The Isolated Blurt Thread XXXIV: Like Books & Black Lives, Albums Still Matter

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Always a sucker for a well-written & directed time-travel yarn, but this little gem of an animation series that got on the past year's best list for must-watch just kills the fucking narrative game. Nothing cornball about it and no ends get left behind. Get it, get it, watch it, watch it.

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Erased (Boku Dake ga Inai Machi)

ERASED, known in Japan as Boku Dake ga Inai Machi (僕だけがいない街?, lit. The Town Without Me), is a Japanese fantasy thriller seinen manga series written and illustrated by Kei Sanbe, which was serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's Young Ace magazine between June 4, 2012 and March 4, 2016 and is licensed in English by Yen Press.[3][4] An anime adaptation by A-1 Pictures aired on Fuji TV's Noitamina programming block between January 8, 2016 and March 25, 2016, and a live action film was released on March 19, 2016. A spin-off novel series by Hajime Ninomae was released in Kadokawa's Bungei Kadokawa magazine between November 2015 to March 2016 and a spin-off manga series by Sanbe began its serialization in Young Ace on June 4, 2016.

Plot

The story follows Satoru Fujinuma, a man who somehow possesses an ability that sends him back in time moments before a life-threatening incident, allowing him to prevent it from happening. When his mother is murdered by an unknown assailant, Satoru's ability suddenly sends him back eighteen years to when he was still in elementary school, giving him the opportunity to prevent a kidnapping incident that took the lives of three of his childhood friends, two classmates and one young girl studying at a school nearby.[5]
 
He started here?

He started in Alaska. He could have got off in MSP. MSP dodged a bullet there. No pun intended. Terminal serves Delta and Air Canada. Was an initial fear he came in on an Air Canada flight. At least up here that got some media attention.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Will_Be_Time

There Will Be Time by Poul Anderson

Jack Havig was born in the American midwest in 1933 with a genetic mutation that allows him to travel through time. He learns that an apocalypse will occur sometime in the 21st century due to over-pollution and nuclear warfare. Farther still in the future, a New Zealand/Micronesian culture known as "the Maurai Federation" will eventually dominate the world and impose their vision of a less industrialized, more ecologically balanced world. Jack reasons that there must be others born with the same innate ability to travel through time. In his initial search for them, he visits Jerusalem at the time of the Crucifixion. Jack is discovered by other time-travelers who are agents of a time-traveling organization called the "Eyrie," that is based in the far future and is led by a racist man born in 19th century United States. Initially Jack joins the group, but eventually rebels against them when he discovers and experiences first hand the extent of the Eyrie's rampant brutality and inhumanity as they attempt to achieve their goal of stopping the Maurai ascendancy. To defeat the Eyrie, Jack returns to the 20th century and devises a plan of his own to recruit time-travelers and create a "tribe" that will return to the future to destroy the Eyrie.

Much of the story takes place in various times of the past, present, and future, including an extended interlude where Jack is sent on a mission by the Eyrie to medieval Constantinople; where he saves the life of a Greek girl during the carnage of the Fourth Crusade and eventually marries her.
 
This place falls apart when there is a rumor about a slight chance of snow. I have sand bags in the bed of the truck and a full tank of gas just in case I have to make an emergency hooker pickup.
 
i dont mind snow when i dont have to drive into work.

yesterday i had to drive through it and now my baby is covered in white crap
 
i dont mind snow when i dont have to drive into work.

yesterday i had to drive through it and now my baby is covered in white crap

Don't even worry about all the salt and crap they spray on the roads eating away the metal and rubber on the thing. I am sure that will never happen.
 
Yeah, you are right. What could possibly go wrong with spraying the underbelly of a car with salt? Seals. Rubber. Metal. Electrical. I am sure all of that will be just fine.

Just fine.
 
If salt is used it might be best to keep car outside at night. The freeze and thaw combined with salt will destroy a car. Salt is bad for cars and the environment.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Will_Be_Time

There Will Be Time by Poul Anderson

Jack Havig was born in the American midwest in 1933 with a genetic mutation that allows him to travel through time. He learns that an apocalypse will occur sometime in the 21st century due to over-pollution and nuclear warfare. Farther still in the future, a New Zealand/Micronesian culture known as "the Maurai Federation" will eventually dominate the world and impose their vision of a less industrialized, more ecologically balanced world. Jack reasons that there must be others born with the same innate ability to travel through time. In his initial search for them, he visits Jerusalem at the time of the Crucifixion. Jack is discovered by other time-travelers who are agents of a time-traveling organization called the "Eyrie," that is based in the far future and is led by a racist man born in 19th century United States. Initially Jack joins the group, but eventually rebels against them when he discovers and experiences first hand the extent of the Eyrie's rampant brutality and inhumanity as they attempt to achieve their goal of stopping the Maurai ascendancy. To defeat the Eyrie, Jack returns to the 20th century and devises a plan of his own to recruit time-travelers and create a "tribe" that will return to the future to destroy the Eyrie.

Much of the story takes place in various times of the past, present, and future, including an extended interlude where Jack is sent on a mission by the Eyrie to medieval Constantinople; where he saves the life of a Greek girl during the carnage of the Fourth Crusade and eventually marries her.

Downloading this to the iPad now. Thanks for the heads up. :cool:
 
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