Following the shock of his mother’s sudden death, Satoru Fujinuma’s normally limited time jumping ability kicks in and sends him all the way back to elementary school. To a point just before an unsolved kidnapping incident resulted in the deaths of three students.
A character drama with thriller and mystery elements which happens to include a slight romance subplot.
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Had to stop watching this early on because the extraordinary portrayal of the abused girl’s situation, –> with nowhere to turn <–, literally gave me flashbacks. The creators captured what it feels like to be a kid in that situation. I have no idea how hard or easy that was to do (I suspect the latter), as I was *and remain* too strongly triggered by what they achieved to examine how they did it, let alone to continue watching the series. From what I read of comments elsewhere, it's very strange that that raw verisimilitude almost seems like it was… Read more »