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Tokyo Revengers

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The only Anime I enjoyed so much I couldn't wait for an adaptation and rushed all the remaining chapters till the end in 2 days. EVERY Character in the series has something to offer in terms of story, personality or combat skills. The biggest thing about this story is the heart. i really connect to Hanagaki and I see myself in him. He shows me what i've could been if I were more assertive, If I worked hard enough, if I cared enough to take care of my problems. I see each one of the Tokyo Manji Gang members as some of my childhood friends, ... I see Hina and remembering my middle school girlfriend, I look at Kisaki and think about the people I was envy about, the people that were targeting me, and how I wanted to destroy them one day. Each arc has god-tier visuals, well-written plot and nothing feels like a filler since it all comes together at later point and you get hooked by Wakui Ken all over again.


10/10 - my most favorite Manga/Anime of the decade!

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.

This is just embarrassing to be honest. Tokyo Revengers was a battle shonen manga with a simple premise, simple characters and simple messages. Thanks to it's simplicity the reader could just lay back and enjoy a simple tale of a man travelling back in time to fix the past which led to his old love dying. Takemitchy along the way had to learn that changing the past is not as easy as it might appear. Sometimes he accomplished his goal in changing a terrible event of the past for the better while other times all he could do was change past events from terrible to ... just bad. All while being the physical underdog in every encounter. He kept on fighting thanks to his incredible will to save the ones he cared about and the help which he received from them. Not because of his big muscles. After some time the manga started getting repetitive. Takemitchy changes something in the past thanks to his will and ocean of tears which he shed, then travels back into the future and finds out things are just as bad if not worse, after that be goes back and boom ! We have another arc based around the same idea again and again. Same types of speeches, very similar outcomes all while the cast kept on rapidly expanding. I believe this is my biggest problem with this manga. Author kept on throwing new characters at the reader all while expecting you to remember all of them. All of their backstories, names, "arc's", and relevance to the main storyline. It may not seem like a big problem but at a certain point in the story I genuinely thought that the mangaka was just parodying himself. In the last arc before the final one we were building up to a showdown between Takemitchy and a big antagonist. Inbetween those two walking towards each other we got like FIVE backstories of random side characters which brought nothing to the table. It just kept on interrupting the main storyline to give us another backstory for a character nobody cares about or even remembers. For every step Takemitchy took we got another backstory. I thought it would never end. Not to mention something similar happened in the final arc right after a very important character died. Like TWENTY new characters showed up out of UTTERLY nowhere, introduced themselves and started fighting. Despite being repetitive, spending obscene amount of time on filler characters and lacking emotion in the last arc I kept on reading. Last couple of chapters were actually intriguing. There was a promise of concequences, something big happening which would shake the story. Maybe not save the bad parts but still give a meaning to the good parts and end Takemichy's character arc. With the final plot twist we were almost there. It was so simple to craft an ending with a profound message and weight which would make readers remember this story fondly. I don't want to spoil anyone but I feel like we were so close to at least getting something good at the end instead of the embarrassing looney tunes ending. It was so sad it actually makes me feel rude even criticising the author. I actually think he just wanted to give everyone a happy ending. Which is fair. His characters. And his story.
Too bad it's just so lame.