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The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (時をかける少女, Toki o Kakeru Shōjo) is a Japanese animated science fiction film from 2006 Romance directed by Mamoru Hosoda and written by Satoko Okudera, based on the novel Toki o Kakeru Shōjo (1967) written by Yasutaka Tsutsui. The film was produced by Madhouse and distributed through Kadokawa Herald Pictures. Makoto Konno, a teenager who inadvertently gets a mysterious force, learns with her aunt, Kazuko Yoshihara, that she has the ability to travel through time. Makoto then begins to use her powers lightly to solve problems.

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time was released on 15 July 2006 under favorable criticism and won several awards, including the Japan Academy Prize for animation of the year. The English version was voiced by Ocean Productions and was released by Bandai Entertainment.

The animation has its own tagline which is "There is the future that we can't wait for". "Leap into the adventure of a lifetime!" and "Time waits for no one!"

To bring the feeling of nostalgia to the audience and encourage discoveries of underrated old anime that can bring a new meaning to certain circumstances of life, this Wikipedia page will explore the possible information about this movie. To demonstrate the potential of cliches such as time travel, that it can be very well explored if done in the right way, plus how it can be the key turn to a new life for those who play a good role in the production, an example of the director's own life who achieved great relevance after this movie.

Besides basic information about the film, this Wikipedia page also provides information about the influence of the film in other countries such as Vietnam, Russia and Brazil. Using cultural differences and perspectives to show a new side of how the same story can be received in different ways

This Wikipedia page contains relevant information for the contextualization of the sensational anime movie “The girl who leapt through time “ in the countries of Brazil, Vietnam and Russia. Highlights in the plot summary, characters, adaptation series, movies and manga of the novel, awards won and a glimpse of the director Mamoru Hosoda. With increased attention to bureaucratic copywriting issues and bibliographic references on the subject.

Plot Summary
When 17-year-old Makoto Konno gains the ability to, quite literally, "leap" backwards through time, she immediately sets the goal of 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.

== Characters ==


 * Riisa Naka as Makoto Konno
 * Mitsutaka Itakura as Kousuke Tsuda


 * Takuya Ishida as Chiaki Mamiya
 * Sachie Hara as Kazuko Yoshiyama
 * Ayami Kakiuchi as Yuri Hayakawa
 * Mitsuki Tanimura as Kaho Fujitani
 * Yuki Sekido as Miyuki Konno
 * Fujio Chiba as Yamada
 * Fumihiko Tachiki as Fukushima-sensei
 * Arashi Matsutani as Riverbed Boy A
 * Fumiya Togawa as Riverbed Boy B
 * Keiko Yamamoto as Old Lady
 * Kiyomi Tanigawa as Female Newscaster B Home Economics Teacher
 * Keiko Aizawa as Answering Machine Voice/Infirmary Teacher-in-charge
 * Maho Kurashima as Female Newscaster A
 * Tadashi Nakamura as Old Security Guard
 * Takayuki Sorita as Katō
 * Teppei Takayama as Tanaka
 * Tsubasa Ueda as Male Students
 * Mami Tokuyama as Female Students
 * Utawaka Katsura as Father
 * Midori Andou as Mother
 * Nagisa Adaniya as Female Students
 * Sayaka Yoshida as Female Students
 * Shiori Yokohari as Moriko Uesugi
 * Sonoka Matsuoka as Sekimi Nowake
 * Shouya Sugiyama as Suzuki
 * Yoji Matsuda as Soujiro Takase
 * Yumi Kawaguchi as Riverbed Boy C
 * Tadashi Nakamura as Old Security Guard

Adaption
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, based on the novel by Yasutaka Tsutsui is one of the mainstays of the Young Adult science fiction in Japan. First published in magazine for third-year middle-school and first-year high-school in 1965. And then it was novelized, rewritten, and adapted into numerous variations over the following decades, each variant exhibits unique characteristics of zeitgeist.

TV Series:
(1972 in Japan) consisting of 6 episodes of 30 minutes each. Directed by Kazuya Satō. Cast includes Akira Hamada, Fumiko Kashiwabara, Kiyoshi Kinoshita and Junko Shimada. Written by Tōru Ishiyama. Kazuko Yoshiyama, a teen schoolgirl, discovers a new power to Teleport and Timeslip in the school laboratory, which she believes is caused by lavender-scented chemicals. She discovers that one of her classmates, Kazuo, is actually Ken Sogoro, a visitor from the year 2660, after her early tests. Ken wipes Kazuko's memory of their connection (see Memory Edit) to avoid Time Paradoxes, leaving her with a mild sense of nostalgia whenever she smells lavender. The Japanese broadcast used the English-language title, which has not been translated into English.

Animation Movie:
(Japan in 2006 and the US in 2008). the film is 98 minutes long, in color. Directed by Mamoru Hosoda. Released in English as The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. Cast includes Sachie Hara, Takuya Ishida and Riisa Naka. Written by Satoko Okudera. This animated adaptation shifts the action to the twenty-first century and places Kazuko in the background in favor of her niece, a more “modern” character. The anime, more than any other adaptation, emphasizes Makoto's elegiac school days. As a result, most of Makoto's time leaps are noticeably less ambitious than Kazuko's in previous literations, and mainly revolve around her wish to recreate a perfect summer day as much as possible, albeit with similarly paradoxical consequences. The Best Film/Media category of the 2007 Seiun Awards went to this version of the narrative. In 2006, the original novel was republished with new artwork by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, the character designer for the anime. Ranmaru Kotone also turned it into a manga series.

Film:
Live action version was produced in 2010. well known as “Time Travaller”. Directed by Masaaki Taniguchi. Cast includes Riisa Naka and Narumi Yasuda. This version features Akari, the daughter of the original Kazuko. With her scientist mother Kazuko in a coma following a vehicle accident, Akira chooses to travel back in time using her mother's time travel research. Once there, Akira sets out to track down her mother's first true love and bring him back to the present, where she believes his presence would help Kazuko awaken from her coma. Akira soon realizes, however, that her presence in the past has unintended ramifications for her future. Akari is played by Riisa Naka, who previously provided the voice of Makoto in the anime version. The script was also adapted into yet another Manga serial (2009 Young Ace) by Minoru Hashiguchi.

Drama (2016)
The film has 5 episodes of 1 hour each. Directed by Hitoshi Iwamoto. Cast includes Yuina Kuroshima and Fuma Kikichi. Written by Ryôhei Wantanbale. In this version, only the plot is kept compared to the original version and the characters have been completely renewed. Mihane Yoshiyama is a third-grade high school student. She is a member of her school's photography club. She smells lavender in the scientific lab the day before her summer vacation, and she obtains the power to leap through time. Shohei Fukamachi is Mihane's classmate. He is a researcher who hails from the year 2122. Shohei misplaced a medicine that permits him to travel back in time to the year 2122. Shohei, meantime, hypnotizes others around him and pretends to be a high school student. Mihane and Shohei, on the other hand, begin to have feeling for one other as time passes.

=== Manga (2006) === A few months before the film was released in the cinema, it was adapted into a manga by Ranmaru Kotone in Shonen Ace magazine. Soon it received its first translation to English in 2009, released for Australia by Bandai Entertainment. There are not many differences between the movie and the manga adaptation. As for the opening being Makoto Konno dreaming and the end being an epilogue of Kazuko waking up, there are not many dissimilarities.

Original Novel
The original work of the famous animation movie Toki o Kakeru Shoujo is the science fiction novel written by Yasutaka Tsutsui in 1965, Japan. The first publication for the original novel was made in seven installments in the Gakken's magazines Chu-3 Course and Kō-1 Course, from November 1965 to May 1966, and first published by the publishing company Kadokawa Shoten in 1967 and was printed on magazine and paperback.

According to the schoolar Ulrich (June 2012) the novel represents a different view of what time travel could be, being diferenciate from the repetitive design of galaxies and eras that was used in the 1960s.

Soundtrack
The original soundtrack of the Japanese Animation film “The Girl Who Leapt Through Time” were almost all work of Kiyoshi Yoshida, with some exception. The piano was played by Haruki Mino .


 * 1) Natsuzora (summer night) ~Opening Theme~
 * 2) Sketch
 * 3) Aria (From The Goldberg Variations by Bach)
 * 4) Karakuri Tokei (wind-up clock) ~Time Leap~
 * 5) Shoujo no Fuan (Girl's Fear)
 * 6) Sketch (Long Version)
 * 7) Daylife
 * 8) Daiichi Hensoukyoku (Variation 1) (From The Goldberg Variations by Bach)
 * 9) Mirai no Kioku (Memory Of The Future)
 * 10) Seijaku (Silence)
 * 11) Kawaranai Mono  "What Never Changes" (Strings Version) (Hanako Oku)
 * 12) Natsuzora ~Ending Theme~
 * 13) Time Leap (Long Version)
 * 14) Natsuzora (Long Version)
 * 15) Ending Song "Garnet" (Promo Short Version) (Hanako Oku)

The music for the Promotional Short Version of the movie (track 15) and Summer Night (Track 14) were composed, written and performed by the song-writer Hanako Oku.

Credits:
Arranged By – Hanako Oku (tracks: 15), Kiyoshi Yoshida (tracks: 1 to 14)

Music By – Hanako Oku (tracks: 14, 15), J.S. Bach (tracks: 3, 8), Kiyoshi Yoshida (tracks: 1, 2, 4 to 7, 9 to 10, 12 to 15), Piano – Haruki Mino

Mamoru Hosoda
Mamoru Hosoda is a well-known director in the Japanese Animation field. Being born in Kamiichi, Nakanikiwa District, Toyama, Japan. His father was a railway engineer and his mother was a dressmaker. He started to pursue animation as a career back in his teenage years. At the College of Art of Canada in Ishikawa Prefecture, he majored in oil painting in 1991. After leaving school, Hosoda was able to get a job as an animator at Toei Animation, the birthplace of Japanese commercial animation, featuring a short film that he animated in his spare time.

'“I wanted to be both an artist and a director, and I needed to understand this. Anime turned out to be the best way to combine my aspirations.”' Hosoda said.

Before launching his first work in 2006, Hosoda which once was rejected by Studio Ghibli attracted the attention of the head producer of Ghibli, Toshio Suzuki. In September 2001, he was invited to direct the development of Howl's Moving Castle, but Hosoda left the project in the summer of 2002 in the early stages of production due to disagreements with Miyazaki about the film's vision. According to Hosoda during those years, he was told to make the film look like Miyazaki would have done, but he wanted to make his own film the way he wanted. Which lead him to go back to Toei, where in 2004 he would have met Yuichiro Saito , the producer which would lead to future collaboration. In 2006, Hosoda releases The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, based on the novel by Tsutsui Yasutaka. Hosoda believed that today's high school students would be indifferent to the ability to travel through time and would not let the idea bother them in the way that the character in the original novel did. Throughout the film, the protagonist Makoto acts and thinks positively and without hesitation while demonstrating strong determination. Hosoda's version took a fresh look at Tsutsui's novel, which had been filmed several times before, but without changing the main conflicts too drastically.

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time won numerous awards, including Animation of the Year at the 2007 Tokyo Anime Awards and one of three awards at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival. The writer of the original novel also greatly enjoyed Hosoda's work.

''“Toei films are usually shown in 300 theaters across the country - I assumed we would get a similar release. But when our film was released, it was shown only in six theaters. Apparently, they thought he wouldn't raise the money. I thought something along the lines of: "This was the beginning of my career, and now it ends." But fortunately, the audience liked the film. The same, by the way, applied to the further fate after the Summer Wars; Madhouse was on the brink of bankruptcy and I thought they wouldn't let me make another film.”'' Hosoda said.

As a consequence, Mamoru Hosoda and the producer Saito Yuichiro would create Studio Chizu.

Brazil Reception
Receiving the name in portuguese as “ A garota que conquistou o tempo”, The girl who leapt through time was well received in the South America country, knowing for being a surprising animation, not only for the depth with which it deals with the dramas of teenage life, but also for the breadth to which the film's theme elevates (Penna, 2019). For those who are in love with the Japanese culture and their animations, are likely to have heard about this movie.

It became more widely known after being reprized by HBO Brazil in 2014 and entering the brazilian Netflix catalog in 2019. In addition to having mostly positive ratings and comments on sites like Filmow, which receives updates to this day.

A light narrative that holds you (Uggioni, 2021) is the definition most used by Brazilians and decorate blogs list as one of the “best 13 movies about time travel”. Old but gold, Brazil opened its arms to the nostalgic science-fiction romance film.

Viet Nam Reception
In Vietnam, since the 90s, when Doraemon, Detective Conan, and Dragonball were brought to the small screen with episodes dripping every time frame, it has attracted a large number of audiences of all ages. It is this that has shaped the preferences and habits of Vietnamese people for Japanese animation. Until the early 2000s, when Studio Ghibli was introduced, it automatically brought in a large number of young audiences. Even Ghibli's animated films are more influential than big studios like Disney, because the target audience of these films is unlimited.

So compared to some other anime like "Spirited Away" and "Your Name", the popularity of “The girl who leapt through time” is not high. According to audiences in Vietnam, the content is not complicated, and the details in the film bring a lot of feelings to the viewers. People often watch it many times to clearly understand it. As a film that contains many beautiful moments, but in some time travel's scenes, the repetition of the same event over and over again inevitably causes boredom when watching the movie. that is also the point that makes the film not accessible to many audiences in Vietnam.

Russia Reception
In Russia, the movie had a positive impact. Even though animation movies were not a hot topic in popularity back in the day, people seemed to have enjoyed the science fiction film story in its own way. Due to its not popularity, it was not released in the cinema, therefore there are no general fees in Russia.

According to Kinopoisk, which is considered the dominant site for movies and series, the production of “the girl who leapt through time” received a rating of 8/10, which demonstrate a pleasuring reassurance of Russia’s opinion. And as for reviews, it has a 93% of positive reactions.

Along with the rating reviews, we can have Awesome Reviews, and Amino ,as popular websites for sharing opinions, reviews, and ratings in the Russia area. Bringing a positive light, Awesome Reviews decided that the plot of the film on a 1 to 10 scale was valid of receiving a 9/10, for characters 9/10 meanwhile for music and picture drawing received 8/10. In Amino the attitude towards the animation is better, the plot got 10/10 and for characters, it got 9/10.

Awards

 * The Best Animated Film award at the International Film Festival of Catalonia (2006)
 * Best Animated Film Award at the 11th Kobe Animation Festival (2006)
 * The Grand Prize in the animation division at Japan Media Arts Festival(2006).
 * The Animation of the Year at Japan Academy Prize (2007)


 * Tokyo Anime Awards 2007 Winner for:

• Animation of the Year

• Best Director - Mamoru Hosoda

• Best Screenplay - Satoko Okudera

• Best Original Story - The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Yasutaka Tsutsui

• Best Art Direction - Nizo Yamamoto

• Best Character Design - Yoshiyuki Sadamoto


 * The Animation Grand Award at the 61st Annual Mainichi Film Awards (2007)
 * The Special Distinction for Feature Film at the 31st Annecy International Animated Film Festival (2007).