When it comes to anime, characters with time manipulation abilities are often considered the strongest. They can control time and change the course of the battle or the environment they are in. The likes of Julius Novachrono from Black Clover, Kusuo Saiki from The Disastrous Life of Saiki K, and Dio Brando from JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure are all known for their expertise in time manipulation, and for good reason. However, there are also other lesser-known characters with this ability that are often overlooked. In this article, we’ll take a look at the top five anime characters with time manipulation abilities that are underrated.
5. Yuki Nagato – The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
Yuki Nagato, an Interface Humanoid character, can manipulate time and space. While time travel can be tricky for her, she cannot physically send her body through time. Instead, she downloads her future thoughts into her past self. When she meets time travelers who have trouble returning to the future, she has a non-direct solution. She freezes them in time so they can travel to the future using “old-fashioned” ways.
4. Rolo Lamperouge – Code Geass
Rolo Lamperouge acquired the power to manipulate time through his Geass ability. With this skill, Rolo can stop time but at the cost of his own life. While he cannot use it on objects, his heart stops beating when he stops time. Despite its limitations, Rolo is ruthless in using this ability.
3. Amber – Darker than Black
Amber’s time manipulation ability is called Chronokinesis. It enables her to rewind time without any limits. Unlike most time manipulators that can only rewind time for a few minutes or a day, Amber’s rewind has no bounds. Besides that, she can also see the future and freeze time, pull people out of their timeline, and time travels without detection.
2. Sakunosuke Oda – Bungou Stray Dogs
Sakunosuke Oda, also known as Odasaku, has the ability called Flawless. It allows him to look five to six seconds into the future and change the conditions around him to avoid anything bad that may happen to him. Nonetheless, Odasaku is powerless against another time manipulator. This ability shows that manipulating time is not only about accelerating, decelerating, stopping, or jumping through time.
1. Takemichi Hanagaki – Tokyo Revengers
Takemichi Hanagaki is capable of time travel, although not through manipulation. By shaking hands with a person who triggers his ability, he can travel through time and change the past for a better future. His usual goal is to save his ex-girlfriend from dying in a gang war that her brother will start, but he ends up preventing everyone’s deaths from that timeline. His ability to travel back can only go back in time for up to twelve years.
In conclusion, these five characters may not be as popular as the likes of Julius, Kusuo, or Dio, but their time manipulation skills deserve the recognition. With their unique abilities, they have proven themselves capable of affecting the course of events and saving lives. Each of them is unique in their own right and can serve as an inspiration to future time manipulator characters.
