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時をかける少女 The Girl Who Leapt Through Time The Girl Who Leapt Through Time is a 2006 Jap- anese animated science fiction/romance film. The film focuses on a high school girl who in- advertently gains the power to travel through time and begins using it frivolously to fix prob- lems. It was produced by the animation studio Madhouse and directed by Mamoru Hosoda. It is inspired by, and is a pseudo-sequel to, the 1967 novel Toki o Kakeru Shōjo by Yasutaka Tsutsui. Critical response to The Girl Who Leapt Through Time was very positive, and it won nu- merous awards, including the Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year. Even though it was not a massive hit at the box office, the film did exceptionally well at the var- ious festivals into which it was entered. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time took home the Gertie Award for the best animated feature film at the thirty-ninth Sitges International Film Festival of Catalonia. It won the Animation Grand Award, given to the year’s most entertaining animated film, at the prestigious sixty-first An- nual Mainichi Film Awards. It was also awarded the first annual Animation of the Year prize at the thirtieth Japan Acade- my Prize. It was nominated for, but did not win, the twenty-seventh Nihon SF Taisho Award. It received the Grand Prize in the animation di- vision at the 2006 Japan Media Arts Festival. At the sixth annual Tokyo International Anime Fair, which opened on March 22, 2007, the film was recognized as “Animation of the Year” and won several awards. It won the Special Distinc- tion for Feature Film at France’s thirty-first An- necy International Animated Film Festival on June 16, 2007. It played to full-house theatres during a screening in August 2007 at the ninth Cinemanila International Film Festival in Ma- nila, Philippines. Tsutsui Yasutaka praised the film as being “a true second-generation” of his book at the Tokyo International Anime Fair on March 24, 2006. “Time waits for no one”

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時をかける少女The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time is a 2006 Jap-anese animated science fiction/romance film. The film focuses on a high school girl who in-advertently gains the power to travel through time and begins using it frivolously to fix prob-lems. It was produced by the animation studio Madhouse and directed by Mamoru Hosoda.It is inspired by, and is a pseudo-sequel to, the 1967 novel Toki o Kakeru Shōjo by Yasutaka Tsutsui. Critical response to The Girl Who Leapt Through Time was very positive, and it won nu-merous awards, including the Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year. Even though it was not a massive hit at the box office, the film did exceptionally well at the var-ious festivals into which it was entered. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time took home the Gertie Award for the best animated feature film at the thirty-ninth Sitges International Film Festival of Catalonia. It won the Animation Grand Award, given to the year’s most entertaining

animated film, at the prestigious sixty-first An-nual Mainichi Film Awards.It was also awarded the first annual Animation of the Year prize at the thirtieth Japan Acade-my Prize. It was nominated for, but did not win, the twenty-seventh Nihon SF Taisho Award. It received the Grand Prize in the animation di-vision at the 2006 Japan Media Arts Festival. At the sixth annual Tokyo International Anime Fair, which opened on March 22, 2007, the film was recognized as “Animation of the Year” and won several awards. It won the Special Distinc-tion for Feature Film at France’s thirty-first An-necy International Animated Film Festival on June 16, 2007. It played to full-house theatres during a screening in August 2007 at the ninth Cinemanila International Film Festival in Ma-nila, Philippines. Tsutsui Yasutaka praised the film as being “a true second-generation” of his book at the Tokyo International Anime Fair on March 24, 2006.

“ Time waits for no one”