Tokyo卍Revengers

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Synonyms: Tokyo Manji Revengers

Japanese: 東京卍リベンジャーズ

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 31

Chapters: 279

Status: Finished

Published: Mar 1, 2017 to Nov 16, 2022

Genres: Action, Award Winning

Themes: Delinquents, Time Travel

Demographic: Shounen

Serialization: Shounen Magazine (Weekly)

Authors: Wakui, Ken (Story & Art)

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Popularity: #31

Members: 214,418

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Takemichi Hanagaki's life is at an all-time low. Just when he thought it couldn't get worse, he finds out that Hinata Tachibana, his ex-girlfriend, was murdered by the Tokyo Manji Gang: a group of vicious criminals that has been disturbing society's peace for quite some time.

Wondering where it all went wrong, Takemichi suddenly finds himself traveling through time, ending up 12 years in the past—when he was still in a relationship with Hinata. Realizing he has a chance to save her, Takemichi resolves to infiltrate the Tokyo Manji Gang and climb the ranks in order to rewrite the future and save Hinata from her tragic fate.

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Tokyo卍Revengers has been published digitally in English as Tokyo Revengers by Kodansha USA since October 16, 2018, and in print by Seven Seas Entertainment as 2-in-1 omnibus volumes since July 26, 2022.

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Adaptation:	Tokyo Revengers, Tokyo Revengers: Tenjiku-hen, Tokyo Revengers: Seiya Kessen-hen

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Sano, Manjirou

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Ryuuguuji, Ken

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Hanagaki, Takemichi

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Matsuno, Chifuyu

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Baji, Keisuke

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Mitsuya, Takashi

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Hanemiya, Kazutora

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Tachibana, Hinata

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Hanma, Shuuji

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Kawaragi, Senju

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Nov 16, 2022

debochca

Not Recommended

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This is exactly how you destroy a manga that was already mediocre.

I stopped writing reviews over a year ago because I didn't have the time, but this manga brought me out of my cave to write what was the biggest disappointment of all the stories I followed, and some minor spoilers are going to run all over the place.

Time travel is always a topic that needs to be treated with love, patience and dedication. If you don’t have none of them, you can’t write a story and expect it to be good. This is the case. The main character, Takemichi, is our guy. He, ... a man close to his thirties, starts his adventure by finding out that his ex-girlfriend from high school died. Due to a couple of things that are not worth mentioning, he travels to the past and returns to be a fourteen years old teen delinquent in order to save that girl he didn’t even remember. The thing is that he is a twenty-six years old man in a teen body, while this girl, Hina, is just fourteen by then, and he kind of fall in love with her all over again. I’m not here to discuss this weird fact, though.

He gets to remember how weak he used to be, and what a sad adolescence he lived, being bullied by other little gangs. Decided to make things different, he tries to strengthen himself by going all stupidly brave. Due to his lack of common sense and all the unnecessary fights he gets into, he attracts the attention of the leader of the biggest gang in the area, and befriends with him. As the story progresses, he starts to discover little things related to that big gang that will guide him to know how to prevent Hina’s death in the future. He travels as he likes from time to time to the future, to see how the situation has changed since the last time, in order to decide if he’s going in the right direction and acquiring new information. That’s it, in short.

In terms of characters, if by the middle of the story we didn’t have a lot of development, by the end we have almost none.

Almost, except for our big hero, Takemichi. He is the man that no one can hate. Every side character, every antagonist, every human being felt respect for him. He touched so many lives, because he has such a good heart. Okay, I got it the first time. Can we move on now?

At the beginning, he is kinda funny, interesting. He is the archetype of a shounen main character, but denser. He regrets the decisions he took during his adolescence, so he tries not to be the boy he was in the past. He tries to be the better version of himself. He escapes cowardice and affronts every problem, and that’s nice. The thing is that, as the story progresses, this situation gets so blatantly repeated that loses its scent. Every single time he gets into a fight and loses (as ALWAYS), he comes back from the dead to say that he’s not giving up, that he can’t be the coward he used to be. That he has experienced loneliness and that he will protect his people at all coast. All. The. Time. That speech is so burned out that can easily tire the reader. However, it causes a totally different effect on the enemies, since they develop a big admiration for him, saying how different he is. Of course, you don’t see a person so willing to take unnecessary punches so often. Apparently, that was his way of showing resistance. Because we all know resistance is a lot more important than being a little bit smart and not getting into fights that will destroy you for sure.

He takes the most stupid decisions most of the time, and okay, I can take that, but he cries and regrets right after that. Until the third arc, that’s all he does. He has a big lot of information to prevent murders to happen, and can’t prevent most of them. It gets tiring after he makes a big lot of mistakes and cries. I don’t have a problem with crybaby characters, I love them. Nevertheless, Takemichi cries after making the same old mistake that ever does. Cries and cries as if he couldn’t have prevented those events. Blames himself and goes to do the same thing again. It feels like he never learns anything, or that he can’t ever get a little smarter nor astute. Frustrating. By the very end he gets to do some intelligent takes, but did it take you 250 chapters to think that through?

The rest of the characters can’t say much since their development turned to zero. Although, there are some cool bonds during the story, there is a good environment of friendship, there are interesting character developments. Not impressing and not big, but there are. However, who I want to mention now is Mikey. Look how they massacred my boy. The most enigmatic person in that manga resulted the shallowest thing in the world. This is an honorable mention to a character whose entire development and complexity was synthetized to a lack of love and some kind of supernatural stuff.

If I had to enumerate the big amount of plot holes and plot devices in this work, I should need more characters than MAL is allowed to give me. Takemichi gets brutally punched a lot of times because he doesn’t know how to fight, and he actually never learns not in 278 chapters. He gets so hurt in occasions, that a human would not be able to stand, nor be conscious. But our big hero is always there, defying the laws of nature and biology. Not only biology, but our author’s logic. While Takemichi can support any kind and amount of damage, the other characters can faint with just one kick. Amazing. There are victories that exist just because the author lighted a candle and decided so while he laughed. There are victories that exist just because of the power of friendship. There are victories that exist because of hidden powers or abilities that not only are humanly impossible, but that have no precedent in the story. There are characters that were never shown, but that suddenly were the most important of the story, and that were always there, waiting their 200 chapters to shine. There are actions that are done just because the plot needed it, such a coincidence. There are unnecessary deaths, and very avoidable deaths.

The convenience itself was Tokyo Revengers’ fall and biggest enemy. Not only ruined the story little by little, but it killed the end of the story. I don’t hate happy endings. I hate endings that try too hard. This one tried too hard to make the fanboys like it. Actually, the story could have ended in the third arc, that was about the chapter 194, that ending would have been a lot better than the one we got. However, the need of violently lengthen the story was a result of the pressure that a successful adaptation generates on a mangaka, alongside the fanboys’ wish for a happy ending of a Disney’s caliber.

The ending not only was forcedly happy, but it destroyed all the characters’ history, all the poor logic that the story built, and magically transformed everything into sugar, spice and everything nice. Every tragic past, with a flick of the wrist disappeared. Suddenly, every mentally ill character does not need to go to therapy. Suddenly, every violent psycho in the story becomes a human being and doesn’t kill people, doesn’t break bones. The little man that pursued Hina for not liking him back, suddenly does not care about her anymore and can respectfully take a no. They even prevented a fire that was part of a character’s past, because even his scars disappear. God knows how, since they were little kids when that happened. Remember that guy that abused his family? Well, he doesn’t anymore. Why? Because the holy spirit told him not to. My guess, though.

A bittersweet ending is never a bad option if it has a reason, if it’s necessary. You can’t expect everyone (literally, everyone) to be happily ever after in a manga that was severely pierced by death and tragedy. It’s forced and anticlimactic. However, a sweet ending that forgets and denies the last 277 chapters, is always a bad option.

In conclusion, it is a disappointment. If you only care about people being happy, read this, or go read a fanfic. It’s the same. If you care about a good writing, outstanding character development, or at least an attractive art, don’t bother yourself with almost 300 chapters.

I had a big affection for Tokyo Revengers even knowing all its big flaws during the first three arcs, but the last one was so ridiculous, that love’s gone behind.

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Nov 16, 2022

blucas

Mixed Feelings

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The journey to this manga finale was so agonizing and that's solely because of the rollercoaster type of chapters Wakui had for the readers, especially after certain choices he decided to pursue in the storyline. With that said, this review will contain spoilers so look at this with caution if you haven't finished reading it yet. Tokyo Revengers is a manga that involves both of my favorite things about different troops: time-lapping and gangs, but certainly those concepts were morphed into something more mystical to say at least, but it was fun while it lasted.

The story has Takemichi Hanagaki, our MC, a regular young man ...

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Nov 16, 2022

curvedtree

Mixed Feelings

Tokyo Revengers is one of those mangas that build up its story so high only to see itself crumble from the author's lack of verisimilitude.

Being a time leap story there are some fundamentals that every reader will be curious about: why is the main character time leaping? How is he doing it? When is he travelling to? Is the present affected by the changes in the past? Most of these questions are answered throughout the arcs and for most of the manga the time leaping is quite consistent and well explained on those fundamental questions. Except for the last arc, we do have learn new ... things about time leaping, but the the last arc goes against what was well established alongside those way over 200 chapters.

The story itself is fair, Takemichi goes through some trials in order to overcome his coward nature just to save those he love, and sometimes he goes way over any normal person would, his victories sometimes might feel undeserved, but he will bust his ass trying to get it, so at least it is not delivered in a silver platter to him. His character grows on you and many others in the story too - side characters and antagonists alike -, character development is well distributed amongst side characters and, up to a point, it is quite easy to remember all of them, in later arcs the amount of new characters introduced is too much - considering you are also keeping track of the "old" side characters - and they only appear in a few chapters.

The art style is a bit rough, but each male character has its own characteristics - female characters aren't that common in this manga, so it is fair to explicit what I mean - that will hardly make you confused on who's who, not only that they give off the "delinquent" image that bike gangs have in Japan. The action illustrated on the fights is nice, even though some fights end up being more fiction than reality, still they are well drawn. The scenarios on the other hand are not the centre of attention, I might be misremembering, but I don't recall nothing that stuck with me, other than scenarios that you would see in every slice of life.

In the end, the experience reading Tokyo Revengers is good for the first 200-ish chapters, the final saga with the Three Deities Arc and Kanto Manji Arc doesn't match the quality it has early on, whether by time leap events, new side characters and antagonists or the story itself. Those last two arcs have 71 chapters, I wished the third arc from the last had a better "ending" feel to it - so recommending people to stop there would make more sense and a feeling of closure -, but it has direct connections with the last two arcs, so dropping the manga without reading those arcs will feel like something is missing, still worth a read, even though the out come isn't in pair with the quality of early arcs.

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