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see topic. Time Travel is a topic seen a lot in American programs (Time Trax, Quantum Leap) and movies (Back to the Future trilogy), but I have yet to see any anime that deals with this topic.

um....Chrono Trigger/Chrono Cross?

It's a videogame, from Square, but still.

rocklobster wrote:see topic. Time Travel is a topic seen a lot in American programs (Time Trax, Quantum Leap) and movies (Back to the Future trilogy), but I have yet to see any anime that deals with this topic.

Hmm... I was going to say "Of course", but thinking of it, I really can't think of many.

Tenchi Muyo in Love (AKA Tenchi the Movie) involved it for a plot, as did Tenchi the Movie 3

I can think of one. Generator Gawl which is a little known anime. It's just 13 episodes though.

AnimeHeretic wrote:
Tenchi Muyo in Love (AKA Tenchi the Movie) involved it for a plot, as did Tenchi the Movie 3

I'd forgotten about Tenchi Muyo in Love!

Well, there's Flint: The Time Detective (time travelers collect Pokemon-like creatures from major historical events) or the old Superbook and Flying House shows (groups of kids witness biblical events firsthand). Technicallt, I guess Inu-Yasha could even be concidered as involving time travel. The question is, what you you expect from a "time travel" story? If you're okay with time travel simply ebing an excuse to put characters in a different setting, then there's a whole lot of anime out there. But if you're talking about temporal paradoxes and drastic changes to the timeline and cool stuff like that, then I honestly can't think of any anime (which is too bad 'cause I really like that sort of thing)

Actually, I take that back. I've heard good things about some of the Urusei Yatsura movies involving time travel, but I haven't actually seen any of them yet.

Rlame of Recca!! Reccas mom sends him to the future. And of course Techi in Love and Generator Gawl. I'd also say Inuyasha. Then manga theres one called Red River. Where this girl is taken back to the time of the Hitthites. Sailor moon also has a charachter who travels back in time.

It does seem unusually rare to find an anime that deals primarily with time travel, as opposed to simply using it as a plot device.

How about the obvious Inuyasha?

I don't count Inu-Yasha. It's not time travel unless it'dsdone by scientific means.

I gotta go with Kura's suggestion. Generator Gawl was freeking rad. I dug that show.

I remember being interested in that show. Isn't there a girl who looks like she has cotton candy for hair?

I don't count Inu-Yasha. It's not time travel unless it'dsdone by scientific means.

See, that's the thing. Most anime time travel seems to stumble around that point. (at least, most of the one's I've seen)

Voices of a Distant Star.

rocklobster wrote:I don't count Inu-Yasha. It's not time travel unless it'dsdone by scientific means.

If they go to another time somehow weather its done through "mystical means" or scientific its still time travel.

Also in El Hazard there is some time travel as well.

yukinon wrote:I remember being interested in that show. Isn't there a girl who looks like she has cotton candy for hair?

Yup yup, that's it. It was good from what I remember. It's been about four years since I last saw it.

Pokemon the 4th movie has time travel.

One of the Kimagura Orange Road movies had time travel.

The first Slayers movie had time travel at the end.

Doesn't Chrono Crusade? :/
(haven't read it)

Oh yeah, the Trunks saga sucked me in so bad. It gets messy. But amusing.

Doesn't Chrono Crusade? :/

Not any of the parts I've read. Chrono is one of the characters.

You could say RahXephon did...in a way...

Superbook

Would you include cyogenics?

Well you COULD say that Sailor Moon did. Or, you could just say it was so confusing that it MIGHT have. I'm not really sure which it is, though. *waits to be hurt by Kae-kun*

Millenium Actress, in a way, dealt with time travel. It's not typical, "get in a machine and go to another era" time travel, but the story did take place over the span of hundreds of years. Sort of.

Doraemon.

[quote="Mangafanatic"]Well you COULD say that Sailor Moon did. Or, you could just say it was so confusing that it MIGHT have. I'm not really sure which it is, though. ]
You know...I'm not going to give you that pleasure.

She's right, though. The second season of Sailor Moon (Sailormoon R) dealt with Usagi's daughter, Chibiusa, coming back to the present in order to find someone to help save Crystal Tokyo. The Black Moon also come back in time to try and strengthen the hold they have over the city in the future.

Chibiusa shows up in S and SuperS as well, but it really doesn't mean much plotwise except to be used as a comic device occasionally...such as when Chibiusa wants something from Usagi and hugs her and calls her "mom," to which Usagi yells back, "I'm not your mom yet!"

It seems that a lot of anime uses time travel as a plot device, but not as the primary focus of the series. Most of them still don't use the traditional sci-fi type of time travel that most of us are familiar with.

kaemmerite wrote:You know...I'm not going to give you that pleasure.

No, really! Hurt me! Otherwise I'll feel guilty for being so mean!