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Cover of the first manga volume
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僕だけがいない街 (Boku Dake ga Inai Machi) |
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Genre | Fantasy, mystery,thriller |
Manga | |
Written by | Kei Sanbe |
Published by | Kadokawa Shoten |
English publisher | Yen Press |
Demographic | Seinen |
Magazine | Young Ace |
Original run | June 4, 2012 – March 4, 2016 |
Volumes | 8 |
Anime television series | |
Directed by | Tomohiko Itō |
Produced by | Kenta Suzuki Taku Matsuo |
Written by | Taku Kishimoto |
Music by | Yuki Kajiura |
Studio | A-1 Pictures |
Licensed by | |
Original network | Fuji TV (Noitamina) |
English network | |
Original run | January 8, 2016 – March 25, 2016 |
Episodes | 12 |
Live-action film | |
Light novel | |
Boku Dake ga Inai Machi: Another Record | |
Written by | Hajime Ninomae |
Illustrated by | Kei Sanbe |
Published by | Bungei Kadokawa |
Original run | November 2015 – March 2016 |
Volumes | 1 |
Manga | |
Boku Dake ga Inai Machi: Re | |
Written by | Kei Sanbe |
Published by | Kadokawa Shoten |
Demographic | Seinen |
Magazine | Young Ace |
Original run | June 4, 2016 – present |
ERASED, known in Japan as Boku Dake ga Inai Machi (僕だけがいない街?, lit. The Town Without Me), is a Japanese fantasy thriller seinen manga series written and illustrated by Kei Sanbe, which was serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's Young Ace magazine between June 4, 2012 and March 4, 2016 and is licensed in English by Yen Press. An anime adaptation by A-1 Pictures aired on Fuji TV's Noitamina programming block between January 8, 2016 and March 25, 2016, and a live action film was released on March 19, 2016. A spin-off novel series by Hajime Ninomae was released in Kadokawa's Bungei Kadokawa magazine between November 2015 to March 2016 and a spin-off manga series by Sanbe began its serialization in Young Ace on June 4, 2016.
The story follows Satoru Fujinuma, a man who somehow possesses an ability that sends him back in time moments before a life-threatening incident, allowing him to prevent it from happening. When his mother is murdered by an unknown assailant, Satoru's ability suddenly sends him back eighteen years to when he was still in elementary school, giving him the opportunity to prevent a kidnapping incident that took the lives of three of his childhood friends, two classmates and one young girl studying at a school nearby.
The original manga, written by Kei Sanbe, was serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's Young Ace magazine in between June 4, 2012 and March 4, 2016. The first tankobon volume was released in Japan on January 26, 2013, with seven volumes published as of December 26, 2015. The series is licensed by Yen Press, who will release the first volume in 2017. The series is licensed in France by Ki-oon. Sanbe will begin serializing a spin-off manga titled Boku dake ga Inai Machi: Re in Young Ace on June 4, 2016.