| The Girl Who Leapt Through Space | |
 Promotional image of the main characters (front to back): Akiha Shishido, Itsuki Kannagi, and Honoka Kawai | |
| 宇宙をかける少女 (Sora o Kakeru Shōjo) | |
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| Genre | Comedy, Mecha |
| Created by | Hajime Yatate |
| Light novel | |
| Sora Kake Girl Prologue: Akiha | |
| Written by | Hajime Yatate (original author) Ryō Suzukaze (story) |
| Illustrated by | Kazuyuki Yoshizumi |
| Published by | Ichijinsha |
| Magazine | Chara Mel |
| Published | December 25, 2008 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Masakazu Obara |
| Produced by | Naotake Furusato |
| Written by | Jukki Hanada (1-14) Tatsuto Higuchi (9-26) |
| Music by | Kenichi Sudo Tomoki Kikuya |
| Studio | Sunrise |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | TV Tokyo, AT-X, TV Aichi, TV Osaka |
| Original run | January 5, 2009 – June 29, 2009 |
| Episodes | 26 |
| Manga | |
| Sora Kake Girl R | |
| Written by | Kunihiko Okada |
| Illustrated by | Kabocha |
| Published by | Ichijinsha |
| Magazine | Comic Rex |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Original run | March 2009 – March 2010 |
| Volumes | 2 |
| Manga | |
| Sora Kake Girl D | |
| Published by | ASCII Media Works |
| Magazine | Dengeki Daioh |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Original run | April 2009 – January 2010 |
| Volumes | 1 |
| Light novel | |
| Written by | Tsukasa Seo |
| Illustrated by | Kazuyuki Yoshizumi |
| Published by | Ichijinsha |
| Imprint | Ichijinsha Bunko |
| Demographic | Male |
| Original run | June 20, 2009 – August 20, 2009 |
| Volumes | 2 |
The Girl Who Leapt Through Space (Japanese: 宇宙をかける少女, Hepburn: Sora o Kakeru Shōjo, lit. "The Spacefaring Girl" and also abbreviated as "Sora Kake Girl") is a Japanese anime television series, created and produced by Sunrise. Based on the original concept by the Sunrise animation staff, the series is directed by Masakazu Obara and written by Jukki Hanada, overseeing a team of animators noted for their previous work on My-HiME and My-Otome.
The anime began airing in Japan on the TV Tokyo television network on January 5, 2009. The series is set in the far future where humans now live in space colonies orbiting far from Earth. A manga adaptation, Sora Kake Girl R, began serialization in the March 2009 issue of Ichijinsha's Comic Rex, and another manga, Sora Kake Girl D, began serialization in the April 2009 issue of ASCII Media Works' Dengeki Daioh. A light novel adaptation began serialization in Ichijinsha's Chara Mel in December 2008, and an Internet radio show has also been created.