Satoru Fujinuma

Satoru Fujinuma is a 29 year old (in 2006) manga artist who also works part-time as a deliveryman at Oasi Pizza. He possesses an ability called "Revival", which would bring him back to a time before a life-threatening incident has happened and allow him to prevent it. When he was framed for his mother's murder, he was brought back to 18 years ago when he was 11 years old (1988) where the same kidnapper has killed three young girls in his hometown.

History
As a child, Satoru is an ordinary child who spent his life hanging out with his friends casually. He's seen frequently with a grownup nicknamed Yuuki whom he looked up as an exemplar. He didn't involved himself yet into Kayo and the other 2 victims as he is just an innocent bystander which leading those 3 victims to their demise. In the criminal case, he desperately convinced his mother to protect Yuuki from being suspected as the serial murder and kidnappings but fail. All of these resulted in his current self which is a mangaka author and part-timer as a fast-food delivery boy.

2nd Leap Arc
At 7 p.m. on March 14, 1988, Satoru was transported to a hospital in the city. He spent a month there in an intensive care unit on a respirator, and was later moved to a general ward after becoming stabilized. Though the hospital recommended that he be taken off life support, his mother firmly rejected it and kept him on it. In July of 1989, he was transported to a hospital in Chiba. His mother moved to an apartment into an apartment and began home care. Nine years passed and in 2001 he suddenly started breathing on his own and his brain recovered up to a sleep state, but he didn't wake up. After waking up, he has no memory of what has happened to him or the events leading up to his coma.

Story
Satoru Fujinuma is rejected by his editor who said his manga isn't good enough and should have the means of letting his readers feel his feelings while writing it. He leaves and tears up his manga before letting the papers fly off. He goes back to his apartment to rethink about his life. Shortly afterwards, he gets a job as a deliveryman at Oasi Pizza.

During one of his deliveries, he experiences Revival, sending him back a few seconds into the past. He identifies the situation, a runaway truck. Unfortunately, the driver did not seem to hear him as he yelled out. He manages to somehow turn the steering wheel of the truck, before it hit a boy. He collides into another car, sending himself to the hospital. During his sleep, he flashes back to the time he was a child, and sees a mysterious girl, dressed in a red coat, standing alone in the park.

When he wakes up, he finds his co-worker, Airi Katagiri, by his side, who tells him he's been out for two days, but praises him for saving the child. When he is released from the hospital, he arrives home to find his mother, Sachiko Fujinuma. She reminds him of the incident that had occurred 18 years ago, when Jun Shiratori, or Yuuki was arrested and charged for kidnapping and killing two of his classmates.

The following day, after going grocery shopping with Sachiko, Satoru experiences another revival, while in the parking lot. This time, he is unable to detect the situation, but Sachiko spots a suspicious man with a little girl, who seems to be attempting to kidnap her, but later gets into his car by himself, driving off. Later, they run into Katagiri, whom Sachiko invites to dinner.

Looking into it, Sachiko concludes that the man she had saw was the real killer, but before she could tell Satoru, she is stabbed in the stomach by a knife from the serial killer that had entered into their home. In her final moments, she whispers her apologies for not believing Satoru that Shitatori was not the killer and that the real one was this one. She reaches for her phone but fails as it is taken by the killer. Satoru, unaware of his mother's passing, comes home. On the stairs, he passes a man who covers his face, staring at him with sinister red eyes, before disappearing. Satoru finds the door to his apartment open, walks in to find Sachiko lying on the floor. Disbelieving she is dead, he prods her, turning her over to find the knife in her, his hand stained in fresh blood. He backs out of the room, just in time as one of his neighbors come by, offering some homemade food when she sees the blood on his hands. screaming. The police come and frame Satoru for murdering his mother, although he didn't. He flees and gets a Revival, this time, sending him back 18 years to the time he was still in elementary school.