Hosoda Mamoru Exhibition Opens With 450 Storyboards From The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
The exhibition is the first major retrospective of Hosoda's career, anchored by the 20th anniversary of his breakout film and including a never-before-screened 8mm short from his junior high school days.
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The Hosoda Mamoru: Origins/Exhibition opens June 20 at CREATIVE MUSEUM TOKYO, marking 20 years since The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. The show displays about 450 storyboards from that film, plus materials from Summer Wars, Wolf Children, and Hosoda's early work, including a student film screened for the first time in 44 years.
The exhibition space is split into four areas. The first, dedicated to The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, features roughly 450 storyboards drawn by Hosoda himself, along with layouts, background art, and original drawings. A video combines storyboards and 720 original drawings of the scene where Makoto runs to the playground where Chiaki waits. A separate video collects memorable sky and cloud scenes from Hosoda's films.
In the Summer Wars area, visitors enter through a doorway reading "Welcome!" and find life-sized figures of King Kazma and Love Machine. The Early Days area shows oil paintings and video works from Hosoda's time at Kanazawa College of Art, plus storyboards for Digimon Adventure and Ojamajo Doremi Dokka~n! from his Toei Animation period. His first self-produced animation, one-sided war, shot on 8mm film during junior high summer vacation and depicting a dragon fighting fighter jets, screens for the first time since his school cultural festival 44 years ago. The Wolf Children area includes a life-sized figure of Hana holding Yuki and Ame, created for the exhibition.
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- Comic Natalie OZの世界に「Welcome！」 細田守展が明日開幕「時かけ」約450枚の絵コンテずらり