Erased Vol. 01

(W/A/CA) Kei Sanbe. The source material of the breathtaking anime series gets its own* deluxe English language release at last! Satoru Fujinuma flounders through life. Amid his daily drudgery* he finds himself in the grip of an incredible* inexplicable* and uncontrollable phenomenon that rewinds time* a condition that seems to only make his drab life worse. But then* one day* everything changes. A terrible incident forever changes Satoru's life as he knows it* and with it comes a "Revival" that sends Satoru eighteen years into the past! In the body of his boyhood self* Satoru encounters sights he never imagined he would see again the smile of his mother* alive and well* his old friends* and Kayo Hinazuki* the girl who was kidnapped and murdered when he was a boy the first time around. To return to the present and prevent the tragedy that brought him back to his childhood in the first place* Satoru begins plotting a way to change Hinazuki's fate. But up against the clock and a faceless evil* does eleven-year-old Satoru even stand a chance?