The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time is a 2006 Japanese science-fiction romance anime film directed by Mamoru Hosoda and written by Satoko Okudera. It was based on a Japanese novel of the same name which was written by Yasutaka Tsutsui.

Plot
A teenage girl tries to use her newfound ability to travel through time to her advantage.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) Incredible animation.
 * 2) The movie is able to get us to like and sympathize with the main heroine, Makoto Konno, very early on, due to the unrelentingly crappy day she's having.
 * 3) Great voice acting in both sub and dub.
 * 4) The series is somehow to have a plot about time travel without bringing up a tone of questions that it can't answer by the end.  Very few movies, tv shows, or video games that deal with time travel are able to pull this off.
 * 5) Amazing soundtrack.
 * 6) The story is mostly lighthearted with its time travel story, but can get a little bit heavy into the drama later on when when Makoto finds out that her time travel antics are affecting not just her life, but the lives of everyone around her, too.
 * 7) Very appealing art style and character designs.
 * 8) Makoto is also very relatable and believeable.  In most cases, a teenager, (or hell, most human beings in general), who acquires the power to travel through time probably would do everything that she does, and mess things up for everyone.
 * 9) Excellent comedy.
 * 10) All of the side characters are also well written.  While none of them are as interesting as Makoto herself, they're all believable, likeable, and they just feel real, down to the most tiny of details.
 * 11) Incredible pacing.

Reception
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time has an 88% critic rating and a 90% audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes, a 3.8/5 on Letterboxd, a 7.8/10 on the International Movie Database (IMDB), an 8.35/10 on MyAnimeList, an 83.65% community approval rating on Kitsu, and a 4.2/5 on AnimePlanet.

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