1. Steins;Gate
Okabe Rintarou is a mad scientist who lives in an old building in Akihabara. He lives with a nasty hacker named Daru and his childhood friend named Mayuri Shiina. They like to experiment and try to create a time machine. At first, they managed to send text message to the past. Then their research continued and get more exciting. Aided by an intelligent scientist named Makise Kurisu, Okabe and his friends embark on amazing adventure.
The interesting part about this anime is that every theory presented seems quite realistic and fits in with the theory of the time machine in the real world. No wonder this anime became one of the best anime of all time.
The interesting part about this anime is that every theory presented seems quite realistic and fits in with the theory of the time machine in the real world. No wonder this anime became one of the best anime of all time.
2. Boku dake ga Inai Machi (Erased)
Satoru Fujinuma is a struggling mangaka who has a mysterious power in which Satoru can return to the past a few minutes before an accident happens, to save the people around him. Satoru had the greatest regret of his life, that he could not save his childhood friend named Kayo Hinazuki. One day, unexpectedly Satoru can return to the past, which is 18 years back where Satoru is still sitting in elementary school.
This is an opportunity for Satoru to save Hinazuki and fix things up.
This is an opportunity for Satoru to save Hinazuki and fix things up.
3. Mirai Nikki (The Future Diary)
Yukiteru Amano is a lonely high school kid who loves to write diaries on his cell phone. One day, Yuki is sent text message from the future by Deus, the god who controls time and space. Yuki is forced to follow a deathly game where he must find and kill 11 rivals to win the game. Later, the winner will become Deus's successor, and become a god. But Yuki's struggle is not easy because he has to deal with a psychopath girl who fall in love with Yuki.
4. Re: Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu (Starting Life in Another World)
Subaru Natsuki is an ordinary teenager whose life changes when he is trapped in a fantasy world. It is not known how Subaru can be there, so he tries to find out what really happened. Along the way, Subaru meets with new friends who will accompanied his adventures. Uniquely, every time Subaru dies in that world, he will back to life again and repeat the time just like what happened in the gaming world. Now it's time for Subaru to find out the truth behind that world and save those around him.
5. Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo (The Girl Who Leapt Through Time)
Makoto Konno is a high school girl who is currently struggling with her future. She is confused to choose between reaching her dreams or spending time with her friends. One day, Makoto's life changed as she realized that she had the ability to manipulate time. Makoto decided to use that ability to change her life for the better. However, Makoto will soon realize that the smallest thing she has changed in the past, will have major consequences in her life.
6. Mahou Shoujo Madoka ★ Magica (Puella Magi Madoka Magica)
Madoka Kaname and Sayaka Miki are ordinary junior high school kid and live as normal as any other child. Once upon a time, they met a magical creature similar to cat named Kyuubey. Kyuubey offers them a deal to become wizard girls. If they do that, they will have the ability to manipulate time to realize all the dreams they want.
7. Charlotte
Yuu Otosaka is a teenager who has the magical ability to read mind and control the body of others people for 5 seconds. One day, Yuu was sent to a school called Hoshinoumi Academy containing disciples with supernatural powers. There is one person who has the ability to manipulate time. This special ability will have an important role to determine the storyline of this anime.
8. Kimi no Nawa (Your Name)
Mitsuha Miyamizu is a high school girl who lives in the village. She always dreamed of being a rich guy living in the city. Elsewhere, there is a high school guy named Taki Tachibana who lives in the midst of the hustle and bustle of the city. He wants to be free of the city crowd and live quietly in the village. One day, their wishes can manifest miraculously. Mitsuha and Taki can swap bodies and change lives.
Although separated between space and time, these two young people began to wonder and want to know each other. They must race against time before a mysterious meteor strikes the Earth.
Although separated between space and time, these two young people began to wonder and want to know each other. They must race against time before a mysterious meteor strikes the Earth.
9. Seikimatsu Occult Gakuin (Occult Academy)
In 2012, the world is colonized by aliens and time travelers begin to be sent to 1999. The time agents must find Nostradamus Key, which is the cause of the apocalypse. They are equipped with a special phone to detect Nostradamus Key. Actually this anime is quite similar to the classic movie titled Twelve Monkey which has a story that is almost the same.
10. Buddy Complex
The anime tells the story of a collection of giant robots from the future that attack Earth. The main character named Aoba Watase whose life was saved by a girl named Hina Yumihara. Aoba's life changed after he was brought into the future, precisely 70 years into the future. The blend of themes between this giant robot and time loop is interesting to watch.
11. Nobunaga Concerto
"Who cares about Japan's past? It has nothing to do with my life." These words are spoken by a cheerful high school boy named Saburou. Mysteriously he was suddenly thrown into the past into the ancient Sengoku Era. Saburou met the legendary general named Nobunaga Oda.
Exhausted by his daily activities, General Nobunaga asked Saburou to replace his position as a general in Japan. Saburou finally complied with Nobunaga's request, a man he did not know anything about. This the story of Saburou, an ordinary high school kid who travels in the past Era Sengoku Japan. His knowledge of the modern world might help him to unify the whole of Japan.
Exhausted by his daily activities, General Nobunaga asked Saburou to replace his position as a general in Japan. Saburou finally complied with Nobunaga's request, a man he did not know anything about. This the story of Saburou, an ordinary high school kid who travels in the past Era Sengoku Japan. His knowledge of the modern world might help him to unify the whole of Japan.
12. Oda Nobuna no Yabou
This comedy-romance anime tells of a 17 years old high school student named Sagara Yoshiharu. One day he was thrown into the past, precisely to the Sengoku period, where all the great Samurai rulers turned out to be funny and cute girls.
13. Zipang
A super-sophisticated warship mysteriously appeared in the middle of World War II. If you want to show off in the middle of World War II in antiquity, then the super sophisticated warship of the future could be an option, hahaha. However, while this gives a great advantage to one side, the soldiers do not want to leave a mark in the past, so the future will not broken.
14. InuYasha
Tells of Kagome Higurashi, a fifteen-year-old girl whose life changed drastically when the devil dragged her to a damned well at her family's Shinto shrine. Instead of crashing into the bottom of the well, Kagome instead went to 500 years in the past during the harsh Japanese Sengoku period. Not only that, Kagome also realizes that she is the bearer of Shikon no Tama, a supernatural gem that can grant any request. Unfortunately, as a result of a battle with the devil, the gem was destroyed into millions of pieces.
Kagome finally calls for the help of a half-dog and half-human named Inuyasha. Assisted by other friends, they had to struggle to find the pieces of the gem in order not to fall into the wrong hands.
Kagome finally calls for the help of a half-dog and half-human named Inuyasha. Assisted by other friends, they had to struggle to find the pieces of the gem in order not to fall into the wrong hands.
15. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
Kyon is an ordinary high school student who no longer believes in supernatural things. But when he meets up with Haruhi Suzumiya, Kyon is invited to join Haruhi's extracurricular where they like to research about aliens, time travelers, esper, and so on. Since then their adventure begins to uncover the things that can not be explained by logic.
Good list but just wanted to say that the image for Madoka Magica is actually the image for a different anime called "magical girl raising project", which is very similar.
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