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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.

Update 17 November 2022:

Do I think it's recommendable?
- No. It was never exceptional in the first place, but got worse and worse as the story went on. The writing was quite disastrous. The ending was exceptional in a bad way, erasing all of the buildup and plot progression that made the story what it was.
Did I ever regret reading it?
- Well, yes, at one point it felt like so much time was wasted.
But do I regret finishing the last 60 chapters when I had previously dropped the series?
- I guess not. I'm glad I got to witness the ending.

Now that this is ... completed, surprisingly I feel at peace. I had a list of things I wanted to rant about before chapter 276 but once I read chapter 277, all of a sudden it felt like I was able to reconcile with the story. Maybe it's because I simply do not care enough about it to even muster the energy to complain about things, maybe because it's so plainly disastrous that I know all of my feelings and rants will be reflected by other readers anyway, or maybe it's because real life is already so hard that it doesn't feel too bad to see fictional characters get a happy ending. If I were a fan I would be feeling so many different emotions, but I never was in the first place. Either way for me, with an ending comes closure and with closure comes peace. I'm just glad it ended relatively soon and did not drag out the torture any longer. I maintain my conclusion that if you didn't like it 50 chapters in you'll find that it gets worse, far worse in the latter parts. But if you're fine with not bringing your brain cells while reading it, then why not? I certainly had to force my brain cells to shut down at multiple points. In a way, this is going to be an extremely memorable piece of work. But not necessarily for the good things.

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Before update:
Disclaimer: If you're a fan of Tokyo Revengers, please don't read this. It'll probably just offend you.

TL;DR
1. 4.5 out of 10
2, This is going on for way too long. Like 100 chapters too long.
3. If you, like me 150 chapters ago, are not liking this but thinking if you should give this another chance because of all the raving reviews on MAL, heed my advice and just drop it. If you didn't like it 50 chapters in, you'll find that it gets worse.
4. Baji deserved better.

All the while reading this I kept asking myself why am I still reading it. The only reason why I kept going was, well, there has got to be a reason why people are giving out 9s and 10s right?

Admittedly my reason for starting the manga was shallow - I started the anime, felt meh about it, saw some fanart for Chifuyu and decided to give the manga a chance. Well. I won't say it's a complete waste of time, at least for the first 50 chapters or so, but it's definitely not for anyone who is looking for an intelligent piece of work about time-travelling. Or even about gangs.

Story: 3

The story is likely the weakest aspect of the manga. It's not all bad, but there are major flaws. I don't even like wracking my brains that much when I watch/read things but this entire set-up of time travelling with zero consequences or consideration for parallel timelines just screams HEAVEN FOR PLOT-HOLES if one starts to think about it for just a minute. Every single plot line is developed based on just one thing - the death of Tachibana Hina. Meaning that when she is rescued, there is literally nothing left for the story unless the mangaka decides to go the Boruto route (and this was what happened). This is one of the fatal points of the story - the mangaka has no choice but to expand on that single, thin premise of rescuing a girl because it all comes down to that. The plot is ultimately driven by this objective. Not very exciting. And after achieving that objective, the mangaka came up with a really brilliant idea - just add more people for Takemichi to save! Using the same formula!

I'm not even going to talk about the power-scaling or how realistic this manga is (in case you're wondering, it's not), I can disregard how unrealistic it is for 12-year-olds to start a gang that becomes a contender for the ruler gang of Tokyo, or how middle schoolers can take on 50 people at a time, or how they have enough strength to kill people left and right if they wanted to. It's a fictional story. The biggest problem with it isn't how many plot holes there are, or how unrealistic it is, it's how the story development is stretched thin over the same objective and so weak that it ends up boring and repetitive. The same pattern is executed repeatedly, camouflaged by the addition of more characters coming out of nowhere with zero buildup but apparently all really strong and have some beef with each other to make it seem like there was a huge, complicated plot behind it all along, right from the beginning. Not exactly the most intelligent way of story-telling.

Art: 7

I like the style. Nothing outstanding but it's good enough.

Characters: 5

This is where I fumble a little trying to rate it. Subjectively speaking, I do think there are some characters who are charming and deserve appreciation, but the MC kind of ruins it for me. I will say though, he's much more bearable than in the anime where I have to listen to him wailing. At least I can just skim over the panels in the manga. By no means is any of the character genius, but MC just takes the cake for being useless and pathetic. I do think I'm being very harsh on him, he's not ALL bad, but objectively speaking, this is all he is. The characters around him wouldn't be treating him the way they are/were if he weren't the MC and has the plot-armour. But he is the MC. So he gets brownie points from the cast for standing up against a big guy even though all he did is say something cool-ish and glare at the opponent for two seconds and then go cower in the corner, then realises he's the only one who can change the future but does none of the actual work and goes through the same thing all over again. He doesn't learn, he doesn't try to learn or plan, he goes with the flow and tries to think on the spot of what to do even though obviously he hasn't got the smarts for that. You'd think that he'd learn about the importance of planning ahead and collecting information 100 chapters in and after dozens of times of time-leaping but no.

A few others I do like, Mikey, Draken, Chifuyu, Mitsuya, Baji, Inui are all fan-favourites for a reason. They are not exceptionally-written, but solid enough amidst a rather big cast, and tick many right boxes to appeal to readers. Kisaki is probably the smartest guy in this manga. He's not bad as an antagonist, and a character who's written for people to hate on. Nothing much to say against him. On the other hand, I feel like there just isn't enough time for readers to really know the characters and witness their development. New characters, with zero buildup, keep getting introduced while I'm still trying to match the names to the faces of those who just got introduced 20 chapters ago. Just as you think they're not really important (because they get taken out by Mikey and conveniently disappear at the end of the arc anyway) and you can probably disregard them, they turn out to be recurring characters and one of them randomly gets a backstory reveal in the middle of the arc to make you like them, while there still hasn't been much time to connect/be attached to some in the main cast. Not as big of a problem as the storytelling, but it's still part of the weaker aspects of the manga.

Enjoyment: 3

I do want to know what happens in the end but I'm getting very, very impatient with the same pattern occurring over, over, over and all over again. There is manga where I am completely content with being there for the ride and the journey, and there is manga where I just want it to end. NOW. Tokyo Revengers is clearly the latter of the two.

This review is mostly my experience with the manga and what i think about it, so it might have some spoilers.


Among the airing shows in this season we had Tokyo Revengers. A time travel story where the protagonist goes back to the past to save his "beloved one", if you're here you might know the rest.
I watched 2 episodes of it and ended up going to the manga.
The quotation marks in "beloved one" is there because the protagonist had no reason to love her, Hina. They once dated in middle school, but that's it. Assuming from what the story tell us about when they were ... dating in the past, they weren't very close to each other and it didn't feel like they were in a relationship. Hina dumped on him probably because of that in the past where Takemitchi hadn't changed yet.
This is not shown at the beginning and it actually takes a lot of chapters to be revealed to us, the reader. A lot of other things that could have been stated in the beginning are revealed later on in the manga as well, such as why Hina likes Takemitchi. Different from Takemitchi she had fallen for him since they met, and probably was the one to ask him out. I don't remember if it is said so, but considering Takemitchi likely didn't even remember her it might be that way.
Revealing things after some time rather than in the beginning is not a bad move of the author, i just feel like that it could be something to make the reader more interested in the manga from the start and get them to keep reading it.


Something that i don't like though, is how power levels are just not a thing here. When a character looks strong, another stronger character appears right after to kick his butt. Take when Angry was revealed to be 100 times stronger than his brother (his brother, Smiley, a supposedly strong character since he's one of the Toman's 5 captains) as an example, he had fainted 4 of the strongest enemies Toman was fighting until Kakucho, someone of the other gang who was friends with Takemitchi in their childhood, beats him like he's not strong at all.
This wasn't the first time that something like that happened, and you can't tell who's strong and who's not anymore because when you're sure a character is strong another stronger character appears right after.


In Tokyo Revengers Takemitchi had to keep moving from the past and future a lot of times, since his goal was to save Hina he'd first go to the past to change it and then when he thought Hina would be safe in the future he would go back to the future. He had to try a lot of different things changing the future where he was supposed to be every time he changed the past. That's something i like a lot, seeing the protagonist failing and why he failed for him to try once again until he saved Hina.
But something that i found quite weird is how when Takemitchi goes back to the future from the past it's as if he didn't exist in the past, or that he is another person when his future self isn't in his past self anymore. He kept secret that he was from the future for a long time until he tells Chifuyu about it, and later on everyone knows about it as well.
In more recent chapters, Takemichi was able to save Hina and when he goes back to the future everyone had realized that he was Takemitchi who traveled back to the past and had just came back to the future, without him mentioning it. It's like Takemichi was just not there for the characters until he came back, because even though we don't see what happened, it still had to happen with Takemichi accompanying everything, him not remembering what happened is understandable, but he still had to be there.
Another example, Earlier in the story to what i was talking about, there was also this time where Takemichi changed the past and when he came back to the future he was one of Toman's admin, Toman in this timeline was still a corrupted gang that killed, robbed people and did all the bad stuff you could imagine a corrupted gang doing.
Even with Takemichi in Toman's administration it became a corrupted gang in this timeline, It's not said why, but it certainly does a 180° on Takemichi's character since his goal in the story was always to save Toman from becoming such a gang, and if he was on Toman's administration and it still became that way it just feels like Takemichi wasn't the same person anymore.


This same time where he saved Hina, everything was just fine and everyone else of the friends he made along the way were doing good.
Until Takemitchi realizes Mikey, Toman's captain and also one of his precious friend had fallen into dark once again and was still commanding a corrupted gang in the future. The reason Hina in the future died was because of that, thus, if he wanted to save Hina he had to save Mikey as well. But now Hina was safe and his friends as well, so the manga could have ended there with their marriage and Mikey'd be fine as well. Since Mikey doesn't have a good reason to do what he's doing it feels like the author is dragging out the story and screwing everything.



If you should read it or not, though i don't like it that much, i'd still say Tokyo Revengers is a good read. It may not be very consistent in the story, but the character design is pristine and it's very catchy, it always gets you wondering what will happen next.

Its overrated.

The art is good, there are couple of cool characters and the premise is somewhat interesting. That's almost all of the positive stuff that can be said about this series. The story is mediocre at best and its devoid of logic. Apart for few most of the characters are more of a caricature than a character. The plot is repetitive and getting more predictable as the story progress.

The MC is a 26 years in a body of 14 years but still have the mental age of 14 years old. He doesn't seem to learn anything from his mistakes and act like a ... child and a very whiney one. He dive headfirst into the life of violence and doesn't give any effort to make himself stronger. He should at least try to be able to defend himself. Not even basic self defense! Him being physically weak and not knowing how to throw a punch isn't the problem here. The problem is that MC is a little bitch (and he stays like that for god knows how long).

I understand its fiction there has to be a certain level suspense of belief but this is too much. Like how Naota became a cop after a stranger, who is middle schooler, told him to protect his sister. And the other thing is how the story is trying to portray the characters as "good guys" when all they are is wanna be gangster delinquents. They are all terrible people with no regards for others but themselves. And wtf are the adults doing in this manga. The cops are just there for plot convenience.

I know its enjoyable for a lot of people but it's definitely overrated. Maybe the most overrated in the last few years. Tbh I enjoyed it but I wouldn't say it was good. It is somewhere between fine and above average. And it sure doesn't deserve the rating its getting.

I'm not going to hone in on specific characteristics of the manga like characters/plot/art/etc because there's plenty of that in other reviews here already, but I'm dropping this review as a WARNING to anyone who wants to pick up this manga these days,

DROP THIS MANGA AFTER CHAPTER 194!

It's very obvious that the manga wasn't planned to go for this long and is being stretched out bc it sells like hotcakes. The story in chapter 194 reaches a sort of natural endpoint, coming shortly after the biggest arc in the series, Tenjiku. Everything that came after has been torturous to read week after week, ... from something I once considered a very good shonen, 9/10, into something that gets worse and worse with each chapter and has become a complete irony read for me and my friend group with how comically bad it's gotten. It's also the type of bad that recontextualizes earlier parts of the story so that you can't enjoy it as much anymore.

If the idea of dropping a manga before seeing it through or a very bad last 70ish chapters is not appealing to you, do not bother reading this manga. If you're fine with dropping it before the end or with a bad ending, then there really is some great material to see in this manga, a delinquent shonen with great characters and good execution of emotional scenes and some hype ass fights. Was never anything too deep but man the author shit the bed with what was otherwise a really fun read.

I started the anime, it caught my eye as I thought it was good, but when I read the manga, it was okay in the start, but then I realized that the whole manga is the same scenario shit again and again.

the main character needs to separate 2 people so his girlfriend doesn't die, he does that, now something new was the cause that the girl died, then he fixed that, then there is another reason she died, then he got to fix that, and its like that the whole series, it's sad to see because it could have done a lot of things, but ... it chose to do the same thing, just with different people again and again. just like the ending of "seven deadly sins" were they just kept using another reason not to stop because they don't know what to do.

After watching the anime version up to episode 2, I started reading the manga last midnight and recently finished it up to the newest chapter (202) in just one sitting. I'm very sleepy right now, but my desire to speak is unbearable. The story isn't bad but it's not great either. Honestly, this kind of disappoints me. So I guess I won't continue reading it anymore and won't continue watching the anime either. I realized that I shouldn't have to read the manga, maybe with that I can enjoy the anime to the end. My bad. Don't get me wrong, it's not because the anime ... doesn't fit the manga, it's just a perfect fit. What matters to me is the story itself. I was annoyed because it was as if the problems the MC was having would never be resolved, it always happened to be shit. Well, shit.

What always weighs on my mind is, MC's silliness, if he would continue to be a stranger everytime he's go back to his original time, wouldn't it be better if he just settled in the past to take care of everything? I mean, the initial scene still makes sense, since the MC was in death state in his original time when he did the time leap. But in the next events seems that he instead underwent a change in the route of life without being able to know anything that had happened on that route.

Well, I can't guess what happens to the original young MC every time his adult soul returns to the future. Isn't he confused? Because suddenly his girlfriend becomes more and more affectionate towards him, the gang members become respectful of him. One more thing, he also doesn't know anything about time leaps, isn't?

Have you ever played an app game or whatever that involves gacha and lets you reroll until you're satisfied with what you get? A normal person would be satisfied as long as they get something they like or meta, because let's be real, you can't get everything unless you're extra lucky and nail that .01%. Takemichi or the protagonist is in a sense not normal in that matter because he got everything anyone would be more than happy with, but he abandons such cherished results and asks for more. But what do you know, he is already getting a terrible result compared to that reroll ... he had earlier what a shocker. Exploiting time travel is good and all as long as it's consistent and makes sense, but if you use those in an unnecessary fashion, you're only digging a hole either for yourself or the others getting involved. This is where I am done with this series because even if the author pulls off something convenient to make the result better, that itself is insulting (to me at least).

Anyone who read up to the chapter I dropped off will know what I'm talking about above. Even without the later chapters, this series gave me the feeling that Takemichi has a plot armor 24/7 even in a dire situation because in the end, most of the time the conflict is not resolved by himself. Sure there were some conflicts resolved by himself (namely the first 2), but that left me a question: "did it have to be him to deal with that? surely someone could have done the same thing and gotten a close result." And who's to say "it has to be Takemichi to deal with those" because a lot of time it's just the people around not trying to face the issue.

Characters are good except for some, I'll at least give that.

Look, Tokyo Revengers was a pretty solid work until Tenjiku's arc.

After that, the only reason to make more content on the main work was only to squeeze more money out of this successful series. It is the only manga that I followed weekly to the end and I don't regret it. The ending was bad, it was a mix of Naruto Shippuden and Erased if it was even more rushed.

I'm a person who started watching Tokyo Revengers because of the action, and I have to say, It was not lacking until the end. Every arc was Amazing with emotions and Action, mainly the 3 ... deities, It only lost to Tenjiku's arc in action and pure gold.

In general, it was REALLY good work, but it is too bad that half of the manga is just garbage.
Don't get me wrong, I still love it and the characters introduced, I always loved the gang atmosphere in this work and it was refreshing. In the end, it is a 7/10 at best. If it ended at Tenjiku's arc, solid 8/10.

it's been one hell of a ride!!! screaming, crying, throwing up, rolling on the floor and then rolling up in a fetal position in said puddle of vomit. the story has been great and its been a rollercoaster ride of emotions, seriously i have had serious anxiety and euphoria and overwhelming sadness when some characters met their maker. Good story, but WHAT WAS IT ALL FOR? if you have read till the end you'll understand why i'm asking this. i expected better than what i received in the end.

feelings aside about the ending, the story was well written in my opinion, i was kept ... at the edge of my seat the entire time. i very much enjoyed Takemichi's development as well, how he was humanized and developed at a likable pace, his flaws which made him dislikeable in the beginning became his most endearing characteristics.

you will definitely enjoy reading this, though the ending might not be quite as satisfying.

It's finally fucking over.
This manga is great, it actually is, that is only if you read until chapter 193 and the imagine it ends there. Because the next 85 chapters are the most unnecessary and worthless pieces of media that i've ever read. EVER. I don't really know if the author really wanted to extend his manga those 2 years or if he was pressured to do so but the ending of this ruins it so much that all the enjoyment that you could get out of it is tossed out of the window, and i can't in my good conscience, recommend a manga that ... has this kind of atrocious ending.
Sorry if this sounds like to much whining, but tokyo revengers was a pretty good manga for a long time, the anime adaptation invited a lot of people to read the manga and was glad that they did because the anime can't hold a candle to it's source, the art is great, sometimes gorgeous, and while it was inconsistent at times, it carried the manga in it's highest peaks.
The story was thrilling but simplistic at times, but it had the necessary elements to be more than engaging. But i need to insist that the end throws everything away, and the main character reaches the end of his arc at the second to last chapter, so i feel very conflicted.
Idk man i'm just glad this shit is over and that AoT doesn't have the worst ending ever anymore

I hate when a manga become this popular because people's expectations went too high or worse: author's or editor's expectation's change.
Is the ending rushed? Yes. Is it author's or editor's fault? We'll never known, but, Tokyo Revengers pace was pretty good until the fame show up. Then everything felt weird and without a cause. Like in some point the story that was originally settled changed. I think the author wanted a very different ending but *something* pushed him to do what we had.

Nevertheless, I discovered this manga in 2019, I think, when Black Dragon's arc was ending or so. And I loved it. The story ... was simple, but likeable thanks to the characters and the cool action. It was enjoyable, not a masterpiece, but I was every week waiting for it, trying to guess what will happen, who was behing everything, who was the true villain (if it was one). Lots of questions remained silent by the end of the manga and I really hope they make a spin-off with everything that happened between 277 and 278 chapters.

But for me, this manga was special. It was the first time I was willing to read a chapter every week, reading it in japanese if I had to because translations were slow. I had the oportunity to share my thoughts with two good friends of mine because they ended reading it too and I had a great time thinking and doing my own theories.

I understand people hating it because the ending, but I enjoyed this manga very much. If they do what I said, it could be one of the best mangas I ever read.

As for people who want to read it now without knowing anything... keep in mind that the ending is rushed and that there are lost events: things that happened and they never talked about it anymore. Some events are questionable and you could feel like other things happened for nothing. So I would say you should read this manga only if you are not going to take it very seriously, because if you do, you might hate it in the end...

I really liked this manga. Right until the very last arc after the tenjiku one. Man what a way to ruin a good series, the author could have ended the series then and it would have been great but he had to implement the most rancid garbage ending possible. I probably would have given this a 9/10 had the last arc not existed. The problem with the last arc is the amount of irrelevant characters that are added and dumb shit that happens at the end that just makes it stupid. The conclusion to the whole good story was completely and utterly stupid and could ... have concluded an arc before which would have perfected the series. I would recommend reading it and stopping before the final arc.

Tokyo Revengers tells a story about a 26-year-old freeter, Takemichi Hanagaki. One day he learns that his middle school ex-girlfriend (Hinata Tachibana) and her younger brother (Naoto) have been killed by the Tokyo Manji Gang. When Takemichi is pushed in front of a train, he teleports exacly 12 years into the past to 2005. While reliving his middle school years, Takemichi meets with Naoto and divulges the exact date he and Hinata will die. When they shake hands, Takemichi is suddenly transported back to the present, creating a time paradox where Naoto survives and is now a detective. Naoto deduces that every time they hold ... hands, Takemichi is transported 12 years into the past. Using his knowledge from the future, Takemichi vows to save Hinata.

The whole story is very enjoyable with amazing gang fights and confronts, the side-characters are all very different from one another in design and also in personality, that makes a very diverse side-cast, which is something very cool about Tokyo Revengers. For me it's very fun to compare which characters are stronger and there're a lot of debates about it, not only about strength, but speed, intelligence, teamwork and etc. I always make sure to point out the best character of the show for me: Draken (or Ken Ryuguji).

One complaint about Tokyo Revengers is that there are some really "cringe" moments, like Mikey being so obsessed with food and getting carried around by Draken, but this is only my opinion of course. Another example are mid-fights' "transformations" or "power-ups" and abnormal strength for teenagers (being able to break walls). I think it would also suit better if the characters were high-schoolers and not middle-schoolers.

Overall I think it's a good manga, all characters have a good development and the story is very entertaining. It may not please everyone, but it's definately worth a try.

As far as Shonen fight manga's go this WAS an incredibly fun series full of suspense, surprises, and characters to love (MC being the only weakness in this trait), and antagonists that you love to see go down. To add Ken Wakui has a very attractive and easy to read art style. The characters are easy on the eyes and full of variety, environmental art fit excellently in the setting, that the paneling was excellently done to contribute to dialogue driven sections of the story.

So why is this review "mixed" with a score of 4? Because leading up until the final arc, I would ... have given it a solid 8. The second to last arc could have been the perfect ending that us as readers were also itching to reach. However plot device lent it's hand to continue on the manga for one last arc in which overarching retconning, character assassinations, and very questionable use of mental illness soured the otherwise positive feelings of the story I've had.

I can't wholly recommend the series, and if I do it will always come with the caveat to avoid the final arc and perhaps read a summary of the events if you are curious.

First of all WOW, the ending to this story does exist! (I am not counting those additional backstory chapters that are still coming out since MAL is also not counting those apparently, plus the story has ended).
Hold on tight, I have a lot to say about this one.

I am writing from a position of a person that watched the first season of anime and then continued the manga where they left off in anime. Also, I did forget a lot of details from manga, I started reading it a long time ago and wasn't really keeping up with it as it was coming out, I ... would go back to the manga every few months and at that point I'd already forgotten a lot of details. So I won't be touching on things I don't remember, just on the general and overall vibe and story itself.

The storyline just kept repeating itself to the point where the originality of the manga (which does actually have such a fun and interesting concept) is lost in the mess of the chapters. It becomes even pathetic at times. You know, Takemichi really reminds me of Naruto here, it's a great opportunity to compare them. Naruto keeps repeating that he won't give up on his dream and Takemichi keeps repeating that he will save everyone. Both are equally pathetic in their own ways. That does not mean that it's necessarily bad, but it just loses its "sparkle". I just think that Takemichi was the most annoying main character in shounen I've ever come across. I'd come back to this manga every few months and was always wondering when is it going to end, I really had no expectations for it anymore, it all felt like it was just repeating itself and dragging along. That also made me forget a lot about the story, it was/is mashed up in my brain like a long information about a repeating storyline. It even gets too dramatic, which, oh well, it has its own reasons to be dramatic but it can get annoying. To be honest, without *a certan individual* in the picture half of my heart was gone from this series.
However, I think anime is more suited for this story than manga, maybe it's just a personal preference, but I'm definitely glad that there is a second season of anime (will be judging the quality of that in the future).

However, all of this mess and repeating that was created by the author can make sense if you have a different point of view. To be quite honest, Takemichi's position is terrible and his mission seems impossible, but the guilt and responsibility that his fate and other people put into him is making him "strong" in a sense of not being able to give up hope and give up trying even though by the middle of this manga we are left asking why does he even bother with it anymore. Thus the constant repeating makes sense, he is fighting, not with people, but with an invisible force of life that cannot be changed. Things kept staying (almost) the same and that's why the storyline keeps repeating. The perfect example is when Pah-chin says (in one of the last chapters): "How can you beat a curse?" Takemichi seems too naive, but it seems that his motto is "over and over again", as well as "I'll save you". I mean, that's fair, it's the fate of the main character in a shounen type of story, that's just how it is. Also, Mikey's heart returns just because of Takemichi's persistence and the word "friend"? It's really ringing in the melody of 'every shounen anime trope ever'. I am not mad at that, just stating the obvious.

So we can either say that the author is a genius or that he is lazy and repetitive. The storyline can be seen as either really complicated or really simple and uninteresting. It's up to your own personal opinion, however, as a reader I don't think that anyone likes repetition. Since I am able to see both sides like this I would have to say that this manga is definitely better than average, but it's nothing extremely good. I like the idea, I love it, I like most of the characters, but I have this love-hate relationship with the storyline dinamic itself. And after I had a look at some of the other reviews I would like to add that this story had a FAAAAR greater potential to offer much better results than it did!

The design does lack in some panels, especially the body proportions, but it's negligible because of all the fighting scenes that probably took a lot of time and effort and also there's A LOT of individual characters that have an absolutely awesome design, let alone the fact that this manga has almost 300 chapters x 20 (and more) manga panels in each one.

Finding out about the original timeline and the "first" timeleaper was absolutely crazy! I did like that plot twist but everything is just so sudden and mashed up in the very few last chapters.

It's also crazy that the author managed to create a happy ending and I commend them for that, really, and for the dedication to this fun manga and fresh idea.

- "Over and over again, he failed. It's a miracle, he pulled it off." -