History Characters / Erased

The mysterious figure who is stalking Satoru in the present and somehow involved in the 1988 abduction cases, the killer is a calm and meticulous, which has allowed him to escape notice by police and the public at large for decades.

%%* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler:She is last seen being restrained by a cop as Satoru gets arrested in one timeline. It is unclear if she was also arrested shortly after for attempting to resist and interfere with his arrest or not due to Satoru resetting things before [[FromBadToWrose they get worse]].]]

%%* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler:She is last seen being restrained by a cop as Satoru gets arrested in one timeline. It is unclear if she was also arrested for attempting to resist and interfere with his arrest or not due to Satoru resetting things before [[FromBadToWrose they get worse]].]]

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Ayaka Nanase (Japanese), Creator/RyanBartley (English)

* AssholeVictim: He killed by the very brother whom he tried to frame upon for accidentally murdering the girl.

* InnocentCohabitation: [[spoiler:Briefly with Satoru, to protect her from her mother.]]

* ShesGotLegs: The camera likes to focus on her exposed thighs.

** In the manga, he may have actually had empathy at some point - while his delivery is cold, he mentions that he was an ''unwilling'' accomplice to his brother's rapes, donates his shoes to Jun Shiratori, whose bullies had stolen his, and genuinely takes care of his pet hamster, Spice. However, the constant, daily beatings from his brother, the refusal of his parents to intervene, leading up to the murder he committed out of fear that he'd be dragged down for his brother's crimes, wound up leaving him supremely empty and disillusioned, only able to feel alive (or any emotion at all) when watching a surrogate for himself struggle for their own life.

!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Tatsuya Fujiwara (adult, film), Tsubasa Nakagawa (child, film), Yuki Furukawa (adult, drama) Reo Uchikawa (child, drama)

!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Rio Suzuki (child, film), Kanna Mori (adult, film), Rinka Kakihara (drama)

!!!'''Portrayed by:''' Seiji Fukushi (film), Jin Shirasu (drama)

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Shinnosuke Mitsushima (Japanese, adult), Tao Tsuchiya (Japanese, child), Creator/BenDiskin (English, adult), Creator/MichelleRuff (English, child)

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YoTaichi (Japanese, child), Tasuku Emoto (Japanese, adult), Creator/EricaMendez (English, child), Creator/XanderMobus (English, adult)

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AkariKitou (Japanese, child), Creator/AtsushiTamaru (Japanese, adult), Creator/ChristineMarieCabanos (English, child), Creator/KyleMcCarley (English, adult)

* SerialKiller: His modus operandi is to murder 1-3 prepubescent girls, then [[FrameUp pin the murder on someone else]], whom he uses as a surrogate for himself to experience the vicarious thrill of being alive. He'll break from this formula when he simply needs someone dead out of convenience or necessity, such as his brother, fiancée, love rival, wife, and father-in-law.

* HateSink: He is a serial killer who has terrorized the public for decades.

* IllGirl: She's in the hospital for leukemia, although she does her best not to put on the appearance of someone sickly. She gets through it after a bone marrow transplant from her sister, and ends up making it to middle school in good health.

* CryCute: [[spoiler:She starts bawling painfully when Satoru's mother serves her a decent breakfast after her own mother scantly bothered to do so ''for years on end''.]]

* {{Biseinen}}: One of his notable traits is being extremely good-looking. As a result, his female students are quite smitten with him.

* BaitTheDog: [[spoiler:Helps Satoru save Airi's life, at which point he reveals he only did so to take credit for her rescue. That said, Satoru himself wonders if that was a self-serving act or if the manager was doing it to cover for him, since telling the police Satoru had just been there would just set them on his trail. In fact, the manager himself indirectly requests that Satoru thank him, which would suggest there was, indeed, at least 'some' degree of altruism in his actions. The end result is the same - Airi is saved and the police are still clueless as to his whereabouts - , so Satoru decides it doesn't matter]].

* BaitTheDog: [[spoiler:Helps Satoru save Airi's life, at which point he reveals he only did so to take credit for her rescue. That said, Satoru himself wonders if that was a self-serving act or if the manager was doing it to cover for him, since telling the police Satoru had just been there would just set them on his trail. In fact, the manager himself indirectly requests that Satoru thank him, which would suggest there was, indeed, some degree of altruism in his actions. The end result is the same - Airi is saved and the police are still clueless as to his whereabouts - , so Satoru decides it doesn't matter]].

* BaitTheDog: [[spoiler:Helps Satoru save Airi's life, at which point he reveals he only did so to take credit for her rescue. That said, Satoru himself wonders if that was a self-serving act or if the manager was doing it cover for him, since telling the police Satoru had just been there would just set them on his trail. In fact, the manager himself indirectly requests that Satoru thank him, which would suggest there was, indeed, some degree of altruism in his actions. The end result is the same - Airi is saved and the police are still clueless as to his whereabouts - , so Satoru decides it doesn't matter]].

* BaitTheDog: [[spoiler:Helps Satoru save Airi's life, at which point he reveals he only did so to take credit for her rescue. That said, Satoru himself wonders if that was a self-serving act or if the manager was doing it cover for him, since telling the police Satoru has just been there would just set them on his trail. In fact, the manager himself indirectly requests that Satoru thank him, which would suggest the latter. The end result is the same - Airi is saved and the police are still clueless as to his whereabouts - , so Satoru decides it doesn't matter]]

* BaitTheDog: [[spoiler:Helps Satoru save Airi's life, at which point he reveals he only did so to take credit for her rescue. Satoru himself wonders if that was a self-serving act or if the manager was doing it cover for him, since telling the police Satoru has just been there would just set them on his trail. The end result is the same - Airi is saved and the police are still clueless as to his whereabouts - , so Satoru decides it doesn't matter]]

* BaitTheDog: [[spoiler:Helps Satoru save Airi's life, at which point he reveals he only did so to take credit for her rescue.]]