Boku dake ga Inai Machi Recaps

This is a RECAP as mentioned in the title, it digests the events happened in the first 6 episodes of the anime Boku dake ga Inai Machi.

and as RECAP, it does its job greatly. I have seen Boku dake ga Inai Machi a long time ago and the story was almost gone of my mind, this recap helped refreshing my memories of it, it reminded me of all what I liked about this story.


You need to watch the main series (the first 6 episodes) before watching this, otherwise its gonna spoil it for you.

I like what they did with this recap by cutting the story ... and showing the main parts of it in a short video, using text was a good touch in this one and it worked pretty well for me.

When it comes to a recap, it's either forgotten about or ranted over, that is due to it being ranted on the same schedule due to replacing a weekly episode, but not this one, or at least I don't matter, for how desperate people like me were in need for a recap. I binged through the first 6 episodes and ended up taking a break due to real-life reseason, and when I decided to come back, well, a full, fleshed out recap was in the wait for me. Fantastic.

The show already manages to cover a lot in just six episodes that thinking of a recap ... might not be the best move to fully enjoy the show, but this one proves you wrong in the first 5 minutes, it highlights the important moments, quickly recaps through the massive information dump, with nicely placed speech bubbles, paragraph-long intel spread across the scene to make up for the fast-paced run though. I don't think it is a masu see, looking at the fact that you might be binging through the series in one sit, however, for a force of circumstance, it's like a loyal buddy that's always there for you.

Most people probably won't have a need for this since the anime is a mere 12 episodes, but it's nonetheless a good summary of the first 6 episodes. As someone who didn't take a break but watched the summary anyway (for some reason), I can say it definitely gives the right amount of detail to get you up to date if you take a break around halfway through the anime.

That being said, it doesn't have a dub version (on YouTube/AnimeLab, at least), so it can be a bit jarring for dub watchers. Also, unless you're a fast reader, you'll have to pause at times, since ... the chunks of text summarising the story appear and disappear a bit too quickly. It can also be a bit confusing whether the recap expects you to pay attention to the character dialogue, since much of it happens whilst the summary text is still on-screen (it might be possible for Japanese viewers to read the summary and listen to the dialogue simultaneously, but English viewers get left behind).