Sengoku Sniper (Light Novel) - Recommendations

• 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)
• 1986

Agino Jiro escapes the despotic world of the twenty-fifth century by stealing a time machine. He's forced to highjack a car to use as a power source in the twentieth century, and accidently brings a group of high school students along with their teacher with him. They make brief stops durring the fire bombing of Tokyo, the Meiji Revolution and the battle of Sekigahara to escape the Time Patrol agent sent to hunt them down. Their final destination is 1582, where they become guests of Oda Nobunaga, just four days before his assassination. They then must make a hard choice about whether or not to change history.

• Web (1 ep)
• 2017

• TV (39 eps)
• 1989 - 1990

Hayato and Yumi are two high school students from present Japan. When they accidentally activated Tondekeman, a kettle-shaped, talking time machine, they were transported back to ancient Baghdad. They meet Abdullah who is hell bent on acquiring the future gadget. They also meet Aladdin, Prince Dandarn and Princess Shalala. Time travel is indeed troublesome.

• TV Special (1 ep)
• 2007

Ayaka is a typical twelve-year-old girl who takes her comfortable city life for granted, brushing off her grandmother's tales of World War II. On a day like any other, the girl begrudgingly takes her dog Ryan for a walk when she's forced to flee into a telephone booth to take refuge from a sudden storm – and that's when it happens. Lightning strikes, teleporting her and Ryan sixty years into the past, several days before Tokyo was bombed and 100,000 people lost their lives. Stranded from everyone she knows and the comforts of home, Ayaka must struggle to survive amidst the hardships of war, all the while trying to find a way home.

• 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?