included · Causal Loop

Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer

Mamoru Oshii · 95 minutes

As the perpetually lecherous Ataru and his friends prepare for a carnival at Tomobiki High School, they gradually realize the days are literally repeating themselves. Any effort to break the pattern dumps them back where they started.

Animation, Romance, Science Fiction, Comedy

Before you choose

What kind of time-travel story is this?

Temporal events and their consequences run throughout the story.

Meets the archive’s time-travel criteria. The mechanism is classified as Causal Loop.

Why the archive makes this assessment (spoilers)

The repeating festival eve and failed attempts to escape the shared dream organize the mystery.

A supernatural shared dream traps the characters in a repeating pre-festival day; the experienced repeating interval qualifies.

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An editorial assessment based on the archive’s documented plot research.

Scale, legacy & time

The scores

Titan60.1

Weighted archive score

Time-travel significance9/10

high confidence

Quality consensus7.6/10

Aggregate source ratings

How Titan works

Titan combines the archive’s quality, audience and legacy base with the significance of time travel. It is an index, not a score out of 100, and is distinct from the FMV archive’s scoring model.

Titan = base × [0.20 + 0.80 × (time-travel score ÷ 10)²]

This film: 70.89 base × 84.8% weighting.

Partial inputs flag incomplete source metadata. Provisional weighting flags a time-travel assessment that remains uncertain; it receives no additional confidence penalty.

The evidence

Research & sources

Research notes may reveal plot details.

These sources support the plot facts and catalog research. The numerical scores are the archive’s judgments, not ratings supplied by these sources.

Cast: Toshio Furukawa, Fumi Hirano, Akira Kamiya, Kazuko Sugiyama, Saeko Shimazu

Edition by edition

Releases & formats

5 cataloged editions. Narrow by format, then check region, audio and subtitles. Missing specifications mean unknown, not absent.

These listings do not establish a best edition. Use the specifications to shortlist compatible releases, then follow the source to verify details and availability.

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