Hosoda’s Girl Who Leapt Through Time is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, and these line stamps are the latest part of the milestone celebration that also includes a Mamoru Hosoda cafe with themed foods based on the film, an outdoor screening at Tokyo International Forum, and a coincidentally timed live-action TV drama.
When Japanese novel The Girl Who Leapt Through Time began its serialization in 1965, pocket-sized communicators that could instantly beam text and images to your friends were still the speculative stuff of a far-off future.
Decades later, though, mobile phone technology has made that bit of science fiction into our daily reality, and now things have come full-circle with the release of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time stamps for use with the Line messaging app.
The 40-stamp set can be purchased online here through the Line Store for 120 yen (US$1.15).