Summer Timemachine Blues

If you’re looking for something incredibly nerdy with a hint of hilarious, check out Summer Timemachine Blues, it could be for you. Directed by Katsuyuki Motohiro, it takes a familiar concept (time travel) and makes it into something you probably didn’t expect.

It’s summer time, and a college Sci-Fi club (who you never actually see reading or watching any Sci-Fi) is hanging out in their clubroom before the next semester is set to start. On one particular day, a series of confusing occurrences take place that nobody can explain, leading to an incident where everyone falls over and a soda falls on the remote control for the air conditioner. It breaks, and everybody freaks out. Hey, it’s hot out, they need their cool air! Everything seems hopeless until a mysterious machine appears in the clubroom, which is at first identified as a joke. But when they decide to fool around with it, they discover that it’s a time machine, with the ability to travel up to 99 years forward or backward. What better way to get their air-conditioner remote back? They can keep it from getting soda spilled on it, after all. And thus begins a bizarre adventure that causes more problems than it’s worth.

Special note: Keep an eye out for the scene where they go to the movie theater. Can you spot the Back to the Future poster?