The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (時をかける少女, 2006) is a Japanese animated film by director Mamoru Hosoda that you can watch online on iFILM. Seventeen-year-old Makoto stumbles onto the ability to physically leap back in time — and her first move is to redo a failed pop quiz and avoid an awkward situation with a friend.

Produced by Madhouse as a loose sequel to Yasutaka Tsutsui's 1967 novel, the film follows Makoto as she burns through her time-leaps on small conveniences: a second helping of pudding, a karaoke session that never has to end. Voice actress Riisa Naka plays her with an energy that flips between goofy and genuinely shaken, because every jump quietly reshapes the lives of people around her. The counter is finite, and the number keeps dropping.

Hosoda built a time-travel story with a strict internal logic, and the film earned the Animation of the Year award at the Japan Academy Film Prize. It remains one of the defining works of his career before Wolf Children and Mirai. Stream The Girl Who Leapt Through Time online on iFILM.