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
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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.
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Apr 30, 2021
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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 ... |
