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Summer Time Rendering (2022)
8.2/10on IMDb
First aired
Start here if you want a return home and a suspicious death to turn years of shared history into evidence. Shinpei goes back to the island where he grew up for Ushio’s funeral. As he begins repeating events, a small difference in what someone says or does can make a familiar person much harder to trust.
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LINK CLICK (2021)
8.5/10on IMDb
First aired
The Chinese animated series gives Cheng Xiaoshi and Lu Guang a way into the events recorded in old photographs. Choose it for cases where listening to somebody’s life turns out to be harder than seeing what happened. A visit meant to answer one question can leave them wanting to change much more.
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Steins;Gate (2011)
8.8/10on IMDb
First aired
Okabe and his friends discover that they can send messages into the past. Give the lab’s early hangouts time to breathe and you’ll see why changes in friendships matter as much as changes in the timeline. Try it for a suspense story where understanding what went wrong is only half the work.
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Tokyo Revengers (2021)
7.7/10on IMDb
First aired
Takemichi goes back to his middle-school years after learning what happened to Hinata as an adult. The chance to change her fate puts him back among friends and gang rivalries he barely understood the first time. You get a more fight-heavy story that shares Erased’s adult perspective on decisions children are making.
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Higurashi: When They Cry (2006)
7.8/10on IMDb
First aired
Try the 2006 series when you want a village’s shared history to feel different every time you see the same summer. Keiichi moves to Hinamizawa and befriends the local kids. Stories about past deaths and the village festival make friendship feel both protective and unsettling. The horror can get graphic.
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Sagrada Reset (2017)
7.3/10on IMDb
First aired
One high schooler can reset the world by up to three days. Another, Kei, can remember what happened when it gets reset. Their partnership gives you time to work through how a mystery can survive an erased timeline, and why remembering a detail can be more important than reversing the event.
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Takopi's Original Sin (2025)
8.7/10on IMDb
First aired
An alien trying to cheer up fourth-grader Shizuka reaches for a device that can rewind events. Going back gives him more chances to help her, and more chances to misunderstand what is wrong. Pick this if Erased's focus on children in trouble was what stayed with you.
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Orange (2016)
7.7/10on IMDb
First aired
Naho gets letters from her future self pointing to the things she wishes she had done differently around her classmate Kakeru. Pick it when Erased’s friendships mattered more to you than the pursuit of a culprit. A small decision about whether to speak up can make a whole day play out differently.
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The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006)
7.6/10on IMDb
Released
Makoto starts using time leaps to fix school-day embarrassments and make more of an afternoon. The movie becomes more searching once she sees how her changes affect other people. Try it for friendship and the regret of noticing a consequence only after you’ve already given it another chance to happen.
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Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- (2016)
8.3/10on IMDb
First aired
Subaru’s return after death lets him carry information into situations where the people he wants to help have no idea how much he knows. Choose it for a more violent fantasy take on finding a way through a repeating crisis, with time spent on why gaining another try can make somebody more desperate.
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Vivy -Fluorite Eye's Song- (2021)
7.9/10on IMDb
First aired
An AI singer called Vivy meets Matsumoto, an AI sent from the future to stop a war. The two try to change events before they become history. You get different places and stretches of time, but the central problem stays familiar. Knowing what might happen gives Vivy very little help with how to treat the people involved.
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Puella Magi Madoka Magica (2011)
8.2/10on IMDb
First aired
Pick this if you want the opening version of a story to look increasingly incomplete. Madoka and her friends contemplate becoming magical girls while Homura tries to keep Madoka from making that choice. The series later gives you another way to read earlier encounters, with more horror than the character designs might suggest.
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Punch Line (2015)
6.1/10on IMDb
First aired
Yuta ends up separated from his body and tries to work out what his housemates know and what has led to a looming catastrophe. The story is far more absurd and bawdy than Erased. It turns its most ridiculous incidents into things you can look at differently once its rules come into view.
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Kokkoku: Moment by Moment (2018)
6.9/10on IMDb
First aired
Juri’s family uses a stone to stop time when two relatives are kidnapped. They soon discover other people can move in the freeze, which changes a rescue into a mystery about what the family has inherited. Try it for an urgent way to investigate the same few minutes in more depth.
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The Tatami Time Machine Blues (2022)
7.5/10on IMDb
First aired
A ruined air conditioner remote sends a group of Kyoto students back a day to retrieve it. Pick this lighter option for the pleasure of seeing a stray line or missing object become evidence on the next pass. The group has much less at stake than Satoru, which gives you room to enjoy their bad decisions.
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ALL YOU NEED IS KILL (2026)
6.5/10on IMDb
Released
Rita dies after a mysterious giant flower erupts and finds herself alive at an earlier point again. When she meets someone caught in the same loop, repeated attempts become a joint investigation. Choose the Studio 4°C film for a more action-heavy mystery about surviving an impossible day.
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Noein: To Your Other Self (2005)
7.4/10on IMDb
First aired
Haruka meets a visitor from a possible future connected to a boy she knows. The series gives you childhood friendships to hold on to while different versions of the world begin to interfere with one another. Try it if you want the science-fiction explanation to matter because it changes who the friends might grow up to be.
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Your Name. (2016)
8.4/10on IMDb
Released
Mitsuha and Taki begin waking up in each other’s lives. The film gradually changes what you understand about when those experiences happened and how urgently one person needs the other. Choose it for a rescue mystery with a romantic center and an emphasis on finding someone whose ordinary world you’ve already seen.
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Hello World (2019)
6.7/10on IMDb
Released
Naomi meets someone claiming to be his future self, who wants his help preventing harm to a girl in their class. Choose this for a puzzle about a warning whose source changes how much you trust it. The film’s versions of reality get more elaborate than its initially quiet school setting suggests.
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maboroshi (2023)
6.4/10on IMDb
Released
A factory explosion leaves Masamune and his neighbors trapped in a town where time stands still. The film makes a familiar place increasingly hard to explain, especially when a mysterious girl threatens to upset what the town treats as normal. Choose it for a supernatural hometown mystery with more atmosphere than pursuit.
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The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes (2022)
7.2/10on IMDb
Released
Kaoru and Anzu investigate a tunnel rumored to grant wishes while taking away time outside. What Kaoru wants has to do with his sister, so each visit puts a personal loss up against the possible cost of changing it. Pick the film for grief and a rule-breaking place that two teenagers test together.
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