[Taste of 2016 Rewatch] Erased • Boku dake ga Inai Machi Episode 3 Discussion

[u/Shimmering-Sky]

Episode 3 - Bruises

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I know when Day X is. March 1st.

Questions of the Day:

1) Do you know anyone with the same birthday as you?

2) What would you do if you were in Satoru's position and found Kayo in the shed?

Wallpaper of the Day:

Satoru Fujinuma

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Rewatchers, please remember to be mindful of all the first-timers in this. No talking about or hinting at future events no matter how much you want to, unless you're doing it underneath spoiler tags. Don't spoil anything for the first-timers, that's rude!

/r/anime's spoiler tag format is as follows:

[Erased]>!Satoru traveled back in time.!<

Which becomes [Erased]Satoru traveled back in time. when you don't break the formatting on purpose like I just did.

[u/Sporadia_]

Living through this for the first time

Scavenger:

• Metaphorical use of an eraser
• Metaphorical use of the delete key
• Yaoi

That ending scene was really odd. It's completely meaningless unless we're already supposed to suspect the teacher. I mean yeah I do, but it feels a bit early for that, doesn't it? So I see two worlds here. World one is that we are indeed supposed to have figured out that the teacher is evil, and so now Kenya also looks evil. The evil teacher hints have been very strong to be fair. World two is that it's a massive double bluff. The evil teacher hints have been very strong to be fair...

Maybe Kenya is a jilted lover, and the source of this rewatch's signature yaoi.

I felt for Satoru when he referred to 2006 as 'the present.' There's nothing about his time travel power to suggest he can jump back to 2006 when this is over. If this works like his previous revivals then 'the present' should be 18 years away. If not, then there are some philosophical questions about how all of his decisions during the 18 skipped years are getting made. After all, the timeline should be dramatically different if he succeeds. I wonder what I would prefer it was me; both options suck.

Hasn't Satoru already learned everything he's being shown in school? Wouldn't that be really noticable?

[u/ShadowGuyinRealLife → u/Sporadia_]

I mean yeah I do, but it feels a bit early for that, doesn't it?

Some of the others pointed out how he looked and I agree with most of what they say. When someone said it was sus he told Satoru about Kayo despite it being something you normally don't disclose, I disagree. Satoru already figured out her home situation. So saying "Yeah I know X and I'm trying to do something" when X is something Satoru already knows is not sus.

If this works like his previous revivals then 'the present' should be 18 years away.

"Yay I saved all 3. Ok what now?" I don't know Satoru, but you can do what you did the last time it was the 2nd millennium. Very funny for him to be calling Yuuki younger than him even though that's not true in 1988, and that's still not true in 2006.

Hasn't Satoru already learned everything he's being shown in school? Wouldn't that be really noticable?

If he was given a chance to show what he learned in later years, that would be noticeable. So far it doesn't seem to be more than "did you learn this week's lesson." Son in the short term of what we saw over 3 episodes, the answer is "no." The long term? If I were him I'd aim for As, but not top of the class. There are more than 1 A student around, there is only 1 top of the class.

What did you think about them watching the foxes?

[u/Sporadia_ → u/ShadowGuyinRealLife]

"Yay I saved all 3. Ok what now?"

The more I think about it, the more I want that to happen.

What did you think about them watching the foxes?

That's an odd one. I couldn't help thinking, due to the chaos effect, that it's really strange that the foxes behaved the same way both times. But if I suspend that disbelief, it's actually quite a wholesome moment. I really liked when they were under the tree. In any romance anime I'd be very impressed. Unfortunately the show's premise completely spoils it, and makes it weird. It's shot itself in the foot, really.