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23. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006)
Snake (2/5)


Hosoda quickly became my favorite anime film director over the past few months when I watched his catalogue, and its a shame we only got three things nominated, but Ill take it! This one starts off as a standard slice of life, but things change up when the main character, Makoto, manages to cheat death by inadvertently going back in time. This leads to her experimenting with her school life, redoing her day to avoid all the bad things that happened. Of course, she soon learns that there are problems that come with such power.

The main point of drama comes when Makotos best friend confesses to her out of the blue, and instead of facing such a conundrum openly, she begins messing with time in order to avoid it, to no avail. It gets to the point where she avoids him, complicating the friendship even further. Its not the most well-written melodrama, but its a pretty fun story to show how life should be taken in stride, and how we shouldnt regret the choices we made or look back in frustration at unlucky circumstances.

I do think the ending section where they begin to explain the Makotos ability is a bit out of place. It wasnt like Orange where it just happens, since it was foreshadowed, but it felt kinda weak to me. It all leads up to an ending thats basically perfect, though, and I guess it wouldnt have worked as well without what they did, so its all fine on the whole.
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