YMMV / The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

• Adaptation Displacement: 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."
• Awesome Music: "Kawaranai Mono" by Hanako Oku—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.
• Jerkass Woobie: Takase. He ends up taking the fall for Makoto during a home ec accident and becomes a target for bullies afterwards. After constantly being hosed down by his classmates he undergoes a Sanity Slippage which leads him to using a fire extinguisher on them. He then turns his anger to Makoto and Chiaki where he tries to hit the latter with the fire extinguisher, only for it to hit Kaho instead. It’s more than likely he was expelled for this afterwards.
• Narm: Makoto's numerous scenes of Inelegant Blubbering.
  • Plus, the scene where she runs to find Chiaki, panting the entire time, seems to last for ages.
• Values Dissonance: 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.
• The Woobie:
  • Makoto, for obvious reasons.
  • Because Chiaki steps in front of Makoto to shield her from an incoming fire extingusher and gets injured, Makoto uses a time leap to push him out of the way. However, this time around it's Yuri who gets injured.

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