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Trope · 20 series

Time Travel Short Dramas

Nine series that move someone through time deliberately, as opposed to Rebirth where the mechanism is dying. A small shelf, and one where the rules are usually established in the first two episodes.

Series
20
Median length
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Ranked by our editor score; ties broken by whether the series is complete, then by length. How often this setup gets published, and how the median title in it performs, is mapped in the trope explorer.

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The extremes

 SeriesPlatformEpisodesRuntime
Shortest runBack 20 Years, He Beats Up His 18-Year-Old SelfNetShort30—
Longest runBaby Tycoon & Her Reward SystemNetShort80—
ShortestBack 20 Years, He Beats Up His 18-Year-Old SelfNetShort30—
LongestBaby Tycoon & Her Reward SystemNetShort80—
Most free episodesReborn at 82: Every Villain Owes MeNetShort36—
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Where to find them

20 of the 20 are on NetShort.

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Editorial policy

The 20 series on this page carry Time Travel as a trope label in the catalogue of the platform that publishes them. We do not tag series ourselves, which means this page is exactly as complete, and as inconsistent, as the platforms' own labelling. Episode counts and runtimes are read from each platform's listing for that specific series. We do not score series and we publish no rating of our own, because nobody here has watched all 20 of them. One thing we cannot tell you: no platform publishes a dependable finished/ongoing flag, so a series that wrapped last year and one still posting episodes look identical to us. Where a card here says still releasing, read it as “we have not seen an ending”, not as a confirmed schedule.