The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

Story:
Makoto Konno, a girl attending high school in Tokyo's shitamachi, gains the power to go back in time and re-do things (the time-leap) when she gets involved in an accident at a train crossing one day.
A little bewildered with her new powers at first, Makoto uses them extravagantly to avoid being tardy and to get perfect grades on tests. However, things begin to turn bad as she discovers how her actions can adversely affect others. Along the way, Makoto's aunt, Kazuko Yoshiyama, offers some advice to her niece, with the hint that she herself had done something similar in the past; Kazuko is the protagonist of the novel, The Little Girl Who Conquered Time. One of Makoto's friends, Chiaki, is the one who had brought the item that caused Makoto's powers. He came from the future to save a piece of art. The people who can leap time have a limited number of times to leap. Makoto's other friend, Kōsuke, was taking the place of Makoto's accident. In order to save him, Chiaki had used up his only chance to go back to the future. Makoto, who secretly loves Chiaki, also uses up her final chance to leap to help Chiaki gain his chance once more. Chiaki also loves Makoto, and is also upset when he must leave Makoto's time frame.

Awards:
Even though it was not a massive hit at the box office, the film did exceptionally well at the various festivals it was entered in. TokiKake took home the award of Best Animated Film in the ANIMA'T category 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 Annual Mainichi Film Awards. It was also awarded the first annual Animation of the Year prize at the thirtieth Japan Academy Prize. It was nominated for, but did not win, the twenty-seventh Japan SF Grand Prize. It received the Grand Prize in the animation division at the 2006 Japan Media Arts Festival. At the sixth annual Tokyo International Anime Fair, which opened on March 22, 2007, TokiKake was recognized as "Animation of the Year" and won several awards. It won the Special Distinction for Feature Film at France's thirty-first Annecy 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 Manila, Philippines.

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