Anime: Boku dake ga Inai Machi

Very good show. However, 8/10

This is a very good show.
Great immersion. Well organized story. Proper harmony of genres. Not bad video. good music

However.
Compared with the original comics, there are a lot of problems.

- story
The overall story is that 'MC is a hero who grows up as a hero while protecting her children.'
It's easy to mistake, but it does not matter who the killer is. The interesting thing about this animation is 'Is MC succeeding in protecting the children?' People are interested in this. However, some people criticize that "the identity of the criminal is too obvious" even after having enjoyed watching it. There is no pleasure in the scene where the perpetrator reveals his identity, 'I did not know that the perpetrator was this person'. But from the start such a pleasure was not even planned. Instead, the interest of 'what will happen later' is maintained. If you do not misunderstand the genre, the interest of the story remains steady.

However, this story becomes weak from the 11th episode. Because it is very compressed and empty compared to the original comics. In the original comics, MC was able to catch the killer because he grew up. However, it is very empty in animation.

- Character
Overall, the large format is maintained. But animation made mistakes in every detail, which caused people's 'misunderstanding'.
People think that Kayo betrayed Satoru. Some people think Satoru is sad about it. And I think the scene where Satoru meets Airi is related to romance. All of this is a very wrong idea. Especially this is the biggest complaint element of animation.
But if you realize the right meaning of this person relationship, you can see that it is not wrong (It is hard to understand unless you read the original manga.)
However, animation is very difficult to understand because it omits many explanations

Characters are characteristic and have their charms. Especially, works of similar genre are MC 'smart detective' in many cases. However, the MC of this work is expressed as 'not smart but good hero'.
He does not use the advantage that he came from in the future. The way to save children is not a 'logical and excellent plan' either. It simply does not 'does not leave the children alone'.
This animation looks at the events from the viewpoint of the children, Solve the case from the viewpoint of the child. That is why his growth is worth it. If he depended on 'ability' or 'talent superior to others', this would have been unsuitable as a growth story.

- Video
They used the color well.
But some scenes were not properly represented (made a misunderstanding).

- Sound
Good OP. Good ED. Good OST

Review
Butterfly Effect is a movie in my favorite list. It deals with regret, consequences, choices, and our attachment to the past. It boasts a super-fantastic element of time travel, but that is just an excuse to work on a tale that teaches us that our choices have so many consequences we can't exactly say "things would be better if I had chosen to be a lawyer instead of a cheap programmer". There are hundreds more factors into that simple sentence than we can imagine. It told us about a man capable of going back in time when reading his diary, giving him a chance to remake some of his choices, yet things never turned out quite right.

Boku dake ga Inai Machi (Erased) is a japanese animation with a very similar concept as that movie. This is the tale of Satoru Fujinuma, a boy with the interesting power of going back a few minutes in time right when something bad is about to happen, so he has an extra chance of making things go the other way. This power, however, throws him back 20 years when he sees his dead mother, so now he must work on to prevent that crime from ever happening.

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1. A hype nearly worth of being a hype
   Erased was absurdly hyped, reaching high scores after only the first episode airing. Unlike most of the hyped shows these last seasons, however, it made a stand to deserve a bit of that veneration. Although flawed with consistency and stupid coincidences, Erased is a thrilling experience, exciting from start to finish, using cliffhangers with perfection to make you watch one episode after the next, and never turning its flaws into something silly... or at least until it reaches its last string of episodes.
   
   It's about children who acts like children
   Satoru goes back nearly 20 years to solve the murder of his mother, and there his mission becomes saving a childhood friend from a serial killer. When Satoru is thrown back into his school days, we are gifted with a charming tale of children, some smart, other just carefree, but children nonetheless. The fact the protagonist is in fact a 29 year old guy in the body of a 10 year old boy makes up for some interesting conversations, some naturally comical moments, and also give us an additional flair to the scenes where he meets his mother or when he befriends and cares for the girl he wants to save.
   
   Stupid coincidences, but...
   Erased suffers a lot from annoying coincidences, starting from the fact the power that always worked only for 5 minutes now works for basically 20 years. It grows in annoyance with a few other "out of nowhere" appearances and decisions that turn either the characters into idiots or the scripter into a god capable of protecting whoever he wants. However, many of these bad decisions and coincidences do a great service into bringing the next set of thrilling developments, add spice to the dramatization, or simply make common events worthwhile. Overall, these coincidences work more in favor than against Erased, but...
   
   In the very last part they get out of hand
   When the tale reaches its climax, the coincidences and plot armor get truly annoying. Instead of following the course of events, evolving the protagonist to deal with the criminal, or simply giving a decent excuse to saving his ass, the show opts for so many out of nowhere bullshit it gets truly frustrating. Villains who leave a protagonist alive for now damn reason? Yeah, this kind of stuff. It does work nicely on drama still, granting us a decent closure to everything, but the way it all happens seems more like the author got bored and wanted to finish things quickly to meet his deadline. A pity.
   
   And yes, it's full of drama
   Erased is some sort of Butterfly Effect mixed with Ano Hana, meaning it offers a lot of sad moments. The children are sweet, with marvelous voice acting to go alongside their behavior, and you get to like them, see them as mysterious, sometimes event suspect there may be something more to each. Add that the ocasional mother-children tender moments, dealing with beating, bully, and avoiding a serial killer that haven't even started his killing spree and you manage to get a decent investigation tale fueled by the fantastic event of time travel and many scenes capable of making you shed some tears.
   
   Sadly the villain...
   You know there is a killer targeting children, you know he killed Satoru's mother, yet his mystery beyond that gets unconvincing. He magically appears in places only when he cannot be confronted, there is barely any indication of his failures, and things work in his favor with a degree of coincidence that starts getting annoying after watching half the season with zero information on him. Unlike Monster, where you know the villain yet he remains a mystery for fuc*n 50 episodes or more, here you never know him until the very last set of episodes. You never get any clue about him and because of that, the mystery surrounding his identity gets secondary to Satoru befriending the girl he wants to save or even running from police.
   
   The Buttferly Effect is not exactly represented
   Satoru can change the distant past. He can live again as a child but with the memory and intelligence of an older man, yet this is hardly meaningful to the tale. He is careful, yes, but acts much like a child as he was than the adult he is. There are two major time travels in the show, and the very first one does very little to change the present, as if changing history would be something very difficult to do and small changes would barely affect the flow of time. It's an interesting approach and one I would gladly enjoy, but here this only works to make a sh&t storm in the tale, turning the power to get back five minutes in time into something completely different. What happened to Satoru in this gap between his return to present and his past? Did he simply forgot everything like what they said in earlier episodes? Did he, as a kid, became suddenly dumb and childish after being serious and mature for a few days? Not a word on that. It would be a lot more interesting if his adult intelligence, knowledge, and skills could play a major role in these time travels, which sadly doesn't.
   
   And it's A-1 Pictures
   The most popular studio of the modern age once again is on charge of an amazing tale. Although they do an overall great job here with their typical light presentation, it falls short of their best due to a deal of inconsistency, especially when unimportant characters such as Kayo's mother and Satoru's boss are around. Some scenes are overly distorted, clumsy, and plain ugly, but at least when it deals with the sweet children they are always top-quality. The coloring also works in favor of making this perhaps one of the darkest shows of the studio along with the bizarre Shinsekai Yori. Add that an amazing sound direction, a welcome lack of ecchiness and sexual approach (this is a show about a pedophile that never even mentions things about that) and you have a great piece of work to the eyes and ears.
   

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Comments
Erased is certainly among the best of this average season, joined perhaps by the finishing first half of the refreshing Gundam Orphans. This is a tale filled with sadness as japanese authors do best, sweet moments, a good amount of thrill, and a sober approach when dealing with children and a serial killer.

Sadly though, everything is brought down by a series of annoying coincidences and plot armor devices that become worse with each and every episode, burning down the very end into something completely out of nowhere and improvised. For a show about investigation of a killer, about saving lives, and about correcting the future, this rush and amount of unexpected twists feel wrong and disappointing. Yet, with all the thrill, tension, and drama, Erased can be one of the most addicting tales of the last seasons and a refreshing show amongst the new horde of magic-schools with overpowerful guy and tsundere princess template.

WARNING: This is an unfinished review.

Here I am, trashing in what many consider it "great" which is actually worse when you actually experience it. Behold... Boku dake ga Inai Machi!

...

Hehe, I wasn't actually calling the show "shit" per se, but this being one of the most polarizing anime shows in history I think it's time to spit it out.

The short story:

Pro: The pacing was pretty good and it kept my attention. Aesthetically nice (Art, Animation, Sound, etc..).
Cons: Sometimes characters don't seem to interact believably, especially regarding their age (or age difference). Also, the recourse to deus ex machina to solve situations is a bit too abundant in my opinion... The plot is also a bit plain and plenty predictable.
All in all, not a bad show, and it was fun to watch, but definitely sub-par.

The long story:

Art & Animation: Even if the art and animation is a bit sketchy sometimes, it still blends well into the show's atmosphere and it did look realistic. The mood was was well achieved, but not spectacularly so. The parts where the show depicted happy/family/friends like moments were done pretty good, but in contrast, the more shadowy/sinister parts where mostly not so well managed (sound was big needed help to create (i.e.: the sense of despair). The animation & art style in general seemed a bit generic too my taste, it left no big impression on me. Incredibly, it was very good depicting some gruesome/brutal/cruel scenes (which are not plenty but are still there).

The animation quality, was good. I cant remember there to be any repeating frames (I may not have paid enough attention), at least they weren't an eyesore. It also per-se didn't feel choppy, but wasn't really praiseworthy either. What I can say is that it felt pretty consistent between episodes, but it derailed a bit with scenes that had some action in them (very few). Some pan-shots here and there, not a detrimental factor.

Inanimate objects had enough detail to add to the sense of realism that the show tried to achieve; nothing praiseworthy here though.

Character design: Generic, not very interesting. There's something weird with women's lips though, like they were stung by africanized bees or something. This is the only thing that stuck in my head from all the character design. On a side note: The main character (adult version) reminded me of Sakamachi Kinjirou (Mayo Chiki), but meh, whatevs.

Character designs were also not repetitive and did help separate their personality. This helped fill the void left by the lack of character development in secondary characters (yup, 12 eps. is short). The designs were easily recognizable.

Sound: I did like the OST and (especially) the EST. Voice acting wasn't bad at all, at the very least you can relate what you see on screen to the voice acting. The childish voices weren't an annoyance (too me at least), which sometimes hinders this kind of shows. Also, main and "main secondary" characters were easily differentiable. Background music was pretty good, and helped generate atmosphere.

Story/Plot: Plain and predictable but well paced. Also, not by any means uneventful. The character already knows things in advance (even though he is confused at first), and that mostly negates the sense of mystery. It relies much on deus ex machina (and I don't mean the embedded super natural power of the main character) and a rushedly developed interaction between the characters, which facilitates things, to solve plot knots. This last is obviously bad, and combined with the "and now this is going to happen [and it does]" kind of situation, the show lost my interest a couple of times.

Character: The main character (Fujinuma Satoru) felt alright, there definitely is some character development going on with him. As one can imagine, there's not much time to develop the secondary characters, in a twelve episode show. But the essentials were covered (and I mean that the bare minimum was cover by character design, animation gestures and some voice acting). On the other hand, the antagonist, was somewhat interesting. The way they laid out the motive of this character was a bit dull though.

Individual characters aside, the interaction between characters is pretty badly done, and also heavily rushed and unrealistic. This last, in order (or so it seemed to me) to lessen plot complexity. This is bad, as it hinders the credibility of the whole setting. I found it especially bothersome when a grownup character interacted with a child. Particularly true with the main character an his mother/teacher; but it also let itself show with children "inter-peer" interaction.

Value: Would I re-watch? No, no sense in watching something that I know the ending too and hasn't left any impression or sentimental value. I sometimes tend to forget details of anime which are very complex like (cluserf*ck alert) the Evangelion TV series or Ghost in The Shell... Details which, when I revisit the series, I end up re-discovering and enjoying. This show has none of that because of its obviousness and plain plot. Maybe sentimental attachment like with Cowboy Bebobp or Samurai X? Nope. I will probably only not forget about this anime just because I wrote this review.

I found out that I mostly like Itou Tomohiko's work as a Director (*)(The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Death Note, Summer Wars, Silver Spoon...). This is certainly not his best work (IMHO) but for those that value his, it might be an interesting experience to watch this show for comparison purposes. I also like what Sasaki Keigo does, his characters/animation were never disappointing (even though some of the shows he did I ended up dropping: Ao no exorcist), but I felt like it lacked on the action side of the animation this time.

Enjoyment: I believe that, for the more frivolous audience (i.e.: me after a long day at work) it will be a good show. It is above the current average production. It certainly sits on one of the top spots of the season (which, granted, doesn't mean mucho). It was passable, and fun to watch. Not very interesting really. But I ended up enjoying some of the funny moments in it (i.e.: the main character's mother sharp remarks). When the show started, and the first "strong" scene came by... I though to myself: "holly balls, is this is going to be _A_ ride!". I became gradually aware that this was a mistake, and that the show was going to be somewhat "MEH". Fair enough, it wasn't bad and I did enjoy it somewhat. I lately tend to watch anime for the fun of it, and get critical afterwards... That's why I end up rating some shows/ovas/movies higher than they should, just because they were fun. This ends in me revisiting the "My List" section later just to find that its a complete mess... critical thinking kicks in and you get this kind of text (this being the first I actually post) (**).

(*) Thanks Anidb.net for providing all these cross-referencing database... learning about the people involved in the ani-biz, and their other works is a breeze.
(**) I would also like to thank those who made/contributed the the "Review Guideline" wiki. I'm not a native English speaking person, and It helped me clear my head about the ideas and concepts that I was going to write about. Interesting read all in all, would recommend to anyone interested.

I tried to wait until it’s over before shitting it properly, but the damn thing didn’t let me. It kept piling up bullshit, the fantards keep excusing them with more bullshit, it got all the way to no5 on MAL and no1 on Anime-Planet, and the topics I made on Reddit and MAL about its problems were deleted immediately, so nobody can have an opinion that differs from the damn circlejerk. This piece of shit that the anime community considered better than Legend of the Galactic Heroes was plain offensive on so many levels and I am here to tell you why.

1) TIME RESETS MAKE NO SENSE.
Just look how there is absolutely no consistency amongst them.

First & Second resets:
- Trigger before someone nearby gets killed
- The protagonist doesn’t need to know about the eminent death for the reset to happen
- The protagonist has no control over when it happens
- The reset sends you 5 minutes into the past
- If the protagonist fails, time moves on as normal

Third reset:
- Triggers after someone nearby gets killed
- The protagonist needs to know about the death for the reset to happen
- The protagonist has no control over when it happens
- The reset sends you 20 years into the past
- If the protagonist fails, time reverts to present, and he can try again until he succeeds
- Let’s not overlook the time paradox of managing to chance the day of death but everything else remained exactly the same, something which is impossible because of the butterfly effect. Also, we are supposed to believe when he returned to the present, his old self magically forgot everything, life went back to normal and played out in exactly the same way. Bullshit.

Fourth reset:
- Triggers when everybody is fine.
- The protagonist wills it to happen. The fan boys were defending the show before this, saying it was great how he had no control over this power, since he can’t use it to his benefit and the tension is tenfold because of it. Well, so much for that. But the fan boys still defended it, saying the protagonist could always control time travel but was too afraid to use it consciously. Excusing bullshit with more bullshit.
- The reset sends you 20 years into the past but not at the same moment the third reset did.

Fifth reset:
The problem with this one is that it doesn’t exist. We get to a point where the protagonist is in grave danger and yet no time reset triggers. Why is that when it fits several criteria from previous cases? I mean, yeah, he says that the fourth reset would be the last, but how did he know that? Did he read the script for what happens next? If he knows he lost the power, how does he know that???

Sixth reset:
Despite the protagonist reassuring us that there will not be another reset, he contradicts himself in the last episode by willingly going back in time and warns everybody of what to do so he can expose the killer. And guess what, he was in grave danger when it happened. Why didn’t it happen in the previous life or death situation? Why didn’t he go all the way back to the car scene, so he won’t lose 15 years of his life? Because shitty writing, that’s why.

And once again, the fan boys said it was no time reset and that he used a super amazing mind game to do everything right. Sure man, he just regained his memory and figured out of a plan that involved the killer taking him to the roof, while his friends would be waiting on ground level with a huge cushion. He would know that the killer was going gay for him too and that he would be fine if he jumped down the roof, with the power of friendship saving his ass and making the killer admit his crimes. Sure, it was all an amazing mind game by a guy WHO WAS A RETARD DURING THE WHOLE SERIES.

2) THE PROTAGONIST HAS NO STEADY MOTIVATIONS.
They change in every episode with no rhyme or reason, something the fan boys didn’t notice because he is a bland self-insert who can be anything and anyone at any given moment. I mean did you even see how generic his face is? Take all faces A1 Pictures animated from light novels and compare them. They are the exact same one, featureless face!

First & Second reset: He saves kids because he is altruistic
Never explained why he is, he was magically born that way.

Third reset: He wants to save his mother by manipulating the emotions of a little girl
A selfish reason, now he is magically no longer altruistic.

Fourth reset: He wants to save the little girl
He no longer cares about saving his mother, which by the way was never hard to save. He had 20 years of time to simply be around her when the fateful night arrives.

3) PLOT CONVENIENCES.
Many events happen seemingly by chance and end up affecting the plot considerably. No proper mystery or thriller should be so reliant on chance because it cheapens what it’s trying to accomplish.

Episode 1: The mother gets killed exactly when she finds out who the killer is. How nice for the killer to wait until he is revealed before deciding to walk in the house.

Episode 1: The reason the protagonist panicked so fast when he saw his dead mother, was because at that exact moment a neighbor came in and the police arrived outside. There is no way for the killer to have arranged it that way, since the neighbor was just passing by. Therefore, it was darn luck and not incrimination that made the protagonist panic, turning the whole thing into stupidity instead of an elaborate scheme.

Episode 3: The protagonist has birthday the exact same day as the girl he is trying to save. This is way too convenient and lazy writing for the sake of cheap feels. He already wants to save her; there is no reason to hammer it even further with more drama.

Episode 5: Airi appears out of nowhere and helps the protagonist when he is hunted by the police. The reason? She just believes he is not a killer. Ok…

Episode 5: Airi’s house is set on fire immediately after she finds out who the killer is. Again, the killer is waiting to be revealed before making his move.

Episode 6: The manager appears out of nowhere to help out the protagonist. The script just wanted him to be there for the sake of plot armor.

Episode 7: The protagonist is about to kill someone when a friend of his appears out of nowhere and stops him before it’s too late. The script just wanted him to be there for the sake of ruining tension.

Episode 8: The girl was hiding from her mother in the exact same bus that the person who wanted to kill her was hiding his equipment. From all the places in this universe, what are the odds of the target running to hide into the killer’s base?

Episode 11: The killer knew that the protagonist is alive but in a coma for many years, yet didn’t do anything to kill him, despite having the political power to do anything he likes. He just reappears when the protagonists wakes up, does his best to make him remember what happened, and THEN tries to kill him.

Episode 12: The killer out of nowhere is not only unable to kill the protagonist but he is also willing to save him and commit suicide if the guy he wanted to kill just a few seconds ago is not alive. And all that were well known to the protagonist who had regained his memories just a few minutes ago. What the frack???

Episode 12: Airi appears out of nowhere under the bridge and is super friendly with a guy she just sees there. Dumb girl is dumb. Also, this was a sappy ending just for forced feels.

4) THE PROTAGONIST’S REASONING MAKES ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE.

He runs away from the police, thus incriminating himself for no reason. The fan boys excuse it as him panicking because of the murder of his mother, thus he wasn’t thinking reasonably. If that is the case, why is he STILL running away from the police after he returns to the present? He is calm now, and thinks reasonably. Hell, he spends half the episode playing with children out in the open for everybody to see, and then goes to chat in a public cafeteria full of people. Seems like he is not afraid of being seen, right? But when police officers arrive, he is running away again. What is this bullshit?

He assumes that he can save his mother by saving a little girl, the two of which have absolutely nothing to do with each other, just because he is at the time when the murders began. Well, thank goodness nothing else happened in the world that year, or he might have arbitrarily assumed he would have to do something completely different.

The fan boys excuse it as, if he stops the killer, he will save both at the same time. But how is this going to work? Just look at how no matter what he does, it will never have a positive outcome.
- He is not intimidating to keep a child killer away by spending time with the girl (in fact, this makes the killer double as motivated)
- He is not strong to beat up the killer in case he shows up
- Even if he scares the killer, this will not stop him from killing other children or his mother in the future
- Even if he saves the little girl, it will not prevent her mother from beating her all the time
- He is not trying to tell anybody about it, which over-complicated things for no reason. The fan boys tried to excuse it like nobody would believe him if he talked. Yet in later episodes pretty much EVERYBODY believes EVERYTHING he says and helps him out.
• His fellow students agree to hide the girl in a bus by simply believing his story.
• They leave her there in the cold for three days, only for eventually telling his mother about it. She believes him as well, and lets her hide in their house thereafter.
• He then tells child support to come check out the mother, something nobody was doing for years. They also believe him and turns out it was easy to prove the girl’s mother was a bad parent.
• The mother’s mother is also magically thrown in the story and is the one that revels what a terrible mother her child is. All the protagonist did, was to tell her to go there when child support is talking to the mother. Something nobody thought of doing for years.
• So basically, he could have resolved the show’s entire conflict by episode 2 if he simply told everybody what is going on right away.
- He then moves to protecting other kids after the first is saved, which again makes no sense. He has no reason to assume the killer would go after the same people, in the same order, and in the same dates. He changed his actions for Pete’s sake, he could have gone after someone else with completely different methods or schedule.

5) THE MYSTERY ASPECT OF THE SHOW IS COMPLETE GARBAGE.
- The protagonist is doing absolutely nothing to find out who is the killer. He prefers to spend his time in a cringy romance between a 10 year old girl and a 30 year old man.
- Whatever the author thinks that can count as clues, is nothing more than hints dropping on the protagonist’s head by complete chance (the bus Hinazuki is hiding just happens to be the killer’s hideout) or through someone’s convenient infodumping (the meeting with the old man, or the teacher in the car). This destroyed any sense of mystery, since the protagonist didn’t use deduction to find clues. They were thrown at him with ridiculous convenience.
- There aren’t even many possible suspects for who the killer could be. It can either be someone from the cast we see all the time, or a complete stranger which would make the revelation BS (thankfully this is not the case). Now try to count how many people look like the guy we see in the first episode (male adult with no beard). There, it can only be THAT guy. What kind of a mystery is this where you know right away who the killer is?
- 10 year-olds in the 80s are somehow masterminds. They can psycho-analyze the protagonist (Hinazuki) and deduct he is hiding something (Kenya). He on the other hand can do nothing but stare like an oaf despite living in the freaking internet era. He is so useless, even little children are better detectives than he is.
- The killer was not revealed because of a mistake he did. He exposed himself and even went as far as soliloquize his evil intentions, like a Saturday morning cartoon villain.
- A mystery story is supposed to give you answers at the end. Yet you don’t get any explanation for why the protagonist has the power to travel in time. Magic space Jesus gave it to him just because. The story never explains anything regarding time travel; it just throws it out there and then expects you not to give a damn when it’s vital to the plot. The fanboys kept saying that you should disregard it entirely, and focus on the mystery instead. Which is impossible since without time travel you have no story. No, really, the story would end in the first episode without it. Also, as proven above, the mystery was also shit.

6) FAKE TENSION WITH CLIFFHANGERS.
Every episode ends with a cliffhanger that makes the average viewer wanting to find out what will happen next. The problem here is that what follows the cliffhangers is a dud. It is always something anti-climactic or completely stupid. The show systematically tries to undo consequences or hide its plot conveniences with cliffhangers that are too obvious to spot when you marathon the show.
- Every time something horrible happens to the protagonist (fails to save the girl or gets captured by the police), a time reset occurs in the beginning of the next episode to undo all the tension.
- When the protagonist is clueless or about to do something really stupid, another character appears out of nowhere as an ally and helps him out with not much justification.
- When the killer gets in the bus where the girl is hiding, is followed by him leaving without even trying to find her because it was conveniently his lair, and not because he knew she was there.
- And of course, the last episode where the protagonist is about to be killed again, but out of nowhere he becomes a mastermind that has planned everything to happen exactly as he hoped.

7) VICTIMIZING GALORE.
A one dimensional evil parent hits while laughing her own child for forced drama.
- No fan boys, saying this happens all the time in real life does not make it any less forced.
- Let’s have the girl being bullied at school as well. No reason to assume the more victimizing they throw at you, the more absurd it becomes.

8 ) PLOT INDUCED STUPIDITY.

Episode 3: Everybody is either too dumb to do anything about it, or too blind to notice the domestic violence. Because a child full of bruises, the testimony of teachers and students, as well as a mother who is constantly running away from inspection, or swings shovels at people, is clearly not evidence.

Episode 5: People lose their jobs, ruin their marriages, and leave town because of a chocolate bar. But people who beat their children every day while laughing about it are left to do as they like.

Episode 5: Only complete retards open the door to a room they know it’s on fire.

Episode 10: You see someone getting in a room but never coming out, despite you standing right outside the whole time. How stupid do you need to be to actually believe the person teleported away?

Episode 10: A little child can’t slip through a jammed seat belt, when it’s easy even for an adult to do it.

Episode 10: The protagonist yells to the killer that he knows his future, something that the killer believes. Which is bullshit because if Satoru knew it, he would know the killer would try to murder him.

Episode 11: The killer does his best to make the protagonist remember he is the killer instead of killing him right away.

Episode 12: The killer magically changes his goal from trying to murder the protagonist, to saving his life and then killing himself.

9) PEDOPHILIA, AS THE PROTAGONIST IS SEXUALLY ATTRACTED TO A LITTLE GIRL.
No fan boys, just because his body is 10 years old, does not make his brain not 30 years old. And nobody knowing he is not really a child does makes him not pedo. Pleading ignorance does not pass in court.
Oh, sorry officer, I thought I could have sex with 10 year olds because I’m a time traveler.

10) ONE DIMENSIONAL EVIL CHARACTERS.
- The manager lusts over Airi, and betrays the protagonist just so he can have her for himself. The fan boys try to excuse it like he did what he thought was right, but all we see is him being a jerk who laughs idiotically and saves Airi because he wants to impress her and get in her pants.
- Letting us know Hibazuki’s mother was mistreated by her husband does not excuse her actions. She is one dimensional because her husband was one dimensional, the end.
- The killer loves to kidnap and murder little children, just because. He is also presented as a mastermind for half the show, always magically teleporting to people that find out who he is, and managing to throw the blame for what he did to someone else. But towards the end, he turns into a laughably incompetent idiot who monologues his evil plans to the protagonist and has no alibi for what he does. He also changes his reason for killing people, from making sure nobody will find out who he is, to magic spider webs only he can see being the reason he needs to kill certain individuals. Also, he does his best to be caught by making the protagonist REMEMBER he is the killer and not killing him while he is vulnerable.

11) AWFUL TIME SKIP.
Any hints of logic the show had, are completely gone when a time skip takes place in the last episodes.
- The protagonist falls in a coma and wakes up with amnesia, two of the most bullshit tropes only lazy soap opera writers would be using. Not only that but they are also completely meaningless. They are both dealt with in the same episode they appear in.
- The only major change made during the time skip was the kids he saved getting married, and everything else remained exactly the same. Because that’s how time travel works. Why would his mother be living in a different place when she is taking care of a comatose man, or the killer having a different lifestyle when he ran away from town and didn’t kill anyone?
- Why the hell did those kids marry each other? There was no damn chemistry between them! Three quarters of the show were spent on building a relationship between the girl and the protagonist, and the result is her getting married to a minor character she didn’t care about that looks like a girl? How did that happen?
- Every fantard was yelling netorare in the episode discussions for not getting the pedophilia ship they were hoping for. In fact, the show began decreasing in average score only because it made the fandom very butthurt.
- Not only the killer did not try to kill the protagonist while he was defenseless in a coma, but also does his best to make him remember. Where did his ingenious plans to keep his crimes hidden went to?

12) UNDEFINED FOCUS.
This show has no idea of what it’s trying to be about, leading to a complete lack of identity. This is evident in how the fanboys were gradually changing their opinion of the show, every time something was disappointing them.
- First, they said it was a time travel type of story. Something I proved it was very bad because it made no sense.
- So, they switch their opinion to, no it’s not about time travel but a mystery story about trying to uncover a killer. Something I also proved wrong, since there was absolutely no deduction made by the protagonist and the killer was obvious right away. I mean, yeah, the fanboys were still surprised with the obvious revelation because they were refusing to believe it would be so obvious. They still pretended it was amazing writing because it made it seem it was too easy to be him. This was self trolling caused by people who didn’t want to accept it was so easy after all.
- Then they say it was never a mystery but rather a thriller, where the protagonist is rushing to save kids from a killer before it’s too late. Again, I proved this was a lie since the constant time resets and the plot conveniences were destroying all sense of tension.
- Desperate to excuse it somehow, the fanboys were then saying it was a drama about people living miserable lives by being mistreated by their family or not getting what they want in life. Something I also proved it was the result of being stupid and not simply talking about it.
- Oh, and let’s not forget the usual double standards they were using all the time, saying how real the characters are, how the show makes them cry, and how amazingly interesting the mystery is. But when I proved the time resets are unexplained bullshit, they immediately say it is just a cartoon and you shouldn’t take it seriously. If that is so, why do you find them real and cry about it??? Why do you call the mystery amazing when it makes no sense???

See? They can’t even defend the show as something done right.

SO WHY THE DEVIL WAS THIS SHOW SO HYPED AND ADORED BY EVERYBODY?
Erased fails in everything besides emotional manipulation. It had a premise where a good hearted man tries to save his mother and a cute girl the viewers feel sorry for. As soon as both these issues were solved in episode 9, the interest in the show immediately evaporated and what followed was a bullshit killer revelation and a retarded time skip nobody could take seriously.

Basically, while the show was using forced drama and a sickening romance between a man and a little girl, everybody was blinded to its problems. The second those were dealt with, they instantly woke up and realized it was crap all along. The whole thing is yet another example of why crap like Sword Art Online become super hyped and loved by everybody while they air, and then are hated as soon as they are over. The anime community is a cesspool of immature people who can’t think straight and let emotions cloud their perception. And then some wonder why Donald Trump is so adored for all the ridiculous things he does. Faith in humanity, lost.