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With the ending of this wonderous story and my revisit to this site for the first time in months, it's time for a review of a manga that I feel quite strongly about :D

Tokyo Revengers starts wonderfully in my opinion. Lots of action surrounding our main character, but he is too much of a wimp to partake in it himself. That means he trains and becomes big and strong right? No. Tokyo Revengers has an ever so slightly different take on the protagonist of the Shonen action genre and Takemichi, our protagonist in this story, is what makes it pretty good.

There are 2 things in ... this story that control the flow of the story and keep it going: Time travel and our main character being immortal(plot armor).

The thing that sets the whole story and motion and is recurrent throughout the story is time travel. Takemichi needs to hold hands with someone and have both of them wish to go into the past, and then only Takemichi will go there. For the most part, this is how we are led to believe the power works. He uses this power to go back in time to save his middle school girlfriend from a notorious gang, gets tangled up in a fight with them himself, etc. Fast forward a bit and he's now close friends with the big shots of the gang due to his charisma which slowly grows over time. He goes back in time whenever there's something he wants to change but usually loses something in the process(someone dies, or betrays them. stuff like that). That is the other "unspoken rule" of the time travel power.

The other major point is plot armor. Takemichi just does not die, and it makes sense as he's the main character, but its a little more extreme in this story than most other ones. You'll see a character get absolutely bodied and basically killed with a single move and takemichi will jump in front of them to stop them with the "this is wrong" line and proceed to get hit multiple times with the same move that just almost killed another person. Multiple life-threatening hits later, he is still standing there spewing Shonen lines until someone actually strong comes and saves him. I did say the protagonist deviated "ever so slightly" just mainly in the sense that he doesn't actually fight in an action manga.

Overall though, the character interaction and the way the plot flows, if you ignore the plot armor part it really is quite a great manga. Boom bam, easy 9/10 for me. Incredibly enjoyable, you feel close to the characters, and you lose a few of them along the way, it's very moving. So if this is an easy 9/10... why is it 7/10 here on the review?

The Ending.

The way stories end in my opinion makes up about 1/3 of the grading scale of overall enjoyment, and boy did the mangaka do quite a terrible job. Nothing on the level of Sun-Ken Rock, but yikes is it bad.

Earlier on in the review, I explained the "unspoken rules" of the time travel power, which were that ONLY Takemichi could travel back in time, this was kind of solidified by Takemichi believing the main antagonist for most of the story had the power of foresight/time travel due to how well he countered Takemichi's plans but was ultimately just stupid smart. The other one was that there was always a drawback to the time travel, this was typically an important character dying. With the ending... you guessed it, the author throws all of that out the window :D

*** HEAVY SPOILERS ***

The author ends the story in a final arc to save the deuteragonist from his impending doom as a crime syndicate overlord who hates his life. In this arc we learn
-Mikey, the deuteragonist, knows about time travel
-There is another person capable of time travel
-Takemichi is truly immortal(seriously, Takemichi defeated a childhood bully who was known to be one of the strongest people in the country and has killed many people before)
Those aren't too bad by themselves, however, the REAL issue I have with the ending is when the other rule of time travel is broken.

Takemichi takes Mikey with him to the past.

In doing this, they save EVERY. SINGLE. CHARACTER. who had ever died in this story. So the emotional attachment you had to the characters you lost along the way is just made into a joke. There is no drawback to this time travel, even though there was one for every other time, characters who you were genuinely sad about losing are now back with no punishment, the entire massive, confusing cast of characters are now united underneath Mikey and Takemichi as a gang, only to be disbanded a few months later.

TL;DR the ending is a massive plot hole that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever and half ruins the manga.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk

Okay, so I just want to start this review by saying that no one can find the last 4 volumes of this manwha anywhere, so I am basing this off of the last chapter available on mangadex(Ch 118, but technically like 140).

This will have spoilers, but I'll try to keep it to a minimum, You can also skip to the bottom where I'll cut all this short without any spoilers at all.

So the story starts out pretty simple. We are introduced to our mc strolling the streets at night and comes across a mysterious deer-man. This deer-man leads our mc to meet our eager ... Female lead(fl). She is a fairy from heaven who has magic powers and is looking for info on her dad. The mc is cursed to have a ton of bad relationships, but it really just causes women to fall in love with him, and then their boyfriends get mad at him and spawn some evil spirit. This is repeated a whole lot, like for the first 50 or so chapters. We are introduced to the "main antagonist" of the story, and they fight and recruit new friends, blah blah blah. The story is pretty repetitive for a while and is kind of boring, at this point I was just in it for the romance and just to finish, but that will never happen I guess.

We get a 22 long chapter backstory of the fl. At this point, the story is more about her and our beloved shonen-troupe mc is pretty much a side character, as the mc never gets too much of a backstory other than some possessive ex-girlfriend that is there to serve as some kind of antagonist for only him; I think he probably got a total of 12 pages of backstory. Compare that to the FL's 22, and you really start to question who the main character really is.

Finally, the "final" arc comes around and our fl abandons the mc to return to her homeland because the mother that at some point she seemed to hate, is now the subject of her newfound mommy issues. (???) After this point in the story to what is translated into English, the MC doesn't pop up at all. I mean he kind of does, like he goes out with this random ass girl who is presumably used in order for him to realize his feelings for the fl, but this is never translated, so that's all my speculation.



In short, the story starts off pretty interesting and the romance(if you normally enjoy that) will keep you there, but the story falls apart pretty quick and dives into absolute chaos and some characters are forgotten. The art is pretty stereotypically for a manga-style manwha around this time. The characters are pretty mid, as some characters completely switch up opinions sometimes, but a few characters are fine. I enjoyed this manwha for a while, but it really wasn't all that good.

P.S.: Sun-Ken Rock's ending is still much worse than what we are left with in this manwha, but it's still pretty bad, seeing how the "main character's" existence is essentially forgotten for the last 10 chapters

Honestly I don't know who wrote the synopsis for this manga. The setting of the manga is just about the only thing in here that's right.

So to start things off, this is now one of my favorite manga. It's got good laughs and a decent amount of romance that fits perfectly. The action and art in this manga are also pretty great, albeit pretty typical of a shonen manga.

The manga is not about the male protagonist trying to save the female protagonist from her family. It's not that simple. This manga has an actual plot, although it does take a few dozen chapters to ... really get introduced. Additionally it's not like her family is absolutely terrible and needs to be saved. The family members are all very important and are really about the only consistent characters in the story. Each member of the family cares very deeply for each other, Mutsumi(fem. protag.)included.

All in all this manga has been a great read for me so far, so don't be dissuaded by the boring synopsis that makes this comedic, romantic and action packed manga seem like some repetitive Slice-of-life.

Alrighty then, so since I don't see many people in these reviews talking about the ending of this shitty-ass anime, I will be doing that myself.

WARNING THIS ENTIRE REVIEW IS BASED OFF OF THE ENDING OF THE ANIME SO THE WHOLE THIS IS JUST SPOILERS

Okay, so to get things started, the endings is so goddamn confusing. So the around the end of the 9th episode, the actually War of the Underworld is over after everyone except Kirito is forced logged out, as well as Asuna who stays behind to simp over Kirito since she didn't get to do too much of that this season. ... Then we get into the IRL stuff in episode 10. So after everyone is logged out and the Underworld is put into mass-acceleration mode, and Kirito is stuck in there for 200 years, cause sure why not, we get to see Alice walking around at a press conference with the Akihiko's girlfriend(the scientist girl who snuck Asuna aboard the turtle ship during Alicization), and they are going over how her being a legit flesh and blood AI is going to affect the world and the work force.

Now I bet you're thinking to yourself, "why did I just read all that shit, it was completely unimportant and pointless," exactly. But wait, it gets much worse

After all that we finally arrive at episode 11. It starts off with Kirito on the phone with Akihiko Kayaba's girlfriend, talking about Alice and how she's doing in the real world. Literally 1 minute later we get to see Alice somehow shrunk, naked, and in a delivery box. Yes you read that correctly, SHRUNKEN, NAKED, AND IN A DELIVERY BOX. Like wtf man. Then we get this whole talk about "who am I" and then they go to the dojo in Kirito's house cuz he's somehow rich and living alone with his little sister/cousin. Kirito gets his ass beat because he can't do shit without his full harem and plot armour, and afterword we see Alice trying to force herself onto Kirito. Then we get teleported to his parents house which, weren't even mentioned the entire rest of the story, where he then goes to apologize for being a completely useless son who contributes nothing but deliver video-game-justice to criminals who kill AI in a simulated, not real, world. But of course this being SAO, his parents somehow find a way to compliment him and praise him for being the best son they could ask for, right in front of some random blonde haired girl they've never heard of, or seen before. Not to mention he was half dead for like the past few months, and there was no concern there, especially them not knowing, considering it was top secret, and even Asuna, the video-game-justice man's girlfriend, wasn't allowed to know where he was. Alright moving on, we get a bit more completely useless info, Alice calls Kirito's dad father, as if they're about to get married, they talk with Asuna, and Kirito's "daughter" and launch into the Underworld, which it's never explained how.

This is where the show loses all relation to the word sensible

So I forgot one MAJOR detail from the end of episode 10. So apparently since Kirito was stuck in the underworld for 200 years or whatever, it was possible they would have trouble extracting his soul from the underworld, and we learn that the Kirito I just went on and on about is actually a clone. Now somehow original Kirito is just fine with this situation, as he is being kept in a computer. He vows that he will protect the underworld, but then the original form never shows up again.

Picking up where I left off, they enter the Underworld, Kirito, Asuna, and Alice, and they are flying in space. Yes, fucking space. They then see this giant space monster. Yes, giant space monster. They use their former, god-like admin powers to defeat it, and they meet Kirito and Eugeo's students from the Knight Academy in the regular Allicization. This is where it really confuses me because last time I checked, 200 years has passed in there, and you're telling me Kirito's student is still alive and kicking, nonetheless only like 2 years older???? Then after a small showing of smiliing from the 3 "main" characters, the screen fades to black and we get the message for the Re-mastery of the original SAO, which I'm not even going to bother with. Since that was the only decent season aside from Alicization, they can only fuck it up.

So anyway that ending leaves some questions behind like:
What happened to the original Kirito who disappeared after vowing to protect the Underworld?
Why the actual fuck are there spaceships? Is SAO going for a Gundam, or Eureka 7 vibe?
How the hell did this cloning thing even happen?
Why was this season so absolute dog-shit?
And lastly, Most importantly
Why the hell did I waste my time on this ass anime thinking it would be good?