Manga like Boku dake ga Inai Machi

also known as Erased

What is Erased about?

Status: Finished

Twenty-nine-year-old Satoru Fujinuma is floundering through life. Amid his daily drudgery, he finds himself in the grip of an incredible, inexplicable, and uncontrollable phenomenon that rewinds time, a condition that seems to only make his drab life worse. But then, one day, everything changes. A terrible incident forever changes Satoru's life as he knows it...and with it, comes a "Revival" that sends Satoru eighteen years into the past!

In the body of his boyhood self, Satoru encounters sights he never imagined he would see again--the smile of his mother, alive and well, his old friends, and Kayo Hinazuki, the girl who was kidnapped and murdered when he was a boy the first time around. To return to the present and prevent the tragedy that brought him back to his childhood in the first place, Satoru begins plotting a way to change Hinazuki's fate...But up against the clock and a faceless evil, does eleven-year-old Satoru even stand a chance?



Note: Was nominated for the 18th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Reader Award in 2014 and for the 7th, 8th and 9th Manga Taisho Award between 2014 and 2016. Also nominated for the 40th Kodansha Manga Awards in 2016.

Volume 9 contains the 5-chapter “Boku Dake ga Inai Machi:Re” side story.

Tags: Crime , Primarily Child Cast , Age Regression , Male Protagonist , Time Manipulation , Time Skip , School , Seinen , Detective , Fugitive , Tragedy , Revenge , Bullying , Rehabilitation , Writing , Amnesia , Snowscape , Photography
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Tokyo Revengers

Tokyo卍Revengers

Also known as Tokyo Revengers.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Romance , Supernatural

Hanagaki Takemichi was once a low-life punk, but after biting off more than he could chew with a gang in middle school, he ran away from his old life. Now that he’s an adult, the gang that once terrorized him has grown into the largest gang in Tokyo, and they’ve started killing people–including his old girlfriend! After learning this news, a mysterious force on a train platform shoves Takemichi right in front of an approaching train. As his life flashes before his eyes, he blinks to find himself transported back to middle school, before he fled from the gang! Now he has the chance to right what went wrong all those years ago. Can he save his girlfriend’s life in the future–and what else might he change if he’s rewriting the past?



Notes:
Winner of the Shounen Manga category of the 44th annual Kodansha Manga Awards.
Includes 1 extra chapter.

Tags: Delinquents , Gangs , Time Manipulation , Time Skip , Tragedy , Male Protagonist , Conspiracy , Revenge , Crime , Shounen , Age Regression , Urban , Ensemble Cast , Motorcycles , Heterosexual , Suicide , Espionage , Love Triangle , Gore , Mopeds , Age Gap , School , Guns , Adoption
Summertime Rendering

Summer Time Render

Also known as Summertime Rendering.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Mystery , Supernatural , Thriller

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Tags: Time Manipulation , Rural , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Body Swapping , Time Loop , Urban Fantasy , Demons , Survival , Shapeshifting , Aliens , Reincarnation , Gore , Tanned Skin , Dissociative Identities , Mythology , Crime , Cosmic Horror , Tragedy , Suicide , Gods , Denpa , Religion , Love Triangle , Outdoor Activities , Amnesia , Nudity , Historical , Heterosexual , Unrequited Love
orange

orange

Also known as orange.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance , Sci-Fi , Supernatural

Everyone has regrets in life. So who wouldn’t take the chance to change the past if given the opportunity? When sixteen-year-old Takamiya Naho receives a mysterious letter, claiming to be from her twenty-seven-year-old self, her life is suddenly thrown into flux. The letter tells her that a new transfer student by the name of Naruse Kakeru will be joining her class, and to keep her eye on him. But why? Naho must decide what to make of the letter and its cryptic warning, and what it means not only for her future, but for Kakeru’s as well.



Included series/one-shot:
Volumes 1-5: Haru-iro Astronaut (春色アストロノート , Spring-Colored Astronaut); #1: Bessatsu Margaret 2011-06, #2: Betsuma sister 2012-01, #3~5: kakioroshi
Mami and Tomoki have always shared everything in life, they are identical twins, yet so different in character and personality: Mami tender and helpless, courted by boys to whom she doesn't never "no" for excessive kindness, Tomoki with a strong sense of duty and a great spirit of sacrifice, would do anything to see his sister happy. But there comes a time, however, when one realizes there are things that cannot be shared, especially when it is something extremely rare and unique... just like an alien?!
Volume 6: Mirai (未来)
Volume 6: Suwa Hiroto (須和弘人)
A side story focusing on Naho and Suwa's lives in the world where Kakeru passed away at age 17.

Notes: Nominated to the 20th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.

Tags: School , Shoujo , Love Triangle , Time Manipulation , Heterosexual , Suicide , Primarily Teen Cast , Female Protagonist , Alternate Universe , Tragedy , Unrequited Love , Acting
ReLIFE

ReLife

Also known as ReLIFE.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Psychological , Romance , Slice of Life

When the responsibilities of being an adult and the ugly side of corporate bullying betrays one's childhood dreams, many would wish to return to their innocent childhood to relive their life and make the right decisions. Dumbfounded by the offer presented to him, 27-year-old Arata Kaizaki hopes to turn his life around through a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Returning home from his part-time job, Arata is persuaded by Ryou Yoake, an employee of ReLife Research Institute, into participating in an experiment which will help him overcome his difficulties and re-enter corporate life. As part of the ReLife experiment, Arata's physique is reverted to that of a 17-year-old, and all he must do is relive his high school life for one year. Waiting for him at the end of the experiment is a job offer that he has been struggling to get ever since he left his first company.

With few other options, he decides to go along with this plan. However, with adult-like tendencies and many years since his last formal education, Arata steps into an unexpectedly challenging territory—a normal day of high school.



Note: Includes 16 extra chapters

Tags: Age Regression , Memory Manipulation , Shapeshifting , School , Full Color , Rehabilitation , Amnesia , Ensemble Cast , Coming of Age , Kuudere , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Work , Heterosexual , Tragedy , Time Skip , Age Gap , Love Triangle , Volleyball , Suicide
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Takopii no Genzai

Also known as Takopi's Original Sin.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Sci-Fi

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Tags: Tragedy , Bullying , Denpa , Aliens , Time Manipulation , Suicide , Primarily Child Cast , Female Protagonist , Shounen , Crime , Memory Manipulation , Magic , Philosophy , Coming of Age , Clone
the gods lie.

Kami-sama ga Uso wo Tsuku.

Also known as the gods lie..

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Slice of Life

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Tags: Primarily Child Cast , Heterosexual , Coming of Age , Family Life , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Philosophy , Football , Tragedy , School , Bullying
Steins;Gate

Steins;Gate

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Sci-Fi

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Tags: Time Manipulation , Male Protagonist , Seinen , Tragedy , Software Development , Female Harem , Shrine Maiden
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Theseus no Fune

Also known as The Ship of Theseus.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Psychological , Supernatural , Thriller

On June 24, 1989, 21 people, among them children, were found poisoned to death in the elementary school of Otousu village in Hokkaido. Bungo Sano, a police officer of the same village, was arrested. Twenty eight years later, Sano’s son, Shin Tamura, starts to suspect that his father, who continues to plead his innocence even after being handed the death penalty, may have been wrongfully convicted, and launches his own investigation. Upon arriving at the crime scene, a thick fog descends, engulfing Shin, and he finds that he has slipped back in time to the year 1989. The curtain rises on this authentic crime suspense that transcends time and space in a confrontation with the truth.



Tags: Seinen , Rural , Time Manipulation , Crime
Island in a Puddle

Mizutamari ni Ukabu Shima

Also known as Island in a Puddle.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

Minato’s tiny apartment might as well be on a deserted island. Despite being in elementary school, it falls on his shoulders to care for his little sister Nagisa, who never stops asking when their mother will make one of her infrequent visits home. One day when she stops by, their mother takes them to an amusement park, only to give Minato some cash and leave them on the Ferris wheel. However, as they reach the top of the ride, lightning strikes their car— but what Minato finds when he awakens is not the grim tragedy he expected...



Tags: Body Swapping , Tragedy , Crime , Fugitive , Seinen , Primarily Child Cast , Gangs , Estranged Family , Detective , Assassins
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Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu: Dai-1 Shou - Outo no Ichinichi-hen

Also known as Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Chapter 1: A Day in the Capital.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Drama , Fantasy , Romance

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Tags: Time Manipulation , Isekai , Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Alternate Universe , Witch , Magic , Gore , Body Horror , Elf , Seinen , Medieval
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