菅野友恵

Kanno Tomoe

writer
Feature Film

The Girl Who Leapt through Time #3

時をかける少女

  • Toki o Kakeru Shojo
  • Time-soaring girl
  • Time Traveller: The Girl Who Leapt through Time
  • by 菅野友恵, directed by 谷口正晃
  • (at movie theaters, Japan, 13 March 2010)

In this second sequel to Yasutaka Tsutsui’s 1965 novel 時をかける少女 [⁠The Girl Who Leapt through Time⁠], Naka Riisa plays the daughter, Akari, of a grown-up Kazuko (the original “girl who leapt through time”). Akari tries to leap back to the time of her mother’s first love, Kazuo, in hopes that he can bring her mom out of a coma induced by a car accident.

The actress Naka Riisa has another connection to time-leaping girls: In the first sequel to the original novel, , a 2006 anime adaptation, Riisa voiced the lead character, Makoto, who was Kazuko’s niece. So if I have this right: The original leaper is Kazuko; Kazuko’s niece Makoto is the leaper in the 2006 anime; and Kazuko’s daughter Akari is the leaper in the 2010 live-action movie. So in some sense, Riisa is her own cousin. —Michael Main
Naka Riisa (as Yoshiyama Akari) stands apprehensively in her school uniform.
  • Eloi Honorable Mention
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel