Liked Boku Dake ga Inai Machi (Erased)? Watch RErideD: Tokigoe no Derrida (RErideD: Derrida, Who Leaps Through Time)!

• Episodes: 12
• Aired: September 2018 - November 2018

Major Similarities Between Boku Dake ga Inai Machi (Erased) and RErideD: Tokigoe no Derrida (RErideD: Derrida, Who Leaps Through Time)

1. Kayo and Mage look very similar

We’re talking eerily similar. They have the same hairstyle as well as dark hair and wear a long red coat with a yellow scarf. At least the mysterious Mage-looking person that appears periodically to Derrida has the same empty stare as Kayo does as if both of them have seen too much in their short lives.

2. The drama starts immediately

It cuts quickly and it cuts deep. With Subaru’s mother being murdered in the first episode, it sets the tone of perpetual danger. In the first episode of RErideD, Derrida’s long-time friend is murdered after Derrida’s father. Knowing a child is going to have to deal with her father’s death alone makes Derrida’s disappearance all the more tragic.

3. Save the girl to save them all

The pretty immediate goal in both of these shows is ‘save the girl’. Both are young girls who are marked for death through no fault of their own. Subaru and Derrida both have to save a young girl who ends up being their age in their own time skips, Subaru turning back to Kayo’s age and Mage growing into an adult while Derrida doesn’t age. Both girls hold the key to saving much more than their own lives and can help clear the names of those falsely accused of murder.

Liked Boku Dake ga Inai Machi (Erased)? Watch Akanesasu Shoujo (Girl in the Twilight)!

• Episodes: 12
• Aired: October 2018 – currently airing

Major Similarities Between Boku Dake ga Inai Machi (Erased) and Akanesasu Shoujo (Girl in the Twilight)

1. There are multiple worlds of possibilities and timelines

Akanesasu Shoujo is about parallel worlds and Erased is more about changing one specific timeline over and over but both shows present us with differing worlds changed by the slightest thing. It shows just how much environments and relationships can change even when so much else stays exactly the same. Different branches of reality are explored with differing outcomes for those involved and Akanesasu Shoujo continues that exciting feeling of wondering what sort of reality we will see next.

2. The disappearance of a child is linked to a greater mystery

Both anime present us with an initial problem that needs rectification. While following one mystery, an older, seemingly unrelated mystery is brought into the light. For Akanesasu Shoujo, that is the sudden disappearance of her younger brother who was never found. It just so happens that the other world’s Asuka also had a brother that disappeared at the same time. Just as Kayo’s disappearance shouldn’t have anything to do with Subaru’s mother’s death, we may find these seemingly coincidental disappearances in parallel worlds are more than coincidences!