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+ <h3 class="datestamp">09/07/2025</h3>
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+ 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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+ <p>Time waits for noone.</p>
+ <p>
+ It's a common refrain through Mamoru Hosoda's first original
+ film. (OK, it's not <i>strictly</i> original, being based on a
+ novel, but this helps distinguish it from the one piece film
+ and digimon short films he made beforehand). It's a phrase a
+ lot of the characters seem confused by. It's unclear if this
+ is because it's in English, or if it's because they're
+ teenagers and aren't really comfortable with the passage of
+ time yet. That's kind of the point, of course.
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+ <p>
+ As The Girl Who Leapt Through Time ages, though, it has taken
+ on something of a different meaning. The film came out in
+ 2006, when I was but 12 years old. The characters use gorgeous
+ <i>keitai</i> phones. Makoto, Chiaka and Kousuke play baseball
+ in the summer heat. Yuri and Koho harbour secret crushes in
+ the schoolyard. Crickets chirp in the evenings.
+ </p>
+ <p>It's nostalgic.</p>
+ <p>
+ The Girl Who Leapt Through Time is the first anime I ever
+ watched that wasn't Pokemon, Digimon or Beyblade. I was 15,
+ going through a puberty I didn't want, in a brand new
+ relationship with a girl I liked a lot. We sat in her living
+ room and she showed me this film, this gorgeous, pale-hued
+ dream of a summer half the world away, the winter's bite
+ chased away by that haze on the screen. I fell in love
+ immediately.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ A lot of Hosoda's magic is taking a high-concept premise, but
+ then using it to find the magic in the mundane. Makoto is a
+ time traveller, but she's a daft one, using her leaps to eat a
+ pudding, to catch pitches, to avoid an awkward confession.
+ She's an everygirl, unburdened with responsibility, her whole
+ life ahead of her to try over and over again. She's everything
+ I wished I could be, then. I didn't know why I identified so
+ much with her. I guess I do now.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ We broke up soon after. I still don't really know why - I was
+ probably too immature, or maybe she knew there was something
+ wrong with me that I wouldn't work out myself for another half
+ decade. But the film stuck with me, and every rewatch takes me
+ back to that winter evening. Our first kiss had only been a
+ few days prior - my very first - and I still wasn't sure how
+ to handle being a 'boyfriend.' I mean, I still don't, that's
+ why nowadays I'm a girlfriend. But Makoto's love resonated
+ through me like a tuning fork, that pure love that for a long
+ time you think can only happen on screen and in books. She
+ promises to come running for Chiaki, to find him through time
+ himself. I wondered what it felt like to know you'd chase
+ someone to the ends of the Earth like that.
+ </p>
+ <p>I'm lucky enough to know that love, now.</p>
+ <p>
+ I always come out of a Hosoda film with a renewed appreciation
+ of the beauty of the world. They're beautiful stories, but
+ they're also films that obsess over both natural and man-made
+ majesty. The flowers and the bees. A tower of clouds. The
+ diffused sunlight through a classroom window. A level
+ crossing. It makes the world you live in feel so much more
+ bright.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ There's a line, from The End of Evangelion, one that never
+ fails to make me cry. It's the same sentiment as this, this
+ reverence for the world around us, that we should take time,
+ every day, to truly <i>see</i> that beauty. "As long as there
+ is the Sun, the Moon, and the Earth... it'll all work out."
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Our world gets harder and harder to live in, every day. I
+ spend so much of my time worrying, whether it's over people I
+ love in America, terrorised by a regime that grows more
+ terrifying by the hour, or whether it's at home, living as I
+ am on TERF island. But works like this, art about normal
+ people just doing their best... It reminds me we can all do
+ that, too.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ I feel honoured to have seen this film in the cinema. I often
+ feel like that, seeing films that I didn't or couldn't see in
+ theatres the first time around. I think the cinema is kind of
+ a sacred place, I guess. It makes a movie whole, complete.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Time waits for noone. So we should make the most of it while
+ we still can. To everyone out there who might need it - and
+ everyone who doesn't, too. I love you. It'll all work out.
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