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I have never written a review on MAL before because I never felt the need to but this series started off so good and eventually went to complete nonsense so I want to advise people not to waste their time on this like I did. This review only contains indirect spoilers.

I started reading Tokyo revengers spring of 2021 and at first it started off as a very captivating and intriguing story with lots of interesting and enjoyable characters. The plot twists and mysteries kept me at the edge of my seat and I constantly looked forward to the next chapter, the characters were relatable and ... played a big part in making the story so amazing. I genuinely and thoroughly loved the series and never imagined that the day would come that I would drop it. What made me dislike Tokyo Revengers so much was the clear dramatic change from a logical well written linear storyline to a completely new plot and total nonsense.

Let me explain. Tokyo Revengers' plot at the beginning was basically the mc (Hanagaki Takemichi) travelling back in time to save his middle school girlfriend that was essentially caught in between a gang feud and killed in the process. To stop this from happening he joins the gang that was involved and tries to rank his way up to the boss status. He joins, befriends the gang, tries solving the issue that caused the feud and so on. His only goal was to save her but eventually realised he had to save others in the process too, which was fine because it was still the same plot. He obviously achieves his goal so that should be the end of the story, right? Wrong. The author decided to add a whole new goal for the mc to achieve which caused the story to drag on and add new pointless characters and it became repetitive and boring as it felt like a different story. At some point in this new story it felt like the author was just continuing for the sake of continuing. Many characters (whom Takemichi did so much for to prevent their deaths in the past) died, wasting his efforts and time spent on them in the beginning. Takemichi was a second away from having his happy ending with his gf and friends but threw everything away for one person which caused this whole new plot. It irritated me how things changed so quickly, the story's atmosphere changed dramatically and felt so dragged out.

If you're going to read this series anyways I recommend stopping after reading the Tenjiku arc's conclusion, everything goes downhill after that arc.