Struggling manga author Satoru Fujinuma is beset by his fear to express himself. However, he has a supernatural ability of being forced to prevent deaths and catastrophes by being sent back in time before the incident occurred, repeating time until the accident is prevented. One day, he gets involved in an accident that has him framed as a murderer. Desperate to save the victim, he sends himself back in time only to find himself as a grade-schooler one month before fellow classmate Kayo Hinazuki went missing. Satoru now embarks on a new quest: to save Kayo and solve the mystery behind her disappearance.
ERASED has finished publishing and it has 49 Chapters. It is also Known as: 僕だけがいない街, The Town Where Only I am Missing, BokuMachi
Genres: Fantasy , Thriller , Drama , Psychological , Time Travel , Mystery
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Top 10 Manga Like ERASED (Boku dake ga Inai Machi) [2024 List]
10. Kimi ni Nidome no Sayonara wo.
Hinata Harusawa, who works as a web designer, receives a call that the body of his best friend, Sora Otonashi, who disappeared in his second year of high school, has been found. He attends the wake with fellow members of the art club that Sora belonged to at the time, Director Hase, Deputy Director Tokiwa, and senior Shinohara... However, Shinohara is caught by someone, and Hinata is also attacked. He desperately resists to protect his painting, but Hinata gradually loses consciousness. When he wakes up, he finds himself in "that place" on "that day"--!! What is the truth behind his best friend's disappearance and death?!
A Second Goodbye to You. has finished publishing and it has 20 Chapters. It is also Known as: 君に二度目のさよならを。, Kimi ni Nidome no Sayonara o, Kimi ni Futatabime no Sayonara wo.
9. Theseus no Fune
In 1989, the suspect of a mass murder by cyanide poisoning at an elementary school in Otousu village was arrested. The young man never confessed to the crime. 28 years passed. A young man named Shin visited Otousu, determined to investigate the case more thoroughly. When he arrived at what was supposed to be an abandoned village, he realized that he had been transported back in time 28 years, six months before the mass murder is committed.
Theseus no Fune has finished publishing and it has 89 Chapters. It is also Known as: テセウスの船, Theseus no Fune
8. Monster
Dr. Kenzo Tenma is a renowned young brain surgeon of Japanese descent working in Europe. Highly lauded by his peers as one of the great young minds that will revolutionize the field, he is blessed with a beautiful fiancé and is on the cusp of a high promotion in the hospital he works at. However, all of that is about to change with one critical decision that Dr. Tenma faces one night – whether to save the life of a young child or that of the town's mayor. Despite being pressured by his superiors to perform surgery on the mayor, his morals force him to perform the surgery on the young child, saving his life and forfeiting the mayor’s. All of a sudden, Dr. Tenma’s world is turned upside down by his decision leading to the loss of everything he previously had. A doctor is taught to believe that all life is equal; however, when a series of murders occur in the vicinity of Dr. Tenma, all of the evidence pointing to the young child who he saved, Tenma’s beliefs are shaken.
Naoki Urasawa’s Monster is a tale full of mystery, suspense and intrigue as Dr. Tenma journeys to find out the true identity of the young child. In turn, the fate of the world may depend on it.
Monster has finished publishing and it has 162 Chapters. It is also Known as: MONSTER, Monster
7. ReLIFE
The story follows Kaizaki Arata, a 27-year-old jobless man, who fails at every job interview he had after quitting his last company. His life changes after he met Yoake Ryou of the ReLife Research Institute, who offered him a drug that can change his appearance to 17-years-old and to become a subject in an experiment for one year. Thus, he begins his life as a high school student once more.
ReLIFE has finished publishing and it has 222 Chapters. It is also Known as: リライフ, 重返17歲
6. Oyasumi Punpun
Punpun is an ordinary young boy growing up in Japan whose age of innocence has reached its end after his father is arrested for spousal abuse and putting his mother in the hospital. With his uncle looking after him, Punpun grows into adulthood facing a series of events which change him, for better or worse, forcing him to contemplate just what it means to be an adult.
Goodnight Punpun has finished publishing and it has 147 Chapters. It is also Known as: おやすみプンプン, Dobranoc, Punpunie, Bonne nuit Punpun!, Boa noite, Punpun, Bona nit, Punpun, Buenas noches, Punpun, Gute Nacht, Punpun, 잘자 뿡뿡, 晚安布布, לילה טוב, פונפון, Buonanotte, Punpun, İyi Geceler, Punpun, ฝันดีนะปุนปุน
5. Bastard
There is a serial killer in my house!
Bastard has finished publishing and it has 94 Chapters. It is also Known as: Bastard
4. Tokyo卍Revengers
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.
Tokyo Revengers has finished publishing and it has 278 Chapters. It is also Known as: 東京卍リベンジャーズ, Tokyo Manji Revengers, Toukyou Revengers, Toukyou卍Revengers
3. Hensoku-kei Quadrangle
In high school, Maki Eiji was a delinquent, often skipping class and getting into fights. One girl, Chino Kotoha, was kind to him, until she was targeted by delinquents due to their apparent relationship. Suffering their attack seemed to have permanently changed her for the worse.
Years later, when Eiji sees her again, he is overcome with guilt and regret. To his surprise, a mysterious scantily-clad woman suddenly appears, claiming she can send him back in time to make everything right! He takes her up on the offer, but things are not as simple as they may have seemed back then. It turns out that Kotoha had her own painful secrets in those days, and Eiji may not be the only one traveling in time to change the past!
Anomaly System Quadrangle has finished publishing and it has 21 Chapters. It is also Known as: 変則系クアドラングル, Anomalous System Quadrangle
2. Orange
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.
orange has finished publishing and it has 26 Chapters. It is also Known as: orange, Haru-iro Astronaut, Spring-Colored Astronaut, orange: future, orange -mirai-, orange -未来-
1. Ore ga Doutei wo Sutetara Shinu Ken ni Tsuite
Ichijo Kazuya thought that he was murdered, but when he came to, he was back in his high school days. He lived his entire life as a playboy and had had countless sexual encounters with women until that fateful day that he was killed. He realizes that his murderer was his old high school friend Tanaka Masaki who was jealous of Kazuya’s relationships and his built up anger eventually exploded. Taken back 15 years into his past, it seems that he has been given a second chance at life and given a chance to make different choices. He decides that the way to prevent his eventual demise is to make sure Masaki is more successful with girls and loses his virginity before Kazuya. But fate seems to be steering Kazuya towards the path of his previous life and keeps introducing the same girls he had sexual encounters with.
Ore ga Doutei wo Sutetara Shinu Ken ni Tsuite has finished publishing and it has 22 Chapters. It is also Known as: 俺が童貞を捨てたら死ぬ件について, About How I Die if I Lose My Virginity
