Tokyo Revengers
| This series has been a very entertaining read, however, ever since the Valhalla arc I feel that the story has suffered from a major decline in quality. Looking at the very high score the manga has I'm really curious to know how many other people share my thoughts. Spoilers for those who are not up to date. Basically, the plot is so obviously unplanned that it's almost painful to read. While I did enjoy the Black Dragons arc, I thought it felt kind of... "detached" from the main story, and I wondered if the author knew what he wanted to do with it. Then came Tenjiku, and oh boy did things start to get messy. We're suddenly introduced to Izana, Mikey's brother whose existence hasn't been hinted at even once, and who just really wants to kill his family members because he's jealous. The entire arc consists of this type of seemingly random stuff that isn't built on anything previously established in the story, and then it all ends with Kisaki revealing his goal is to impress Hina. Our main antagonist created this convoluted criminal plan to get a girl whom he otherwise isn't even trying to communicate with. How does this make any sense? The finale feels like the author writing himself into a corner along with Kisaki. Many important plot points seem to lack proper planning in this way, like the time travel. I'm not even expecting an explanation for the handshakes, but we still don't know how Takemichi did the very first leap. You could argue that it can still be addressed in the future, but it's weird that no one has even questioned it. Also, anyone else find it very... anticlimatic that Takemichi avoids telling anyone about the time travel, only for everyone to immediately believe it when they finally find out? Sure, his behavior served as proof, but if proof was all that was needed, couldn't he just have predicted a bunch of events on day one and get the others to trust him that way? The characters also say or do things that seem significant but end up leading nowhere. Draken says "Kisaki adored Mikey. But before we knew it, that changed to hatred" which turns out to mean... nothing really, because Kisaki's motive wasn't about Mikey. Mikey threatens to kill Takemichi if he doesn't bring Baji back, nothing happens. Kisaki tearfully calls Takemichi "My hero" before killing him, which is especially weird after we learn his true motives. It honestly feels like the author has no idea where he's going with the story. Recently they brought up Mikey's "darkness", which may explain some of his behavior, but it still feels random because no character ever questioned it before. Not to mention Takemichi's newfound future sight. |
| tokyo revengers is probably mostly about entertainment and the most effficent way to keep people entertained is to put a bunch of random plot twists and hype moments, jsut like aot s1 did so that people will remain engaged, it can work if you have an idea of where you are going with your show but if you lack that its just going to become a badly written mess thaat make no sense, if the author doesn't take a break to think at where he want to go with the story its just going to get worse probably |
| I actually binged 218 chapters (when we were at chapter 218) and I felt angry at how stale everything goes. You have been reading it as it comes out, but I had the opportunity to read it at once, and the repetitiveness of it all is absurd. As a lover of biker gang/school gang stories ( I need to update my manga list, but I have read a bunch of them), I was attracted by the retrospective moments of the story. However, it seems like there are a few negative sides to the writing and ideas in this project for me: 1. Repetitiveness - all arc up until now follow a pretty similar scenario. 2. There is not much development for the actual story nor the MC 3. The MC doesn't evolve. 4. The MC is a paedo. He has the brain and experience of a person that is 12 years older than the girl he's hitting on - for me, this had been a time-travel-breakage since day 1. 5. Naoto doesn't lose his memories - as part of the travel, okay as he is part of the save-my-sister saga, but when he's not will he remember? ( I haven't read the last 2 chaps) 6. The MC keeps being weak af. While Drake and Mikey preserve the realism of all their troubles and damage done to their bodies in a way (Drake had to stay at a hospital after the stabbing e.g.) - our guy gets the sh*t beat out of him and is still alive and kicking all the time. 7. Edit to add a big flow I don't know how I forgot - The other personality of MC - what happens to him and his relationships when he's not his older self??? We jump in and out like it's nothing with just a hint of "you acted strangely", but imagine losing weeks of control over your body... This will surely have an effect. Not to mention he was a strong, fighting lad back then, and suddenly he's getting beat up as much? These are just to add to what you've already mentioned, and which also bugs me. All of these (past the age difference in age and experience between the MC and his love interest) are due to the lack of originality in the later arcs. So yes, I agree. |
JustMyselfSep 3, 2021 9:06 AM
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