Ayami Kakiuchi, Mitsuki Tanimura, Mitsutaka Itakura
A high school girl, Makoto, gains the power to go backward in time after a near-death accident at a train crossing.
DVD Release Date: November 18, 2008
Stats: 916 reviews
Excellent anime that deals with time and life in general. The film is more akin to Groundhog Day than other sci-fi tales. Makoto is a young girl that starts to suddenly travel backwards through time. She can control it with a simple leap. She uses her new found power to correct e...( read more)
"There is a future that we can't wait for."
When a typical young high school girl discovers that she has the unique ability to traverse space and time, her efforts to use the power as a means of preserving the relationships she shares with her closest friends reveals th...( read more)
Great Japanese anime about a girl who meets someone from the future who gives her the power to leap through time. She uses her powers to help her friends.
Pure cinematic perfection. This film is completely and utterly absolute perfection. It weaves so many ideas, so many emotions, so many genres into one gorgeous package, so cleverly, so effortlessly and so beautifully, it makes it look oh so simple. It gloriously portrays the pang...( read more)
This movie begins as something completely trivial and ends with such a huge emotional knockout. And what an ending it is..... It's perhaps a bit too ambiguous for anyone to create his own theory and to freely speculate about the entire meaning behind the plot of The Girl Who Leap...( read more)
This was an interesting and fun little film. Although the concept of time travel has been used billions of times before, it is well constructed and managed this time. By far, I think this was the best animated film of 2006, with pretty good animation (although it could have been ...( read more)
17 year old Japanes Makoto goes to high school, hangs out with her mates, makes choices, grows up, discovers consequences, discovers boys and leaps through time,
This movie is AMAZING. The animation was breathetaking! The background noises sound so realistic! I love Chiaki! he's hilarious! and lovable! The climax had me grabbing the computer screen. The ending had me crying...it made me wanna bawl out loud like Makoto. But i did wished they showed what happens in her future. one of my favorite animated films. i could watch it over and over again. such a memorable, romantic, funny, and visually stunning film that will have you thinking about the ending for days. (^.^)
"Time waits for no one."
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