Sushi Rabbit is a person who loves all things Japanese, especially good anime and when she found out about the abovementioned movie, she was all out for it.
"Sean, I want to watch that movie."
"Orh. Nice meh?"
"I heard it's from a very famous group of anime artistes who drew the famous "Long Mao" cartoon."
"Is it? Not very familiar with that cartoon but let's go see it ba."
I did not regret that. It was a good movie. The protagonist, Makoto, chanced upon a futuristic time device which actually allowed her to time travel back in any part of her life and she found out that she had that ability seconds before her impending death at a train crossing due to her faulty bicycle. With her new ability, Makoto began to use it to avert the daily little disasters that had always plagued her usual self and she grew complacement with it - totally unaware that there was only a limited number of times she could do "Time Leaping".
Disaster finally stuck when Makoto tried to use her ability to match-make her best friend, Kosuke, to a shy girl in school and rejected a best friend's proposal for dating her. She overlooked some details when she travelled back in time and caused the death of her friends just when she exhausted all her "Time Leaping" charges. It was then she discovered that her best friend-cum-secret admirer, Chiaki is actually a boy from the future and that the device actually belonged to him.
Chiaki sacrificed his last "Time Leaping" charge to save Kosuke and rectified Makoto's mistake but lost his final chance to get back to his homeland in the future. Guilt-ridden, Makoto, in her new gained life, decided to make use of her final "Time Leaping" charge (brought back by Chiaki) to right all the selfish wrongs and accept Chiaki's proposal.
The movie brought back memories of a much darker English movie, The Butterfly Effect, which had the same theme of time travel and I must say that I enjoyed "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" very much because it managed to weave both the humour and the sombre issue of time travel seamlessly as I enjoyed watching Makoto trying to fix her daily blunders and her ultimate anguish when she discovered her mistakes during her "Time Leaping" fixes.
The movie is only shown in a few theatres and for those who enjoyed both a good laugh and a sombre reminder of how important time is - I strongly recommend this movie.
Time waits for no one.
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