Time travelling is a dream for many. A lot of people dream of being able to travel through time and visit the future, the past, and experience life from its very beginnings to its potential ends.
With main characters going back to the past, sending messages into a parallel universe, and reliving the same day over and over, the concept of time travel had them on the edge of their seats.
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If you’re a fan of manga in which the main character goes back in time, this could be the right outlet for you! What would you do if you had the ability to travel back in time? Would you prefer to return or not?
So, let’s travel back in time and see the beauty of these 11 Manga recommendations where the MC goes back in time.
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Manga where the protagonist time travels (Recommendations)
11. Zipang
| Time Travel | Plot | Character Writing | Art | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
15/20 |
6/10 |
6/10 |
5/10 |
32/50 |
The crew of the JDS Mirai, Japan’s most advanced destroyer, is the focus of the manga series. The Mirai is caught in a peculiar storm one day, and as the crew emerges from the anomaly, they discover they’ve been transported back to June 1942, right at the onset of the Battle of Midway.
The Zipang team makes a conscious effort to avoid changing history. The crew of the Mirai is forced into the struggle against their best efforts, and the plot follows them as they try to defy the war’s totalitarian and militaristic propaganda.
10. Re: Zero - Starting Life in Another World
| Time Travel | Plot | Character Writing | Art | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
16/20 |
5/10 |
6/10 |
6/10 |
33/50 |
Subaru Natsuki, a socially awkward young man is suddenly transferred to a new world. He promptly dies upon arrival and realizes that he has the ability to rewind time to a point where he may alter the outcome of events for himself and others.
Subaru dies over and over to save his companions, and must deal with the loneliness that comes with no one remembering his heroics.
9. Red River
| Time Travel | Plot | Character Writing | Art | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
17/20 |
6/10 |
6/10 |
5/10 |
34/50 |
Youri, a lovely Japanese girl who recently passed her college admission exam, is overjoyed after her first kiss with Himuro, a charming childhood friend who has now become her lover. Meanwhile, she begins to realize that anytime she approaches water, it grows agitated!
One night, hands emerged on the street and dragged her into the sea. When she rises from the water, she discovers that she has been transported to an ancient Middle Eastern village.
She is then kidnapped by armed men and carried to the queen’s palace, where she discovers that the queen had her kidnapped so she could sacrifice her blood in a rite that will kill two princes competing for the throne.
8. Erased
| Time Travel | Plot | Character Writing | Art | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
16/20 |
7/10 |
6/10 |
6/10 |
35/50 |
Satoru Fujinuma, a young man with the ability to rewind time to moments before a life-threatening tragedy. When Satoru’s mother is assassinated, he travels back in time eighteen years and has the opportunity to save not only his mother, but also several of his childhood friends.
He soon finds a clue that the culprit could be linked to the previous case involving one of his classmates named Kayo Hinazuki. Can he right his wrongs? Erased weaves together aspects of time travel and a murder investigation into a gripping story.
7. Sengoku Strays
| Time Travel | Plot | Character Writing | Art | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
17/20 |
7/10 |
7/10 |
6/10 |
36/50 |
Kasane is your typical kendo-obsessed teen girl that takes care of her young twin brothers ever since their parents died.
One day while walking back home with her brothers, one of them found a mysterious sword with a gem on the road. A truck is ready to hit him as he goes to get it, so Kasane jumps in to save him. The sword sent her back in time to the Sengoku Era, where she meets feudal ruler Oda Nobunaga, who makes her his vassal as she saves her brother from a speeding truck.
Kasane is now a member of Nobunaga’s army, and she must protect Nobunaga from his foes while adjusting to life in the ancient setting, as well as finding a way to return to her modern day to reunite with her brothers.
6. Orange
| Time Travel | Plot | Character Writing | Art | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
17/20 |
7/10 |
6/10 |
8/10 |
38/50 |
Naho Takamiya suddenly got a message from a person claiming to be her future self. The letter exposes a lot of things that will happen on that particular day. Naho just took it as a prank the first time she got it. (who would take it seriously at first, though)
Naho’s future self cites various regrets as she reads the letter, pushing Naho to put her decisions in place. Together with her friends, Naho attempts to use the information passed on by herself in the future to prevent the new transfer student, Kakeru Naruse, from taking his own life.
5. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
| Time Travel | Plot | Character Writing | Art | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
17/20 |
8/10 |
7/10 |
7/10 |
39/50 |
A senior high school girl named Makoto Konno is having difficulty selecting what to do with her life. Makoto’s life abruptly turns upside down when she unintentionally does some things that led her to know that she can time travel.
As she is astounded by her abilities, she quickly learns through a series of challenges. She attempts to use her powers to make her life and the lives of others better. However, every decision carries some weight to them and time doesn’t play around.
4. Inuyasha
| Time Travel | Plot | Character Writing | Art | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
17/20 |
8/10 |
8/10 |
7/10 |
40/50 |
When a demon drags Kagome Higurashi deep into a well and transports her five hundred years into the past, her everyday existence comes to a sudden halt. Kagome swiftly learns two things during this time period: demons roam among humans, and she unknowingly carries a dangerous object from her world.
A marble-sized sphere known as the Shikon Jewel. Any demon who has this peculiar sphere in their possession has great power, and Kagome is an easy target for anybody eager enough to steal it.
In a frantic attempt to fend off a demon, Kagome accidently shatters the jewel, scattering countless pieces across Japan. When she is forced to collaborate with the half-demon, Inuyasha, to collect all of the pieces of the jewel before they fall into the wrong hands, she quickly realizes the consequences of her actions.
3. Steins;Gate
| Time Travel | Plot | Character Writing | Art | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
19/20 |
8/10 |
8/10 |
7/10 |
42/50 |
The story revolves around the self-proclaimed mad scientist, Rintarou Okabe, and a group of friends who have modified their microwave into a gadget that can broadcast text messages into the past, altering the flow of history.
As they conduct various experiments, an organization called SERN, which has been doing its own time travel research, follows them down, and the main character must now find means to avoid being captured by them.
Okabe is forced to carry the hardships that come with holding the key to the domain of time as he is forced to cross the dividing threads of past and present.
2. Your Name
| Time Travel | Plot | Character Writing | Art | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
18/20 |
9/10 |
9/10 |
9/10 |
45/50 |
On a regular basis, Mitsuha Miyamizu, a young girl from Itomori begins to trade bodies with Taki Tachibana, a boy from Tokyo. This incident occurs at random, and they must alter their lifestyles to accommodate it. Nonetheless, it works.
They form a bond by leaving notes for one another until they are ready to meet. However, something more powerful than distance could keep them apart. Throughout the story, the two realize that they are separated by space and time and work together to save the citizens of Itomori from a comet’s destruction.
1. Tokyo Revengers
| Time Travel | Plot | Character Writing | Art | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
19/20 |
9/10 |
10/10 |
8/10 |
46/50 |
High school was the peak of Takemichi Hanagaki’s life. He had all the luck that a teenager wants. Good friends, a girlfriend, and a respect everyone would want. The thing is, that was 12 years ago. He has nothing now, bullied by those who are younger than him and had a boss to argue with on a daily basis.
There comes news about the Tokyo Manji Gang killing his lover and brother which added fuel to the fire that he was keeping. He was transported back in time when he got hit by a train that supposedly took his life, when he was still dating the love of his life, Hinata Tachibana.
After being forced to repeat the day that sent him on the path to his worst nightmare, he encounters Hinata’s younger brother. Takemichi told him to look after his sister before returning back to the future.
Apparently, he is not dead. The future still changed. Takemichi appears to have the power to fly through time. And to keep his ex-girlfriend from being murdered by the gang, he tries to change the history by using his ability.
did these recommendations brought you back in time?
Ah! To travel back in time sure is dreamy! But if it would be me, I’d most probably just use my chance to taste the coffee back then… and welp maybe to meet the younger version of my gramps just to see how stubborn he used to be before he became a strict grandpa HAHAHA! I wouldn’t dare change a thing, but would you?
Nothing else? I’ve seen all of these. 😞
There’s definitely not a lot of manga that have this concept. It’s mostly present in Manhwa