of
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time,
Chiaki asks Makoto if she has been using this ability. To escape from
him asking this, she uses her ability for the final time. Doing this
causes her friends Kōsuke and Kaho to get into the train accident meant
for Makoto. As she is weeping she realizes things suddenly change and
Chiaki saved the two from dying. He explains that he is from the future
and cam to see a painting, ironically the one Makoto's aunt is
restoring. He had lost his device in the school and found it used up by
Makoto. She asks him why he can not go back and he explains he used his
last time to save Kōsuke and Kaho. The ending is a bit intense so I will
not even begin to ruin it for you.
The Characters of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
- The Three Friends
The characters in
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
are very realistic. There is no magical powers, or odd hair coloring,
or strange monsters. The characters feel as if they could be very real.
The dynamic between the three friends makes it feel as if the writer was
putting personal experiences in the film.
Makoto is the main character of The
Girl Who Leapt Through Time
and like I said, she is very clumsy. She is your average high school
Japanese student. She doesn't know what she wants to do with her life.
Chiaki is more of the comedic relief of the group. He is also an average
student
. Kōsuke is the smart student in the group. He is a very respectable person and remains calm at every situation.
The Painting of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
- The Painting
Makoto's aunt is restoring a painting throughout
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time.
This is the same painting that Chiaki comes back in time to see. During
the film setting is the only time which this paintings whereabouts is
known. In the future it is destroyed and he was unable to see it. The
painter is unknown, but the painting itself is strange and relaxing. A
mixture of brown colors with a slightly hidden face and four blue orbs.
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time is definitely one of the better anime films I have seen. It tops most Miyazaki films. The
Girl Who Leapt Through Time is not at all what you expect, it far exceeds any expectation. This should definitely be on the shelf of any Otaku.
Overall Grade 10/10
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