Mitsutaka Itakura

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (時をかける少女, Toki o Kakeru Shōjo?) is the official international title adopted in 2006 for the release of a Japanese animated film which is an adaptation of a Japanese novel written by Yasutaka Tsutsui in 1965. The novel soon became a youth classic story, and has been previously adapted many times in Japan under its original title Toki o Kakeru Shōjo. A short TV series first aired in 1972 under the title Time Traveler starring Atsuko Shimada (aka Mayumi Asano), soon followed by a sequel, Zoku Time Traveler. A live-action film starring Tomoyo Harada was produced in 1983, with a popular theme song which has been covered several times. A TV film was produced in 1985 starring idol Yoko Minamino in her first leading role. A new TV series aired in 1994 starring Yuki Uchida. Another live-action film was produced in 1997 starring Nana Nakamoto. In 2002, it was one of the three segments of the TV film Shinshun! LOVE stories, starring then-Morning Musume idol Natsumi Abe. A manga series illustrated by Gaku Tsugano was produced in 2004 in two volumes, and a second manga was produced in 2006 in one volume as a prologue to the animated film produced that year, a sequel to the original story.

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