Working out the Charlotte timeline

Danger

This project includes major spoilers from the anime ‘Charlotte’. If you have not seen Charlotte yet, it is worth watching it before reading this document.

Charlotte. The 2nd anime original by Jun Maeda, with mixed reviews due to pacing problems and a rushed ending, among other things.

One of the other issues it has; is the general confusion around it’s timeline, because it has time travel elements.

As part of another project I was working on, that involves Charlotte’s timeline, I decided to work out and plot exactly when episodes and events happened.

As a result, the timeline, time travel, flashbacks, etc are all clear to me and I understand what is going on in Charlotte without a problem. I have decided to create this document site to help others.

Visual timeline

In addation to this document, I have also created a visual timeline using Time.Graphics to aid in visualising the data and timeline I’ve formed. This timeline graph should aid where people may get confused with the time travel and flashback elements, particularly from episode 9 onwards.

Important

The visual timeline contains hours and minutes in some locations. These are not part of any calculation and are only used for the alignment of segments on the timeline.