
The Bridge Curse: Two female students try running down a flight of stairs to a lower floor, only they don't realize they're not going anywhere until they notice the 2/3 sign on the wall, which they passed several times.At least the main characters travel across the woods by the compass and still eventually end up at the same place. The Blair Witch Project: The forest where the witch supposedly lives is heavily implied to be this.The protagonists discover this for themselves when they try to go through the hills, somehow circling back around until they were face to face with people leaving the town. Any attempts to leave send them right back to where they were. In Uzumaki, once the town gets consumed by twisters, the townspeople get trapped.Pokémon: The Rise of Darkrai: The fight between Palkia and Dialga results in Alamos Town becoming inescapable the bridge to escape only leads back to the beginning of that bridge, no matter which way it's crossed.Ringo can rewind time with his Stand and he's using his power to disorient them. Subverted in that the forest itself is not actually looping. Ringo Roadagain, a Death Seeker, refuses to let them escape unless one of them fights and kills him. Steel Ball Run: Johnny, Gyro, and Hot Pants repeatedly ride through parts of the same forest.Reimi Sugimoto, who resides there, explains the way to leave is by going in a different direction and keep going straight without looking back, otherwise an otherworldly force will drag them to the underworld. Likewise, the direction of up is twisted into going back towards the ground. Diamond is Unbreakable: The Ghost Alley of Morioh goes around in a loop if someone tries to go back the way they came, always ending up back at the same corner.


Turns out it's caused by a magical creature and Makoto's job is to capture it. Flying Witch: One chapter has a shopping street being replicated endlessly.Chainsaw Man: The Eternity Devil turns the eighth floor of a hotel into an repeatable loop the Devil Hunters, no matter what manner of exit they find, always find themselves back on the eight floor whenever they enter from another side of the room.
