animation, manga, series

1706 – Erased (TV Mini-Series 2016)

timespace coordinates: 2006 ChibaJapan >> 1988 Hokkaido

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Erased, known in Japan as Boku dake ga Inai Machi (僕だけがいない街lit. “The Town Where Only I Am Missing”) is a 2016 anime mini-series by A-1 Pictures based on Kei Sanbe‘s manga series of the same title. The anime adapts the full story of the manga, though it condenses and alters the events that take place in volumes 6 to 8.

A live-action movie adaptation was released in Japan on March 19, 2016 which also featured an alternate ending. A live-action Netflix TV series was released on December 15, 2017. (myanimelist)

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books, series

1640 – Tales from the Loop (TV Series 2020-)

timespace coordinates: 1955 > early 1980s Mercer, Ohio. Mercer is home to the Mercer Center for Experimental Physics, an underground facility known as the Loop. It is there where researchers attempt to “make the impossible possible”.

Tales from the Loop is an American science fiction drama web television series based on the art book of the same name by Swedish artist Simon Stålenhag (536). The series premiered on Amazon Prime Video on April 3, 2020. All eight episodes of the first season were released simultaneously. (wiki)

David Baird from the B.C. Catholic characterizes the series as “a set of loosely interrelated meditations upon ephemerality, the impact of technology, and human vulnerability infused with a mild science fiction savour” and considers it “a beguiling fusion of forward-looking nostalgia”.

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movies

1555 – Cooties (2014)

spacetime coordinates: 2013 – Fort Chicken, Illinois

Cooties is a 2014 American horror comedy film directed by Jonathan MilottCary Murnion from a screenplay written by Ian Brennan and Leigh Whannell. The film stars Elijah WoodAlison PillRainn WilsonJack McBrayer, WhannellNasim Pedrad, Brennan, and Jorge Garcia as a group of elementary school employees who fight to survive an outbreak among students that turn them aggressive and cannibalistic. (wiki)

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