Best Time Loop?

RE:ZERO

Primer

The girl who leapt through time, predestination and punchline are runners up.

I don't think tatami galaxy even counts.

>>148577512
Groundhog day.

>>148578007
For idiots like yourself, sure.

>>148577512
Isn't Beautiful Dreamer a dream story instead of time loop?

>>148577512
You keep your money in MM and progress the story without having to repeat events as well. It's not a time loop by definition.

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>tfw I've only completley watched/Read 4 of these.
>tfw this is the first time I hear about 'Murasakiiro no Qualia'.
>tfw I don't even know what the black and white movie or the one with small screenshots are
should I kill myself /a/

Fullmetal Panic for sure.

Emblem Take 2

Hakomari is the best Japan has to offer.

>>148579031
>one with small screenshots
If you can't recognize that, you shouldn't be here.

>>148577512
Endless 8

>>148581235
Hello idiot.

>>148577512
On that list Majora is by far the best

>>148577512
Predestination

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Don't know about the rest, but Steins;Gate was entertaining enough.

>>148577512
NT9 easily.

>>148579031
I think the Black and White one is Index so you're not missing much, the small screenshot one is Kyon-kun Denwa, it also took me a minute to recognize it.

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Steins;Gate and ESPECIALLY Steins;Gate 0.
Can't wait for 0 to be adapted.

>>148582117
oh wait the movie, disregard me then I suck cocks.

>>148582117
He said black and white movie you stupid idiot.

>>148577512
Ever 17 wasn't a time loop, I think?

>>148582266
It wasn't. It was reenaction of events.

higurashi fo sho

>>148582133
Retard alert

Steins;Gate and Madoka.

>>148577512
Out of those either Muv Luv or Steins;G

>>148577512
endless 8

>>148584019
Tripfag idiot.

>>148582266
>>148582374
The whole point of the event is to trick the 4D being into believing that it is 2017 so that he can time travel back there

The Girl who Leapt through time

Beautiful Dreamer, Tatami Galaxy and Hakomari anime wise
Groundhog day and Twilight Zone are good also
ignore the rest

>>148577512
At least we know it's not Higurashi or Madoka.

>>148583775
Even Reading Steiner found Steins;Gate 0 to be very good so fuck off.

>>148577512
Haruhi

>>148585112
Again, retard alert.

Read/watch/play the others before exposing your idiocy.

>>148585190
You are stupid.

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>>148584093
Never FUCKING reply to me like that again unless you're contributing to the thread

>>148585522
>trying this hard
You really are an idiot.

Why does she sit like that?

>>148578601
Sort of. The time loop exists because everyone's in a dream.

so...what is that B&W movie? It seems like I should know that.

>>148585820
>movie
Try again.

The sad thing is none of them portray time travel like it would probably work IRL, if it did. (Although that would be boring from a literary point of view.)

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ML is my favorite of the group, though it really doesn't deliver on suffering brought on by the loops, more so the suffering inside the loops

>>148585833
oh? so it's just some random ass episode of twilight zone or outer limits or some shit?

>>148578675
No you don't,

Whenever you use the song of time and have rupees the sequence shows the rupees falling away from you and scattering while the cutscene plays.

true about the story events though.

>>148578675
You're mainly referring to the boss masks being kept (so the Four Giants can stop the Moon for good), right? If you had to kill all four bosses in the same loop, would the story still adhere to the conventions?

>>148585883
>probably work
Under what definitions?

>>148585938
Correct.

You sound pretty retarded for using the word random though.

>>148586213
It's basically close to the time line model. You get a split whenever someone travels back.
The person/thing that travels back is lost from the original time line and ends up in the new split time line. That means he cannot meet with the people he left behind. And it also means his original self and his self from the future will co-exist in the new split line.
Both time lines continue to exist and can equally claim to represent what actually happens, but there is no way to communicate between them.

The nice thing about this model is you avoid every fucking paradoxon you could think of, which makes me think it's reasonably close to what would actually happen.

>>148586300
He used the term properly.

You sound like a glaring newfag, showing the obsession of placing any form of insult at the end of your post. Gotta fulfill the checklist, eh?

>>148585210
>"Your taste is not my taste so YOU'RE A RETARD ALERT."
Who says I haven't read/watched/played most of the other ones shown by OP? Why do I even bother with this obvious shitposting...

Why does the time loop premise lend itself to the creation of some of the best shows? Even after it's been done so many times, it never seems to get too stale.

>>148586517
I think it's the concept of the "repeatable experiment": one situation, many permutations, and someone or something being able to retain all the results.

>>148585542
>not recognizing that
Hownew.ru

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>>148577512

>>148577512
Eva

>>148586517
You're joking right? For every 1 good show about it there's 10 super shitty ones. Consider yourself lucky that you only get access to translated light novels and manga.

>>148577512
I really like E8 but it's not a timeloop story because every episode is more or less the same and the original chapter was only the final loop. It's still great in my opinion but not for reasons that make actual timeloop stories good.

>>148587410
>It's still great in my opinion
That's because you're an idiot.

>>148586805
Terrible

>>148587958
Aren't you tired of repeating the same shit? It's all chinese cartoons, no need to act this autistic.

>>148585190
This, Endless Eight was memorable, it featured a time loop in the perspective of a side character, it eventually gave a rational reason to why Nagato acted in the movie. The movie, The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya in which it was an isekai but still a masterpiece.

>>148587996
Moronic tripfag.

>>148588011
Please don't respond to newfags. You only encourage their behavior.

>>148577512
Zero no Maria

>>148588052
>he thinks airing the same episode 8 times is a masterpiece
This is why Kyoanifags will always be idiots.

>>148587996
rich coming from the Code Geassfag

>>148588131
These were 8 different episodes though

>>148577512
Forever eight.

>>148588087
>someone correctly highlights your stupidity for thinking kyoani's pretentious garbage is the best time loop story
>n-newfag!!!
Sorry, but you really are that stupid.

OoT Zelda

classic, simple, iconic

>>148588176
Which were basically the same, but that didn't stop morons like you from being fully engaged.

>>148588230
Not a time loop, retard.

>>148577512
Dumbfag here, what are all the series listed here?

>>148588278

w-why not

people go backwards and forwards in time and shiet

there are loops, lines, and all sorts of shit

>>148588248
>what is staging, imagery and music
>what is mood
It's not a "timeloop story" because there's barely any "let's change action X and see what happens". It shouldn't even be a thing if the original novel was respected. But it really conveyed feelings of summer and something endless.

>>148577512
Out of those who was the longest in a time loop? Bill Murray?

>>148588220
I'm not whomever you were arguing with. I was/am a third-party observer. Please go back to /v/ or whatever other atrocious board you spawned from and keep your happy narrative to yourself.
Polite sage.

>>148588566
Murray or Touma.

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>>148579031
Well if you've read Higurashi you've already seen the best.
But there's plenty others worthwhile to read/watch.
>>148588566
I think it might be Touman but I haven't read that far yet.
Weatherman Bill Murray was apparently trapped 8-34 years.
Rika looped for 100+ years
Takeru probably looped for much longer but didn't remember any of it.

>>148588713
>it's a metaposter
You're even worse, idiot.

>>148588343
>m-m-muh imagery, "staging", mood
>going with what's essentially one episode being repeated
Again, this is why Kyoani idiots like yourself will always be stupid.

What you mentioned doesn't even come close to making a good anime, but it's enough for morons like yourself to eat up.

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>>148588794
Pic related at least 1000.

>>148588794
>Weatherman Bill Murray was apparently trapped 8-34 years.
>Rika looped for 100+ years
>Takeru probably looped for much longer but didn't remember any of it.

...and /a/ complains about 8 fucking weeks.

>>148588566
Hakomari vol 7 has kazuki go through 400000 iterations of what i assume to be one day, so something like 1096 years

Anyone here seen ARQ?

>>148588925
Worth reading?
After 1000 I think your mind would just turn to mush, depending on how far back you can go.

>>148589038
Definitely. Read Volume 1 and see if you like it.

That post refers to the final volume though (7).

>>148588566
Nagato

>>148589038
>After 1000 I think your mind would just turn to mush
It pretty much does, especially when you know what he has to do to escape the loop

>>148577512
Qualia was good shit.

>>148589205
You're an idiot.

>>148577512
Groundhog Day
>yfw a pretty good Western movie is better than supposed Anime/VN "masterpieces"

>>148589038
Yeah he pretty much becomes retarded during the time loop, and when he gets out, he's brain dead for a few years and then when he finally regains consciousness he has the mind of a disabled child

>>148588925
Dude was stuck in at least five time loops

>>148577512
Bioshock Infinite

>>148589699
(You)

>>148589643
Hey I liked Groundhog Day a lot, for the comedy. But it's not as exhilarating as the shit that goes on in MuvLuv. And it's nowhere near Higurashi's emotional impact.
Even Tom Cruise's movie was better I think. Bad ending was the only thing weighing that one down. And groundhog day had a very strange, quick everything is suddenly over ending itself.

>>148577512
>catched

>>148589643
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZbtAFq7dP8

wake-up scene is still top fucking tier

>>148589643
>pretty good.

Groundhog day is really really great, so are a few things on that list.

Comparing most things to bill murray is just not a fair fight.

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>>148577512

>>148590351

>>>/v/

>>148577512
Qualia. Best mindfuck ever

>>148581105
Too bad it's not popular in Japan...

I hope everyone here has seen Groundhog Day at least once.

Genuinely funny movie.

Hakomaria

>>148590532
No it isn't.

How was Shadow Play?

>>148577512
edge of tomorrow

>>148577512
Definitely tho shit zero.

Utsuro no Hako > Re:Zero

the best one is when Kakashi falls on Itachi's tsukuyomi, try to prove me wrong retards, but you can't

>>148577512
tatami galaxy is about parallel universes you fgt

>>148586501
>...
Your new is showing.

>>148577512
Little Busters VN

Anyone who chooses Re:zero needs to leave /a/ and never come back.

>>148577512
There's probably a better choice somewhere but Qualia is my favorite.

>>148577512
> not Including gunbuster

>>148588566
Probably Touma. The fucker was at it for billions of years.

>>148596420
Gunbuster isn't a timeloop story are you retarded?

>not including angel beats

>>148597167
That was the afterlife, but actual repetitions of a sequence of events?

>>148588925
What's the point of looping if you don't remember them?

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>>148589643
S;G says that Groundhog Day is a good movie but doesn't have consistent logic to make it good.
I tend to agree on that statement because while it goes create the concept of a groundhog day and should be credited as such, it's missing the element of what caused the loop itself because it can never be known what is needed to get out of the loop. It just happened that the unknown condition was to become a better person.

This is why loops that are self inflicted rather than done by a second party, like S;G, Madoka and Higurashi are better.

With Higurashi being better because Rika just wants to live rather than wanting something that will benefit her.

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>>148597167
Please, if you want to include a Key related story involving time loop, I recommend Little Buster.
imo, it's their best work.

>>148597882
That mainly stems from the source of Groundhog Day's loops being unknown, so it was the story's convenience that "Phil being an undeniably better person in general" was the desired result.

>>148597954
Little busters is objectively Keys best work, it's fantastic.

>>148577512
out of the ones in this picture higurashi beats them all by far

i never got why muv-luv was popular, alternative was not even that great

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>>148597882
Rika never chose to go back in time, it was all done done by Hanyuu.
She even grows extremley apathetic and pprobably becomes suicidal as result.
That's why she enjoys drinking and causing Hanyuu pain even when she is the only person Rika could relate to at all.
What makes Higurashi good is the characters and the presentation of the mystery even though the answer was quite shit.

>>148577512
All you need is Kill is by far the best on that list.

>>148577512
Muv Luv or All you need is kill. I haven't seen Groundhog Day.

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>>148598677
>Rika never chose to go back in time, it was all done done by Hanyuu.
Yes and no. While Hanyuu is the source of the power that makes Rika go back in time and through different kakera, it is the combined power of both her and Hanyuu that makes it possible. This is why in ep 7, when Rika decides to bet everything and not try again, Hanyuu gets scared because if Rika ever truly gave up, it would be the end of it. Rika has to completely commit to wanting to live to keep looping.
Rika cannot keep going back in time without her consent, Hanyuu cannot force Rika to keep living.

>even though the answer was quite shit.
It's more that the answer itself had a red herring to the point where you didn't think of it a the answer. When someone is dead and their death is confirmed by dental records, it's basically a sure proof. Higurashi tried to get out of it by saying that one of the dead bodies was dead before their confirmed death, which should've drawn more suspicion, but no one noticed.

The answer was good, it just badly tricks you.

>>148600149
>Rika cannot keep going back in time without her consent, Hanyuu cannot force Rika to keep living.
Is that true, I don't recall it very well.

>The answer was good, it just badly tricks you.

The whodunnit was perfectly fine.
The whydunnit was quite bad.
and the howdunnit (Hinamizawa Syndrome) although it was interesting and fit the story really well and gives it rereadability but it wasn't a good mystery answer.

I don't dislike it or anything, it's still my favourite work but it's not without it's flaws.

Also I'm stealing your jpg it's great.