The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (時をかける少女, Toki o Kakeru Shōjo) is a 2006 Japanese animated science fiction romance film, directed by Mamoru Hosoda, written by Satoko Okudera, and produced by Madhouse.

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time was released by Kadokawa Herald Pictures on July 15, 2006, and received positive reviews.

The English version was licensed and produced by Kadokawa Pictures U.S., with dubbing supplied by Ocean Productions, and released by Bandai Entertainment in 2008 and re-released by Funimation in 2016.

[4] At Kuranose High School in Tokyo, Japan, 17-year-old Makoto Konno discovers a message written on a blackboard that reads "Time waits for no one" and ends up inadvertently falling onto a walnut-shaped object.

After telling Kazuko what happened, she helps Makoto realise she now has the power to "time-leap", the ability to literally travel through time.

Consequently, Makoto uses most of her leaps frivolously to prevent undesirable situations from happening, including an awkward love confession from her best friend, Chiaki Mamiya.

Makoto uses it to safely leap back to the moment right after she originally gained her powers; Chiaki would still have his one remaining time-leap.

[2] The film received limited advertising as opposed to other animation features, but word of mouth and positive reviews[5] generated interest.

The movie received a limited release in the United States, being shown subtitled in Los Angeles in June, and in Seattle in September.

The website's consensus reads: "An imaginative and thoughtfully engaging anime film with a highly effective visual design.

Sevakis felt that the film has "more in common with the best shoujo manga than [author Yasutaka] Tsutsui's other work Paprika".

[11] Nick Pinkerton of The Village Voice said, "there's real craftsmanship for how [the film] sustains its sense of summer quietude and sun-soaked haziness through a few carefully reprised motifs: three-cornered games of catch, mountainous cloud formations, classroom still-lifes."

"[12] Author Yasutaka Tsutsui praised the film as being "a true second-generation" of his book at the Tokyo International Anime Fair on March 24, 2006.

It played to full-house theatres during a screening in August 2007 at the ninth Cinemanila International Film Festival in Manila, Philippines.