(Recommendation) 5 Doramas about Time Travel

 

Hello, konnichiwa, minna-san

Been a while I don't update this blog. My binge watching dorama is still running but my babbling goes to my podcast recently. Unfortunately, my podcast is in Bahasa Indonesia, my mother tongue. The content is not far from this blog since I mostly talk about Japanese Literature/ novels, manga and dorama. I think I'm into it until you can slice my finger and the blood spills would be all Japanese things. Lol. Well, if you're curious about my podcast, you can search it in Spotify, Anchorfm, or Google podcast under the name Lila Bercerita. Once again, it's in Bahasa Indonesia.

Well, enough with my babbling.

Now, I'd like to give you time travel dorama recommendation. If you search in mydramalist, I bet you'll find a lot of time travel dorama, from old dorama up to present and even upcoming ones. But what I'd like to recommend you here is the ones I've watched. Therefore you can consider them as your next binge watch dorama.

1. Kiss That Kills (Todome no Kiss) 

Kiss that Kills

This 2018 dorama might stay in my mind forever. This dorama changed my point of view of Kento Yamazaki from shoujo prince into an amazingly talented actor. He still performed as a flashy glamorous handsome guy, but his figures switched into someone who is lustful of power and money. He would do anything to get those for himself, including trapping two girls from different classes. The first girl was Namiki Mikoto (Araki Yuko), a wealthy popular girl from higher class. Dojima Outaro (Kento Yamazaki) has an intention to date her to get what he wished for. The other girl is Sato Saiko (Mugi Kadowaki), a very mysterious girl whose kiss could travel Outaro back 7 days before. To get what he wished for, he could use the girl's power. Even he died 7 days ago, he would get back to life. 

This 10-episode drama would make you thrilled, touched, and stay on your seat until the very end. If you consider to watch this drama, prepare some tissue and, most importantly, your heart 😉

2. Ship of Theseus (Theseus no Fune)

Ship of Theseus

Cold case is always torturing for the accused family. Tamura Shin (Ryoma Takeuchi) and family have been criticised by his surrounding after his father's arrest of being a murderer. Shin never trusted his father until his wife told him to give  his father the benefit of the doubt. Shin finally visited his father (Suzuki Ryohei) in prison. Never had he thought that when he headed to the crime scene, he traveled back to the date before the murder took place in 1989.

I watched Back to the Future film, a very long time ago, the professor who invented a vehicle that would bring you to the past stated that never ever tried to change the past that would affect the present. However, Shin disobeyed the rules and didn't give a damn on taboo of changing the past.

Care to consider this drama for your next watching? Be sure to see the details, the people around Shin who might be the real culprit. Be ready with the plot twist!

3. The Town Where Only I am Missing (Boku Dake ga Inai Machi)

This 12-episode dorama is available in Netflix. It's based on manga with the same title written by Kei Sanbe. In my country, the manga is still ongoing for the publish. I finished watching the movie version quite long time ago with Tatsuya Fujiwara and Kasumi Arimura as the main leads. I watched the dorama version a couple of weeks ago. It has similar story though since it's based on the same manga 😁. To be honest, I didn't finish watching the dorama version since I clearly remember the end of the movie. It. Is. Heartbreaking. 😭😭😭

Satoru Fujinuma (Yuki Furukawa) is an unpopular manga artist who has the ability to revive. His ability allows him to go back in time before a terrible incident happens. One day, he went home from his work to find his mother being murdered. He was the only person next to his mother's body that he was worried to be accused as the culprit. Running away from the site, Satoru revived, not to the time before his mother got murdered, but he went back 18 years ago. He remembered there was an incident in his school that took 3 lives of his friends.

The 30-minute dorama would make you sit still until you find out who the real culprit of the murderer 18 years ago that related to the current murder. 

4. Jikuu Tantei Oyu

Time travel story is dominated by murder cases as far as I observed from the dramas I watched. Yuka Sekiguchi (Sakuma Yui)  is an employee in a real estate company. One day, her sick grandmother asked her to take a look at her house. There was a hidden closet in her house that took all her curiosity. Without her knowing, while checking the closet, Yuka slipped back to Edo era. There, she met Ukai Denzaburo (Takezai Terunosuke), a police officer who got her involved in an investigation of a murder. 

This 8-episode drama might be the weakest reason of someone going back to the past. I don't find any reasons why this time travel happened to her. Was it merely her inherited ability from her anscestors. Or other things? I'm not sure. Aside from that, this 2019 drama is kind of fun and less thrilling compared to the previously mentioned dramas.

5. Mop Girl (Moppu Garu)

Frankly, I found this drama when there was someone post in Facebook page about Keiko Kitagawa's dramas. Well, I love her acting. Can't you believe, this drama was released in 2007 when Keiko was 21 yearls old, 14 years ago. And it seems that she doesn't age at all. 

The story revolves around  Hasegawa Momoko (Keiko Kitagawa) who worked as a staff in a company that offers a funeral sevice. This company was also responsible for cleaning up after a crime happened. She and her team would take care of the crime scenes. This job made her discover her supernatural power. After she touched a thing belonged to the deceased, she would go back to the time she started the day. It was always the time when she looked at herself on the mirror before work. Thi amazing power allowed her to save the person from his/ her untimely death.

I watched Keiko Kitagawa in Tantei no Tantei as a female detective. She performed as a very skillful and intense detective there, but this drama has 180 degree the opposite. As far as I remember I never watch Keiko in comedy dramas or films. This one is really hilarious. If you want to watch less dramatic and nerve-wrenching time travel drama, you should try this one.

OK, you probably know other time travel dramas that I dont mention here, like Ashi Girl, The Little Girl Who Conquered Time, Sutekina Sen Taxi, Sumika Sumire, and others, unfortunately, I haven't watched those so I can't say anything about them. 

Well, hopefully my recommendations will give you more choices to have more binge watching drama during this pandemic. I'll come back with time travel movies. 

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