The story revolves around Makoto, a high school girl who inadvertently discovers how to "leap through time" by literally leaping... she can go back to the past. After learning how to go about doing this, Makoto deliberately uses and abuses this ability on almost everything her somewhat boring life has to offer. From wanting to maximize an hour's worth of karaoke, she goes back to the past so that she can sing her out for more than an hour and she does so until she grows tired of it. She uses this ability on a lot of petty things but little did she know that this ability has some limitation to it. What if she loses it when she needs it the most? What happens then?
"TIME WAITS FOR NO ONE" is the message that the movie wants to convey.
Why a 9? I would've given it a 10 but I just don't like how almost, if not all, Japanese movies are so open-ended and just leaves you hanging there with more questions than when you initially started! Sorry, sometimes you just would like to know the answer, right? There's not much in this movie, it just revolves around Makoto, her 2 friends, Chiaki and Kousuke, and, basically, what goes on with their everyday lives. When you just feel like strolling through life, you tend to forget about what's important and what's not. You tend to overlook some things that you thought never mattered and only do you realize it's importance when you lose it. This movie also happens to teach you Newton's Law of Action-Reaction, that in every action, there's always an equal reaction. Whenever Makoto tries to go back in the past to change something, there would most probably something or someone who'll be affected depending on the degree of the change. Just like how she didn't like to confront Chiaki's feelings for her, and tried to go back in time to escape or run away, in the end -- her girl best friend confessed and Chiaki accepted which pained her. When she tries to go back in time to hook Kousuke and girl who likes him up, the price was their life. When she tried to get everything back in order, the price was for Chiaki to say goodbye to her forever. When she fixed everything up from when she gained the ability, the bargain was to say goodbye to Chiaki once again. This movie tries to teach us to live without regrets to avoid thinking of going back to change something. We should not hold ourselves back from reaching what we want. We must not escape from what we feel. We should not hide or run away from whatever we fear confronting. That's how precious time and our lives are.
Characters: 10/10
The characters were well-made. The seiyuus amazing but I just regret watching it english dubbed but nevertheless, I watched the first part of it in Japanese before and I knew it was good. I particularly love Chiaki!
Soundtrack: 10/10
The soundtrack was awesome! I cried my heart out during the Makoto's last time-leap scene!
Well, I just said a lot of stuff on the first part, I don't what else I have to say!
