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we're going to be counting down our
picks for the top 10
time travel anime for this list we're
going to be looking at the series with a
central focus on transporting its
characters back through time
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number 10 buddy complex
a sunrise mecca series that isn't gundam
a secondary character called dio a plot
that incorporates travelling to the far
future we're not sure which is more
hilariously shocking
all we know is that the end result is a
harmlessly entertaining giant robot
jaunt that any fan of the genre can pick
up
and finish within a day
after being hurtled through time by a
mysterious woman
boy out of time alba is instructed to
seek out
a pilot known as dio all in order to
stop the war between two warring
factions
make all the jojo references you want
but it still doesn't take away from the
show's bright spots
orange
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turns out that not everything to do with
time travel has to be doom and gloom
sometimes the chance to start fresh and
alter the regrets of the past
can translate into a beautiful serenade
filled with all the slice of life
goodness you could want upon receiving a
letter from herself
10 years in the future nao is instructed
to not only keep an eye on a new
transfer student
but to carefully consider her choices so
she doesn't grow up to regret
what could have been cue the floodgates
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number eight nobunaga concerto who's
ready for the ultimate lesson on sengoku
period japan
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after making an offhand comment that
history has no impact on his life
high schooler subaru is launched back
centuries into the past
where he finds himself encountering the
one and only
oda nobunaga and due to a slight
resemblance
inadvertently takes his place
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whoa
from there it's a matter of survival as
subaru has to use his general knowledge
to ensure his cover isn't blown while
also getting a front row education
as to some of the periods most defining
normally anything to do with this mini
masterpiece would get it launched right
to the top
but considering its particular brand of
time travel is
less literal and more of an episodic
restart
it can't overtake some of the others on
this list
that being said any chance to discuss
masaki usa's arguable
opus we're going to take
having wasted his college years as an
outcast
watashi is given the chance to repeat
his education
leading him to go down multiple paths
each of which
offer new perspectives life lessons and
failures
but in doing so enrich him allowing him
to take that next step
towards unlocking a true happy
ever wanted to see what would happen if
the guys behind angel beats tackled time
travel
and adolescence with superpowers
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after the titular comment leaves a bunch
of adolescents with unbelievable
abilities the cynical you is sent
packing
to an institution where he and others
can be sheltered from the outside world
as you might expect things do not go as
planned
with nefarious organizations gunning for
their powers
as well as the deaths of his loved ones
u's only option is to hijack the past
make some corrections and essentially
doom himself in the process
[Applause]
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number five the girl who left through
time
one of the truly great modern anime
flicks not to be created by
ghibli it just goes to show that in the
hands of great storytellers
even something as generic as be careful
what you wish for
can be turned into art that will have
you weeping by the end
upon discovering that she can literally
jump back hours to the past whenever she
chooses
teenager makoto turns it to her
advantage by making every day a medley
of fun
at least until she starts to see the
drastic consequences
that can come from the smallest of
alterations
would you laugh if i told you i came
from the future
be warned the feelings are fluttering
with this one
time sort of just flew by because you
guys were so much fun
number four madoka magica magical girls
which is a wish granting demon in the
shape of an adorable talking rabbit cat
after having to wrap our heads around
all that
introducing time travel might sound like
a step too far
and yet homura's many trips to the past
turned out to be the hidden cog
that held this genre destroying series
together
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once a fragile young thing with no
confidence to speak of
humura's desperate wish leaves her with
the power to traverse back to the moment
she met her precious madoka all in an
effort to change their eventual bloody
fates
let's just say it's a good thing she's
got an infinite supply of restarts
number three re-zero starting life in
another world
you'd think being able to reverse a
mistake by hopping back via a time
traveling
out of body experience would make for a
great pick
not if your subaru whose newfound gift
as an izakaya protagonist
allows him to return to a certain point
in time but it can only activate
upon death
and since this is a fantasy world filled
with all manner of killers and
monsters the dude ends up dying a lot
you can see why he'd have a hard time
enjoying his newfound surroundings
when he's constantly hit with one bloody
demise after the other
i'll need to have to start the whole
damn thing from scratch
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number two erased what if you were given
the means to save an innocent from
meeting a gruelling
end
for satoru this came in the form of
revival
a means of taking his conscience back
through time into the body of his child
self
granting him an opportunity to save his
old classmates
kaio from the abuse of her tormented
mother
as well as the sinister machinations of
an unknown serial killer
with a fondness for kids
while the shifting between the past and
present is more of a tool to tell the
truly engaging mystery
than anything else it's still one of the
best incorporations we've seen in an
anime's narrative
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steins gate
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the undisputed king of anime sci-fi
scene
okabe and company's discovery of an
unorthodox means to send messages to the
past
not only opened the doors to an
exhilarating thriller
that perfectly balanced the physics
lingo with hopping timelines
to try and elude death itself when this
gets going it just doesn't stop
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so much so that combined with the
endearing nature of our genius misfits
you won't even question how the
paradoxical quandary
that is time travel can be broken with
nothing more than a microwave and a
phone
alkabay is just that good
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