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Elex Media Licenses Kei Sanbe's Erased Manga
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Indonesian publisher Elex Media Komputindo announced on Wendesday that it has licensed Kei Sanbe's Erased (Boku dake ga Inai Machi) manga. The manga's first compiled book volume is slated to ship in Indonesia in January.
The original manga's story 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.
Sanbe serialized the manga in Kadokawa's Young Ace magazine from 2012 to March 2016, and a spinoff manga from June to November 2016. The manga was nominated for the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize 'Reader Award' in 2014, the Manga Taisho Awards in 2015, and 2017's Seiun comic award.
A television anime adaptation premiered in January 2016. Aniplus Asia aired a simulcast of the series in Singapore, Indonesia, and Thailand. The anime is available streaming on the iFlix streaming service.
The manga also inspired a live-action film that opened in Japan in March 2016, and it opened in Indonesia in September 2016. Netflix also produced a Japanese live-action series adaptation that premiered in December 2017.
Source: Elex Media's Twitter account via Kaori Nusantara
