CATDOLL: Crossing to another world is definitely wrong. What is the weird way of crossing in anime?

The setting of time travel is very popular everywhere, and it is also very well represented in anime. If you think about it carefully, there are quite a few ways of time travel in Japanese anime. The more normal ones are opening a door to another world or using a magic circle. The more bizarre ones are that you can travel through time by having close contact with the toilet or bathtub in the bathroom, or you can go back to the past by jumping high... The ways of time travel for characters in Japanese anime can be said to be unique and innovative. Let's take a look at the ways of time travel.

Open a door to another world

Representative works: "GATE Fantasy Self-Defense Force", "Zero no Tsukaima", "World Trigger", "Phantom Battlefront"

In "GATE: The Self-Defense Force", the anime-fan protagonist happily went to buy a fan booklet, and then unfortunately encountered the gate to another world. Although he is a member of the Self-Defense Force, he still has to work hard for his country on his days off. Is this a big grudge?

The time travelers in "World Trigger" are monsters from another world. They travel to the world in the film through a black door. The entire process of traveling is completed in the narration at the beginning. It has to be said that it is a model of saving time and effort.

In "Zero no Tsukaima", the heroine created a door in front of the hero through summoning magic. Yes, when you are walking on the street, a mysterious door suddenly appears in front of you. The hero, with his great curiosity, did not fear death and took risks, and finally was able to travel to another world. It has to be said that he is worthy of being a man who is going to have a harem in another world. Go ahead, a beautiful masochistic life is waiting for you in the future.

The time travel in "Phantom Front" was also completed through a narration like in "World Trigger", but unlike "World Trigger", it didn't even have the specific appearance of the door, but the narration said that it - was a door opened in the sky above New York, so let's just count it as a door travel.

In short, in this type of time travel, the screenwriter has obviously considered the reality factors, and at least designed a door for us. As for what is behind this door, or what will come out of this door, that is not the point. After all, no matter what, this way of time travel is much more reliable than being washed away by floods or falling directly from the sky, which requires strong brain skills.

Falling from the sky

Representative works: "Nobunaga Concerto", "Problem Children Are From Another World", "No Game No Life"

From the very beginning of the anime "Nobunaga Concerto", the protagonist missed a step and fell from a tall building, and then directly landed in the Warring States Period. It can be said that it was a straightforward and uncomplicated time travel. However, why did he fall from such a high place and land on the back of his doppelganger, while neither the one who hit him nor the one who was hit was hurt at all? Can the screenwriter pay more attention?

There are three time-traveling protagonists in the anime "Problem Children Are From Another World". The way they travel through time is basically the same. They all suddenly receive a white envelope in their daily lives, and then when they open the letter, they suddenly travel through time and fall directly from a high altitude in another world - or all three of them fall together.

The time-travelling protagonists of the anime "No Game No Life" are two "Blank" siblings. They defeated the king of the other world in an online chess tournament after an all-night battle, and then received an invitation letter to travel directly through the computer screen to the other world, also falling from a high altitude.

In short, this way of traveling through time can be said to be simple, rough, and time-saving. In addition to making readers wonder "Wow! I'm traveling through time already?", the biggest advantage of this way of traveling through time is that it can maximize the display of the other world's appearance from a high altitude, giving the audience a three-dimensional landscape view of the other world.

Well drilling

Representative works: "Inuyasha", "Distant Time and Space"

The well travel in "Inuyasha" is also a very famous way of time travel. There is a well behind my house, and I can travel through it to the modern Warring States period at will.

In "Distant Time and Space", the character is also like a well-pierced one, who is hugged by a long-haired classical handsome guy and taken into a well. From then on, he came to the capital of the Heian period and began his daily life of collecting harems.

Walking along a narrow path

Representative works: "Children Who Chase Lost Love", "Spirited Away"

"Children Who Chase Lost Their Stars" is a production by Makoto Shinkai, where every frame can be used as a background picture. The heroine's way of traveling through time is similar to that of Spirited Away, both entering from a certain entrance, then passing through a long tunnel, and finally reaching a different world.

"Spirited Away" is such a classic, it is a childhood memory. A girl and her parents got lost while moving, accidentally walked into a narrow path, and then traveled to the world of gods.

This way of time travel is time-consuming, laborious and costly, but it does create a completely different kind of mystery. However, this way of time travel can only appear in the works of Hayao Miyazaki and Makoto Shinkai, who pursue the ultimate in pictures and plots.

Curiosity - Flushed by toilet, jumping high, falling into the sea, piercing through drawers

Representative works: "From Today I'm a Demon King", "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time", "Twelve Kingdoms", "Doraemon"

"From Today I Become a Demon King", yes, that's right, it's the classic toilet time travel! The boy who was bullied and forced into the toilet went to another world and became a demon king who had everything he wanted and a harem all over the world. What an inspiring and touching story. But, in fact, when I first saw this scene, what I thought in my mind was: How do you stuff people into a toilet? Are Japanese toilets bigger?

In "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time", the girl was able to travel through time because she picked up the hero's travel mechanism, but every time she traveled through time, she ran desperately and jumped up, and then she traveled through time... By the way, will the heroine really not hit her head when she falls?

The time travel in "The Twelve Kingdoms" is more magical. The handsome Jing Qi takes the heroine on a strange beast and passes directly through the whirlpool in the sea. Teacher Ono Fuyomi is worthy of her talent, and she is really imaginative.

The drawer time machine in "Doraemon" can be said to be one of the best imaginations in this animation, not inferior to the Anywhere Door and the Bamboo Dragonfly. Tell me, how many people's childhood dream is the drawer in "Doraemon"?