What is the best time loop story?

Endless eight

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Kyon-kun, denwa!

It's amazing how plebeian all of the others seem after experiencing Re:zero

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Nothing in the picture.

>>155702396
Why does she sit like that?

>>155702412
maybe her butt hurts

>>155702356
>>155702396
>>155702403
ITT Retards

>>155702396
no, fuck you
literally just the same episode repeated over and over again

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>>155702350
It's actually nothing in the picture, it's The Umineko VN

Buddy Complex, no doubt.

>>155702409
It's there at the center

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>>155702350
Daily reminder that time loop romance is the best genre there is.

Tatami galaxy is the only right answer

>>155702350

Groundhog day. It's just a perfect movie.

>>155702876
So the perfect time loop

>>155702995
Honestly it actually is my favorite because
endless deflowering over and over again

>>155702350
every time until you agree
Tatami Galaxy > Steins;Gate > Groundhog Day > Muv-Luv Alternative > Umineko > Madoka > All You Need Is Kill = Edge of Tomorrow > Higurashi > Re:Zero >>> Endless 8

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>>155702350

>>155703075
>Shits;Gay better than anything

Steins;Gate is not a time loop story. At no point is there any sort of enforced loop. All time travel is voluntary.

>>155703136
Suzuha ending

>>155703082

SHINING JUSTICE

No A Distant Neighbourhood?

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Kyon-kun, denwa!

>>155703075
>newfag

I swear to god, if anno keep pushing down our throaths that evangelion rebuild is a sequel and they are in a loop, im gonna nuke japan again.

>>155703170
Still voluntary. Okabe tries to stop the clock simply because he doesn't manage to have any better ideas. Time is only reversed by willful action.
One of the major themes of a time loop story is that the character must be trapped in time, unable to escape.

>>155703343
>time loop has be involuntary
Why, it's just called time loop. Time has to loop, to rewind several times; events have to repeat. Why can't it be induced by the willing actions of the characters, for excample to save somones life like in S;GH

Buddy Complex was really well constructed, but if I have to choose, Higurashi is it for me.

>>155703343
The fact that it's voluntary doesn't make a difference. There's a condition that triggers the loop, in this case, Mayuri dying. He's willingly trapping himself until he manages to stop that.

Madoka and Higurashi are the same, for example. There's someone willingly going back in time (Homura and Hanyuu), and they could stop doing it at any given time, but they chose not to until they stop something from happening.

>>155702350
Timelooping is just a gimmick and rarely a compelling enough reason to watch a show.

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>>155702932
>Umineko
>timeloop
>better story than Higurashi

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>>155703515
>>155703662
Because it's not a loop, it's merely repeated backwards time travel. At no point is there a loop where GOING FORWARD arrives at THE STARTING POINT.
You realize that "loop" means "circular", right? Because Okabe doesn't go forward and arrive where he was. He willingly jumps back, successively, of his own accord.
Here's a fucking diagram.

>>155702350
The only good ones are Shadow Play, Beautiful Dreamer, Groundhog Day, Ursuro no Hako and Majora's Mask.

>>155702350
All you need is kill (movie version)

>>155703858
You have autism.

>>155703662
I wouldn't call Madoka a time loop either and Higurashi isn't even time travel, it's parallel world travel to universes with earlier timestreams.

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>>155703840
>Time loops between October 4th-5th 1986
>Higurashi better than Umineko

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>>155704385
You're reading a fanfiction written by an autistic tranny, not looping in time anon-kun
>Umineko better than Higurashi

>>155702350
Tatami Galaxy is the only timeloop I can recall that didn't make me want to rip my fucking hair out

Timeloops are awful.

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Pleb, all of you

>>155702350

no such thing,
traveling to the past is impossible unless a God is involved, but then you get endless eight >:|

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>>155704589
Closed timelike curves resulting in information moving to previous states along the time axis are totally valid mathematically

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>>155704429
I'd say it goes like this (vn only):
Higurashi Kai > Umineko > Higurashi > Chiru

>>155702932
how is umineko a time loop story?

>>155704977
i like your rankings anon
Umineko 1-4 was so good

>steins gay
>Time loop
Might as well put chrono trigger in there

>>155706225
Shut the fuck up.

>>155706245
Why don't you go educate yourself on what a timeloop is, shit-for-brains?

>>155706225

chrono trigger doesn't repeat when traveling between time periods... returning to the present doesn't reset it to its vanilla state

>>155702350
Madoka > Edge of Tomorrow > Steins;Gate > GWLTT > TTG > Majora's Mask > AYNIK > Re:Zero > Higurashi > SHIT > Endless Eight

I can't remember disliking a timeloop story unless they actively tried to fuck it up in the case of Endless Eight. Haven't seen Groundhog's Day in over a decade so I don't think I could place it on here correctly but I remember enjoying it.

>>155702932
Not a time loop, but Erika a best

TTGL

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>>155702749
From what?

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>Nobody remembers Steins Gate: Sexy Edition this beside you

IM
STILL
MAD

Tatami Galaxy isn't even a time-loop, it's parallel universes.

>>155706703
I remember the anime aired and it was one of the worst things I've ever seen and I ended up dropping it.

>>155706404
Read Hakomaria

Is YU-NO a time loop story?
I mean if Steins Gate is, then...

Anyway I'd have that pretty high up there if it counts.

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Date a Live

>>155702350
>no Infinity series
Anon, you are in washing machine.

>>155702350
>Qualia the Purple
That's not a time loop, that's a time corkscrew.

>>155707375
*drill

Anyone reading Mother of Learning?

>>155702350
>catched

Nice recommendation thread.

>>155702876
From a technical viewpoint, this is completely wrong. Each episode uses different cinematography, backgrounds, character art, etc from each other. Almost as much effort went into recreating each endless eight episode as went into creating entirely new episodes on their own.

But yes, from a narrative viewpoint it's almost exactly the same story told over and over again. Which is why it's the most ambitious and comprehensive time loop story ever told. It's the only time loop story which goes to such lengths to accurately convey the emotions of what it would actually feel like to be trapped in a time loop.

>>155702350
Mazinger ZERO

>>155709309
this is actually true but as much as I love the cinematography of it, I think it overstayed its welcome

I feel like 4 episodes instead of 8 would've been liked by most, but it wouldn't have made so much noise

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>>155703265
Just get Godzilla into Japan, the US will do the rest.

>>155704589
>>:|
Kill your fucking self.

>>155706878
It was great. I'll fight you irl nigger.

>>155704791
>Closed timelike curves
fuck off with that shit

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The human race evolved from this. Whether that is good or bad is up to the Integrated Data Sentient Entity to decide.

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Everyone keeps talking about E8 but shouldn't Disappearance be included as well?

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>>155702350
Red means that it was utter shit.
Yellow means that it is passable.
Green means that it is alright.
Wow, time loop stories sure are terrible.

>>155702350
The Sakura Fish threads

>>155711186
this taste hurts

>>155702350
My life

>>155710835

That's an alternate reality. Which already contains time loops I guess?

If you're putting Live Action stuff in there, you should include Ryuki, Madoka pulled a bunch of stuff from there.

I enjoyed Tatami Galaxy a lot, but the time loop thing got kind tiring by fourth episode.

The endless eight is probably the most retarded thing I've seen in anime.

Steins Gate was the only one that kept me entertained without getting extremely repetitive.

The rest is just generic time travel bullshit.

>>155711186
you sure have absolutely abysmal taste, anon

>>155702350
>no Sagrada Reset

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mca have been awful but i still really like kagepro

>>155703075
>Reeeeezero second last

Should have been last but its fine this way too.

>>155713018
>the rest is just generic time travel bullshit
>Higurashi anything but generic

>>155709309
I agree, I really like endless eight.

>>155711321
>>155713431
So just because i dont like garbage, my taste is considered shit.

Look at it from a different point of view: If you actually like those shows, then you have shit taste.

Why have so few people here watched Beautiful Dreamer? You'd expect people in /a/ to have some culture.

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>>155715234
>You'd expect people in /a/ to have some culture.

>>155715234
Enjoy your first week here, it comes crashing down hard.

>>155715234
Never a better time to start:

https://www.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=648699

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN2DcER0KVk

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>>155702350
Majora's Mask for its satisfying as fuck ending when you did all the subquests

>>155715234
Most here haven't seen the series so I presume they just don't want to jump straight into the films. While you can still enjoy it on it's own knowing the characters and the world make you appreciate it on a deeper level.

>>155702350
Where the fuck is simoun, op?

You forgot Punch Line

That one episode of flip flappers

>>155716144
Except also, every time you go back in time, either that timeline ends up with the moon crashing anyway and all the happiness you created is met with the end of the world, OR everything is erased from history except those few things you carry on yourself and therefore all the problems you solved ultimately remain in the true timeline where the moon is stopped.

As far as I'm aware, it's literally not possible to do even the majority of quests in one cycle, so that means countless people meet a bad ending despite all your time traveling heroism.

>>155715796
Alright, time to download.

STRIKE UP, THE MUSIC, THE BAND HAS BEGUN

BOM BOM BOM BOM

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Evangelion

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>>155702350
Mujaki no Rakuen

kimi no na wa

EYE: Divine Cybermancy

>>155702350
All you need is kill is definitely better than re zero

>>155719061
EYE anime when

>>155719217
Never since deathwing flopped