The city where I don't exist

The city where I don't exist
Original title	僕 だ け が い な い 街
transcription	Boku Dake ga Inai Machi
genre	His , drama, crime
Manga
country	Japan
author	Kei Sanbe
publishing company	Kadokawa Shoten
magazine	Young Ace
First publication	June 4, 2012 - March 4, 2016
expenditure	9
Manga
title	Boku Dake ga Inai Machi: Re
Original title	僕 だ け が い な い 街 Re
country	Japan
author	Kei Sanbe
publishing company	Kadokawa Shoten
magazine	Young Ace
First publication	June 4, 2016 - ...
Light novel
title	Boku Dake ga Inai Machi: Another Record
Original title	僕 だ け が い な い 街 Another Record
author	Hajime Ninomae
illustrator	Kei Sanbe
publishing company	Kadokawa Shoten
magazine	Bungei Kadokawa
First publication	October 10, 2015 - February 10, 2016
expenditure	1
Anime television series
title	Erased - The city where I don't exist
Country of production	Japan
original language	Japanese
year	2016
Studio	A-1 Pictures
length	25 minutes
Episodes	12
Theme music	Asian Kung Fu Generation - Re: Re:
Director	Tomohiko Ito
production	Kenta Suzuki , Taku Matsuo
music	Yuki Kajiura
First broadcast	January 8, 2016 on Fuji TV
First publication in German	March 14, 2017 on YouTube
synchronization
Television series
German title	Erased
Original title	僕 だ け が い な い 街
Country of production	Japan
original language	Japanese
year	2017
Production company	Kansai Telecasting (KTV)
length	approx. 25–32 minutes
Episodes	12 in 1 season
genre	Drama , thriller
Director	Ten Shimoyama
script	Kei Sanbe
First broadcast	December 15, 2017 on Netflix

The city where I don't exist ( Japanese 僕 だ け が い な い 街 , Boku Dake ga Inai Machi ) is a manga series by Kei Sanbe . It was published in eight volumes in Japan from 2012 to 2016 and was adapted as a feature film, light novel , anime television series and real television series.

content

29 year old manga writer Satoru Fujinuma ( 藤 沼 悟 ) has the ability to travel back in time. If a life-threatening situation for a person arises in his environment, he is suddenly some time earlier and has the opportunity to avert the danger. However, he cannot consciously use the ability. When his mother, Sachiko Fujinuma ( 藤 沼 佐 知 子 ), recognizes a serial killer and wants to turn on the police, she is murdered and found by her son. He is suspected and suddenly Satoru is 18 years back in the past - in the body of himself as a 10 year old. He remembers that a series of murders happened back then and suspects that he must find the perpetrator in order to save his mother.

Satoru also remembers that a classmate of his was one of the victims. Kayo Hinazuki ( 雛 月 加 代 ) is a quiet, withdrawn girl. He seeks contact with her in order to prevent the murder and to solve the case. But it is not always easy for Satoru to deal with her and his classmates and friends, as he is mentally still the 29-year-old adult. His friends Osamu, Kazu and Hiromi do not notice much, but the intelligent Kenya Kobayashi ( 小林 賢 也 ) finds his behavior strange. While Satoru finds out more about Kayo and seeks her around to protect her, he learns that she is being abused at home and that is why she is so quiet. Her class teacher Gaku Yashiro ( 八 代 学 ) has already noticed this, but together with the youth welfare office has not yet been able to help. Satoru also remembers Jun Shiratori ( 白鳥 潤 ), called Yūki. The 21-year-old part-time worker often plays with the children in his neighborhood and has been blamed for the series of murders. But Satoru believed in his innocence as a 10-year-old and also now.

To protect Kayo, he befriends her. He invites her to his birthday - which is also hers and at the same time the day of the murder. The plan worked until night, but the next day she disappeared again. Satoru's endeavors were unsuccessful and suddenly he is back in his future self. Here he now has to flee from the police who are looking for him because of the murder of his mother, and at the same time research what happened 18 years earlier. His colleague Airi Katagiri ( 片 桐 愛 梨 ) helps him, but is targeted by the perpetrator herself. He wants to kill her and attach her death to Satoru again. Thanks to an old friend of his mother's, who is also a journalist, he finds out that he has really changed the past. Kayo's death has been postponed for a day. But then he is discovered by the police during a secret meeting with Airi and arrested. He is transported back to the past, before Kayo's death.

Satoru now resolves to change as much as possible and thus prevent her death. He gives Jun Shiratori an alibi and doesn’t take Kayo home on the evening of his birthday, but instead takes him to an old bus. She will stay there for the next few days and is so safe. Soon Kenya and Hiromi also help to secretly feed and entertain them. Finally, the three of them go to Kayo's mother, together with Satoru's mother Sachiko, who has seen through the game, and confront her. The youth welfare office and class teacher Yashiro are also hidden here, so they can see everything and finally separate Kayo from their mother. After this success, however, Satoru does not find peace, because he does not yet know the murderer, who should then commit further acts. So he tries first to never leave Hiromi alone. He too was one of the victims. He also befriends another lonely girl who should become one of the victims. His friends help him, above all Kenya, who understands that Satorus Do better protects lonely children.

Then Satoru notices that another girl from the school who used to tease Kayo is now getting lonely after these new events. He fears she could become a new victim of the murderer, a replacement for those he escaped. So he feels after her too and wants to make friends. But when you visit a stadium, it suddenly disappears. While searching for her, he meets Yashiro, with whom he is chasing a suspicious vehicle. During the journey, however, Yashiro reveals himself to be the culprit who planned the murders. He noticed that it was Satoru who kept stopping him, so he lured him into the stolen car. He locks Satoru in it and lets it drive into a frozen lake, while Satoru calls out to him that he knows Yashiro's future.

Fifteen years later, Satoru wakes up from the coma he had been in since the incident. His mother looked after him the whole time and now he can recover relatively quickly. But his memories are missing and he is amazed to be able to do many things despite the coma that he could not have learned as a 10-year-old. His school friends, now grown up and at work, visit him - above all Kenya, Hiromi and Kayo. Yashiro, now a politician, also visits him regularly. Fearing that Satoru might regain his memory and get him into trouble, he plans to kill him. But when Yashiro stands on the roof of the hospital with Satoru, he confesses that he has the memory back. Yashiro wants to trick him again, blame him for the death of a girl in the hospital and make his death appear as a suicide, but Satoru has also taken precautions. He has secretly told his friends and his mother that they can convict Yashiro together and that he will be arrested for the attempted murder.

Book publication

The manga series was published from June 2012 to March 2016 in Young Ace magazine published by Kadokawa Shoten in Japan. This brought out the chapters in nine edited volumes. From May 2016 to November 2017, Tokyopop's manga was published entirely in German. It is published in English by Yen Press , in French by Ki-oon , in Spanish by Editorial Ivréa and Norma Editorial and in Italian by Edizioni Star Comics .

A spin-off called Boku dake ga Inai Machi: Re , also by Kei Sanbe, has been published in the same magazine since June 4, 2016. In this work Kayo Hinazuki is the protagonist.

A light novel written by Hajime Ninomae and illustrated by Kei Sanbe was published under the title Boku Dake ga Inai Machi: Another Record . It ran as a sequel in the magazine Bungei Kadokawa from October 10, 2015 (issue 11/2015) to February 10, 2016 (issue 3/2016). The series was also published in one volume on March 30, 2016.

Anime adaptation

In 2016, A-1 Pictures directed Tomohiko Itō and produced an anime adaptation of the material for Japanese television. The responsible producers were Kenta Suzuki and Taku Matsuo , the scriptwriter was Taku Kishimoto . The character design was created by Keigo Sasaki and the artistic direction was Masaru Satō .

The series was shown after midnight on Fuji TV from January 8th to March 25th, 2016 in its amino acid block. Various platforms published the anime via streaming with subtitles under the title Erased . Peppermint Anime always published the episodes shortly after the Japanese first broadcast with German subtitles on their video-on-demand platform. Due to the different time zones of Japan and the German-speaking area, the episodes were published on the previous day with German subtitles, i.e. from January 7th to March 24th, 2016.

The anime by Peppermint Anime was licensed for the German market under the name Erased - The city in which I don't exist . The series was published in two volumes with six episodes each on March 31 and May 26, 2017 on DVD and Blu-ray in German. The first episode was made available for a short time with German synchronization on YouTube from March 14, 2017 . The German television broadcast began on July 13, 2018 in the night block of ProSieben Maxx .

synchronization

role	Japanese speaker ( seiyū )	German speakers
Satoru Fujinuma (29 Years)	Shinnosuke Mitsushima	Kim Hasper
Satoru Fujinuma (10 years)	Tao Tsuchiya	Claudia Schmidt
Kayo Hinazuki	Aoi Yūki	Kristina Tietz
Sachiko Fujinuma	Minami Takayama	Sonja Spuhl
Kenya Kobayashi	Yō Taichi	Melinda Rachfahl
Hiromi Sugita	Akari Kitō	Charlotte Uhlig
Jun Shiratori	Takahiro Mizushima	Bastian Sierich

Episode list

No.	German title	Original title	First broadcast in Japan	German language first publication (D / A / CH)	Director	script	German language first broadcast (D / A / CH)	First publication in the OmdU
1	kaleidoscope	走馬灯 Sōmatō	Jan. 8, 2016	14 Mar 2017	Tomohiko Itō	Taku Kishimoto	13th July 2018	Jan. 7, 2016
2	Palm	掌 Tenohira	Jan 15, 2016	31 Mar 2017	Toshimasa Ishii	Taku Kishimoto	20th July 2018	Jan. 14, 2016
3	Bruises	痣 Aza	Jan. 22, 2016	31 Mar 2017	Takahiro Shikama	Yutaka Yasunaga	July 27, 2018	Jan. 21, 2016
4th	involvement	達成 Tassei	Jan. 29, 2016	31 Mar 2017	Shin'ya Watada	Taku Kishimoto	Aug 3, 2018	Jan. 28, 2016
5	Escape	逃亡 Tōbō	Feb 5, 2016	31 Mar 2017	Makoto Hoshino	Taku Kishimoto	10 Aug 2018	Feb. 4, 2016
6th	Death Angel	死神 Shinigami	Feb 12, 2016	31 Mar 2017	Daiki Mori	Taku Kishimoto	17th Aug 2018	Feb 11, 2016
7th	Runaway	暴走 Bōsō	19th Feb 2016	May 26, 2017	Toshimasa Ishii	Yutaka Yasunaga	24 Aug 2018	Feb. 18, 2016
8th	spiral	螺旋 lawn	Feb. 26, 2016	May 26, 2017	Kosaya	Yutaka Yasunaga	31 Aug 2018	Feb 25, 2016
9	The last act	終 幕 Shūmaku	4th Mar 2016	May 26, 2017	Tomohiko Itō	Taku Kishimoto	Sep 7 2018	3rd Mar 2016
10	joy	歓 喜 Kanki	11th Mar 2016	May 26, 2017	Takahiro Shikama	Taku Kishimoto	Sep 14 2018	10 Mar 2016
11	future	未来 Mirai	18 Mar 2016	May 26, 2017	Makoto Hoshino	Taku Kishimoto	21 Sep 2018	17th Mar 2016
12	treasure	宝物 Takaramono	25th Mar 2016	May 26, 2017	Toshimasa Ishii	Taku Kishimoto	28 Sep 2018	24 Mar 2016

music

The music for the series was composed by Yuki Kajiura . The opening credits were underlaid with Re: Re: from Asian Kung-Fu Generation and the closing song is Sore wa Chiisa na Hikari no yō na ( そ れ は 小 さ な 光 の よ う な ) by Sayuri.

Real film

The manga was adapted as a live action film under the direction of Yūichirō Hirakawa and was released in Japanese cinemas on March 19, 2016. Tatsuya Fujiwara took on the leading role .

Real series

Netflix announced a live TV series based on the manga in collaboration with Kansai Telecasting in March 2017. The first season of the Netflix original series was released worldwide on Netflix on December 15, 2017. The main role is played by Yūki Furukawa as a 29-year-old Satoru Fujinuma, while Reo Uchikawa plays Satoru as a ten-year-old child.

The real television series was published by Netflix , among others in Germany, unsynchronized with subtitles under the title Erased .

reception

The manga was nominated for the Manga Taisho Prize in 2014 and 2015, and in 2016 for the 40th Kōdansha Manga Prize .

The fourth volume in the series was the first to make it onto the list of the 50 best-selling manga in a week - it reached number 12 and sold over 70,000 times in the first three weeks. The eighth and final volume, published in March 2016, reached number 1 and ultimately sold almost 400,000 copies in the first four weeks.

Web links

• Website for German publication
• Anime website (Japanese)
• Entry on the manga and its adaptations on Anime News Network (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Erased # 1 now on NinotakuTV. In: peppermint-anime.de. March 14, 2017. Retrieved July 14, 2017.
2. ↑ Erased - The city where I don't exist. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on July 14, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Kaoru Mori's A Bride's Story Wins 7th Annual Manga Taisho Award. Anime News Network, March 27, 2014, accessed November 10, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Akiko Higashimura's Kakukaku Shikajika Wins 8th Manga Taisho Award. Anime News Network, March 24, 2015, accessed November 10, 2016 . 
5. ↑ 40th Annual Kodansha Manga Awards' Nominees Announced. Anime News Network, April 4, 2016, accessed November 10, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Japanese Comic Ranking, June 9-15. Anime News Network, June 18, 2014, accessed November 10, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Japanese Comic Ranking, May 16-22. Anime News Network, May 25, 2016, accessed November 10, 2016 .