(L+CR) Boku Dake ga Inai Machi - ERASED [Manga comparisons forbidden]

[GDB]

Originally Posted by j4c06

That is obvious, I meant regardless of it being tampered with.

You're assuming only the buckle was tampered with. The waist belt itself could have been as well so as to not extend past a certain amount. And if it doesn't extend, and doesn't unbuckle, how's one supposed to get out?

[j4c06]

Originally Posted by GDB

And if it doesn't extend, and doesn't unbuckle, how's one supposed to get out?

One slides under the seat belt. That's what children do.

[Harbinger]

Don't tell me our MC is the going going to be "erased" :/

I knew (99%) that the teacher was the killer. I didn't expect the killer to be revealed this episode... well, not to the MC anyway.

I doubt that our MC is completely dead. You don't kill the main character 2 episode before the end! You can't do that!

I wonder what's going to happen... will he be thrown in a weird future? Will his past action not count (since he failed)?

[thundrakkon]

Well, I got my doom and gloom.

There goes the MC. I guess that's it for the story. Wait, there's 2 episodes left? Well, I guess it's time for Kayo and Kenya to become the new MC.

I very much like this episode. I felt the pacing was fine. Aya was not that important a character, and I thought the resolution was good enough. I really did not get a feeling of rush at all.

As for the reveal, well... Satoru was really... well, he should have seen it coming from the teacher. He trusted the guy way too much for someone who should be on high alert for who the killer is. Once again, Yashiro proved that he is just way, way more intelligent than anyone in the cast.

As for those asking about the "why" he does what he does, he explained it this episode. It's for the thrill, the challenge, and to fill the hole in his heart. Now, how to use this to solve a crime? Not really sure it matters.

Well, if Satoru can survive this situation, and revival does not kick in, then he has a case to accuse Yashiro of attempted murder.

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I don't think he can go to a future where he is already dead, so if revival happens, he would need to go to the past.

[Harbinger]

Originally Posted by thundrakkon

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I don't think he can go to a future where he is already dead, so if revival happens, he would need to go to the past.

I doubt we have enough episodes to jump back into the past. 2 episodes aren't enough. If it was 3-4 episodes, okay, maybe. 2 --- no way!

I want to know what happens next! The next episode can't come fast enough

Here's what could happen:
-He's dead
-He's dead and "sees" things as a spirit or something (basically, he's dead, but gets to see what happens)
-He jumps back to the future and try to solve things there
-He survived somehow --- perhaps the teacher saved him. He was obviously "interested" when our MC said "I know your future!"
-The killer left him for dead, but he didn't die... but that's unlikely. He seems like he's very experienced at killing.

[Arya]

Originally Posted by j4c06

Oh, and one other thing that is bothering me. When Satoru saw the man with the umbrella before the last revival, he kind of took notice of him. How could he be so naive then?

I thought about that too, but probably Yashiro was covered by the umbrella, so Satoru just had realized he was the culprit without actually see his face.

In any case, excellent episode. The moment Satoru parted from his friends and kenya said something about seeing each other tomorrow it was clear the episode wouldn't have ended well for him.

[Kazu-kun]

Originally Posted by Harbinger

-He jumps back to the future and try to solve things there
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This wouldn't be possible. Even if his mind tries to jump to the future, his body would stay behind and die. So he literally wouldn't have any future.

[Sides]

Episode felt a bit packed. They become friends with the new girl and then the killer reveals himself. That is a lot for one episode.

[FlareKnight]

I think jumping back is one of the only options he has. Outside of the teacher being interested in Satoru's words so much that he'd jump into the water to save him just to find out what he knew.

Can't go forward (since he'd be dead), so the present or past is the only option. And really if he just jumps back to when Kayo leaves that's enough. He knows who the killer is and can use the last couple episodes to bring him down.

[germanturkey]

they were making such blatant signs that it was the teacher that i thought there was no way it could have been. but then suddenly... mind blown.

the film strips were used in the past to show the unaltered timeline, if i remember correctly. so them breaking could indicate that the original line is no more, since he died.

[PreSage]

Dang! This is frustrating! I hope Satoru isn't dead and that he somehow survives to capture Yashiro. The series better not end with Yashiro not getting captured because that will frustrate me like hell! Grrr, I want that bastard pushing daisies!!

...and yeah...Yashiro was too obviously set up to be the murderer...but the reveal was still intense though.

[Mister Twit]

When you think about it, if Satoru dies during a "revival" then wouldn't that mean he couldn't have done the revival in the first place, because he died in the past? That seems like a fairly obvious paradox. Maybe he'll just get punted back to the present like nothing happened (which will be sad because it undoes all the hard work he put into saving everyone).

[PreSage]

Originally Posted by Mister Twit

When you think about it, if Satoru dies during a "revival" then wouldn't that mean he couldn't have done the revival in the first place, because he died in the past? That seems like a fairly obvious paradox. Maybe he'll just get punted back to the present like nothing happened (which will be sad because it undoes all the hard work he put into saving everyone).

If he undoes all that had originally happened in the past (i.e. the murders) then he would have had no reason at all to travel to the past in the first place, which is the same as if he had died in the past.

That's time paradox for you. As I see it, time travel to the past creates a new parallel future but does not erase the original future. The time traveller disappears at a "later" point in the first timeline and appears in the new timeline. So I suppose, in a sense, this fits with the series' name being that Satoru is erased from the original timeline when he time jumped and now lives happily in the new timeline. That's the only way I can see how this new future can be maintained.

[Eater of All]

Originally Posted by Mister Twit

When you think about it, if Satoru dies during a "revival" then wouldn't that mean he couldn't have done the revival in the first place, because he died in the past? That seems like a fairly obvious paradox. Maybe he'll just get punted back to the present like nothing happened (which will be sad because it undoes all the hard work he put into saving everyone).

If revival is a channeling ability (i.e. he's still anchored to the future) then maybe. It can also be the case that each jump forks a parallel universe whose canonical history is whatever Satoru is doing currently, so each revival is a one time event that activates in an immutable universe unrelated to the current universe.

[Tempester]

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Satoru clearly says "Gaku".
Translator writes his name as "Manabu".

[Kakurin]

Originally Posted by Tempester

Satoru clearly says "Gaku".
Translator writes his name as "Manabu".

The translator most likely only has the script by which he translates. And most likely the script didn't contain furigana. The on-reading of the kanji 学 is Gaku. The kun-reading is Manabu.

[karice67]

Originally Posted by Kakurin-san

The translator most likely only has the script by which he translates. And most likely the script didn't contain furigana. The on-reading of the kanji 学 is Gaku. The kun-reading is Manabu.

Does the same translator work on all episodes of a series? Because whoever translated episode 8 got it right...

Also, considering that the reading of the name can be found on the Japanese Wikipedia, why didn't they just look it up?

[Arya]

Originally Posted by germanturkey

the film strips were used in the past to show the unaltered timeline, if i remember correctly. so them breaking could indicate that the original line is no more, since he died.

I took that as the sign Satoru did alter the future, regardless his own close future fate. In fact he saved all the three victims. I think it was related more the void he felt in his heart (and is gone?)
You may expect the new "memory" to replace the old one, but that's more a narrative choice to avoid to give you any spoiler to what comes next.

Now, regarding Satoru I don't know how he could survive, but what I'd prefer not to see is Yashiro saving him just due to that last line he throw at him about knowing his future. It would be a bit too easy. On the other hand is also the most likely. Nobody followed them, unless Kenya did it, but the best he could have done, if we assume he got the hang of what was happening, is calling the police and convince them an abduction happened.

In any case surely it has to be something within the reality boundaries.


And I don't wanna see Sachiko if something really happens to Satoru.

[Syan48306]

You do have to remember that the title of the series is "The Town Where Only I Am Missing"

I kind of always assumed that he would save his friends but end up being the one that gets killed in the process. If he really does die, I'd be disappointed that he didn't see all the clues up until this point.

[aohige]

Originally Posted by j4c06

One slides under the seat belt. That's what children do.

They can slide, because the belt loosens slightly to let them.
The shoulder crossing can be escaped, but the waist belt is effectively a restraint if it doesn't loosen at all