hosannainexcelsis
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It is? I can't find any information about an English license of the manga.
Erased (Boku dake ga Inai Machi) animeTV|OT| If I could turn back time, If I could..
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It is? I can't find any information about an English license of the manga.
Admiral Woofington
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if you have to watch via crunchyroll, do it in an app (like ps4) there's no stuttering. Or do it on Hulu, though I think episodes come slower.
JoeyJungle
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Some of their servers are just painfully slow for some reason. I just F5 F5 F5 F5 until it connects to a server than quickly streams the first couple seconds of the episode with no stuttering. Usually works in the first 2-3 attempts, sometimes I have to try 10+ to connect to a good server.
I think the apps have less stuttering, but I'll still have problems pop up on Android. Especially for less-popular anime, it seems like those are less likely to be cached so generally have poorer streams.
blue_phazon
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Where are people watching episode 2?
It's not on daisuki yet
It's not on daisuki yet
Basileus777
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Where are people watching episode 2?
It's not on daisuki yet
Crunchyroll gets new episodes earlier.
Cornbread78
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Cornbread78
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My goodness is this show well done; I mean, unbelieveably well done. That scene in the last 4 mins with the "Christmas tree" had such great visuals and ambiance to really set the mood and feeling of everything going on, her excape from her cruel world. Awesome stuff. I didn't recognize that person in sensei's office at the end, was that the useless father? I'm starting to lean towards him being the killer!!
Erased 3
The mystery aspect is still not central, but not out of the picture, the show is still building Satoru's relationship with Hinazuki and I'm completely fine with it, they handle everything perfectly. I was actually a bit sad at first that there were two certain "lie" scenes that seemed to indicate that their relationship was falling apart, but Satoru's readiness to defend Hinazuki about the money issue and that AMAZING final scene, proved that it's still going strong. Hinazuki actually seems to open up a lot more to Satoru.
I'm also really relieved that the school, particularly the teacher, took notice of Hinazuki's home abuse and he's actually about to do something. It would be weird if nobody noticed it. On that matter...That isn't a mother, that's a monster. Very shocking scene, it was really hard to watch. And that father(?) also seems like a complete asshole. Poor Hinazuki.
Other than this, I'm looking forward to more about Yuuki. The shots of the future him were devastating. If he's really not bad, which seems to be the case, I wonder what led to him be framed. Also, the teacher... I'm not sure what he's going to turn out to be. The shot I quoted was really ominous, he resembles the guy in the OP but he doesn't seem bad. Maybe a bit too sharp, like Kenya. I wonder what that quick final shot between those two is going to be.
Again, that final scene! The show is gorgeous. Something that made me think was the ice skating race. I wonder how many times Satoru is going to take a bad decision.
YES. It's still great and I'm enjoying it more and more.
The mystery aspect is still not central, but not out of the picture, the show is still building Satoru's relationship with Hinazuki and I'm completely fine with it, they handle everything perfectly. I was actually a bit sad at first that there were two certain "lie" scenes that seemed to indicate that their relationship was falling apart, but Satoru's readiness to defend Hinazuki about the money issue and that AMAZING final scene, proved that it's still going strong. Hinazuki actually seems to open up a lot more to Satoru.
I'm also really relieved that the school, particularly the teacher, took notice of Hinazuki's home abuse and he's actually about to do something. It would be weird if nobody noticed it. On that matter...That isn't a mother, that's a monster. Very shocking scene, it was really hard to watch. And that father(?) also seems like a complete asshole. Poor Hinazuki.
Other than this, I'm looking forward to more about Yuuki. The shots of the future him were devastating. If he's really not bad, which seems to be the case, I wonder what led to him be framed. Also, the teacher... I'm not sure what he's going to turn out to be. The shot I quoted was really ominous, he resembles the guy in the OP but he doesn't seem bad. Maybe a bit too sharp, like Kenya. I wonder what that quick final shot between those two is going to be.
Again, that final scene! The show is gorgeous. Something that made me think was the ice skating race. I wonder how many times Satoru is going to take a bad decision.
Admiral Woofington
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Erased 03
Bow down to the king.
10/10. The show hasn't faltered, even if the last scene was a bit funny and unnecessary, we as the audience know it's a mystery who-dun-it type of show, no need to OH WHAT IS GOING IN HEREEE OOOOOH scene.
I don't tend to see abuse to this degree regularly, and jesus it's heartbreaking. But then you get the sweet scene of the
and your heart melts. Also the older kid is too much of a nice introvert, no wonder people thought what they did lol. Poor guy.
This show has one more episode before I make my friend watch it with me. It has been too good. I wanted a solid mystery anime for a while now since Hyouka (if that counts as one) so this is amazing.
Keep up this quality and don't shit the bed at the end and you have a guaranteed spot in my top 10 of the year.
Finally, MC is a fucking boss for making that girl cry hahaha. Little spoiled shit.
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seems too obvious to be it, but maybe it's as simple as that.
Bow down to the king.
10/10. The show hasn't faltered, even if the last scene was a bit funny and unnecessary, we as the audience know it's a mystery who-dun-it type of show, no need to OH WHAT IS GOING IN HEREEE OOOOOH scene.
I don't tend to see abuse to this degree regularly, and jesus it's heartbreaking. But then you get the sweet scene of the
christmas tree
This show has one more episode before I make my friend watch it with me. It has been too good. I wanted a solid mystery anime for a while now since Hyouka (if that counts as one) so this is amazing.
Keep up this quality and don't shit the bed at the end and you have a guaranteed spot in my top 10 of the year.
Finally, MC is a fucking boss for making that girl cry hahaha. Little spoiled shit.
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sensei
MetroidPrimeRib
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Erased 03
UGH. Some of those scenes made me sick to my stomach. Just shit, man. I watched The Revenant yesterday and the stuff here made me more uncomfortable then that entire movie.
I don't know what to say other then this show is excellent and easily AOTS.
UGH. Some of those scenes made me sick to my stomach. Just shit, man. I watched The Revenant yesterday and the stuff here made me more uncomfortable then that entire movie.
I don't know what to say other then this show is excellent and easily AOTS.
I don't think it's the teacher as the person who murdered his mother had red eyes. Notice how Kayo's parents both have red eyes. I think it's the father. It's also possible the two other dissapearances were unrelated to Kayo's death.
Admiral Woofington
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that seemed more like an artistic choice to depict a villain than an actual obvious clue.
Red eyes
FlowersisBritish
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Alright, started, wished I waited till the end so I could binge watch, but whatever. It's great. I'm so pumped for the future. Though, I do have a moral quandry, that the more I think about the more it kinda kills me... This is kind of a love story between an 10 year old and a 29 year old... isn't it???
So I think the all that and the kidnapping might be
So I think the all that and the kidnapping might be
red herrings. What if the actual story is she went to escape her parents that winter on her birthday and got caught in a snow storm and died? It just got lumped in with the kidnappings because of the timing. That feels like an appropriately sad way for her story to go.
Admiral Woofington
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I don't think it'll be a love story. He got embarassed that one time but then he said like "you're a 29 year old man stop getting flustered"
he's doing this as a kindness and to save her, whether she falls in love with him that's another story. Maybe the story ends with him returning to the future and finding her?
the issue is we already saw another murder when someone was piecing things together, that doesn't hold together with that regard lol
Cornbread78
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Very cute scene:
Devestated, Discusted and pissed.... WTF
Simply beautiful scene.
Devestated, Discusted and pissed.... WTF
Simply beautiful scene.
metsallica
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Yeah, really enjoying this. So glad it's staying strong!
TheGreatDirector
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Very cute scene:
Devestated. Discusting and pissed....
Simply beautiful scene.
This show really feels like a cinematic experience on its own.
Admiral Woofington
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Too busy running the Emperor Palpatine Surgical Reconstruction Center
julesodies
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I love this show and the VA"s are incredible. Great casting.
Cornbread78
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It truly feels like it's a constant movie. The director is doing an excellent job keeping it moving forward with the great storytelling and atmosphere.
Captain Rage Quit 69
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Got to watch episode 3 and man this is great stuff! I honestly didn't think it would turn out this good, I'm glad I randomly clicked on this thread a while ago. 
Also, I agree with the others that the teacher might not be the nicest guy, but I don't know if he's the killer. It all seems too obvious for anyone paying attention, and I hope there's at least a few twists and turns along the way if it ends up being him. Time will tell I suppose.
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I suppose I've gotten somewhat used to that sort of hyper-dramatic style that comes into play with Japanese works though. It's not that bad but it sticks out a bit.
So I really don't have much to say about this episode. We're given a glimpse into Kayo's world and how absolutely shitty it is, even without the whole raped and murdered angle, and to everybody's surprise it is just as shitty as you can imagine. She's bullied at school and beaten to a pulp at home. Is Child Services this incompetent in the US too? My god, they can't force the person to come in for an interview? Anyway besides that, I do have a few criticisms and observations I guess.
The first is in regards to the race as it's somewhat interesting that Satoru is doing the same thing he did as a child. Which makes me wonder if his 'child' self is bleeding into his older mentality. It could also just be that people don't change nearly as much as they think they do. I think that would present an interesting aspect to the show though if he starts forgetting things or he panicks like a child would, rather than an adult. Expanding on that, it's somewhat weird how smart/perceptive that blonde friend is. Is that kid a time traveler too?
A number of camera angles during the race were at eye level which showed how close the two were in skill.
Something I don't think the show is going to win points for is subtlety. It's a little too on the nose at times with all the villains/assholes being red-eyed so far. I don't think I'm going to be getting a more complicated analysis of Kayo's home environment than what was shown in this episode. I guess it's fine as dealing with childhood abuse isn't likely to be the focus of the work. That said I wish they would just show a bit more restraint with how they're framing/establishing certain characters. (Big Spoilers)
I mean the teacher was literally in darkness for a good chunk of the episode and the initial scene with him was certainly ominous and foreboding. Not to mention that ending scene pretty much slapping you on the nose with who is probably the killer.
I like how they're playing a bit with some of the murderer tropes such as Jun being a weirdo with a stuttering problem who was a loner. He was the perfect man to pin the murders on, not to mention him having repeated contact with the victims, as established by him talking with Kayo a bit. It's a bit funny how having pornography is seen as weird but different culture I guess. There was also an effective jump cut at the end that reflects how Satoru sees Jun as a dead man walking due to the prior timeline. It also works to establish how the years beat down Jun from a smiling kid to a hardened and worn out convict.
This was a good shot in that it shows Satoru's newfound maturity by having the camera low and angled up at Satoru.
It establishes him as bigger than Jun and that he's in control of the relationship now.
That low camera angle is again used as a way of showing that Kayo's mother has all the power in that scenario, even after Kayo's abuse is outed right in front of her classmate. This scene reinforced the limitations of Satoru now being a child in how Kayo's mother casually shoved Satoru to the side. If Satoru had been an adult, her reaction would have been vastly different than that indifferent mocking look she had on her face. I gotta say, they're animating the child abuse really well in the show. That sequence would not have had nearly the same impact of it was just some stills instead of essentially showing a mother drowning her child in full detail.
This shot really says all that needs to be said about Kayo's living conditions. Not just the booze or junk food laid out in a mess but the father(?) having his feet on the table too.
The reason I kept talking about the low camera angle is because they subvert it at the end in that instead of it being represented as a power gap between people, it reflects the belief for Kayo that things will get better. Kayo and Satoru are depicted as small beings next to this tree and for Kayo who is used to looking up and seeing the roof of that shed or her mother leering down at her, all she sees is vastness. She has things to look forward to other than retreating to the park and she's becoming one with something bigger than herself. It's essentially Satoru's way of giving her a reason to live which works not only for Kayo but the audience as well, who have been subjected to the ugliness of humans for the entire episode.
I wonder if the foxes are supposed to symbolize time being cyclical. They could also be representative of Kayo and Satoru's relationship possibly as a couple since the camera itself later moves in a somewhat circular fashion when they're looking up at the tree.
This was a really well animated episode from scenes such as the ice-skating, the child abuse depictions, Jun's movements inside his room, the fox scene, and finally at the tree. The production scheduling for the show must have been on point. Also Kaijura's still delivering.
Good move using kids as an interior frame as it highlights Kayo's isolation as she's literally in-between people and so, is separate from them.
FlowersisBritish
fleurs n'est pas britannique
I'm super glad someone else noticed the god damn directing! A lot of care was put in, like when he talked to earphones kid, it was shot as if an adult was staring at them and might be trying to symbolize how headphones is actually being very cautious with what is clearly a heavy secret.
Admiral Woofington
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Whoa rape? At what point did rape come into play? Did I miss a visual cue?
hosannainexcelsis
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I guess Jarmel is assuming Kayo was raped before she was killed? We haven't seen anything to suggest that though.
I honestly don't feel the killer's motivation was rape. I think it ties more into "freeing" children from sort of problem. He think he's doing good. Most serial killers have a justification in their mind even if it's twisted. I think Satoru's mother's killer is
. Still think Hinazuki's killer is
though.
Kenya
the teacher
A male kidnapping female kids. What do you think happened? Not to mention there is this shot in the ED with strings(?) going into her genitalia region:
hosannainexcelsis
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Yeah, after this episode I can definitely see the teacher having killed Kayo because he saw no other way to "save" her from her family situation. I'd be interested in knowing if the other two murdered children mentioned in this episode were in similar sorts of situations.
Admiral Woofington
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I do think it's the teacher. He had been researching her, found out she's in a fucked up family situation. He knows first hand she's ostracized in class and no one cared about her for the longest time. The perfect victim no one would miss.
Then in the future we see an older man leading a child into a car. Maybe it is as simple as he researches children 'no one would miss'. When the mom started putting two and two together he took care of her.
One of the scenes we saw could have been red herrings. The last scene could just be him talking to the friend to ask about his knowledge on the situation.
Then in the future we see an older man leading a child into a car. Maybe it is as simple as he researches children 'no one would miss'. When the mom started putting two and two together he took care of her.
One of the scenes we saw could have been red herrings. The last scene could just be him talking to the friend to ask about his knowledge on the situation.
Do we know for a fact it's been only female students? And while the visual cue you mention has that possibility I'm not going to jump into conclusions until more concrete evidence is provided. It could be a caregiver mentality serial murderer. Plus the shot is just awkwardly angled enough an argument could be made on the position
hosannainexcelsis
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Is that even supposed to be Kayo in that shot? I can't really tell who that is.
This is a picture of the three victims.
The one of the left is obviously a girl and Kayo is a girl. The one in the middle looks like a girl in the regular scenes and she asked Satoru if he wanted to walk home together in this episode, which is making me wondering if she has a crush on him.
I might be inclined to believe the caregiver serial killer aspect if the serial killer had only killed Kayo. I can't imagine there are other kids in that class that is in such bad shape too. Not to mention him murdering Satoru's mother or trying to kidnap that child in the park too.
Yea I can't say for sure it's Kayo as the ED is so abstract, however it does look to be one of the victims though.
Wow really? He still looks very feminine though. I wonder if they're still going to do a love triangle aspect with Hiromi, would be kind of interesting.
AnathemicOne
Banned
And here I was sure I would write cornbread anime OT's off due to Charlotte... I still get aneurysms just thinking about it...
This anime is hitting all the right notes for me for a mature anime to which the only one who has done that in recent memory would be Death Parade which aired last year (during this time too!). 3 episodes in and I would recommend it to anyone.
Nah just joking, I love you man
I still hate the fuck out of Charlotte though
This anime is hitting all the right notes for me for a mature anime to which the only one who has done that in recent memory would be Death Parade which aired last year (during this time too!). 3 episodes in and I would recommend it to anyone.
Admiral Woofington
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If Hiromi is a boy I'm getting less and less convinced of the possibility of the rape aspect. That's not to say it hasn't happened many times irl, but I'd be genuinely surprised if the show goes that route of a serial murderer/rapist. Might have been something that the newspaper would have mentioned in other articles if her bodies showed signs of it. And I doubt he would have forgotten that detail considering how that affected him.
Now that we know there were at least 3 children, a fourth escaping in the future, then there likely is something tying them all together. Neglectful parents? Quiet kids with families that aren't particularly powerful?
Now that we know there were at least 3 children, a fourth escaping in the future, then there likely is something tying them all together. Neglectful parents? Quiet kids with families that aren't particularly powerful?
Protecting them by ending their suffering.
I can't imagine there are three kids in one class that lives are bad enough that killing them is considered better than the alternative. I can possibly see that with Kayo but Hiromi looks fairly normal.
Admiral Woofington
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I think it happened later but yes I'm confused as to why he's so focused on her when another person in his group of friends is also a victim. Obvious reasoning is he always felt guilty for this particular case, and now with his mom's life on the line he has to prevent this case.
Serial killers twist logic and common sense.
CornBurrito
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I sort of wish I hadn't read the manga. This anime is a treat. I'd have liked to have gone in blind I suppose.
It is kinda weird that the Japanese title is "The Town Where Only I Am Missing" which is a direct reference to Kayo's essay despite there being three victims. Maybe that element is prevalent through all the cases I guess.
I'm gonna have to hear some really good backstories for the other two for this to make sense.
I'm gonna have to hear some really good backstories for the other two for this to make sense.
AnathemicOne
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Isn't the manga not finished yet though? But yeah I still see your point of being ahead while others are behind. I'm holding back real hard not to go binge the manga.
CornBurrito
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Not sure if serious. This show doesn't use anime hair colors and eye colors. I don't think.
The red eye thing is almost certainly stylistic, not the actual perp's eye color.
Well, I'm just talking. No idea what the killer is really thinking.
Admiral Woofington
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Yeah I'm struggling in self control because the Manga might be great but so much of my enjoyment, outside of the story itself, has been the directing and voice acting. They have been fantastic.
I remember someone saying Japanese dislike the VA because it's so unlike Anime, but that's not stopping the Manga from selling well apparently
CornBurrito
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That doesn't make sense. The mother was fairly clear in episode 1 that the person she saw (which is the same person that murdered her) is someone who could have been the culprit in the kidnappings/murders.
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