The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
- warm
- brisk
- inventive
- redemptive
- tender
Warm, kinetic, measured animation / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →When 17-year-old Makoto Konno gains the ability to 'leap' backwards through time, she immediately sets about improving her grades and preventing personal mishaps. However, she soon realises that changing the past isn't as simple as it seems, and eventually, will have to rely on her new powers to shape the future of herself and her friends.
Our read · The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive animation · sci-fi · romance entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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