The story focuses on Bon Namihira, a teenager who becomes part of a team of time-traveling agents tasked with saving people's lives during major historical events that happen across different eras and locations around the globe.

Written and illustrated by Fujiko Fujio,[a] Time Patrol Bon was serialized in Ushio Publishing [ja]'s Monthly Shōnen World (first part) and Monthly Comic Tom (second and third part); the first part was serialized from the August 1978 to the September 1979 issues; the second from the May 1980 to the June 1983 issues; and the third from the June 1984 to the July 1986 issues.

[5] Ushio Publishing released five tankōbon volumes from September 1979 to August 1985.

[10][11] Ushio Publishing re-published the series in three volumes from September to November 2008.

[2] In October 2023, it was announced that the manga would be adapted into an original net animation (ONA) series.