Anime Like Erased If You’re Looking for Something Similar
Anohana
Whereas Erased tells the story of a man desperate to undo a mistake from his childhood, Anohana tells the story of a group of friends who must come to terms with their mistakes in the present. Ten years after the tragic death of his childhood friend Menma, Jinta finds himself forced to gather the rest of his old friends together when she returns from the dead and refuses to pass on until they make amends with each other.
The more he tries to bring them together though, the more he realizes they have been just as haunted as him, unable to move on and live their lives happily. This sets off a chain of events where each must accept what happened all those years ago, admit to their roles in it and move on towards a better life for all involved.
Equal parts a tale of redemption and a gut punch of emotional devastation, Anohana will work its way into your heart before you know it. It can thaw even the coldest of hearts with its warmer moments and squeeze tears out of a stone-faced stoic, and if you’re willing to let it make you remember you have feelings for a little while, you’ll feel like a new person by the end of its 11 episode run.
