The time skips beg many questions: Does the past Takamichi inhabit the mind of the present one? The young version of Takamichi loses his memories how does that affect his relationships with his girlfriend and the Tokyo Manji gang? Exploring these questions would make for a much more compelling and intelligent show. Other times he reappears at different locations doing mundane daily activities. While Takamichi is in the past, he is shown sleeping in the future upon his return. When Takamichi returns to the future, the past Takamichi does not recall anything that happened. For what reason? How does this work? Don’t think about it. To travel between time periods, Takamichi has to shake hands with Naoto, the brother of his deceased girlfriend. There’s hardly any logical consistency, and that’s the bare minimum. How the time travel mechanics work in Tokyo Revengers is left to our imagination. He finds out his past alterations carry over in the present, such as a new scar on his hand. Secondly, the Black Dragons, known for their belligerent behavior.Īfter his first foray into the past, Takamichi is sent back to the future™, where his life has suspiciously continued.

There are two sides to the middle school turf war-Tokyo Manji Gang, a band of tough-as-nails bikers who value loyalty and honesty above all else. The President and vice president of the leading gang responsible for his ex-girlfriend’s death. Upon reaching the past, he collides with two angsty teens playing dress-up as gangbangers: Mikey and Draken. Mysteriously, Takamichi is granted time travel abilities. After finding out his middle school crush died in a car crash, he’s given a chance to challenge fate. Two middle school gangs wrapped in a turf war lead to the murder of an innocent person-one man has the power to prevent it all. Its utterly unremarkable story about middle school gang wars is only worsened by sluggish pacing and ugly art. But this adaptation of a multimillion-dollar franchise has the unbelievable audacity to look like it was animated on a shoe-string budget in the early 2000s. Tokyo Revengers made me feel déjà vu because it is the latest of many overhyped shounen adaptations with nothing to offer except for animation. The dictionary tells us déjà vu is an unpleasantly familiar feeling. Given the chance to prevent his ex-girlfriend’s tragic death at the hands of the Tokyo Manji Gang, Takemichi decides to fly through time to change the course of the future. It seems as though Takemichi can alter the flow of time. Takemichi urges him to protect his sister before inexplicably returning to the future. Without thinking, he admits to his seeming death before flashing back to the past. Half a second before a train ends his pitiful life for good, Takemichi flashes back to that same day twelve years ago, when he was still dating Hinata Tachibana.Īfter being forced to relive the very same day that began his downward spiral, Takemichi meets Hinata’s younger brother. A sudden news report on the Tokyo Manji Gang’s cruel murder of the only girlfriend he ever had alongside her brother only adds insult to injury. Today, he’s a nobody: a washed-up nonentity made fun of by children and always forced to apologize to his younger boss.

He had respect, a gang of friends he could count on, and even a girlfriend. Takemichi Hanagaki’s second year of middle school was the highest point in his life.

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