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The show I am trying to identify shares some characteristics with _The Girl
Who Leapt Through Time_ , namely the elements of time travel and romance. The
plot of the show that I am trying to identify involved a girl who was in love
with a boy in her class. One day, she overheard the boy jokingly say to his
friends that he preferred older women. The girl, not realizing this statement
was a joke, somehow goes back in time in her current form, and subsequently,
the rest of the world's people are a few years younger.

When the girl finds the boy's whereabouts, she realizes that he does not
recognize her, in fact, the boy cannot sense her presence at all, if I recall
correctly. She realizes that she has become a mere observer of the world of a
few years past. Years pass, and it is revealed that the boy is still
interested in pursuing a relationship with the girl, but is not aware of her
whereabouts. I think, after high school, he goes abroad to study. The girl is
unable to communicate to the boy that she is the person he is searching for,
for the fear that the rift in space-time caused by her attempting to interact
with the past world will destroy her, and thus, becomes heart-broken. She
leads a sad, regretful life, never getting the chance to tell the boy her
feelings for him.


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Please help me identify this show about a time-travel romance similar to The Girl who Leapt Through Time.


The music video you mistook for an anime is called [Owari no Sekai
Kara](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgUIgbRMTSU), written by [Maeda
Jun](http://myanimelist.net/people/2347/Jun_Maeda) and sung by [Yanagi
Nagi](http://myanimelist.net/people/14637/Nagi_Yanagi). Here is a page with
the [lyrics](http://www.animelyrics.com/jpop/yanaginagi/owarinosekaikara.htm).


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