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ERASED/Boku Dake ga Inai Machi Anime's Promo English-Subtitled

Southeast Asian anime channel Aniplus HD began streaming an English-subtitled promotional video for the ERASED (Boku dake ga Inai Machi) television anime series on Thursday. The video previews the anime's ending theme song "Sore wa Chiisa na Hikari no yō na" by Sayuri.

The series will premiere on Friday in Fuji TV's noitamina programming block. Aniplus HD will air the series on the same day at 10:00 p.m. for Indonesia and Thailand, and at 11:00 p.m. for Singapore.

Aniplus HD describes ERASED:

Satoru Fujinuma is a young manga artist struggling to make a name for himself following his debut. But, that was not the only thing in his life that Satoru was feeling frustrated about… he was also living with a strange condition only he was able to experience called REVIVAL, a strange phenomenon where one is transferred back to the moment right before something life-threatening occurs. This continues to happen until the cause of the threat is erased. It is as if somebody is forcing Satoru to stop it from happening.Then one day, everything is changed! What truths are revealed when Satoru comes face to face with his own past? How will they affect his future?

The cast for the anime includes:

• Shinnosuke Mitsushima as Satoru Fujinuma (age 29)
• Tao Tsuchiya as Satoru Fujinuma (age 10)
• Aoi Yūki as Kayo Hinazuki
• Chinatsu Akasaki as Airi Katagiri
• Yō Taichi as Kenya
• Akari Kitō as Hiromi
• Ayaka Nanase as Osamu
• Yukitoshi Kikuchi as Kazu
• Takahiro Mizushima as Jun Shiratori
• Minami Takayama as Sachiko Fujinuma
• Mitsuru Miyamoto as Manabu Yatsushiro

The anime is based on Kei Sanbe's Boku dake ga Inai Machi manga series. Tomohiko Ito (Sword Art Online, Silver Spoon) is directing the series and Taku Kishimoto (Silver Spoon, Haikyu!!) is handling series composition at A-1 Pictures. Keigo Sasaki (The Seven Deadly Sins, Blue Exorcist) is designing the characters for the anime and Yuki Kajiura (Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Sword Art Online) is composing the music.

The band Asian Kung-Fu Generation will perform the opening theme song "Re:Re:," a re-recording of a song from their second album Sol-fa in 2004. The new version will go on sale as a single on March 16.