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Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo (The Girl Who Leapt Through Time)

May 13th, 2007 at 11:57 pm | Category: OAVs & Movies

Japanese Title: 時を�?��?�る少女
Medium: Movie
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Science Fiction, Slice of Life
Duration: 100 min
Producers: Kadokawa Shoten, Madhouse Studios
Official Site: http://www.kadokawa.co.jp/tokikake/

Rating: 10/10

Impressions:

I found out about this show on Retsgip’s Anime Blog (of course from Darkshaunz’s post by the movie of the same title in English). At first, I had no idea what to make of it, as after typing the name in Tokyotosho, nothing came up. I thought perhaps Darkshaunz, knowing how he is, was pulling a prank. However, it soon became clear that the show was indeed real after browsing google and Wikipedia. Of course, after finding out about this and reading about how good it is, I just had to download for myself. After getting it from Tokyotosho, this time having used the Japanese name. And after watching it, I can say…it was AWESOME!!

Yes I know that’s somewhat of a childish way for me to put it, saying it’s ‘awesome’, but indeed it is. The quality is as expected of movie standards, but it’s the powerful plot, scripting and character development that made me fall in love with it. Not long ago, I watched the first third of 5cm Per Second, which astounded me with its sad story and spectacular quality. It’s similar this time as well, except the high quality is replaced by the character development. I was disappointed with the sad ending though, as throughout the movie I was hoping for everything to turn out nicely. If time travel can be such a simple thing, surely a happy ending was plausible…I guess not really.

Makoto is definitely an interesting character, and her personality is very believable for an anime construction. I never expected Chiaki to be important throughout the movie, but it turns out it was him who had caused everything. After getting through the initial confusion with the time travel and all, you immediately become familiarised with the characters, which will overall heighten your enjoyment of the amusing time leaping scenes. Well that’s certainly what happened with me. And of course, halfway in, the comedy becomes more of a drama as everything starts falling apart in Makoto’s world. It’s comedy and drama in one package!

I really don’t know what else to say, except to watch this movie. It’s based on a manga or something isn’t it? I would sure like to read that. The story sounds like it would make for an excellent novel as well. Ah well. Oh, I forgot about a summary, but I guess there should be a suitable one floating around on the internet (such as Darkshaunz’s post xD). But for a shorter one: Makoto is an average high school girl…(sound familiar?) until one day she finds that she is able to leap through time at will. With this new ability, she decides to have fun and solve a few problems along the way. But with this comes many consequences and tragedies as she soon finds out…

Popularity: 20% [?]

24 comments

24 Comments so far

Shirukii May 14th, 2007 2:08 am Number of comments posted: (48)

>> It’s based on a manga or something isn’t it?

If memory serves me correctly, the movie is based the manga adaptation, which is based on the novel.
Tokki May 14th, 2007 3:32 am Number of comments posted: (19)

Thank God someone noticed this. I noticed it back in a NewType like a year ago and tried to find some good info on it. But that was kinda hard, then again I thought it was a series. But the main thing for me is the character designs so I was tring to find some good screencaps. The animation looks great and I need to find a site where you can load it. Youtube might have it.
Babel May 14th, 2007 8:37 am Number of comments posted: (1)

Shirukii is right. The story’s been made into a movie before too I think back in the 90’s, but this is the first time it’s been animated. If you’re going to watch it subbed (and I agree totally with Novastorm’s score – so watch it!) – then get the nice 2Gb version in glorious h264 that’s floating about on tokyo tosh – not the 6-700Mb version (a search on ‘kakeru’ should have it at the top of the list). You’ll want to keep it at least until the DVD comes out in your area, and you’ll want a good version.
Bluestreak2 May 14th, 2007 5:59 pm Number of comments posted: (28)

I was one of those poeple who saw it Darkshaunz’s post and decided to give the show a try. Though I’ll probubly only end up adding a comment over here cause it’s already old news over at Retsgip’s site.
Somehow my first try at downloading it gave me a Russian hardsub, thus the main reason it took me forever to finally see it.
But I have to say when all is said and done, this movie was, as you said, “amazing.” But I find a part that was inconsistant, something that ALL time travel stories will have.
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Why is it she can remember the future of when Kousuke and Kaho are about to go splat. But Chiaki doesn’t seem to realize the 100+ times she does it? I mean the 3+ times in the Karaoke room should have been enough for him to realize…….. Though now that I think about it Chiaki’s song was totally forshadowing.

But I’ll give it slack since all time travel stories to my knowledge have inconsistancies and when measured against how well done the rest of it is, it really doesn’t matter.
So yes anyone even thinking about watching this movie SHOULD totally do it.
^_^ Now to go force this thing upon my unsuspecting friends. I just hope half of them don’t fall asleep like they did when I showed, “The Place Promised in Our Early Days.” (Though this time I probubly won’t be showing it to them at 1am on New Years day.)
Totali May 14th, 2007 9:13 pm Number of comments posted: (3)

Bluestreak2 > Show Spoiler ▼

It’s because SHE leaped through time. This didn’t effect anyone else besides her. They did show that the only thing that happens is she disappears for a second, which they showed in the scene where she first did the leap, and the kids notice it.

This movie was awsome on all levels. Definitely agree with your 10/10 rating! ^.
Danny May 14th, 2007 9:29 pm Number of comments posted: (425)

Totali,

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what Bluestreak was saying is that although no one noticed when Makoto leapt, she noticed when Chiaki leapt. By what youre saying, Makoto would not have realised remembered that Chiaki had leapt through time, which she did.
Totali May 15th, 2007 6:00 am Number of comments posted: (3)

Oh, I see what you mean.

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but I still think it’s just because only she is leaping. She can remember things from the future, just like she gets full from food she eats in the past. She is leaping through different time planes while keeping the same body and mind, not actually reversing time. I just assumed that the movie was going by the time plane theory, like Noein and Haruhi did. That is, there are actually many different ‘worlds’ of time that she jumps through. For example, in one reality she dies from the train, and in another she lives on to find Chiaki’s secret. Her dying is still a reality, but in another reality she lives. The only thing this movie did differently, was that Makoto actually replaced her other self in time instead of there being two of her in one time plane.

Maby I look into things too much. I just didn’t think that the movie was inconsistent at all. In fact, I thought they tried to fill in the gaps at some points.
scoro May 16th, 2007 3:24 am Number of comments posted: (80)

awesome movie; and I’m still only halfway

thanx danny ! otherwise I would have never seen it
TheBigN May 16th, 2007 7:43 am Number of comments posted: (6)

Watched this movie last Saturday, and it’s easily become one of my favorite anime movies of all time.
scoro May 17th, 2007 4:21 am Number of comments posted: (80)

BTW didn’t anyone noticed how : Auntie Whitch could possible a version of an older Makoto

Who is trying to recreate the painting for Chiaki.

Look at the 3-man picture which is shown.
3 people wich looks like olders versions of Makoto ; chiaki and the 3th guy.

or maybe I’m thinking to much
Danny May 17th, 2007 6:53 am Number of comments posted:

i dont think so scoro, since from we could see, i think we’re meant to assume that you can only have one ‘you’ at any time. whenever makoto leapt, she replaced her other self in that time.
someone May 18th, 2007 10:10 am Number of comments posted: (1)

Auntie Whitch is the protagonist of the original novel. Show Spoiler ▼

She had basically the same thing happened to her: she had two friends, she got an ability to time leap, one of the guys turned out to be a traveler from the futuree. Only in her case the guy from the future altered her memory to forget almost everything. You can watch a (pretty bad) 1983 live-action movie for more details.
scoro May 19th, 2007 1:56 am Number of comments posted: (80)

aah k thanx for the info
Snowdrops June 8th, 2007 1:41 am Number of comments posted: (1)

can someone please tell me if i can watch this anywhere online? if so, where?

thanks
sarah June 22nd, 2007 1:22 pm Number of comments posted: (1)

you can watch it on crunchyroll.com
thats where i watched it
type in Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo (:
Going to the Movies at Metempsychosis September 9th, 2007 10:12 am Number of comments posted:

[...] Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo (aka: 時を�?��?�る少女, TokiKake) I heard a lot of praise for the movie, saying it was “a powerful film“, “absolutely superb“, and even “awesome“, all of which I pretty much agree with. It’s apparently a sort-of sequel to an earlier novel by Tsutsui Yasutaka, The Girl Who Conquered Time, and the author himself praises the movie. TokiKake, while mostly containing slice-of-life elements, it also contained quite a bit of sci-fi. Time travel in particular. I don’t want to go into specifics, but I liked the way they handled it – they kept the scope limited to just what was happening in Makoto’s immediate vicinity. There existed the possibility of going too deep into it; thus, the movie would end up like a half-hearted ramble on time-space, rather than expounding on the plot and characters – the latter being what that the movie did really well. I thought that Makoto’s rather extravagant use of her time leaps early on in the movie was pretty shallow, but as it progressed, she tried to use these leaps more responsibly by trying to help other people (though they often end up in failure anyway). The twist at the end regarding Chiaki was quite surprising and I think that was able to tie up a lot of the loose ends regarding the time leaps. I don’t know why, but I enjoyed this more than I did Byousoku. Perhaps it was just bad timing, as I got into this first, which meant I had nothing to compare it to, whilst Byousoku was competing with this and Oukashou, its first half. [...]
Golden FLash October 20th, 2007 8:38 am Number of comments posted:

Seriousli an amazing movie but to mani plot holes

y cant Chiaki play basketball in his time

and wat is it a painting of
tachicoma October 25th, 2007 2:11 am Number of comments posted: (1)

one of the best movies i ever came acroos had to see it two times to get it
aaronibus62 November 10th, 2007 8:42 am Number of comments posted: (1)

When will this movie be released on DVD in the US?
A shame that only Miyazaki’s pics seem to come out on DVD here
in a timely manner
emme November 16th, 2007 5:42 am Number of comments posted: (1)

if there manga? i like to read it
ShadoW May 16th, 2008 7:28 pm Number of comments posted:

I loved this movie. It was srsly AWESOME! I love both sad and happy endings so I liked teh ending. Now off to search more movies!
kyashi39 August 7th, 2008 2:01 am Number of comments posted: (1)

hi, like your post.. i suddenly took an interest to watch this movie, though it’s really one i’m looking forward to watch even if it’s so late for me…
rein January 3rd, 2009 10:43 pm Number of comments posted: (1)

uhmmm…hi guyz!
may i ask if anyone of you know where i can read or download tokikake’s manga or novel?…i really love the anime…and i want to read it…please help me…
michiko January 13th, 2009 4:43 am Number of comments posted: (1)

@Gold Flash
The painting is known as A Picture of White Plum, Camellia, and Chrysanthemum. iwanihana.info has an image (look under the tag: Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo).

@ rein
Check mangahelpers for the manga. There should be a link to a site where someone has scanned the manga based on the original novel (2 volumes, telling the story of Kazuko Yoshiyama – Makoto’s Auntie Witch) and the movie (1 volume, on Makoto’s story).