Aniplex of America Acquires Sci-Fi Thriller ERASED for January 2016
SAO Director and Blue Exorcist Character Designer to Produce Anime Adaptation of Popular Thriller Mystery Series!
SANTA MONICA, CA (December 9, 2015) –Aniplex of America announced today that they have acquired the anime series, ERASED (Japanese title: Boku dake ga Inai Machi, lit. The town where only I am missing), for their upcoming winter simulcast season. This highly anticipated anime adaptation of the award-winning manga currently serialized in Young Ace monthly magazine will premiere on Crunchyroll on January 7, 2016 from 8:30 a.m. (PST). Aniplex of America has also launched the official homepage of ERASED (www.AniplexUSA.com/erased) where they plan to announce more details on the series at a later time.
ERASED is a sci-fi thriller series featuring the story of Satoru Fujinuma, a struggling manga creator who suffers from a peculiar phenomenon called REVIVAL, where he is forcibly transferred back in time moments before a life-threatening occurrence. Satoru soon realizes that this phenomenon continues to occur only to him until he successfully eliminates the cause of this threat. Originally created by author Kei Sanbe, the ERASED manga series has won second place for the 2014 Manga Taisho award and has been featured in Kono Manga Ga Sugoi (lit. This Manga is Amazing!) for the same year. The anime adaptation will be produced by A-1 Pictures (Sword Art Online II, Blue Exorcist, Your Lie in April) and directed by Tomohiko Ito (Sword Art Online II, Silver Spoon) and Keigo Sasaki (Blue Exorcist, World Conquest Zvezda Plot) will be working as the character designer.
For more details on ERASED, please visit the official homepage: www.AniplexUSA.com/erased
About Aniplex of America Inc.
Aniplex of America Inc. (Santa Monica, California) is a subsidiary of Aniplex Inc. (headquartered in
Tokyo, Japan), a group of Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc. and a leading provider of anime
content and music production and distribution in Japan. Aniplex of America has launched fan-favorite
Blu-ray and DVD releases including Sword Art Online, Kill la Kill, Bakemonogatari, Fate/Zero,
Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Blue Exorcist, NISEKOI, OREIMO 2, Magi: The Kingdom of Magic,
Expelled from Paradise, The irregular at magic high school, ALDNOAH.ZERO, Fate/stay night
[Unlimited Blade Works] and DURARARA!! ×2. The company's ever-growing line-up of shows includes
our most recent titles Sword Art Online II, The Asterisk War, OWARIMONOGATARI, Your Lie in April,
Charlotte, Classroom Crisis, WAGNARIA!! 3 and GOD EATER.
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