On its official Twitter account, Yen Press announced that the hardcover omnibus version of Erased volume I will be on sale starting February 2017.
Erased, also known in Japanese as Boku Dake ga Inai Machi (The Town Without Me), is a manga series written and illustrated by Kei Sanbe. It was first published in Kadokawa Shoten’s Young Ace magazine between June 2012 to March 2016. Yen Press later obtained license to publish the series in English.
ERASED volume 1 [hardcover/omnibus] from Yen Press (@yenpress) coming February 2017 https://t.co/c9VZfAhLZN pic.twitter.com/8OSHmM4LhN
— Manga News USA (@MangaNews_US) December 30, 2016
The story as described by Yen Press
“Twenty-nine-year-old Satoru Fujinuma is floundering through life. Amid his daily drudgery, he finds himself in the grip of an incredible, inexplicable, and uncontrollable phenomenon that rewinds time, a condition that seems to only make his drab life worse. But then, one day, everything changes. A terrible incident forever changes Satoru’s life as he knows it…and with it, comes a “Revival” that sends Satoru eighteen years into the past!
In the body of his boyhood self, Satoru encounters sights he never imagined he would see again—the smile of his mother, alive and well, his old friends, and Kayo Hinazuki, the girl who was kidnapped and murdered when he was a boy the first time around. To return to the present and prevent the tragedy that brought him back to his childhood in the first place, Satoru begins plotting a way to change Hinazuki’s fate…But up against the clock and a faceless evil, does eleven-year-old Satoru even stand a chance?”
In January 2016, Erased was adapted into 12-episode television anime series. The anime adaptation was produced by A-1 Pictures and directed by Tomohiko Itō. It aired on Fuji TV’s Noitamina programming block and was simulcasted by Crunchyroll, Daisuki, Funimation and AnimeLab. The manga series also inspired a live-action film that premiered in Japan in March 2016.