Erased - Comic, Anime, Movie commentary

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I watched the anime when it aired on the beginning of 2016. It was a story about time lapse, about child abuse, abduction, and its background was in Hokkaido.

The main protagonist, Fujinuma Satoru has the ability to went back through time if there is something not right. He called the ability 'revival'. The first episode shows him stops a truck before it crashed a boy crossing over a street. In the manga, he also went to an abandoned building where he catch a child from falling down the building. Before he could change the fate of those around him, he was repeatedly went back about five minutes or so.

The story unfold when He found his mother dead in his apartment. He was one of the suspect. When he tried to run from the police, the revival was triggered and he went back... To his elementary school. With this chain of event, Fujinuma knows that the murder of her mother's has something to do with child abduction case from years ago.

It's not that hard to guess the culprit, but this idea of time travel is really intriguing. I watched the anime then the live action movie where they need to alter appearance of some characters - there is this friend of Fujinuma, Sugita Hiromi which is a boy, but looks like a girl who also fall victim to the chain killer - to fit the story into a 2 hours movie.

The main heroin, the girl in the cover named Hinazuki Kayo, has a tragic back story with an abusing mother. She hates being home. When asked to write a short piece, she wrote about herself, being in a small island, alone. Where there is no one, no classmates, no teachers, no mom. Whenever she wants to climb a tree, she'll climb, whenever she wants to swim in the ocean, she'll swim. Even though she disappear from a city, nothing will change anyway. The piece really have me there.

In the anime, Fujinuma was paralyzed after his confrontation with the killer, whereas it wasn't that clear for me about what had just happened in the movie, I think it was the same anyway.

It was a great series, I really recommend it. On Netflix, you can find the anime, the live action movie, and the live action series.