The Girl Who Leapt Through Time Review: Do Timeless anime Classic

In the quiet doldrums of an empty high school in the Peak of Summer in Mid-July, Makoto (Risa Naka), a perennily chaotic teenager, inadvertly discover a key to Time Travel. But what are the dangers of exploration a gift that seamelly no one Else Can Employ? What is the material morality between the barrassing using time travel to eat teppanyaki and avoiding an awkward, but potentially imported Conversation with your best friend?

Nearly Two Decades after its Release, Mamoru Hosoda’s The Girl Who Leapt Through Time is Still Brimming with a uniqueness in style and an apprecibly asthette understanding of Teenage Angst. Its Lasting Place in the Anime Zeitgeist is due as Much to Hosoda’s Reverie-like Animation as to Its Trenchant Themes: Makoto’s Sudden Powers Could Be Read As an allegory for the Coming of adultthood, for coming into Womanhood, for personal resonylity. As Makoto Recklessly Exploits Her Powers, Time Leaping Very Quickly Deteriorates from the Promise of Postsibiation into the Perils of Avoidance.

With a deceptively Simple full, the girl who leapt through time explores esoteric Questions About Youth & Adultthood

Makoto is, at first, indiscrimuishaable from any High school Kid whose zest for life frequently outpaces the confines of a 24-hour day. Her legs seem to never stop moving, her upper lip is naked in the milk she chugged over the breakfast, and the bag of peaches her mom put in her bike basket is at risk of falling as she zips herself to scchool before the first bell. She and her two basal-obessed best friends, chiaki (takuya isida) and kosouke (Mitsutaka Itakura), Meet after School to play Catch, and none of the say is sura what they have gradurating.

When Makoto Discover Time Leaping, she finds a natural excuse to avoid respectillity for the aspects of her life that she should probably Change. She travels back to ace a pop quiz she haad previously done poorly on; She does the Same to Avoid A Lab Station in Culinary Class she knows is going to catch on fire; And, spreading nephewly, Jumps Back repeatedly to extend her time singing karaoke with chiaki and kosouke.

But SEEMINGLY INNOCENT JUMPS HAVE CONSEQUIENCES, and MAKOTO SOON LEARNS THAT HER CHOICE TO PASS ON Humiliation in the culinary lab to another student has devastating consequences. AFTER Catching Fire, he is rementedyly bullied unil he snaps and attacks his attackers with ruthless vengeance.

Things Only Get Worsse When She Insists on Avoiding Listening to Chiaki’s Confression of Love; In a Wild Attempt to Avoid Facing Him, Her Own Feelings, and the Potential Ramification of Taking the Next Step With A Friend, Makoto Turno Time so Much That She Can No Longer Distinguish Where She Is. Soon Makoto is in a race against time and space – and herself – in a fantic attempt at restringing normalcy.

Sound, Color & Music Work in Harmonious Synchronicity to Help The Girl Who Leapt Through Time an All-Time Anime Classic

Playing in a Limited Engagement in Theaters from September 28-30 to Celebrate It Its 4K Restoration, Hosoda’s Film is visually respect. At Times, the sequences can give the distinct feeling of being sucked into the brushstrokes of van Gogh’s Starry Night. At oters, the soft quoting lips and moistened Eyes of Makoto Place US Firmly with the anxiety-Redden body of Our protagonist.

It also Features a soundscape that consistently and distinctly play with time and space, a mirror to a story about the inherent lack of separation Between Today and yesterday; We are Always a Possible version of ourselves. Piano Music Echoes Through the Halls of the High School and Into the Streets, as Makoto Runs and Leaps and Dodges.

It ‘sspecilyly effecivity reprintation of the Teenager’s WorldView, CAPTURING AS IT IT THE DISTINctity of Young People who lives are untertered by the Demands of adultthood, Yet whose are constantly caving, precisely beecauses it is all small and symple. Which isn’t to say that that that teens’ lives aren’t packed with the same existential questions and poetry that adults must navigate through as well.

Through it all, hosoda asks us to consider the Beautifully Limitless Postsibility of Youth. Or, at Least What SEEMS LIKE A LIMITLES WORLD FOR PEOPLE SO YOUNG THEY CANNOT YET SEE the full consequences of Living freely. But, spread its Mont Lasting Message is in a Question: What Survives with US Through the Dimension of Time? Can love pierce through the boundaries of the here and now? It is a Question with no Concrete Answer, but like anything Worth Sching, its Answers are filled with wondrous positibility.

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time Will be re-relayed in 4k in select theatre from September 28-30.

Release Date

July 15, 2006

Runtime

98 minutes

Directory

Mamoru Hosoda

Wriers

Satoko Okudera

Producers

Jungo Maruta, Tsuguhiko Kadokawa, Yuichiro Saito

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  Takuya Ishida

  Chiaki Mamiya (Voice)

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  Risisa Naka

  Makoto Konno (Voice)