Erased

Satoru Fujinuma is a 29-year-old struggling manga artist with an unusual ability he calls "Revival," which throws him back a few minutes in time whenever something terrible is about to happen, giving him a chance to stop it. When his mother is murdered and he becomes the prime suspect, Revival sends him much further back than ever before, to 1988, when he was a grade schooler and a string of child disappearances shook his town. Now trapped in a kid's body with an adult's memories, Satoru sets out to protect his quiet, neglected classmate Kayo Hinazuki and to stop the tragedies that followed, hoping to change both the past and the future that came from it. Along the way, he rediscovers old friendships and the warmth of his childhood, while the mystery of who is behind it all slowly tightens. It's a tense, emotional thriller that blends time travel with a gripping whodunit.