| After hearing this recommended so many times, I watched it for the first time yesterday with a friend and wasn't incredibly impressed. I might have been going into it with too many expectations, but I just felt like it was good, not great... Don't get me wrong, I am in love with the artwork and the way the story flowed/came together, but there were just some things that really bothered me. I just can't get over them and I've got to vent them somewhere, so please excuse this rant. 1. Chiaki's reason for leaping back. I'm assuming that it's commenting on the "power of art", but I guess I just don't really buy it. Also I understand that he has to go back because he doesn't belong in that time, but he didn't have to leave to abruptly. He could have at least stayed a bit longer to see the painting... 2. Makoto's waste of leaps. Granted, she didn't know there was a limit at first.. and the ones used while talking to Chiaki added realism, but when everything started going wrong and she started hurting other people my first thought was, "Oh hey, go back before you started leaping and start again." I guess it bothers me that she didn't come to the same conclusion until the very end. I'm not saying that's what should have happened in the story because honestly that would have just been boring, but her action didn't make sense, which is why I'm bothered. 3. Contingency of events. The problem I have with this is complex and a lot harder to explain... Some others have mentioned the time leap plot hole type things and it's along those likes, so I'm just going to leave it as is. In a way the simplicity of the story was nice. I just feel like since the movie doesn't explain too much, there's a lot put on the viewer's plate. And while I don't want to be guided by the hand through stories, I still want to be immersed in their universe without getting confused and stuck on things. |
| I remember having watched this with my ex-girlfriend about 2 years ago and I was deeply impressed by it. In fact, I gave the film an easy 10/10 on MAL without never regretting it. But today I watched it again and things changed a bit drastically. While I still love the artwork (magnificent, to say the least) and the soundtrack, I found a HUGE amount of holes in the plot. To begin with, the whole concept of "time leaping" is seriously fucked up. I mean, if you hypothetically could go back to the past, you would be in a different timeline where things could be so much different. To make it clear, the past you're travelling to is a DIFFERENT past: it's not the same past as before. So events and characters should be different too, at least they wouldn't be doing the EXACT things they did in the other timeline. And this applies into every time leap Makoto makes. This requires a lot of further explanation and, as I'm not a native english speaker, I'm unable to explain it into scientific terms, but I guess you get the general point. Then there's a problem of consistency in characters. Like citrusaid was saying...Chiaki travels the past just for a damned piece of art...seriously, WTF!? Don't get me wrong, I LOVE art but this has no sense. If you're SO interested in this painting, why don't you steal it? I mean, you could stop time like he does in the film, having some charging while doing it, and then take the painting off the museum, go back to the future...and that's it! But hey, he finally feels attached to the Era he travelled past to, so I'll give him some credit here. There's also very little development on characters and mostly of the time leaps are just silly and useless and again, like citrusaid was saying...why didn't she come back to the time before she started leaping to prevent these little but annoying things keep happening? Maybe with the first 20 leaps she was still naive about the power she had, but for God's sake...didn't she have a single clue after 80 leaps? All in all, I felt this film wasn't bad...no, in fact it's very beautifully made and it flows perfectly despite the huge script mistakes. Most of the times, when you rewatch something, you only focus in inconsistencies rather than emotions and feelings. So if someone who hasn't watched the film yet is reading this post, I'd recommend to watch this film right away! because the first time you watch it, it's moving and wonderful. But I wouldn't recommend to watch it again, IMO. |
| did not really enjoy it because i hate short hair girls LOL. but thats just me :D |
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iWishTifaWasReal said: did not really enjoy it because i hate short hair girls LOL. but thats just me :D strangely I felt attracted to her character, probably one of the only few and very rare instances where I ended up liking a female lead in an anime. |
| "...our faces marked by toil, by deceptions, by success, by love; our weary eyes looking still, looking always, looking anxiously for something out of life, that while it is expected is already gone – has passed unseen, in a sigh, in a flash – together with the youth, with the strength, with the romance of illusions.” - Joseph Conrad ('Youth') |
Silmendil said: I remember having watched this with my ex-girlfriend about 2 years ago and I was deeply impressed by it. In fact, I gave the film an easy 10/10 on MAL without never regretting it. But today I watched it again and things changed a bit drastically. While I still love the artwork (magnificent, to say the least) and the soundtrack, I found a HUGE amount of holes in the plot. To begin with, the whole concept of "time leaping" is seriously fucked up. I mean, if you hypothetically could go back to the past, you would be in a different timeline where things could be so much different. To make it clear, the past you're travelling to is a DIFFERENT past: it's not the same past as before. So events and characters should be different too, at least they wouldn't be doing the EXACT things they did in the other timeline. And this applies into every time leap Makoto makes. This requires a lot of further explanation and, as I'm not a native english speaker, I'm unable to explain it into scientific terms, but I guess you get the general point. Then there's a problem of consistency in characters. Like citrusaid was saying...Chiaki travels the past just for a damned piece of art...seriously, WTF!? Don't get me wrong, I LOVE art but this has no sense. If you're SO interested in this painting, why don't you steal it? I mean, you could stop time like he does in the film, having some charging while doing it, and then take the painting off the museum, go back to the future...and that's it! But hey, he finally feels attached to the Era he travelled past to, so I'll give him some credit here. There's also very little development on characters and mostly of the time leaps are just silly and useless and again, like citrusaid was saying...why didn't she come back to the time before she started leaping to prevent these little but annoying things keep happening? Maybe with the first 20 leaps she was still naive about the power she had, but for God's sake...didn't she have a single clue after 80 leaps? All in all, I felt this film wasn't bad...no, in fact it's very beautifully made and it flows perfectly despite the huge script mistakes. Most of the times, when you rewatch something, you only focus in inconsistencies rather than emotions and feelings. So if someone who hasn't watched the film yet is reading this post, I'd recommend to watch this film right away! because the first time you watch it, it's moving and wonderful. But I wouldn't recommend to watch it again, IMO. Your analysis of how "traveling to the past" makes no sense. You're saying that going back into the past will result in a different past every time. That is just ridiculous though. If you travel back from a present, the past that made up that present will be the same. So, if you're in Present A, which occurred from Past A, if you travel back to "another past", it will still be Past A, not a Past B. The only thing that could be affected is the future. This makes logical sense. I don't see what is wrong about Chiaki traveling to the past to see a painting. We do not know what intrinsic value, moral value, sentimental value, et cetera, that this painting holds in the future. Oh, and given that Makoto is a middle school student, probably with little scientific reasoning, I feel as if it is safe to assume that she would use her time leaps on meaningless things. KappaG3 said: Silmendil said: Finally, I don't get one last thing: If Makoto went back in time to the very moment she acquired that power, then why didn't she "recharge"? This could only mean that the "timetravel nut" is a being that trascends time, and this is pretty unlikely. If we assume for one second that this movie was real, the moment Makoto went back in time and touched the "nut", she would have gotten another full charge of time leaps. We saw that using your own time leap consumed your charges, but if you were affected by a different time leap, it would restore or not consume a charge. Think of it like a limited energy source on the vessel, aka the human body. This makes sense because Makoto was about to retain her memories from previous time skips. Why didn't the "nut" have another round of full charges? I feel like it travels along the time skips with the person. |
| I wouldn't say i didn't enjoy it, but i do think its over rated. I felt both the plot and the characters were weak and the ending felt unfinished and didn't seem to sync up well with the story. It was decent enough that i wouldn't tell someone it wasn't worth watching but i also wouldn't go out of my way to recommend it to anyone either. |
| I don't think its amazing, as the one above me stated, it is highly overrated...simply put the whole story could be totally different if she wasn't naïve with her leaps...if a story can be unraveled that much by one single alteration, then it means it wasn't that good to begin with, but then again I suppose you wouldn't have a movie if you did that |
 "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment" |
| It was average, which bugs me since many people recommended it. The story has holes and parts of it make no sense. The artwork is decent but I have seen better. |
| Das Feenreich! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUvxzKt5GoM |
| How this anime compare to live action ? I only watched live action, but not sure if the anime worth watching. Live action film was average at most. |
| It was one of the few animes I didn't mind. I thought it was fine but story was really short |
| I didn't enjoy it. I watched about an hour of it till I decided i didn't care. Dumb girl getting the ability to travel through time literally out of nowhere then using it to do dumb things like influence her friends love life would bring rise to the typical problems one would expect to come with time travel, and that's exactly what happens in this movie. Boooooring :| |
| I did enjoy it but not as much as I could have if Makoto wasnt such a dumb dumb girl. In general the characters seemed to be controlled more by theiir crazy hormones than their brain, and god was Makotos crying awful, looked more like a newborn baby. But other than that I thought it was pretty good so it got a solid 8/10 from me. |
| not as good as i was expecting it to be from the score it has but it was enjoyable none the less. I think they didnt play out the romance part as well as they could have |
| One of the better Anime movies out there! |
iWishTifaWasReal said: did not really enjoy it because i hate short hair girls LOL. but thats just me :D Oh finally someone who understands!! I was thinking the same thing. They could've made the main character long-haired and I would've enjoyed the Anime. Instead they made the character short hair and just ruined everything. I can't express how frustrated I am. I had to drop few dramas before because the actresses have short hair. I really wanted to watch Secret Garden (Korean drama about gender body swapping) but I had to drop it because the director decided to make the main female MC short haired. how ridiculous is he. Thanks God most anime has long haired female MC, if not my dropped list would've steadily increased. |
| よろしく！ |
| I haven't watched it yet, but from what I can read from a lot of peoples concerns the reason was probably that it's a movie, and granted movies are still supposed to immerse you into their world and explain everything that happens or at least hint at everything clearly, but they can't do it as well as an anime spanning multiple episodes. So that already should reduce your expectations slightly for it. |
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| I have watched it.. It was not bad but the use of time travel seemed overrated |
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| The show was enjoyable, though I thought the plot was weak. There were quite a bit of unanswered questions. |
| Ending sucks, but I love that movie. |
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| Did I just read a SERIOUS complaint about the fact that the MC has short hair? *Jumps out of the window* |
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| Just finished it and to be honest it was not that good as I'd expected it to be. To be honest, i didn't like the MC either, not because of her hair..., but because of her selfish and stupid decisions. Why didn't she travel back in time when she realized that she caused that one guy to be bullied. Why didn't she prevent her friend to be hit by the fire extinguisher, or at least don't let her get hit that hard, so Chiaki could still develop feelings for her friend. Yet they still haven't really explained why she suddenly was back in the lake when she first discovered how she could travel back in time. |
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| I had seen quiet a lot of people talking a lot about how Wolf Children, Summer Wars and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time were really good. Naturally after hearing so much about them I decided to give them a try, and it was a mistake... I started with Wolf Children and found the characters annoying. I decided not to let that bother me and tried Summer Wars instead. Again, I was disappointed.. Why did they even bother adding romance when they where going to develop it so sloppily is beyond my understanding. Too many one dimensional characters getting unneeded screen time too. Finally I decided to watch this one, I had seen that this one was very emotional and what not. But no, annoying characters all over again... Overall, I kinda regret watching this thing. I didn't think the art or visual were special either. Some shots just felt useless like, "Look! This is what time looks like when it stops!!" It was pretty unnecessary and I would have preferred to see that time go into actual explanations about the time leap deal. Oh! Also, the number of time leaps left just made me realize how unbelievable stupid the mc was... She might had caught on if she had played UNO at least once or knew how to use her brain. |
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