Erased
If you love the Butterfly Effect and murder-mystery anime then boy are you in for a treat with Erased.
This mystery anime follows Satoru Fujinuma, a boy with a unique ability called “Revival,” which lets him go back in time minutes before a deadly accident will occur. To keep whatever potential victims from getting hurt, he must figure out for himself what will happen and how to fix it.
At this point in his life, he’s 29 and not achieving what he hopes and thinks back to when he was a young kid. When he was younger, a classmate died and the shock of that has always stuck with him. After a crime occurs that paints Satoru as the perpetrator, he finds himself pushed back in time 18 years by Revival, back to childhood, and not long before the classmate is to die.
The main mystery of Erased is how Satoru must use his modern-day knowledge to solve the event that changed his life and hopefully change the future he left behind. Plus, as the original story of the classmate’s death was somewhat hidden from the rest of the children, the viewer gets to go into the story not knowing much more than Satoru himself.
The entire series is 12 episodes long and can be streamed on Netflix and Hulu.
