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ProperShortVertical drama, measured.

Trope · 20 series

Time Travel Short Dramas

Nine series that move somebody through time on purpose, as opposed to the Rebirth label where the mechanism is death. Median 52 episodes. All nine sit on one platform, like every other trope shelf on this site.

Series
20
Median to finish
$29.97
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Where to start

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Ranked by our editor score; ties broken by cost to finish, then by whether the series is complete. Every figure comes from the same database that powers the cost calculator.

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The extremes

 SeriesPlatformEpisodesRuntimeTo finish
Cheapest to finishBack 20 Years, He Beats Up His 18-Year-Old SelfNetShort30—$14.99
Most expensiveBaby Tycoon & Her Reward SystemNetShort80—$44.97
ShortestBack 20 Years, He Beats Up His 18-Year-Old SelfNetShort30—$14.99
LongestBaby Tycoon & Her Reward SystemNetShort80—$44.97
Most free episodesReborn at 82: Every Villain Owes MeNetShort36—$14.99
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What it costs to watch all of it

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$624.40to finish all 20
—total viewing
53average episodes

Median series here costs $29.97 and runs —. We do not hold a completed-or-ongoing status for these, so treat the totals as what is published today.Estimates assume no free coins and the cheapest coin-pack combination on each platform.

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Where to find them

20 of the 20 are on NetShort.

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How this page was built

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; coin prices come from the in-app purchase tiers Apple publishes for each app. We hold complete pricing for all 20. Nothing on this page is a paid placement, and we do not rank by anything we were given for free.