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W11's Rᴇᴄs ᴏғ: Time Travel

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Apr 07 2023, 1:25 PM | Updated Yesterday, 8:41 AM
Waalex11's Recommendations of the TIME TRAVEL genre.

... My personal list of critically great manga, exclusively of time travel that are worth reading.
Manga, 2017Finished3 vol, 12 chp

Elementary school student Nanoka Koyanagi considers herself weird. She often uses it as an excuse to avoid doing things she dislikes, such as participating in her physical education class or getting along with her classmates. Out of concern and good will, her teacher assigns her to find the meaning of "happiness." While Nanoka thinks about her homework, she often meets Abazure-san, a cheerful lady who helps her save a cat. Nanoka also pays regular visits to Obaa-chan, an old woman spending her twilight years in the woods. One day, Nanoka gets lost in the forest and stumbles across a high school girl named Minami committing self harm. As Nanoka gets closer to these three unique individuals, their stories and experiences shape for her a pathway toward soul-searching and self-discovery. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

8.45
22K
Manga, 2012Finished9 vol, 49 chp

Satoru Fujinuma is a 29-year-old who works part-time as a pizza deliveryman in order to make ends meet due to his unsuccessful career as a mangaka. But there is more to this struggling adult than meets the eye, as he possesses a mysterious ability which takes him back in time right before a life-threatening incident occurs. When "Revival," as he calls it, triggers, it will continue to send him back again and again until he is able to save the lives of the individuals involved. But Satoru's life is about to take a turn for the worse when a loved one is killed by an unknown man and he is framed for the crime. Desperate to get away so that he can assess his situation, he is inexplicably sent 18 years into the past—right before the disappearance and death of his classmate, Kayo Hinazuki, an event that has plagued him since childhood. Satoru, now an elementary school student, must get his wits together and save the young girl from an untimely demise by figuring out the identity of the person responsible. But just how is Kayo's murder connected to the present? [Written by MAL Rewrite]

AuthorSanbe, Kei
SerializationYoung Ace
DemographicSeinen
8.38
88K
Manga, 2014Finished2 vol, 17 chp

Strange creatures known as "Mimics" have invaded Earth, sparking a global war that has humanity fighting for survival. In response, mankind forms the United Defense Force, a joint organization whose purpose is to overcome this new threat. Dedicated to the extermination of the growing Mimic menace, soldiers are plunged into battle, wearing special exoskeleton combat suits in an attempt to gain the upper hand against their foes. New recruit Keiji Kiriya is immediately killed after his very first deployment, but to his shock, he wakes up exactly one day before his unit was dropped into a Mimic invasion. After experiencing the same event yet again, he realizes that he is stuck in a time loop triggered by his death. As he relives the day of the battle hundreds of times, Keiji begins to make use of what he has learned about the phenomenon, gradually building up his strength and improving his skills so that eventually, when he comes face-to-face with death once more, he will be ready to change his fate. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

7.76
135K
Manga, 2012Finished7 vol, 38 chp

One morning, Naho Takamiya receives a letter in the mail claiming to be from herself 10 years in the future. The letter reveals a series of events that are supposed to take place that day. At first, Naho thinks it's just a prank; but when the letter mentions a transfer student named Kakeru Naruse, who really ends up transferring into her class later that day, she is forced to believe in its contents. As Naho continues to read the letter, her future self mentions several regrets, urging Naho to take the right decisions now. Somehow these regrets all seem to be connected to Kakeru, and with the burden of the knowledge that the boy wouldn't be with her and her friends in the future, will Naho be able to make the perfect choices that will alter what seems to be fate? [Written by MAL Rewrite] Also includes Haru-iro Astronaut (Spring-Colored Astronaut) series.

8.30
158K
Manga, 2012Finished6 vol, 45 chp

Fuuta Okeya, a 14-year-old student, can see ghosts and wears a bandage on his left cheek to hide his striking birthmark. One day, a girl with a scar on her forehead named Kouko Ishigami, accompanied by a ghost of a tall and friendly man, transfers into his class. Fuuta quickly takes a liking to Kouko, wondering if it might be love at first sight. After waking up crying from a strange dream involving her, he feels a nostalgic connection to Kouko and becomes determined to befriend her. However, a chain of events forces Fuuta to reveal his birthmark to Kouko, to which she declares him to be the enemy of her life. A furious Kouko explains that the two are bound by reincarnation, and that Fuuta's birthmark is a curse she engraved on him in one of their past lives to recognize and eventually defeat him. Kouko brings out a circular object made of flames known as the "spirit circle" and attacks Fuuta, pushing him off a flight of stairs. As he falls, Fuuta is thrown back into the insight of one of his previous lives. Spirit Circle chronicles Fuuta's journey back and forth his several past lives as he gradually unravels the mysteries behind his apparent bad blood with Kouko. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

SerializationYoung King OURs
DemographicSeinen
8.51
45K
Manga, 1998Finished2 vol, 16 chp

Fourty-eight-year-old salaryman Hiroshi Nakahara accidentally takes the wrong train to Tokyo after a business trip in Kyoto. He decides to accept his situation and sit back when he learns that the train is headed toward his hometown in Kurayoshi. As he walks the streets of his childhood neighborhood, Hiroshi realizes how significantly the place has changed in the 20 years since his mother died. While visiting her grave in the Genzen Temple, he is transported back into the body of his 14-year-old self. Retaining the memories and wisdom of his middle-aged mind, he is now an eighth grader in junior high school. Hiroshi's regained youth enables him to escape the reality of being an adult man with a wife and two daughters. Unaware how to return to his original time, he begins to relive his adolescence. During his time travel, Hiroshi attempts to uncover the reasons for his father's abandonment of the family in hopes of understanding him and his actions. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

SerializationBig Comic
DemographicSeinen
8.02
21K
Manga, 2016Finished4 vol, 37 chp

The protagonist is a girl with the ability to visit a surreal alternate dimension full of monsters in her dreams. One day, she meets another human girl there around her own age and receives a plea for help. (Source: MU)

AuthorTsubana
SerializationComic Boost
DemographicSeinen
7.44
2.7K
Manga, 2014Finished2 vol, 12 chp

Yuuki Minami is a hard working student, she has just been inaugurated as Vice President but she knows she needs to keep on studying harder and harder to keep her grades up and escape her current family circumstances. All she needs is more time, more time to study and work her way up! When a ghost appears before her able to grant her wish, what will be the price for the gift of more time? (Source: MU)

SerializationYoung King OURs GH
ThemeSchool
DemographicSeinen
6.20
5.2K
Manga, 2006Finished12 vol, 59 chp

The reclusive middle school student Yukiteru Amano finds himself whisked into a fierce game of survival by the god of space and time, Deus Ex Machina, in which the victor shall inherit Deus' unlimited power. All 12 contestants, including Amano, are composed of people who regularly keep diaries, but there is a twist: each person's diary has been turned into a "Future Diary," making it capable of telling the future to various degrees. Amano possesses a "Random Diary" on his cellphone, which gives him accurate descriptions of his surroundings. He is reluctant to fight but his desperation to survive leads to him teaming up with fellow classmate and diary holder Yuno Gasai, an attractive girl who has a strange obsession with Amano. But as this bloody battle royale plays out, shocking revelations are brought to light, changing the very nature of this twisted game. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

7.66
105K
Manga, 2006Finished24 vol, 107 chp

Reminiscent of a broken toy box, the mystical Abyss is a terrifying realm home to monstrous creatures called Chains. Most believe it to be only a fairy tale, used to scare children who misbehave. Oz Vessalius, the cheerful and mischievous heir of the noble Vessalius family, is one such individual—until, at his coming-of-age ceremony, the mysterious Baskerville Clan arrives and condemns him to the Abyss for a sin he neither committed nor knows anything about. Oz then forms a contract with Alice, a unique Chain who can take on human form, in an attempt to escape from the Abyss. As Oz struggles to unravel the mysteries behind his sin, the Abyss, and a tragedy from one hundred years ago, he and his companions find themselves confronted by the Baskervilles and ghosts from the past. Meanwhile, his journey back home is plagued by relentless despair. [Written by MAL Rewrite] Included one-shot: Volume 8: Pandora Hearts (pilot)

SerializationGFantasy
DemographicShounen
8.57
175K
Manga, 2020Finished7 vol, 63 chp

Unattractive 31-year-old office worker Tooru Nishimori is married to Mika, the most beautiful woman at their workplace. Due to her extreme popularity with men, some would say that she is wasted on a person like Tooru. Nonetheless, Tooru and Mika could not be happier with their marriage. However, there is one thing that deeply troubles Tooru: the fact that Mika dated multiple men before him, in contrast to himself, whose first and only partner has been Mika. Tooru becomes even more bothered when he imagines his wife having sexual intercourse with her previous partners. After Tooru dies upon being hit by a train, he ends up reincarnated as his former high school self. He wakes up in front of a high school version of Mika, along with the first person she had sex with. Having travelled back in time, Tooru is now on a mission to protect Mika's virginity, all for the sake of being her first partner. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

SerializationMagazine pocket
7.37
3.4K
Manga, 2009Finished1 vol, 7 chp

Ayako, a normal high school girl caught up in the experiment of an enigmatic genius, is divided in two. Except other people doesn't know she's the real one! In the midst of the confusion of sharing her life, she remembers her sister who had died suddenly. What lies beyond the feelings she remembers and the feelings she’s forgotten... (Source: Overload Scans)

AuthorTsubana
SerializationKiss
DemographicJosei
6.59
1.1K
Manga, 2007Finished6 vol, 68 chp

Yamada is a castaway on an island without any ships passing by and he is unable to recall why he is there. After finding his sports bag, he assumes he was on a school trip. With only 7 days worth of food, he eventually decides to make a boat to leave the island. He thought he was alone on the island until finding a girl named Imaise Chika eating his food. They then decide to continue carving the boat together. Since the boat only has room for one, Yamada decides to set off for help, but returns upon noticing that not only has Imaise put her share of rations in his bag, they are mostly untouched as well. After returning, he notices she made the oar out of a fishing lance and he decides they can live on the island longer. (Source: MU)

DemographicSeinen
7.26
11K
Manga, 2010Finished4 vol, 17 chp

Yukari, at the tender age of 17, is a renown Edo period novelist who claims visions of Yoshihara during the Edo period gush from his heart. After meeting Mahoro, a girl he swears he knows and has met before, Yukari finds himself falling asleep and waking up in the Edo period as an Oiran. The past and present collide in this time traveling romance. (Source: Omari's Sister)

7.66
4.0K

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