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  52                 The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (Theatrical Cut) (2025) (Sub)
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  55               <h3 class="datestamp">09/07/2025</h3>
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  63                     alt="A frame from The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. The shot focuses on a blackboard, on which is written the words 'Time waits for noone.' with a shocked kaomoji below it."
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  66                 <p>Time waits for noone.</p>
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  68                   It's a common refrain through Mamoru Hosoda's first original
  69                   film. (OK, it's not <i>strictly</i> original, being based on a
  70                   novel, but this helps distinguish it from the one piece film
  71                   and digimon short films he made beforehand). It's a phrase a
  72                   lot of the characters seem confused by. It's unclear if this
  73                   is because it's in English, or if it's because they're
  74                   teenagers and aren't really comfortable with the passage of
  75                   time yet. That's kind of the point, of course.
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  77                 <p>
  78                   As The Girl Who Leapt Through Time ages, though, it has taken
  79                   on something of a different meaning. The film came out in
  80                   2006, when I was but 12 years old. The characters use gorgeous
  81                   <i>keitai</i> phones. Makoto, Chiaka and Kousuke play baseball
  82                   in the summer heat. Yuri and Koho harbour secret crushes in
  83                   the schoolyard. Crickets chirp in the evenings.
  84                 </p>
  85                 <p>It's nostalgic.</p>
  86                 <p>
  87                   The Girl Who Leapt Through Time is the first anime I ever
  88                   watched that wasn't Pokemon, Digimon or Beyblade. I was 15,
  89                   going through a puberty I didn't want, in a brand new
  90                   relationship with a girl I liked a lot. We sat in her living
  91                   room and she showed me this film, this gorgeous, pale-hued
  92                   dream of a summer half the world away, the winter's bite
  93                   chased away by that haze on the screen. I fell in love
  94                   immediately.
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  96                 <p>
  97                   A lot of Hosoda's magic is taking a high-concept premise, but
  98                   then using it to find the magic in the mundane. Makoto is a
  99                   time traveller, but she's a daft one, using her leaps to eat a
 100                   pudding, to catch pitches, to avoid an awkward confession.
 101                   She's an everygirl, unburdened with responsibility, her whole
 102                   life ahead of her to try over and over again. She's everything
 103                   I wished I could be, then. I didn't know why I identified so
 104                   much with her. I guess I do now.
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 106                 <p>
 107                   We broke up soon after. I still don't really know why - I was
 108                   probably too immature, or maybe she knew there was something
 109                   wrong with me that I wouldn't work out myself for another half
 110                   decade. But the film stuck with me, and every rewatch takes me
 111                   back to that winter evening. Our first kiss had only been a
 112                   few days prior - my very first - and I still wasn't sure how
 113                   to handle being a 'boyfriend.' I mean, I still don't, that's
 114                   why nowadays I'm a girlfriend. But Makoto's love resonated
 115                   through me like a tuning fork, that pure love that for a long
 116                   time you think can only happen on screen and in books. She
 117                   promises to come running for Chiaki, to find him through time
 118                   himself. I wondered what it felt like to know you'd chase
 119                   someone to the ends of the Earth like that.
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 121                 <p>I'm lucky enough to know that love, now.</p>
 122                 <p>
 123                   I always come out of a Hosoda film with a renewed appreciation
 124                   of the beauty of the world. They're beautiful stories, but
 125                   they're also films that obsess over both natural and man-made
 126                   majesty. The flowers and the bees. A tower of clouds. The
 127                   diffused sunlight through a classroom window. A level
 128                   crossing. It makes the world you live in feel so much more
 129                   bright.
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 131                 <p>
 132                   There's a line, from The End of Evangelion, one that never
 133                   fails to make me cry. It's the same sentiment as this, this
 134                   reverence for the world around us, that we should take time,
 135                   every day, to truly <i>see</i> that beauty. "As long as there
 136                   is the Sun, the Moon, and the Earth... it'll all work out."
 137                 </p>
 138                 <p>
 139                   Our world gets harder and harder to live in, every day. I
 140                   spend so much of my time worrying, whether it's over people I
 141                   love in America, terrorised by a regime that grows more
 142                   terrifying by the hour, or whether it's at home, living as I
 143                   am on TERF island. But works like this, art about normal
 144                   people just doing their best... It reminds me we can all do
 145                   that, too.
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 147                 <p>
 148                   I feel honoured to have seen this film in the cinema. I often
 149                   feel like that, seeing films that I didn't or couldn't see in
 150                   theatres the first time around. I think the cinema is kind of
 151                   a sacred place, I guess. It makes a movie whole, complete.
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 154                   Time waits for noone. So we should make the most of it while
 155                   we still can. To everyone out there who might need it - and
 156                   everyone who doesn't, too. I love you. It'll all work out.
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