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iFlix Adds ERASED, Myriad Colors Phantom World, Bungo Stray Dogs Anime

Southeast Asian streaming service iflix announced last Friday that it has added the ERASED, Myriad Colors Phantom World, and Bungo Stray Dogs anime.

The story of ERASED, based on Kei Sanbe's Boku dake ga Inai Machi manga, follows Satoru Fujinuma, a 29-year old struggling manga artist who possesses a strange power: a largely uncontrolled ability to turn back time before a life-threatening accident occurs around him. When his mother notices a serial kidnapper in action, and is later murdered for it, Satoru unwillingly turns back time to arrive 18 years in the past in his elementary school days, some time before an incident that has haunted him his whole life: the disappearance and murder of his classmate Kayo Hinazuki.

Tomohiko Ito (Sword Art Online, Silver Spoon) directed the series and Taku Kishimoto (Silver Spoon, Haikyu!!) handled series composition at A-1 Pictures. Keigo Sasaki (The Seven Deadly Sins, Blue Exorcist) designed the characters for the anime and Yuki Kajiura (Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Sword Art Online) composed the music.

The anime premiered in Japan on January 7. Aniplus HD aired a simulcast of the series in Singapore, Indonesia, and Thailand.

Sanbe began the manga in 2012, and ended it in Kadokawa's Young Ace magazine on March 4. Kadokawa published the eighth and final compiled volume on May 2.

Myriad Colors Phantom World's story, based on the original novel by Sōichirō Hatano, takes place in the near future, in a world born of human imagination. What humans would call ghosts or monsters appear, and they come to be called "phantoms." The main character, Haruhiko Ichijō, is a first year at Hosea Academy along with his upperclassman Mai Kawakami, who fights phantoms with the ability "Spirit of Five Elements," Reina Izumi, who has the ability "Phantom Eater," and Koito Minase, who fights phantoms in solitude. They experience the ups and downs of high school life before a certain incident leads them to the truth of this world.

Tatsuya Ishihara (The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions!, Sound! Euphonium) directed the series at Kyoto Animation, and Kazumi Ikeda (Clannad television anime, second Kanon television anime, Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions!) designed the characters and served as chief animation director. Shirabi provided the original illustrations for Hatano's novel. Fumihiko Shimo (Kokoro Connect, Infinite Stratos, Clannad) was in charge of series composition, and EFFY composed the soundtrack.

The anime premiered in Japan on January 6. Aniplus HD aired a simulcast of the series in Singapore, Indonesia, and Thailand.

The Bungo Stray Dogs "battle action" story centers around a league of literary figures with supernatural powers. For example, in real life, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa wrote acclaimed stories that inspired Akira Kurosawa's Rashōmon film and the Aoi Bungaku Series anime's Jigoku Hen (Hell Screen) arc. In Bungo Stray Dogs, he has the power to transform and manipulate his cloak into a monster-like entity. Together, some of these writers solve mysteries as part of the "Armed Detective Agency," while others appear as antagonists.

Takuya Igarashi and Yoji Enokido, the director and screenwriter team behind Ouran High School Host Club and Star Driver, is helming the anime at Studio BONES. Nobuhiro Arai (Chaika the Coffin Princess) is handling character design and serving as chief animation director alongside Hiroshi Kanno (Blast of Tempest). Ryō Hirata is handling prop design and sub character design, while Fumihiro Katagai (Chaika the Coffin Princess) is in charge of gun design. Taku Iwasaki (Gatchaman Crowds, Black Butler) is composing the music and Kazuhiro Wakabayashi (Ghost in the Shell, Blue Exorcist) is serving as sound director at Glovision.

The anime is airing with a split-season. The first half premiered on April 6. The second half (starting with the 13th episode) will premiere on Monday, October 5. Aniplus HD aired a simulcast of the first half of the series in Singapore, Indonesia, and Thailand.