Anime Like Erased

Recently, the detached, struggling manga artist Satoru Fujinuma finds himself going back in time to just minutes before tragedy strikes around him. He has saved many lives with this power of “Revival,” but when he is wrongly accused of murdering someone close to him, Fujinuma finds himself sent back to his childhood.

As he discovers, the recent death in his life is somehow connected the kidnap-murder of three children in the area that is about to happen. This time, he may be able to use his power to save more than just one life, easing his past regrets in the process.

Mad scientist Rintarou Okabe spends his days tinkering around and creating futuristic inventions with his lab assistants in Akihabara, but nothing of any consequence.

That is, until one day when his Phone Microwave, a device that changes bananas into green gel, gains the ability to send e-mails to the past, altering the flow of history.

Now Okabe must frantically deal with the consequences of selfishly messing around with the past.

On his way back from a midnight snack run, high school truant Subaru Natsuki suddenly finds himself summoned to another world, one more at home in an RPG than the real world.

After having his life saved by a mysterious girl, he vows to help her recover a stolen item.

Unfortunately, his tale ends soon after with his death. Yet, while bleeding out on the floor, Subaru summons forth a new ability – the power to return from death.

Madoka Kaname and Sayaka Miki are your typical middle school girls, but one day they encounter a cute creature named Kyuubey that offers to grant them one wish. In exchange for their wish, they must become magical girls and protect humanity from witches.

While Sayaka accepts right away, Madoka is more hesitant, not knowing what she would wish for.

However, her decision is even further delayed when the mysterious Homura Akemi, a transfer student, begs her not to accept.

On the first day of a new semester, Naho Takimiya oversleeps. On her way out after being late for school, she finds a letter waiting for her that says it is from herself ten years in the future.

The letter ardently states her regrets that she has surrounding a new transfer student, Kakeru Naruse.

Thinking it is a prank at first, Naho ignores it, but when the events described within begin to come true, Naho decides that she will try to help her future self.

For Takemichi Hanagaki, his second year of middle school was when he peaked. He had a small amount of respect as a thug, a loyal group of friends, and even a girlfriend.

Fast forward twelve years later, and he is a single adult that can’t hold down a job. He has even found out that his middle school girlfriend was murdered by the vicious Tokyo Manji Gang. A

fter an accident, he finds himself back in middle school and discovers that he can travel back and forth in time in order to help change his past and his future.

Yuu Otosaka has the ability to slip into other people’s mind and control them for five seconds at a time. He has been using it to get good grades, but after he is caught by the enigmatic Nao Tomori, he is forced to transfer to a special school to safeguard children with these powers from discovery.

At this supernatural new school, he is forced to join the Student Council where he uses his powers to hunt down other young people who are using and abusing their own powers.

After another failed job interview, Juri resigns herself to having to live in her house with her other failures of family members.

However, when her sister’s son and her NEET brother are kidnapped, her grandfather informs her of a powerful family secret. By offering up her blood to his mystical stone, they can enter the world of Stasis, a world of stopped time.

After their rescue efforts go awry, the family is confronted by a giant monster and the true nature of the timeless world.

Kei lives in the seaside town of Sakurada, which is filled with people with various powers.

One day, he meets a girl named Haruki on the school roof. She has the ability to reset things to three days prior, but even she does not remember when she uses it or what happened.

However, as Kei has the power of a photographic memory, he is able to remember. The pair join the Service Club to start trying to help the people in town.

After the death of childhood friend Meiko “Menma” Honma, Jinta Yadomi and his group of friends grew apart, each trying to deal with grief and guilt in their own way.

However, when Jinta starts seeing what he believes to be Menma’s ghost, the group of friends are drawn together to help grant her long-desired wish.

After a small portion of the population awakened to psychokinectic powers, violence and upheaval rocked the world. However, those with powers were able to achieve peace by separating themselves into their own society.

In the town of Kamisu 66, Saki Watanabe has just awakened to her powers. Pleased she can now attend the Sage Academy with her friends, it seems a great life is ahead of her.

However, when Saki and her friends start to peer into their society’s darkest secrets, like what happens to kids that don’t awaken to their powers, the utopian veneer begins to peel away.

After the death of her best and only friend, Ai Ohto became a shut-in.

One night while on a walk, she is convinced by a mysterious entity to buy an egg. In a world that only materializes in her dreams, she breaks the egg. This summons a person haunted by fears, regrets, or otherwise some trauma.

There, Ai is tasked with saving them, and by saving them from their trauma, she can perhaps save her friend, too.

Hakaze Kusaribe is a sorceress tasked with protecting the Tree of Origins. However, when a rival member of her family seeking to revive the Tree of World’s End catches her, she is stuffed into a barrel and banished to an island.

From there, Hakaze sends a message out to sea, one received by Mahiro Fuwa. In agreement to help Hakaze off the island, he asks that she use her magic to help find his sister’s killer.

Bored with the endless monotony of immortality, shinigami Ryuk drops his death note, a tool that will kill anyone who has their name written in it, on Earth.

High school student and academic prodigy Light Yagami picks it up.

Deploring the state of the world, he quickly decides to use it to end the lives of criminals.

Dr. Kenzou Tenma is a renowned brain surgeon working abroad in Europe. With a great job and beautiful fiancée, he has everything in life.

However, one night he is faced with a dilemma – save the mortally wounded mayor or a mortally wounded boy. Ignoring his colleagues’ pleas, Tenma’s morals force him to save the boy.

However, when a series of murders begin to happen around the doctor, all evidence points to the boy he saved.

Grace Fields House is a home for orphans. However, even though they have no blood families, they are all one big family. That is, until the age of twelve when they are adopted out.

The kids also know that they are not allowed outside the fenced yard, but one day, two children break that rule.

They then discover that the children who are “adopted” are actually subjected to something much darker.

In the small village of Suiten, three boys with traumatic pasts learn how to let their souls travel in between the world they know and the mysterious Unseen World. The Unseen World is one of ghosts.

However, the three boys aren’t the only things coming and going from this world. Ghosts are now also beginning to pass into the real world as well.

Genius programmer Shiki Magata lives on an island as a recluse. She rarely takes guests, but a professor and his student manage to get a meeting.

Soon after, their meeting is cut short and they both find themselves in a locked room murder mystery.

There is an urban legend going around in Musashino City about Shounen Bat, a boy that rolls around on roller blades and beats people with his bent golden baseball bat. Numerous reports of his attacks have turned up, but the police have been unable to catch him.

As the investigation continues and more people fall victim, paranoia begins to set in.