The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

An animated version of TSUTSUI Yasutaka’s science fiction novel, this is a growing-up movie that differs in taste from the preceding live action production (Director: OHBAYASHI Nobuhiko) of the same title. A film that uses the power of animation to depict the infectious thrill of youth.

It is amazing. This film moves people’s hearts beyond the boundaries of animation. The artist takes a bold approach in rearranging the elements of the original work by taking them apart to match them with the current situations. At the same time, he fully demonstrates in-depth, multi-layered descriptions of the instinctive emotions which any human possesses. There is no use referring a technical view of animation to the story; however, I doubt that there is a more accurate way to express such human emotions than through animation. With various technologies saturating us today, there is no “image” that cannot be animated. I rejoice in the birth of this work that was “produced” from the artist’s strong standpoint and solid observation under rather limited conditions, without relying solely on the “image”.