The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006)

July 15, 2006 (JP) • Fantasy, Animation, Drama, Science Fiction • 98m

Overview

When 17-year-old Makoto Konno gains the ability to 'leap' backwards through time, she immediately sets about improving her grades and preventing personal mishaps. However, she soon realises that changing the past isn't as simple as it seems, and eventually, will have to rely on her new powers to shape the future of herself and her friends.

Director

Mamoru Hosoda

Writers

Satoko Okudera, Yasutaka Tsutsui

Top Billed

Riisa Naka

Keywords

high school time travel surrealism love slice of life teenage girl school schoolgirl jumping from height teenage romance anime time-manipulation japanese high school teen adventure psychological drama familiar

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Top Billed Cast

Riisa Naka

Makoto Konno (voice)

Takuya Ishida

Chiaki Mamiya (voice)

Mitsutaka Itakura

Kousuke Tsuda (voice)

Ayami Kakiuchi

Yuri Hayakawa (voice)

Mitsuki Tanimura

Kaho Fujitani (voice)

Yuki Sekido

Miyuki Konno (voice)

Utawaka Katsura

Makoto's Father (voice)

Midori Ando

Makoto's Mother (voice)

Fumihiko Tachiki

Fukushima (voice)

Keiko Yamamoto

Auntie (voice)

Shiori Yokohari

Moriko Uesugi (voice)

Sonoka Matsuoka

Sekimi Nowake (voice)

Takayuki Handa

Kato (voice)

Maho Kurashima

Female Newscaster A (voice)

Keiko Aizawa

School Nurse / Answering Machine (voice)

Kiyomi Tanigawa

Home Economics Teacher / Female Newscaster B (voice)

Arashi Matsutani

Riverbed Boy A (voice)

Fumiya Togawa

Riverbed Boy B (voice)

Yumi Kawaguchi

Riverbed Boy C (voice)

Tsubasa Ueda

Male Student (voice)

Shouya Sugiyama

Suzuki (voice)

Teppei Takayama

Tanaka (voice)

Fuijo Chiba

Yamada (voice)

Nagisa Adaniya

Female Student (voice)

Mami Tokuyama

Female Student (voice)

Sayaka Yoshida

Female Student (voice)

Yoji Matsuda

Sojiro Takase (voice)

Tadashi Nakamura

Old Security Guard (voice)

Sachie Hara

Kazuko Yoshiyama (voice)

Taeko Hase

(voice)

Atsuko Yuya

(voice)

Hiroshi Kudo

(voice)

Atsushi Sato

(voice)

Yuuto Tanaka

(voice)

Daiki Watanabe

(voice)

Crew

Mamoru Hosoda

Director

Yuichiro Saito

Producer

Satoko Okudera

Screenplay

Kiyoshi Yoshida

Original Music Composer

Yasutaka Tsutsui

Novel

Shigeru Nishiyama

Editor

Nizou Yamamoto

Art Direction

Tomohiko Ito

Assistant Director

Jungo Maruta

Executive Producer

Takeshi Yasuda

Production Supervisor

Tsuguhiko Kadokawa

Executive Producer

Yoshiyuki Sadamoto

Character Designer

Hiroyuki Aoyama

Animation Director

Chikashi Kubota

Animation Director

Masashi Ishihama

Animation Director

Chikako Kamata

Color Designer

Hiromi Hayashi

CGI Director

Hanako Oku

Theme Song Performance

Yoshio Obara

Sound Recordist

Yoshihiro Tomita

Director of Photography

Kumiko Taniguchi

Special Effects

Keiko Itogawa

Special Effects

Ayumi Arahata

Special Effects

Tomohiro Maruyama

Assistant Art Director

Takayuki Chiba

CG Animator

Takashi Watanabe

Producer

Kazuo Oga

Background Designer

Yoji Takeshige

Background Designer

Takeshi Sanada

CG Animator

Yudai Takahashi

CG Animator

Shinichirou Inoue

Executive Producer

Shinya Egawa

Executive Producer

Haruo Kawashima

Executive Producer

Shiroharu Kawasaki

Executive Producer

Yoshihisa Morimoto

Executive Producer

Toshihito Sakaki

Executive Producer

Kazuyuki Hashimoto

Assistant Art Director

Osamu Masuyama

Assistant Art Director

Takashi Yanagida

Compositing Artist

Ryo Iijima

Compositing Artist

Minoe Okubo

Compositing Artist

Yuichiro Nagata

Compositing Artist

Takeshi Katsurayama

Compositing Artist

Mari Gomyo

Compositing Artist

Toshihiro Sasaki

Compositing Artist

Kenji Takahashi

Compositing Artist

Yui Tanaka

Compositing Artist

Kosuke Nakanishi

Compositing Artist

Daichi Nogami

Compositing Artist

Takumi Haneda

Compositing Artist

Yuki Hama

Compositing Artist

Kazuhiro Yamada

Compositing Artist

Kazumi Yokoo

Compositing Artist

Kenji Ito

Compositing Artist

Taeko Tobita

Compositing Artist

Kazuto Furuya

Compositing Artist

Natsumi Yajima

Compositing Artist

Shizuo Kurahashi

Sound Effects

Omoi Yonehara

Sound Effects

Kozue Okada

Music Producer

Masayuki Onoue

Music Producer

Hiromasa Ogura

Background Designer

Akiko Kazato

Background Designer

Hiroshi Gouroku

Background Designer

Morihito Ohara

Background Designer

Seiki Tamura

Background Designer

Kazuyo Izawa

Background Designer

Kiyoshi Sameshima

Background Designer

Izumi Muta

Background Designer

Kuniko Iwatani

Background Designer

Kunihiko Inaba

Background Designer

Kaori Hino

Background Designer

Junko Ina

Background Designer

Ken Arai

Background Designer

Naruyo Kiriyama

Background Designer

Naomi Kasugai

Background Designer

Sayaka Hirahara

Background Designer

Yoshikazu Fukutome

Background Designer

Masako Nagata

Background Designer

Kikuyo Yano

Background Designer

Takashi Omori

Background Designer

Kaori Hagiwara

Background Designer

Sachiho Motoda

Background Designer

Satoko Nakamura

Background Designer

Misato Watanabe

Background Designer

Noriko Wada

Background Designer

Tatsuya Kushida

Background Designer

Jun Okabe

Background Designer

Hiroshi Kato

Background Designer

Shuichi Hirata

Background Designer

Yasutaka Kondo

Background Designer

Shiho Ito

Background Designer

Nobumasa Shinkawa

Key Animation

Kunihiko Sakurai

Key Animation

Tadashi Sakazaki

Key Animation

Jun Sekiguchi

Key Animation

Hideki Takahashi

Key Animation

Michio Fukuda

Key Animation

Takashi Mukoda

Key Animation

Takaaki Wada

Key Animation

Mamoru Sasaki

Key Animation

Takuo Noda

Key Animation

Rei Aoi

Key Animation

Hiroshi Shimizu

Key Animation

Kumiko Kawana

Key Animation

Hitoshi Ueda

Key Animation

Junko Abe

Key Animation

Norimoto Tokura

Key Animation

Yuko Yasaki

Key Animation

Kazuko Shibata

Key Animation

Keiko Shimizu

Key Animation

Shinya Hasegawa

Key Animation

Keisuke Masunaga

Key Animation

Kanta Kamei

Key Animation

Tetsuro Karai

Key Animation

Hisashi Mori

Key Animation

Takaaki Yamashita

Key Animation

Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru

Key Animation

Tatsuzo Nishida

Key Animation

Toshihiro Kawamoto

Key Animation

Takashi Kawaguchi

Key Animation

Kanami Sekiguchi

Key Animation

Takahiro Chiba

Key Animation

Ayako Hata

Key Animation

Akira Takata

Key Animation

Manabu Nakatake

Key Animation

Yuji Shigekuni

Key Animation

Keiichi Kondo

Key Animation

Toshiharu Sugie

Key Animation

Tomotaka Shibayama

Key Animation

Hideki Ito

Key Animation

Norihiro Naganuma

Key Animation

Hideto Komori

Key Animation

Tsugumi Ueno

Key Animation

Nobuyuki Kitajima

Key Animation

Kenji Hachizaki

Key Animation

Toshihiko Masuda

Key Animation

Hiromi Masuda

Key Animation

Aiko Wakatsuki

Key Animation

Kazuaki Imai

Key Animation

Chihiro Hayashi

Key Animation

Ichiro Uno

Key Animation

Tetsuo Hirakawa

Key Animation

Hidehiko Sawada

Key Animation

Eriko Kubokawa

Key Animation

Naoyuki Asano

Key Animation

Naoko Ikeuchi

Key Animation

Mayumi Kitamura

Key Animation

Tadashi Matsuzaki

Key Animation

Yasunori Miyazawa

Key Animation

Tokuyuki Matsutake

Key Animation

Ryo-timo

Key Animation

Johann Sebastian Bach

Music

Toru Shinozaki

CG Animator

Reviews

CinemaSerf

⭐ 7/10

July 9, 2025

“Makoto” is one of those young girls who would probably be late for her own funeral. Every morning is a last minute rush as she gulps her breakfast then heads to high school and her two best friends “Kosuke” and “Chiaki” to continue with her very mediocre education! Indeed, the best part of their day is spent playing baseball and chatting and putting the world to rights. One afternoon, whilst she is investigating something curious in the laboratory she finds herself in a sort of puzzling Groundhog Day! She is reliving the same moments with the same outcome each time. After a quick chat with her “Auntie Witch”, she optimistically concludes that she might be able to change things for the better and help her friends - but each time she realises that there are as many unpredictable outcomes that she hadn’t or couldn’t factor in as there were improvements from her actions. Indeed, many of her interventions made things decidedly worse! Things become even more complex when her friend “Chiaki” suggests that they might like to date! Just how many times can she revisit that scenario without ending up ruining their friendship? Now I can’t pretend that I liked the young lass - in fact I found her really quite annoying, but as she to’s and fro’s guessing and second-guessing the domino effects of her actions, and as we see that unpredictably deliver serious, mischievous and funny results, the film livens up nicely. Though you might think it could tend to the repetitious, it doesn’t at all and the last twenty minutes introduce us to an unexpected twist that brings so much of the preceding hour into an amiable, maybe even slightly sentimental, perspective. The animation itself is simple, yet vividly detailed, and as the story recycles itself there are some sometimes quite subtle differences incorporated from time to time to keep the imagery interesting as this young girl makes discoveries about herself and her friends that suggest that there’s no such thing as a quick fix.

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