Here's a question: what's your favorite time travel anime? Are there enough good titles in this sci-fi subgenre?
It's not filled to the brim every season, unlike isekai titles, but it's not impossible to find great ones.
If you're in the mood for mind-boggling twists and turns (or even minor time travel elements in typical anime), check out my list below.
And fair warning: spoilers ahead (in some cases). In some games, time travel is a key turning point or surprise in the series, so if you don't want to know more, just browse through the titles and pick the one that interests you!
20. Nobunaga Concert.
I'm going to start with Nobunaga Concert, an anime that has time travel, but it's also more of an isekai.
That's why I include it in my list, but certainly not the highest. So what's up?
As you may have guessed, it features Oda Nobunaga. Perhaps one of the most popular Japanese historical figures.
He was a brutal leader, but he was also a brilliant figure and a key figure in the reunification of Japan.
But Nobunaga is not the OP. In the "Nobunaga" concert, he meets Saburo, who mysteriously travels back in time from the 21st century and looks like him.
Saburo was an ordinary high school student, but now he has to replace Nobunaga, who wants to relax in the last years of his life.
19. Natsu-iro no Sunadokei (Hourglass of Summer Colors)
This is an old anime. Like, very old.
But while the character designs, animation, and overall quality have not stood the test of time, this is a worthwhile show that includes more time travel than the Nobunaga concert.
Hourglass of Summer Colors is a video game adaptation of a visual novel (VN) by Princess Soft released back in 2002.
Also, it only has two episodes; this is an OVA. However, this is an intriguing show.
Yes, it again involves a teenage boy, this time named Kotaro Makimura.
But here, the time travel manifests itself with Kotaro waking up before the next school year and then returning and coming back on certain days of his summer vacation.
Through this, he learns some very crazy news about his girlfriend, Kaho Serizawa. It gets deep.
18. Complex Buddy
