* On the other hand, if people stop being taught Required Kanji before their last years of high school once computers become the de facto method of teaching and doing homework, it's possible that Chiaki is from as near a future as the early 2020s, and the Japanese government has started full-immersion teaching of using a system of hiragana/katakana with an identifier code for homonyms. Since Japan mostly uses kanji based on the Chinese pronunciation of the symbol rather than the Chinese meaning of the symbol and Japanese pronunciation, it seems perfectly reasonable that the government (in the future of 2006, or of the year of whichever adaptation first introduced that detail) would decide that Japan would trail behind purely letter-based countries in computer efficiency and therefore ability. Said government then sets up a system wherein Japanese students learn the new system, which consists of all the regular hiragana and/or katakana, but instead of kanji mostly uses the words spelled out in kana with a code to identify which homonym is being used beyond simple context.

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[[WMG: Chiaki lied about why he [[spoiler: traveled from his time]].]]
The painting was probably important, but [[spoiler: Future Makoto]], [[TheSlowPath whatever]] [[GoneToTheFuture age]] she was, told Chiaki to lie so that through him, she could create a TrickedOutTime loop.

7th Oct '11 1:28:41 AM JET73L

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IIRC, they mention at some point that he cannot read Kanji at all. One explanation could be that in the future he came from, Kanji isn't used anymore. Languages change all the time, and we don't know how far his future is.
* On the other hand, if people stop being taught Required Kanji before their last years of high school once computers become the de facto method of teaching and doing homework, it's possible that Chiaki is from as near a future as the early 2020s, and the Japanese government has started full-immersion teaching of using a system of hiragana/katakana with an identifier code for homonyms. Since Japan mostly uses kanji based on the Chinese pronunciation of the symbol rather than the Chinese meaning of the symbol and Japanese pronunciation, it seems perfectly reasonable that the government (in the future of 2006, or of the year of whichever adaptation first introduced that detail) would decide that Japan would trail behind purely letter-based countries in computer efficiency and therefore ability. Said government then sets up a system wherein Japanese students learn the new system, which consists of all the regular hiragana and/or katakana, but instead of kanji mostly uses the words spelled out in kana with a code to identify which homonym is being used beyond simple context.

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The timeline begins. Makoto befriends Chiaki. Their feelings for one another grow. Makoto finds the time travel device. She has fun messing with time for a while, until she realizes she's out of leaps. Tragedy strikes. She has to watch her friends die because she couldn't save that one last leap to keep them alive. Then everything stops. Chiaki approaches her and tells her everything, including that he used his last leap to save Kousuke and his girlfriend. Unfortunately, Now that he's broken tardis protocol, he must dissipate into the void, or go back to the future to face trial for temporal crimes or something, and what's worse, he never got to see his painting. It's okay though, because Makoto has one more leap, right? Wrong. She doesn't have one more leap, and the love of her life is gone forever. She never planned to wait for him. Jump 15 years. Time travel is invented. She finally has the chance to save Chiaki, but she's too old to do so as herself. So she goes back, further than Chiaki. She goes back to around the time of her birth. She befriends her own mother and receives the affectionate nickname "aunt witch". Now she has an in. She can help herself by convincing young Makoto that her frivolous leaping may be hurting someone else, perhaps just enough to give her that one last leap that she need to save Chiaki, (if a boy is late in meeting up with you, you're the type to go look for him). But why? Why did she go back so far? Why did she have to be there so long before she even met Chiaki? Simple: she wanted to give him his painting. She needed time to hone her craft, make a name for herself, and use that name to get a job as the restoration artist in a high class museum so that she could restore the painting that Chiaki traveled so far to see.

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