History YMMV / TheGirlWhoLeaptThroughTime

* ShockingSwerve: Well, to several viewers/reviewers at any rate, the last forty minutes were just ''slightly'' out of left field. Up until that point, it followed pretty much every convention of a girl's coming-of-age anime, until [[spoiler: Chiaki reveals he's from the future. When you're expecting the typically-unexplained magic power that ends in a lesson about responsibility and with [[StatusQuoIsGod status quo being God]], it's a bit unexpected.]]
** RewatchBonus: First time you watch the film this is true, but if you watch the film again, there are hints and subtle foreshadowing that [[spoiler: Chiaki]] knows about time traveling, you just don't pick up on them first time round.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: "Kawaranai Mono" by Hanako Oku--played when Makoto realizes [[spoiler:she has one time leap left and knows she can help Chiaki. She rushes out of her house and makes three leaps as she heads back in time while seeing memories of when Kousuke and she first met Chiaki and developed their friendship.]]

* ValuesDissonance: A number of Japanese reviewers on Amazon HATE Makoto for swapping in her classmate in home ec and making him the target of bullies, thereby probably dooming him for life. And not even feeling sorry for it or trying to change it (although presumably it is undone along with all of her other changes during the final time leap). This point, along with her eliminating her friend's relationship with Chiaki, is almost never brought up by Western audiences.

* DisproportionateRetribution: The classmate Makoto causes to have a cookery accident in her place blames her for it and the consequent bullying he experiences (which admittedly was fairly extreme) to the point that he snaps, turns a fire extinguisher on her and when that fails, throws it bodily at her.

** Plus, the scene where she runs to find Chiaki, panting the entire time, seems to last for ages.

* IdiotPlot: Makoto would never have had the bike crash if she'd bothered to test her brakes for one instant, or tried anything other than flying down a ''very'' steep hill packed with people and with a railway crossing at the bottom at full speed. A competent cyclist would have started breaking, if only lightly, the moment the hill began and would have had plenty of time to get off the thing. Made worse when [[spoiler: the same thing happens to the supposedly-responsible Kosuke later.]]

* IdiotPlot: Makoto would never have had the bike crash if she'd bothered to test her breaks for one instant, or tried anything other than flying down a ''very'' steep hill packed with people and with a railway crossing at the bottom at full speed. A competent cyclist would have started breaking, if only lightly, the moment the hill began and would have had plenty of time to get off the thing. Made worse when [[spoiler: the same thing happens to the supposedly-responsible Kosuke later.]]

* IdiotPlot: Makoto would never have had the bike crash if she'd bothered to test her breaks for one instant, or tried anything other than flying down a ''very'' steep hill packed with people and with a railway crossing at the bottom at full speed. A competent cyclist would have started breaking, if only lightly, the moment the hill began and would have had plenty of time to get off the thing. Made worse when [[spoiler: the same thing happens to the supposedly-responsible Kosuke later.]]
** The plot also depends on Chiaki [[spoiler: losing the time travel device he needs to get home and never asking Makoto about it even when he suspects she's leaping]].

* Narm: Makoto's numerous scenes of InelegantBlubbering.

* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: [[spoiler:[[IWillWaitForYou "I won't be long... I'll come running."]]]]

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: Makoto can almost never seem to time leap without [[UnnecessaryCombatRoll combat rolling into something.]]
** That scene in the beginning where one boy performs, for lack of a better term, a caber toss with another (larger) student acting as the caber. Onto Makoto.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Makoto's final time leap.

* TearJerker:
** Especially when Makoto starts crying ''herself''. Good grief.
** For those watching the DVD, the included music video for the song "Garnet" can be this, especially if watching and listening while reading the subtitles.
--->I'll burn the days that I spent with you into my heart
--->So that I'll be all right even if I don't remember them
--->Even if I fall in love with someone else someday
--->You will always be precious and important to me
--->And this season will come around again

* ValuesDissonance: A number of Japanese reviewers on Amazon HATE Makoto for swapping in her classmate in home ec and making him the target of bullies, thereby probably dooming him for life. And not even feeling sorry for it or trying to change it. This point, along with her eliminating her friend's relationship with Chiaki, is almost never brought up by Western audiences.

** For those watching the DVD, the included music video for the song "Garnet" can be this, especially if watching and listening while reading the subtitles

* BitterSweetEnding:
-->'''Chiaki:''' I'll be waiting in the future.\\
'''Makoto:''' I'll be right there. I'll run there.

* BitterSweetEnding:[[spoiler:

'''Makoto:''' I'll be right there. I'll run there.]]

* BitterSweetEnding:[[spoiler: -->'''Chiaki Mamiya:''' I'll be waiting in the future.

* ShockingSwerve: Well, to several viewers/reviewers at any rate, the last forty minutes were just ''slightly'' out of left field. Up until that point, it followed pretty much every convention of a girl's coming-of-age anime, until [[spoiler: Chiaki reveals he's from the future. When you're expecting the typically-unexplained magic power that ends in a lesson about responsibility and with [[StatusQuoIsGod status quo being God]], it's [[{{Understatement}} a bit unexpected]].]]

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* AdaptationDisplacement - It's an "adaptation" of a Japanese novel that it's actually more of a loosely-connected sequel to. Notably, the author of the original work loved this movie and said that it was perfect as a "unique sequel."
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming - [[spoiler:[[IWillWaitForYou "I won't be long... I'll come running."]]]]
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: "Kawaranai Mono" by Hanako Oku -- [[spoiler:played when Makoto realizes she has one time leap left and knows she can help Chiaki. She rushes out of her house and makes three leaps as she heads back in time while seeing memories of when Kousuke and she first met Chiaki and developed their friendship.]]
* TearJerker - Especially when Makoto starts crying ''herself''. Good grief.

* ValuesDissonance - A number of Japanese reviewers on Amazon HATE Makoto for swapping in her classmate in home ec and making him the target of bullies, thereby probably dooming him for life. And not even feeling sorry for it or trying to change it. This point, along with her eliminating her friend's relationship with Chiaki, is almost never brought up by Western audiences.