Not really the most impressive anime series opener as the pacing could've been just a bit slower but I'm definitely hooked. It was also entertaining and not that boring for the first episode.
3 Reviews
Above Average Pilot
Sherlemious28 February 2021
Good introduction!
Luisvtw8 September 2021
Warning: Spoilers
"Flashing Before My Eyes" is a decent first episode to open this series. The story is interesting so I definitely eant to watch more of it
Recap: Erased episode 1 starts with the protagonist of the series, Satoru Fujinuma. He is a 29-year-old struggling manga artist. Someone who is afraid to delve into the depths of his mind for his manga illustration. He works as a pizza delivery boy to earn his livelihood. His co-worker is a high school student, Airi Katagiri. When he begins his work, a weird phenomenon takes place which does not surprise Satoru. He later calls this " revival" in which a few moments repeats for him before something bad happening.
As the revival happens, he instantly looks for something wrong. Satoru notices that the driver of the blue truck is unconscious and the truck is going to collide with a boy. He follows the truck on his bike and steers it away at the last moment saving the boy's life. But soon after that, collides with a car and wakes up in a hospital two days later. This incident instantly catches the attention of its viewers.
After leaving the hospital, he finds out that his mother is going to stay with him for a few days. His mother came as she heard about the accident. Satoru's mother reminds him of another incident that takes place in their hometown eighteen years ago. The incident was that Satoru trusted and befriended a man name Yuuri. He turned out to be a kidnapper who murdered two of Satoru's classmates. The next day, revival occurs again but Satoru cannot understand anything wrong happening around. His mother noticed a man who might have tried kidnapping a little girl but left as soon as they saw each other.
After a lot of thinking his mother comes to the conclusion that Yuuri was innocent and the real killer was someone else. She was just about to tell her theory to Satoru but the man kills her in the apartment. Satoru's Revival transports him back to 1988, when he was a 10-year-old elementary school student in Hokkaido, just as he finds his mother's dead body and is accused of murdering her.
Recap: Erased episode 1 starts with the protagonist of the series, Satoru Fujinuma. He is a 29-year-old struggling manga artist. Someone who is afraid to delve into the depths of his mind for his manga illustration. He works as a pizza delivery boy to earn his livelihood. His co-worker is a high school student, Airi Katagiri. When he begins his work, a weird phenomenon takes place which does not surprise Satoru. He later calls this " revival" in which a few moments repeats for him before something bad happening.
As the revival happens, he instantly looks for something wrong. Satoru notices that the driver of the blue truck is unconscious and the truck is going to collide with a boy. He follows the truck on his bike and steers it away at the last moment saving the boy's life. But soon after that, collides with a car and wakes up in a hospital two days later. This incident instantly catches the attention of its viewers.
After leaving the hospital, he finds out that his mother is going to stay with him for a few days. His mother came as she heard about the accident. Satoru's mother reminds him of another incident that takes place in their hometown eighteen years ago. The incident was that Satoru trusted and befriended a man name Yuuri. He turned out to be a kidnapper who murdered two of Satoru's classmates. The next day, revival occurs again but Satoru cannot understand anything wrong happening around. His mother noticed a man who might have tried kidnapping a little girl but left as soon as they saw each other.
After a lot of thinking his mother comes to the conclusion that Yuuri was innocent and the real killer was someone else. She was just about to tell her theory to Satoru but the man kills her in the apartment. Satoru's Revival transports him back to 1988, when he was a 10-year-old elementary school student in Hokkaido, just as he finds his mother's dead body and is accused of murdering her.
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