T.P BON

Introduction

An ordinary high school student named Bon becomes part of a team of time-traveling agents tasked with saving people's lives during historical events that happen across different eras and locations around the globe. (Source: Netflix)

Audience ratings

MyAnimeList / Tenrai : 6.93/10 · 2785

1/10	18
2/10	14
3/10	29
4/10	92
5/10	251
6/10	560
7/10	881
8/10	537
9/10	181
10/10	221

Audience reviews

2 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.

SapioGalion

T.P. Bon (2024) was really fun to watch. It brought nostalgia with the familiar Fujiko F. Fujio feel that you would get with his other works, most famously Doraemon, but also adds a more mature element to it, incorporating vital elements of human history that include topics like war, discrimination, and religion. I've seem some people even mistake this work as one of Tezuka Osamu's. That being said, this show shouldn't be turned away from children. It has a ton of educational value for any child or teenager watching. All this is a testament to the author's love for history and science fiction. You could see a little bit of that love in Doraemon but nowhere as clear as what you see in T.P. Bon. As far as the anime adaptation goes, it's a solid adaptation that didn't seem to make any blatan…

Read at the source

Mowalski

Largely unfamiliar with the source material, but I am aware of Fujiko Fujio's impact on the industry and their heraled success with the iconic Doraemon. Bones' 90th Anniversary re-adaptation of a hidden classic covers familiar ground, which I think play to the show's strengths. The episodic nature captures a nostalgic viewing experience, while using exploration of historical time periods as the main hook, i.e. Magic Tree House, Time Warp Trio. Plots revolve around travelling backwards in time to save an ordinary person from demise. It's not a wholly original concept, but it's one I'm fairly certain was much more of a novelty at the time of the original's debut. Each episode's narrative has you being spoonfed retroactive tidbits of human melodrama in the vein of, say, To Your Eternity. Bo…