Bakumatsu Heisei Kid - Recommendations

• Movie (1 ep)
• 2002

• TV (26 eps)
• 2006 - 2007

Yuto, a boy of today, visiting Qinghai in China runs into a mysterious girl, Chunli, who appeared out of nowhere. And then, he is entangled in a fight between two “time travelers” groups and is forced to travel to the past Silk Road world. The Time travelers came from the 24th century by time machines to obtain the priest Xuanzang’s secret treasure, “The Statue of Snowman Buddha”, which causes miracles. Yuto joins the time travel in a quest for the secret treasure with Chunli. Can he really go back to the present day? And then—the girl who only Yuto can see, Chunli—what is her hidden mystery?

• OVA (1 ep)
• 2000

Bataar, a Mongolian boy, wants to make his father’s war-injured leg better. One day, a white horse takes Bataar back in time to prevent the war from starting.

• Web (1 ep)
• 2017

• Other

Izumi Inaba is a high school girl who has cooking skills rivaling professionals. A bizarre incident leads her to accidentally travel back in time to Japan's Bakumatsu period in the middle of the 19th century. There, she meets Hijikata Toshizou, a famous commander of the shogunate's shinsengumi police, and her top class cooking skills impress Hijikata enough for him to induct Izumi into the shinsengumi.

• Movie (1 ep)
• 2010

Xiao Long is a modern day middle-school student, who, after being transported 3,000 years back in time to the ancient kingdom of Jinsha, discovers his true destiny. Jinsha is a beautiful and magical place but plagued by a mysterious evil energy which its inhabitants fear they can't hold off, much less defeat. After the school boy witnesses the beginnings of the destruction by the forces of darkness on this ancient land, he is overcome with sadness and pledges to help. Upon discovering a special connection with nature, Xiao Long gains the trust of the beautiful young Princess Hau'er and her loyal subjects and together they fight the wicked forces surrounding them to restore peace across the kingdom. Along the way, Xiao Long reforms himself into a courageous boy who forgoes his self-centered behavior to coexist harmoniously with others.

• TV (5 eps)
• 2013

Shouko Azuma is a high school girl living in Chiba prefecture. When worrying about her future and college at a riverbank, her phone strap becomes hot with a mysterious light, forcing her to drop it and the cell phone into the water. From where the phone fell, a light from the river sucks her in, and she is sucked into the world of the classic story, Tenpou Suidoken. There, she meets the handsome Sasagawa no Shigezou.

• Web (1 ep)
• 2021

A historical fantasy that unfolds a mysterious story between a high school girl from Urasoe and Satto, the king of the Ryukyu Kingdom.

• Web (1 ep)
• 2022

• Movie (1 ep)
• 1970

Three people from the future are spiritually sent back in time to relive the era of Caesar, Marc Anthony and Cleopatra. As close companions to these key historical figures, they seek to understand the nature of an enemy's plan in their own time.