Time Travel Shoujo: Mari Waka to 8-nin no Kagakusha-tachi


Time Travel Girl

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Synonyms: MariWaka
Japanese: タイムトラベル少女~マリ・ワカと8人の科学者たち~
English: Time Travel Girl
German: Time Travel Girl
Spanish: Time Travel Girl
French: Time Travel Girl
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Information

Type: TV
Episodes: 12
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Jul 9, 2016 to Sep 24, 2016
Premiered: Summer 2016
Broadcast: Saturdays at 07:00 (JST)
Producers: TV Tokyo, Studio Mausu
Licensors: Funimation
Studios: WAO World
Source: Book
Genres: AdventureAdventure, Sci-FiSci-Fi
Theme: Time TravelTime Travel
Duration: 24 min. per ep.
Rating: PG - Children

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Score: 6.491 (scored by 61496,149 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #70492
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Popularity: #5339
Members: 17,266
Favorites: 10

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Synopsis

Time Travel Shoujo is based on a 1983 book titled Jishaku to Denki no Hatsumei Hakken Monogatari by Japanese educator Kiyonobu Itakura. It is part of the Hatsumei Hakken Monogatari Zenshuu series which describes the story of various scientific discoveries and inventions throughout history. The 1983 book focuses on discoveries related to magnetism and electricity.

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Time Travel Shoujo is based on a 1983 book titled Jishaku to Denki no Hatsumei Hakken Monogatari by Japanese educator Kiyonobu Itakura. It is part of the Hatsumei Hakken Monogatari Zenshuu series which describes the story of various scientific discoveries and inventions throughout history. The 1983 book focuses on discoveries related to magnetism and electricity.

Characters & Voice Actors


Staff

Aoki, Kiyomitsu
Producer
Yamasaki, Osamu
Director, Script, Series Composition, Key Animation
Nagasaki, Yukio
Sound Director
Kaneko, Yoshiyuki
Episode Director, Assistant Director


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"Kibou TRAVELER (希望TRAVELER)" by AOP
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Ending Theme

"Miss Rabbit (ミス・ラビット)" by Erabareshi (エラバレシ)

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Reviews

Mar 28, 2018
Time Travel Girl functions as both educational adventure and mystery as high schooler Mari finds a pendant and book belonging to her missing father that somehow causes her to travel back in time and encounter several historical inventors famous for their major contributions to scientific and technological advances. Outside of Mari's encounters with famous inventors like Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Edison, the series adds to the education theme by having segments at the end of each episode that demonstrate the means by which each of the inventions function.

In regards to the historical exploration from Time Travel Girl, the series believably depicts its time periods from ...
Oct 16, 2016
Mixed Feelings
Time Travel Girl at the start was a pleasant surprise among the Summer anime season. By the end, I have some major criticisms, but still, I enjoyed the ride. It had a likeable set of characters and interesting premise. It was strict to formula, but was never overly ambitious. Each episode left me feeling satisfied and a want to continue, for the first nine episodes at the least. Then, I just trekked through the rest.

The formula is usually one episode focused on one of the eight scientists, though sometimes two for a certain few of them. There's a certain ...
Aug 30, 2021
I watched all 12 episodes of Time Travel Shoujo: Mari Waka to 8-nin no Kagakusha-tachi. Here are my thoughts:

I have very little to say about this anime. This is basically the Japanese equivalent of an educational TV show that a school teacher might throw on when they're feeling lazy or something. It literally aired on Saturday morning and is targeted to a child audience. I mainly just watched it while I was eating breakfast.

The educational focus of the show is on electricity and magnetism. There are various relevant experiments that get incorporated into the show, and there are also some short educational segments at the ...

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