Erased has kept my attention in a dry anime season

Let me start by saying, I’m infatuated in playing couch detective. I live for it. So when I find anime that throws the usual detective rules out of the window, we have a winner. This season, it’s ERASED.


Erased is a fantasy, time traveling, thriller, filled with suspense. The series also tackles heavy topics such as child abduction, child abuse, and government cover ups. The story follows the main character Fuijuma, a 29-year old manga artist and pizza delivery guy. We find out almost immediately, he has the power to travel back in time to prevent something bad from happening. Until of course, something bad happens to a close family member causing him to travel back in time 18 years to try and prevent an event that happened then, that ultimately ended up causing the family members’ death in the present time. Yep, that’s all the way back to elementary school. A 29 year old, stuck inside of an 11-year old’s body, trying to solve a kidnapping. I’M IN!


There’s only 12 episodes this season, however the manga (which started in June 2012) has 7 volumes and is still ongoing. This anime has a slight feel of Parasyte the maximum, the same kind of pacing, suspense, and detective work to find out the real killer. I really like the dynamics of the the time travel. Fujinuma has to have a razor sharp memory when traveling back in time, so that history isn’t doomed to repeat itself. While also battling his 11-year old ways of thinking that tend to distract him at time from the task at hand. I recommend this anime to anyone who likes a good premise and story line in their anime. I hope you enjoy as much as I am!