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Yasutaka Tsutsui

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These books are ranked using the tone + premise labels extracted for The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. Books rank higher when they are close on every selected axis.

Tone labels used: simple, sweet, melancholic, heartwarming, quiet, light, nostalgic, sad, creepy, eerie, humorous, dry humor, absurd

Premise labels used: time travel, accidental powers, mystery figure, teen protagonist, school life, psychological fear

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The Accidental Time Machine

Joe Haldeman · 2007

A MIT researcher accidentally builds a one-way time machine and keeps jumping deeper into the future.

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Tone labels: fun · light · quirky · humorous · thought-provoking · adventurous · old-fashioned · playful · wry · uneven · soft

Premise labels: accidental invention · one-way time travel · future jumping · graduate student protagonist · escape through time · scientific experiment gone wrong · search for a way back

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Distance: 0.1621

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Clockwise

Elle Strauss · 2011 · Clockwise

A shy teen time traveler’s secret life in 1860 gets complicated when her crush is pulled into the past with her.

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Tone labels: cute · lighthearted · fun · sweet · charming · playful · humorous · serious undertones · adventurous · fast · easy · addictive · clean

Premise labels: time travel · teen protagonist · forced travel companion · secret ability · high school romance · past-and-present double life · civil war era · historical encounter

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Distance: 0.1731

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Space Boy Volume 2

Stephen McCranie · 2018 · Space Boy

A hopeful teen from a space colony navigates Earth school life while drawn to a strange, flavorless boy with secrets.

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Tone labels: sweet · cute · wholesome · hopeful · gentle · poignant · atmospheric · mysterious · strange · lightly angsty · heartwarming · fun · peaceful

Premise labels: new student · fish out of water · cultural adjustment · school life · mysterious boy · hidden identity · light sci-fi · friendship story · coming of age · mystery buildup

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Distance: 0.1744

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Project Nought: A Graphic Novel

Chelsey Furedi · 2023

A 1990s teen wakes in 2122 as part of a time-travel school program—and uncovers secrets, danger, and a crush.

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Tone labels: cute · fun · light · playful · sweet · humorous · adventurous · mysterious · twisty · heartwarming · slightly dark · hopeful · nervous · emotionally affecting

Premise labels: time travel experiment · future student exchange · past in the future · corporate conspiracy · memory wipe · future society · hidden agenda · teen subjects · brought to the future · investigation

Semantic match: ranked by tone + premise

Distance: 0.1752

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A Gift of Time

Jerry Merritt · 2016

An aging, suicidal man gets a chance to relive his life from age ten and tries to fix the mistake that haunts him.

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Tone labels: heartfelt · funny · weird · bizarre · emotional · thought-provoking · bittersweet · adventurous · dark · introspective · feel-good

Premise labels: time travel · second chances · regret · suicidal protagonist · altered timeline · life relived · future knowledge · repair mission · immortality

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Distance: 0.1757

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Emanon Volume 1: Memories of Emanon

Shinji Kajio · 2019 · エマノン [Emanon]

On a 1960s ferry ride, a young man meets a mysterious woman whose impossible memory turns a brief encounter into a life-changing mystery.

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Tone labels: melancholic · wistful · meditative · dreamy · nostalgic · philosophical · romantic · quiet · eerie · hopeful

Premise labels: mysterious girl · shipboard encounter · memory immortality · living memory · brief romance · future speculation

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Distance: 0.1768

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Life Is Strange Vol. 2: Waves

Emma Vieceli · 2019 · Life is Strange Comics

A displaced time traveler tries to live in an alternate reality while old bonds, new powers, and hidden truths unsettle everything.

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Tone labels: emotional · angsty · melancholic · wistful · bittersweet · quiet · dreamy · heartbreaking · tender · atmospheric

Premise labels: alternate reality · time travel · parallel timelines · multiple realities · powers · new mystery · identity crisis · displaced protagonist · missing life

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Distance: 0.1787

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Nona the Ninth

Tamsyn Muir · 2022 · The Locked Tomb

An amnesiac young woman navigates a war-torn future city, hidden identities, and a body that may not be hers.

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Tone labels: whimsical · tender · bleak · funny · sweet · chaotic · grim · emotional · baffling · fragile · weird

Premise labels: amnesiac protagonist · body swap · war-torn city · apocalyptic conflict · found family · school life · identity mystery · civilian perspective

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Distance: 0.1789

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The First State of Being

Erin Entrada Kelly · 2024

In 1999, an anxious boy meets a teen time traveler and gets pulled into a race between future knowledge and present life.

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Tone labels: sweet · gentle · thoughtful · nostalgic · bittersweet · heartfelt · hopeful · clever · quiet · lighthearted

Premise labels: time traveler · Y2K anxiety · future knowledge · present focus · teen from future · future secrets · friendship · coming of age

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Distance: 0.1797

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How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

Charles Yu · 2010

A time-machine repairman in a science-fictional universe searches for his vanished father through a dizzying, self-referential time loop.

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Tone labels: funny · quirky · melancholic · somber · heartbreaking · nostalgic · celebratory · poignant · earnest · playful · absurd · self-aware · introspective · sad · touching

Premise labels: time travel technician · father search · missing father · time loop · metafiction · science fictional universe · future self · book within book · time travel repair

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The Portal

Kathryn Lasky · 2019 · Tangled in Time

A grieving middle schooler discovers a greenhouse portal to Tudor England and a family mystery tied to Princess Elizabeth.

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Tone labels: sweet · magical · bittersweet · wholesome · sad · melancholy · adventurous · nostalgic · charming · uneven · frustrating · fun

Premise labels: time travel mystery · family secret · search for father · grieving child · new school · historical court · portal fantasy · dual timeline · cross-temporal identity

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Distance: 0.1818

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On the Calculation of Volume II

Solvej Balle · 2024 · Om udregning af rumfang

A woman stuck in the same November 18th travels across Europe chasing seasons, time, and a sturdier sense of self.

Why this is here

Tone labels: melancholic · quiet · meditative · mournful · hopeful · pensive · atmospheric · claustrophobic · beautiful · emotional

Premise labels: time loop · repeating day · seasonal quest · temporal dislocation · identity erosion · traveling protagonist

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Distance: 0.1820

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