Tokyo Revengers

Takemichi Hanagaki's second year of middle school was the highest point in his life. He had respect, a gang of friends he could count on, and even a girlfriend. But that was twelve years ago. Today, he's a nobody: a washed-up nonentity made fun of by children and always forced to apologize to his younger boss. A sudden news report on the Tokyo Manji Gang's cruel murder of the only girlfriend he ever had alongside her brother only adds insult to injury. Half a second before a train ends his pitiful life for good, Takemichi flashes back to that same day 12 years ago, when he was still dating Hinata Tachibana.

After being forced to relive the very same day that began his downward spiral, Takemichi meets Hinata's younger brother. Without thinking, he admits to his seeming death before flashing back to the past. Takemichi urges him to protect his sister before inexplicably returning to the future. Miraculously, he is not dead. Stranger still, the future has changed. It seems as though Takemichi can alter the flow of time. Given the chance to prevent his ex-girlfriend's tragic death at the hands of the Tokyo Manji Gang, Takemichi decides to fly through time to change the course of the future.

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Sano, Manjirou Main

Hayashi, Yuu Japanese

Ryuuguuji, Ken Main

Suzuki, Tatsuhisa Japanese

Hanagaki, Takemichi Main

Shin, Yuuki Japanese

Matsuno, Chifuyu Supporting

Karino, Shou Japanese

Baji, Keisuke Supporting

Mizunaka, Masaaki Japanese

Mitsuya, Takashi Supporting

Matsuoka, Yoshitsugu Japanese

Hanemiya, Kazutora Supporting

Toki, Shunichi Japanese

Hanma, Shuuji Supporting

Eguchi, Takuya Japanese

Tachibana, Hinata Supporting

Waki, Azumi Japanese

Kawata, Nahoya Supporting

Kawanishi, Kengo Japanese

Kamei, Hiroshi Producer

Naya, Ryousuke Producer

Furukawa, Shin Producer

Itou, Hirofumi Producer

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Aug 23, 2024

GeoSanto

Recommended

It's a very interesting anime!
The story is made very good, careful at the continuity.
The characters are evolving constant and in every episode we find something shocking about these characters and the dark past they had.This thing about time travel in the past it was used in so many anime, but in this one is very captivating. you will get attached by the main character and his determination to save everything he loves.
Most of the characters will change your perspective on the story and of course, they will change the choices through the episodes.
I recommend this anime (and the manga)!

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Nov 15, 2023

Harlock_Phantom

Mixed Feelings

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Honestly this would have been a really solid series if the protagonist wasn't so painfully unlikeable.
Story wise it's fascinating. A person with a limited ability to time travel using that ability to change past events to protect loved ones in the modern day is a great concept when used correctly. The tight limitations of Takemichi's abilities are brilliant in terms of drama as there's no "reset button", if he fails in what he sets out to do then there's no do over which makes the sense of danger feel far more genuine.
The gang warfare elements are also well done. The tensions between organisations as well ... as personal loyalties and relationships are fairly well established. Though some story elements do fall a little flat, some animosities carrying more weight than seems necessery.

The majority of characters are interesting. Mikey and the founding members of Toman are probably the strongest in terms of characterisation and it is really difficult to not sympathise with these kids.
Takemichi's friends could have been developed a little better and Hina, Naoto, and Akkun honestly feel like they only exist as plot devises with no real substance. It's a shame but it's not really that easy to care about these characters but I'm going to assume that's due to the number of major characters making it difficult to build on every one of them.
Takemichi, our protagonist, is probably the worst character in it, though. Where other characters may not make much of an impact due to simply not being built upon much, Takemichi is just simply unlikeable. He comes off as obnoxious and kind of gross to an extent. He's a 26 year old man who ends up back as his 15 year old self and is probably the most immature of the teen era characters. His obsession with being a virgin is just annoying and it genuinely feels like he doesn't really bring anything to the plot. Most of the time he stands there screaming and something or someone else steps in to deal with the situation then Takemichi gets all the praise for doing absolutely nothing.

A lot of the comic relief moments feel kind of lazy,relying on crude humour or misunderstandings which overall aren't that funny to me personally but humour is subjective so that's not that big a deal.

The animation style is decent.

If the show was just a gang story that focussed on Mikey and Draken it'd probably be more to my tastes personally but you can't win them all.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Apr 7, 2024

ShadowTasos

Not Recommended

The plot for this anime was written by a 14 year old. I cannot explain why it's so bad in any other way.

Tokyo Revengers has an interesting plotlline: the main character goes back in time to try and stop the murder of his ex-girlfriend (and some other, less important characters') in the present. It's similar to that of Erased, which is why some people have compared the two - but such comparisons are simply insulting to Erased.

The most interesting part of such a plotline is how the main character will use the information he obtains in the present to change the past. This show seems ... to understand that, as to its credit, it spends a decent amount of time in the present, with the main character and his accomplice in time travel (the younger brother of said murdered ex-girlfriend) looking for information that can help them prevent these murders - which is the most interesting part of this show. They formulate a plan based on that information, and then the main character goes back in time... only to ignore or completely forget said information and act like a total idiot.

No, seriously. Tokyo Revengers is an extremely frustrating watch because of this - events will begin unraveling around the MC in the way that he KNOWS will unfold and lead to said murders, and it's within his power to prevent them. Alas no, all he does in this show is just scream and cry (literally!) until events just kind of magically resolve themselves because someone was impressed with how hard he cried or whatever. There's no sense of progression in the plot as a result, things just kind of happen and the MC is just there for it.

Staying with the plot for a bit, I'll be brutally honest and say that the writer who wrote this just cannot write. I would normally comment on the pacing for instance, but no such thing as "pacing" exists here -- event A doesn't lead to event B and so on. As I mention previously, things just kind of happen, and there's very often no logic why A happened and how that led to B. The plot just wanted B to happen, and the writer couldn't write a scenario that plausibly leads to it, so B just... happens, and it's very jarring to watch.

Now some of this could be explained by the fact that the characters in this show (at least in the past segment, where the majority of events we see take place) are 12-15 years old (the writer's mental age tbh), i.e. children, and children are illogcal creatures. But no, the show is completely inconsistent on that front - these children (who are riding bikes and beating up adults at age 12, lol) are portrayed as deeply mature in one scene, then in the next scene some inexplicable nonsense happens and you're thinking "WTF did I just watch?"

All in all, I really struggled to finish this show, which is uncharacteristic for me. There's usually SOMETHING that's decent about every show I've ever watched, something that I can enjoy about it, but there was no such silver lining to this cloud. The art is mediocre, the animation is atrocious, the music is bad (cool OP, but cool music starts playing out of nowhere while the MC is crying or something asinine happens, lol). This show is a disaster through and through, and I only give it a 4/10 because the time traveling premise was very interesting and I kept hoping it'd be utilized better later on... alas no such luck.

I'd recommend that you stay away from this show unless you're really starved for time travel "mystery" plotlines or you really like the "Japanese delinquent" aesthetic, which was honestly just butchered in this show anyway.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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