Time travel, artificial intelligence, and quantum mechanics, Turing Tests and Schrodinger’s Cat — everything you’d expect from a “totally normal high school romance anime” right? Only this one comes packed with real dramatic twists, turns and a healthy heaping of sci-fi. If you haven’t already, you have to check out In Search of the Lost Future (Ushinawareta Mirai wo Motomete) in our Fall Simulcast. Things are getting crazy.
Plus, we’re amping things up even further, by giving you a chance to win merchandise straight from Japan! Five lucky winners will receive an In Search of the Lost Future clear file, only available in Japan.
(What’s a clear file? It’s a slightly translucent folder that’s a very popular stationery item in Japan, and many anime fans buy ones emblazoned with anime artwork — some people display them like posters, too!)
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Question: In “In Search of the Lost Future,” a mysterious girl is sent from scientists in the future to prevent a recurring tragedy that keeps happening, over and over, in every version of the past. If you could time travel– only to the past, and during your lifetime–when would you go? What would you do?
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A series of increasingly strange events have been reported at Uchihama Academy’s soon-to-be-replaced aging school building. When the student council grows concerned about the spectral encounters, puzzling sleep disorders, and bizarre mishaps, they enlist the aid of the Astronomy Club to crack the case before it’s too late. One evening after school, club member Sou Akiyama is rocked by a sudden earthquake – and an encounter with a beautiful and mysterious naked girl who appears to know him even though he has no recollection of ever meeting her. The next day, the very same girl arrives at his school as a transfer student who’s interested in joining the Astronomy Club. In the blink of an eye, Sou’s fate – along with the fates of all the girls in his club – begin to change in very dramatic and mysterious ways.
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I really got into anime only just recently so I’d go back in time to before I ever got into anime, and i would tell past me to check out this fun, crazy, and awesome website called FUNimation where you can watch all these amazing shows called anime. Then I’d go back even further to when my parents had bought a giant box full of anime, such as Dragonball Z and Pokemon, and I would put it into a place where present me can go and find it. Also relive the golden age of Saturday morning cartoons.
I would go back to when I was young and tell myself to stop wearing turtle necks and the onesys
I would either go back to my sophomore year of high school and tell myself not to fall in love with the girl I did, or go back to my senior year of high school and warn my best friend that his girlfriend will cheat on him
I’d go back to when I was in college, and tell myself to invest in some Apple Stock.
I would go back to thday back in third grade when I wandered into the manga section at the bookstore. They had so many more titles available back then (there were more publishers releasing things on a regular basis at the time), And each time I went back, I would pick a different one to kick off this longtime obsession with. Because while I’ve fallen in love with a whole lot of anime since then, there’s nothing quite like reading your first manga. Especially if you start from the back by mistake
I would tell never let my love of anime fall into a 9 year hibernation.
I will go back into the past knowing that there will be trial and error. I will try to investigate and follow through to the root of the problem. Try to eliminate it or prevent it. Because without that tradegy that happen, I can now live life again… until another tradegy happens lol!
I’d probably go back to make some easy money by investing in stocks as they’re first being offered or low.
I would probably go back and do a couple things: 1. Go back to my youth and get into anime sooner 2. Make sure I stop myself from doing things I regret and 3. make sure I warned my friends if they were about to do something REALLY stupid.
I’d go back to choosing my college major and choose art instead of engineering. Sorry, Dad.
I would go back to a couple years ago and tell my grandma that her cancer would come back and get worse. She passed away Tuesday, November 17th, 2014, and she went so suddenly. I wish I, no – my whole family – cousins from far away, aunts and uncles, enemy brother and sisters, and friends could have spent more time with her. The last time I spent a good, lively time with her was this past summer, and now she is gone, stolen from us all.
I go back and get myself to study more for a math placement test in Middle school and get it through my head that homework is my best learning method and I need to always do it, specially math homework.
I would go back to when my uncle died of his second round of leukemia. I didn’t see him much that day and I wish I could have. Mostly, I would want to use the knowledge and skills I have gained in college as a music therapist to sing his favorite songs to him one last time. It is my deepest regret that I had the ability to ease some of his pain and suffering, yet didn’t know how powerful a tool for healing music could be at the time. I would sing long and hard for him if only I had that chance.
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edit: This contest almost caused a recursive loop in space-time. Good thing I’m awesome. Original timeline restored.
Assuming if i do anything that has an impact on future will delete this future, I would probably go back in time to May 9 1994 to see the birth of FUNimation, if I could do anything though, I would probably prevent all terrorist attacks anonymously and invest a lot in FUNimation stocks.
Since I’m currently unhappy with my career, I would go back to high school and work/study harder. I would get better grades and study harder to do much better on my college exams so I could get a scholarship into an ivy league school. Eventually undoing all my mistakes to find a career which would be less stressful and that I would be happy going to every day.
Mmm. Maybe I’m just boring but I wouldn’t interfere with my past. Even tough life has giving me major blows, I wouldn’t change a thing. God, me and my old soul. :z
Go 30 years in the past and buy a lot gold. And wait for the price to go up.
I would go back to a little over a year to stop myself from making the mistake of hurting the person that means more to me than anything the world has shown me thus far.
I’ll actually refuse to travel back in time as Stains;Gate thought me that changing the past may not change the future in a better way. Also changing something of my past would change who I am
I would go back to 8:50 am today and stop myself from buying a breakfast croquette.
Time travel is an absolute conviction that transcends relativity. That being said, I WANT THIS CLEAR FILE!
I’d probably go back in time, cross paths with myself leading to a temporal paradox and ending the universe as we know it. Instead, I’ll be the hero now, take that clear file and save the world in the process :^)
I’m not sher what I would do cause the past made me me but if anything I would ask a girl out sooner then I did and not hang around some pepole
I would back to myself when I had my first crush when I was a kindergartner and make sure I never lost contact. I would travel a few years and tell myself not to befriend two people because they later ruin my life and attribute to my suicidal wishes. I would then go forward a few more years and make sure I never tell anyone my crush’s name. That would make sure I didn’t go through torture and pain for three years because of it. Lastly, I would go back to see the first anime I’ve ever seen again
I’d go back and tell myself that things will work out, no matter what happens, no matter how many hardships k go through, I’ll make it through them, I’d go back to when I was younger facing all the pain and anxiety of my life and if tell myself not to worry…that even though I’d end up losing a lot of precious things that are close to me, I’ll still make it through. That even though this year, 2014, would be what seems to be my worst year, I’ll make it through, and prosper into the future..
When I was 9 my mom bought me an acoustic guitar but didnt provide any direction for it. No lessons, books, encouragement, etc.. (Here`s a guitar. Your on your own). Being so young I didnt have any self-discipline to speak of so naturally after the novelty wore off it went into the closet and eventually disappeared.
If could go back it would be to that point so I could have a self-to-self chat about how much I would eventually come to love music and provide a starting direction with that gitbox
I’d go back and tell my younger self to not be so shy.
I’d go back to when I was still living at home and watching old action movies and tell myself to start watching anime at a younger age!
I would go back three years and send myself a letter telling my past self about all of my experiences and to save more money for medical school.
I would travel back in time, in my early childhood because I would like to watch anime plus, I would change my future plan to be a pilot, instead of getting into a mess in the future.
I would like to go back to seven years old and watch every single anime in my free time. I would like to know everything and change every mistake to make myself have no problems from what I did.
Hmmm well what i’d do is i’d go back and tell mayuri and okabe that everything is going to be okay then i’d meet the doctor in london then i’d go to see the last win of Nolan Ryan. (the last one in all seriousness he’s by far my favorite baseball player, but i never got to go to one of his games and to see his last win would be something i’d remember for the rest of my life.) I’d have to say that to seriously go back and alter my life is something that i don’t know if i would want to do.
I would go back in time to make more friends at a young age, were as I only have a few today.
If I could travel to the past I would travel to November 17, 2011 8:41 AM and prevent myself from taking a bet to not talk to anyone in my school for 1 year and hopefully be able to circumvent the situation I am in today that indirectly derived from that bet; and thus avert myself from becoming the antisocial, shy, introvert I am today.
I’d go back about 10 years and indulge in more strippers and booze. I’d probably have taken that random opportunity to fist fight a dolphin on live television. Assuming I’d played my cards right, that would lead to a lucrative shoe deal with Crocs, and I’m guessing my face would be in every magazine you read today.
I’d go back when I was 3 years old to learn more things, change myself, live my life to the extreme,and more anime. I always liked to learn new things, but I wasted a lot of time when I was little. I would also go back to become the type of person that I always wanted to be, because now I dont have the courage to transform myself into a complete different person.
Another of the reasons is to watch more anime, you guys know that there is a lot of anime but not enough time.