5 best time travel anime to watch right now

In this article, check out the best 5 time travel anime you can watch right now, plot, their story and more information.

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By Mahaksh Chauhan | May 8, 2024 | 3 Min Read follow icon Follow Us

Time travel anime has become a beloved sci-fi trope, renowned for its intriguing plots and dynamic character interactions. Creators in the anime world have utilized this concept in diverse and amazing ways, resulting in some of the most entertaining series within the medium. From classics like Steins; Gate to recent hits like Re: Zero, time travel anime consistently deliver top-notch stories that explore complex philosophical questions. Here is our list of 5 best time travel anime you can watch right now.

5. Tokyo Revengers

The protagonist, Takemichi Hanagaki, finds himself in an unexpected circumstance in Tokyo Revengers following the inexplicable death of Hinata, his middle school ex-girlfriend. After realizing he can travel through time, Takemichi finds himself in his middle school years, where he has a sole objective: to join the Tokyo Manji Gang and stop Hinata from dying. The gang’s feuds and internal strife catch up with him as he travels.

In this alternate timeline, Takemichi makes up his mind to change history by infiltrating the Tokyo Manji Gang. Mikey, the tyrannical gang leader, and Draken, the prominent strategist, are among his middle school pals that he reunites with on his journey. In his quest to save his loved ones and rediscover his life’s meaning, Takemichi must forge perilous alliances, take on formidable enemies, and unleash his inner demons.

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The Chinese anime-influenced series Link Click provides a new spin on science fiction. The hero, Cheng Xiaoshi, learns he has the remarkable power to travel through time by taking pictures.

They join forces with Lu Guang to establish a detective organization that can travel through time, solving mysteries from all corners of the globe. Cheng and Guang, as their agency grows stronger, see important events in China’s history, which shapes their view of the present.

3. Re:Zero as one of the best time travel anime to watch

Exceptional time travel animation Re:Zero expertly combines tragic time loop motif with psychological fantasy adventure. At first, Subaru Natsuki takes his unexpected entrance into a magical world reminiscent of a video game for granted. He experiences horrific deaths, but his optimism is short-lived because he is cursed to relive events while holding onto memories of possible futures and sent back in time.

Watching Subaru die a number of times may sound monotonous, but each death adds a new layer of emotional depth to the experience. Follow Subaru’s dogged quest to escape the time loop as he progressively investigates the laws controlling this mysterious phenomenon.

2. Erased

Satoru, a 29-year-old man, is the protagonist of the riveting thriller anime Erased (Japanese title: Boku Dake ga Inai Machi). Tragic events in Satoru’s present timeline trigger his dormant ability, which transports him to his own childhood 18 years ago. With this newfound opportunity in hand, he embarks on a quest to change his doomed future by uncovering the truth about an old, long-forgotten event.

In this novel, we follow manga artist Satoru Fujinuma as he deals with his unique talent, which he names “Revival,” and his ability to travel back in time just before a potentially fatal event happens. Tragic events transport Satoru back in time 18 years to his childhood, right before his hometown was the site of a string of abductions and killings.

Sent back in time to stop these disasters, Satoru sets out to find out who killed his classmate Kayo Hinazuki and who was behind all of these crimes. Satoru tries to change the past in order to save the people he cares about while reuniting with his past self on his quest.

1. Steins:Gate

As far as time travel anime collections go, Steins;Gate has to be on the list. Rintaro Okabe, a quirky, insane scientist, accidentally discovers time travel and comes to the realization that the cosmos is constantly trying to fix mistakes made in the past. In a last-ditch effort to change Mayuri’s fate, Okabe embarks on a perilous quest, sending text messages into the past in a plethora of failed attempts.

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