included · Mechanical
The Tatami Time Machine Blues
It is August 12th. After the remote control to his boarding house's only air conditioning unit is inadvertently destroyed by spilled cola, "I" devises a plan to return to yesterday in a time machine to recover the remote before it breaks. However, his prankster friend Ozu cannot resist playing with past events, even if it means bringing the universe to the brink of destruction. Now "I" finds himself racing through time to avoid disaster.
Animation, Comedy, Science Fiction, Romance
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 Mechanical.
Why the archive makes this assessment (spoilers)
Confirmed 10/10: after the dorm's only air-conditioner remote is ruined, the narrator uses a time machine to retrieve it from yesterday, and Ozu's meddling sends him racing through time to prevent a collapse of causality. Time travel and its consequences are pervasive, as in Summer Time Machine Blues.
The story uses a time machine to retrieve yesterday’s intact air-conditioner remote. This catalog entry is the theatrical compilation of the animated series.
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The scores
Weighted archive score
high confidence
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: 15.20 base × 100.0% 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: Shintaro Asanuma, Hiroyuki Yoshino, Maaya Sakamoto, Kazuya Nakai, Junichi Suwabe
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