Erased
Erased, known in Japan as Boku dake ga Inai Machi , or The Town Without Me , is a Japanese anime fantasy thriller which is based on a manga published in Young Ace magazine between 2012 and 2016. The anime adaptation aired on TV between January and March of 2016 and a live-action film was released in late March of 2016. A spin-off novel series was released in November of 2015 and a spin-off manga began in June of 2016. The plot follows Satoru Fujinuma who has a special ability which sends him back in time just before life-threatening incidents in order to prevent them from happening. After his mother is murdered, he must go back in time to prevent it from happening, as well as a series of kidnappings and murders from his childhood. The central concept of Erased is the butterfly effect, an idea originally applied to weather, and eventually to science. The term describes the dependence of certain conditions wherein a small change in one time has the possibility ...