The Girl Who Leapt For NYC!

I'm very pleased to announce our friends at Bandai Entertainment will premiere The Girl Who Leapt Through Time at New York Comic Con. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time is a 2006 film from Japan following a high school girl who gains the power to (literally) leap back and forth through time. She uses the ability to make her life a little bit more comfortable, yet when she realizes her power is limited and there are unexpected consequences to her each and every leap, she strives to make the world right before her ability runs out.

Does it sound a bit like The Butterfly Effect? Maybe. But it's good. Really good. It's based on an acclaimed 1965 novel by Yasutaka Tsutsui and animated by MADHOUSE. And it took Japan by storm. No, that's not right. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time is a simple, unassuming story and it didn't storm anything. Japan fell in love with it. I'm very pleased to be presenting it for the first time in the US, and I'm very pleased to be working again with Bandai Entertainment.

(Although, I should say it did technically screen in the US before -- at the New York International Children's Film Festival last year, but this was before Bandai licensed it, and this is the first screening with Bandai. I was at the Children's Film Festival screening, too. Afterwards, Anime News Network founder Justin Sevakis, Anime Jump boss man Mike Toole, and I had dinner at a little Vietnamese dive near Chinatown. I got some kind of spicy tofu and vegetable soup. It was really, really spicy. I'm getting off topic here, aren't I?)

New York Comic Con will be screening Bandai Entertainment's The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, and I'm jumping with joy.