The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (時をかける少女, Toki o Kakeru Shōjo?), also known as TokiKake, is an anime film produced by Studio Madhouse and distributed through Kadokawa Herald Pictures, Inc., first released in theatres in Japan on July 15, 2006.Tsutsui Yasutaka's novel, Toki o Kakeru Shōjo (unofficial translation: The Little Girl Who Conquered Time) is the basis of the film, but the film is not merely a movie version of the book. Instead, the film is set as a continuation of the book in the same setting some twenty years later. Tsutsui Yasutaka praised the film as being "a true second-generation" of his book at the Tokyo International Anime Fair on the 24th of March, 2006.[1]