Title: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

Owner: Mamoru Hosoda, Takashi Watanabe, Yuichiro Saito, and Satoko Okudera

Genre: Sci-fi, comedy, romance

Rating: 8/10

Summary:

Makoto Konno is a high school girl who likes to play baseball and talk with her aunt, who is an art restorer at the Tokyo National Museum.

After finding the message "Time waits for no one," written on a blackboard at her high school, Makoto trips and accidentally falls onto a walnut-shaped object. This induces a strange hallucination, but she ignores it and continues on her way.

As she bikes home from school down a long hill ended with train tracks, Makoto soon realizes her bike's brakes are broken. She desperately tries to stop before she is hit by the oncoming train, but flies over the divider and is hit by the train. Makoto wakes up on the road, a minute before she was struck and killed by the train.

Confused and scared, she goes to her aunt, who explains that what she has just done is a "time leap," and now has the ability to quite literally leap through time. Makoto uses this skill to attain better grades, less lates, and relive the best moments of her days, but soon she learns that going back and rewriting these events have impacts on her friends that could gravely help or hurt them.

Opinion:

First off, I apologize for the extremely late update. I had been studying for finals and doing driver education at the same time, then had my finals and almost finished driver education. Then I went on a camping trip so I missed the last driver training class and exam and went back to do it on Friday (and got 100 on the exam) and now I have two weeks of summer school. I don't intend to make excuses, but there was a little bit of reasoning behind this late update, so please be lenient.

Okay, before I begin the review, I have exciting news: Next chapter is the review of the series that I told all of you that you'd love. I can't wait to see how excited you guys are for the next chapter! By the way, I'm doing a fan fiction for it too. That's right, I'm back and finally starting to write a bit! It's summer, so why not?

Here's my review of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. Honestly, this movie was pretty amazing. It was made by the same people who did Wolf Children, so I decided I'd give the English dub a chance. It wasn't half bad, and I think it was an imaginative movie.

At first you think of it as a whimscial, coming-of-age movie, but then it turns out it's not. All of a sudden life changes, dangerous things begin happening, and it's like one of those insane paradox movies.

By paradox, I mean, "If a liar says he's telling the truth, is he lying?"

Yeah, that kind of paradox.

(Please answer it though in the comment section if you wouldn't mind. Is he honest or a liar?)

Anyways, there were so many things I never expected! After Makoto breaks the "magic walnut" (and yes, I really do call it that), it's an issue of mine that I always have to be ahead of the game. I kept blurting out what I thought was going to happen; because remember that she's changing the future. Eventually I gave up and figured, "Well shit, this is Studio Ghibli. I will never know what's going to happen."

And then literally five seconds before shit was about to hit the fan, I jumped up and screamed...

*SPOILER ALERT*

"HE'S GOING TO GET HIT BY THE TRAIN! EMMA, OH MY GOD, EMMA! ARE YOU WATCHING THIS?! ARE YOU SEEING THIS?! CAN YOU BELIEVE WHAT IS HAPPENING?! HE'S GONNA DIE!"

My sister probably hates being my movie buddy.

Another thing I do when I watch movies is I try to break it down, as in, what caused all of this conflict?

In a messed up book series that isn't a manga or anime (and is now a movie series) called Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews, it was because the dad died. If he hadn't died, the mom wouldn't have had to mooch off her evil mother, and the kids wouldn't have been shut in the attic for two fucking years. I would recommend this book series because it's well written, but... Unless you can handle INTENSE incestuous make-out sessions (and later, sex), and lots of drama and all-around depression, I wouldn't recommend it.

Moving on to something you may have heard of, what about Breaking Bad? Now, I'm a Canadian. True Canadian. So I thought, "What if Walter White moved to Canada?" So here's my breakdown of a Canadian Breaking Bad:

1. Walter is diagnosed with cancer.

2. Free health care and insurance pays for all medications and treatments.

3. THE END.

How simple would it be?! It's just like... I don't know, I love Canada. I have nothing against any other countries and I believe everywhere and everyone is equal, but I will say:

To the USA, get your shit together! Gay marriage, free health care, beavers! Literally living right above you is a country living perfectly fine with all these elements, and for some reason illiterate, intolerant IDIOTS among THE OTHERWISE AMAZING American population are disagreeing wholeheartedly. These people need to be thrown into the Pacific Ocean in boxes with airholes. Of course, this applies to all countries that have banned gay marriage and free health care, not just the US. Sorry (not really) that I'm an LGBT supporter.

ANYWAYS, I could never predict what was going to happen, so thanks to my pal Mamoru for that. I salute you! Right when I think I can see where this movie is going, Chiaki totally intercepted the plot line and made my jaw drop. I did NOT expect him to say what he did.

So I think this movie is deserving of an 8/10, but I do have one tiny, eensy criticism...

THEY NEVER KISSED, GODAMMIT!

Quick warnings, I think there was a little language, maybe some blood but I can't recall it, and a few sparse sexual innuendos.

Vote if you're pumped for the next chapter!

Also, vote if you think that if a nutcracker crushed the magic walnut that he would become the first time-travelling nutcracker.

(The things I come up with when I'm bored amaze me... I just... I can't...)