(aka "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" or "Toki wo kakeru shôjo" )

 

directed by Mamoru Hosoda
Japan 2006

 

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time” is anime of rare pedigree. Director Mamoru Hosoda, the Ghibli refugee originally slated to helm Howl's Moving Castle, Gainax's master character designer Yoshiyuki Sadamoto and longtime Ghibli art director Nizo Yamamoto coming together at Madhouse to adapt a story by Paprika author Yasutaka Tsutsui. Sounds like it should be absolute magic… and it very nearly is.

We meet Makoto Konno, an outgoing high school girl living a daily life of fun. She's not the best student in the world, but she has two of the best friends in the world - Kousuke, who's the strong, smart dependable type, and Chiaki, who is a fun-loving slacker. They spend their days together goofing off, singing karaoke and playing catch. But on this particular day, things aren't going so well for her. After failing a pop quiz, nearly setting her cooking class on fire, and enough physical accidents to fill a Buster Keaton movie, she gets killed when the brakes on her bike stop working, sending her directly into the path of an oncoming train.

… Except she doesn't die. Rather, she finds herself a few feet away, a few seconds earlier, and more or less, safe. Freaked out, she consults her aunt, who tells her she's simply time-slipped, and that it happens all the time. Soon, she finds she can control her time slipping by taking a flying leap.

Excerpt from Anime News Network

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Theatrical Release: 15 July 2006

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DVD Review: CJ Entertainment (3-Disc Limited Edition - Korean Version) - Region 3 - NTSC

Big thanks to Luiz R. for the Review!

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Distribution

CJ Entertainment

Region 3 - NTSC

Runtime 98 min.
Video

1.85:1 Original Aspect Ratio

16X9 enhanced
Average Bitrate: 8.66 mb/s
NTSC 720x480 29.97 f/s

NOTE: The Vertical axis represents the bits transferred per second. The Horizontal is the time in minutes.

Bitrate

Audio Japanese Dolby Digital (5.1), Japanese Dolby Digital (2.0)
Subtitles Japanese, Korean, English, none
Features Release Information:
Studio: CJ Entertainment

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen anamorphic - 1.85:1

Edition Details:
• 3-Disc Boxset
• Photobooklet
• Dual-Layered DVD
• Audio Commentary
• Advanced Screening Press Conference Speech (No English Subtitles)
• Oku Hanako Video Clip (No English Subtitles)
• Theatrical Trailer
• Promotional Footage
• TV CF
• Director's Commentary (34 min.) (No English Subtitles)
• Press Conference (No English Subtitles)
• Behind-the-Scenes Footage (No English Subtitles)
• The Girl Who Leapt Through Time Sketch Book with Director and Staff Commentary

DVD Release Date: September 21st, 2007
Boxset

Chapters 21

 

Comments:

This includes a full package of supplements, 3 DVDs plus a thick photo-booklet with excessive information that can't be understood unless your Korean is up to date, but the images are nice.

The second and main extra DVDs do not have English subtitles so this is the major drawback of this package in my opinion. The third disc comes with a complete storyboard that you can watch together with the movie in a small screen. There are two audio commentaries for the storyboard, but no subtitles for them are available.

The feature DVD is almost all dedicated to the movie (there is a trailer and a teaser) and the image quality is excellent, I believe it is the same transfer from the Japanese release. The only complaint is the interlacing (see sample below). I still don't understand why these new and expensive releases still are interlaced.

The sound quality is also quite strong, although the 2.0 audio option sounds alright the 5.1 is the right choice here and the same one used in the theatrical run.

Overall this is a worthy package in my opinion and besides the annoying lack of English subtitles for the supplements, I still recommend it.

 - Luiz R.

 



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Distribution

CJ Entertainment

Region 3 - NTSC




 

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