The Girl Who Leapt through Time #1
時をかける少女
Toki o kakeru shojo English release: Time Traveller: The Girl Who Leapt through Time Literal: Time-soaring girl
by 筒井康隆
After an earthquake and a fire keep her up late, junior high school girl Kazuko Yoshiyama
rushes late to school with her friend Goro, and they both are run down by a speeding
truck, but then she finds herself waking up again in a seemingly ordinary morning with no
last-night earthquake, no last-night fire, and no runaway truck—at least not at this
moment.
As the first period of math class began, Mr. Komatsu—the fat math teacher—wrote down
an equation on the board, and Kazuko began to frown. It was the very same problem
they’d solved just the day before. But more than that, Mr. Komatsu had written the
problem on the board at exactly the same time before, and Kazuko had been called to the
front of the class, where she’d struggled for some time over the solution.
[ex=bare]時をかける少女 | Time-soaring girl | Toki o kakeru shōjo[/ex] by
筒井康隆, 7-part serial,
中学三年コース [Chūgaku san nen kōsu: Middle school third-year course] 17(9–11
and 12–14), November 1966 to March 1967 [no installment in the
undated winter vacation issue, 17(12)] and 高一コース [Kō ichi kōsu: High school
course] 14(1–2), April 1967 toMay 1966 [pts. 6–7].