Reviews for Tokyo Revengers

Who needs time travel when the solution to everything is gang fights? Tokyo Revengers is a story with a spectacular premise… that is promptly squandered. That's what makes it so frustrating to read: it entices you with aspects that are truly unique; aspects that give you a glimpse of tremendous potential – and then devolves into run-of-the-mill shonen schlock. The time-travel mechanic, detailed in the first few chapters, works in a novel way: Takemichi, the protagonist, can only travel exactly 12 years back in time, and from there only exactly 12 years forward again. While he's in the past, time keeps progressing in the present (with himin a comatose state), and while he's in the present time keeps progressing in the past. This means that if, say, someone dies in the present (or sometime in the last 12 years, for that matter), he can travel back and set things right – but if someone dies in the past? Well, then there's no traveling back before that and fixing it. This is a fantastic way to ensure that there still are stakes – something most other time travel stories could learn from. And indeed, a lot of the intrigue comes from there! Sadly, though, that's about the extent to which Tokyo Revengers explores its premise.

Though the manga hits a high point in around volume 3-4, with Takemichi following the central conceit of retroactively saving his girlfriend, going back in time to diagnose and tangibly solve problems – I truly felt that it was great for a few brilliant chapters there – it loses its footing afterward, and becomes an entirely different story. A palpable loop emerges: go back to the present, see that things went wrong in a different way this time, go back to the past, and… oh! There's a new rival gang, the existence of which has never been mentioned before, and conveniently enough, they're the source of all the problems this time! I guess the only thing to do is fight them. Even when the present offers an interesting plot hook – “this character grows up to be a psychopath; you need to make sure he has a better youth” – the result is invariably the same: “actually, that was all because of this new rival gang.” In this way, Tokyo Revengers deftly nullifies its own premise to become a bog-standard shonen manga where fighting the villain of the week is always the answer.

It's a terrible shame that a manga with such a stellar premise, such fantastic art, and such undeniably heart-tugging moments should falter so utterly, but falter it does. Coupled with an motley crew of other sizable blemishes – new characters keep being introduced at far too rapid a pace for you to care about them, the deuteragonists are forgotten about; barely appear through large swaths of the story and receive little to no character development, the manga's view of women is on the further end of “iffy”, and its morals are out of whack (“sure, he's a psychopath who indiscriminately beats people bloody, but he's not a bad guy!”) – Tokyo Revengers ends up being largely an exasperating, unenjoyable read.

This is exactly how you destroy a manga that was already mediocre. I stopped writing reviews over a year ago because I didn't have the time, but this manga brought me out of my cave to write what was the biggest disappointment of all the stories I followed, and some minor spoilers are going to run all over the place. Time travel is always a topic that needs to be treated with love, patience and dedication. If you don’t have none of them, you can’t write a story and expect it to be good. This is the case. The main character, Takemichi, is our guy. He,a man close to his thirties, starts his adventure by finding out that his ex-girlfriend from high school died. Due to a couple of things that are not worth mentioning, he travels to the past and returns to be a fourteen years old teen delinquent in order to save that girl he didn’t even remember. The thing is that he is a twenty-six years old man in a teen body, while this girl, Hina, is just fourteen by then, and he kind of fall in love with her all over again. I’m not here to discuss this weird fact, though.

He gets to remember how weak he used to be, and what a sad adolescence he lived, being bullied by other little gangs. Decided to make things different, he tries to strengthen himself by going all stupidly brave. Due to his lack of common sense and all the unnecessary fights he gets into, he attracts the attention of the leader of the biggest gang in the area, and befriends with him. As the story progresses, he starts to discover little things related to that big gang that will guide him to know how to prevent Hina’s death in the future. He travels as he likes from time to time to the future, to see how the situation has changed since the last time, in order to decide if he’s going in the right direction and acquiring new information. That’s it, in short.

In terms of characters, if by the middle of the story we didn’t have a lot of development, by the end we have almost none.

Almost, except for our big hero, Takemichi. He is the man that no one can hate. Every side character, every antagonist, every human being felt respect for him. He touched so many lives, because he has such a good heart. Okay, I got it the first time. Can we move on now?

At the beginning, he is kinda funny, interesting. He is the archetype of a shounen main character, but denser. He regrets the decisions he took during his adolescence, so he tries not to be the boy he was in the past. He tries to be the better version of himself. He escapes cowardice and affronts every problem, and that’s nice. The thing is that, as the story progresses, this situation gets so blatantly repeated that loses its scent. Every single time he gets into a fight and loses (as ALWAYS), he comes back from the dead to say that he’s not giving up, that he can’t be the coward he used to be. That he has experienced loneliness and that he will protect his people at all coast. All. The. Time. That speech is so burned out that can easily tire the reader. However, it causes a totally different effect on the enemies, since they develop a big admiration for him, saying how different he is. Of course, you don’t see a person so willing to take unnecessary punches so often. Apparently, that was his way of showing resistance. Because we all know resistance is a lot more important than being a little bit smart and not getting into fights that will destroy you for sure.

He takes the most stupid decisions most of the time, and okay, I can take that, but he cries and regrets right after that. Until the third arc, that’s all he does. He has a big lot of information to prevent murders to happen, and can’t prevent most of them. It gets tiring after he makes a big lot of mistakes and cries. I don’t have a problem with crybaby characters, I love them. Nevertheless, Takemichi cries after making the same old mistake that ever does. Cries and cries as if he couldn’t have prevented those events. Blames himself and goes to do the same thing again. It feels like he never learns anything, or that he can’t ever get a little smarter nor astute. Frustrating. By the very end he gets to do some intelligent takes, but did it take you 250 chapters to think that through?

The rest of the characters can’t say much since their development turned to zero. Although, there are some cool bonds during the story, there is a good environment of friendship, there are interesting character developments. Not impressing and not big, but there are. However, who I want to mention now is Mikey. Look how they massacred my boy. The most enigmatic person in that manga resulted the shallowest thing in the world. This is an honorable mention to a character whose entire development and complexity was synthetized to a lack of love and some kind of supernatural stuff.

If I had to enumerate the big amount of plot holes and plot devices in this work, I should need more characters than MAL is allowed to give me. Takemichi gets brutally punched a lot of times because he doesn’t know how to fight, and he actually never learns not in 278 chapters. He gets so hurt in occasions, that a human would not be able to stand, nor be conscious. But our big hero is always there, defying the laws of nature and biology. Not only biology, but our author’s logic. While Takemichi can support any kind and amount of damage, the other characters can faint with just one kick. Amazing. There are victories that exist just because the author lighted a candle and decided so while he laughed. There are victories that exist just because of the power of friendship. There are victories that exist because of hidden powers or abilities that not only are humanly impossible, but that have no precedent in the story. There are characters that were never shown, but that suddenly were the most important of the story, and that were always there, waiting their 200 chapters to shine. There are actions that are done just because the plot needed it, such a coincidence. There are unnecessary deaths, and very avoidable deaths.

The convenience itself was Tokyo Revengers’ fall and biggest enemy. Not only ruined the story little by little, but it killed the end of the story. I don’t hate happy endings. I hate endings that try too hard. This one tried too hard to make the fanboys like it. Actually, the story could have ended in the third arc, that was about the chapter 194, that ending would have been a lot better than the one we got. However, the need of violently lengthen the story was a result of the pressure that a successful adaptation generates on a mangaka, alongside the fanboys’ wish for a happy ending of a Disney’s caliber.

The ending not only was forcedly happy, but it destroyed all the characters’ history, all the poor logic that the story built, and magically transformed everything into sugar, spice and everything nice. Every tragic past, with a flick of the wrist disappeared. Suddenly, every mentally ill character does not need to go to therapy. Suddenly, every violent psycho in the story becomes a human being and doesn’t kill people, doesn’t break bones. The little man that pursued Hina for not liking him back, suddenly does not care about her anymore and can respectfully take a no. They even prevented a fire that was part of a character’s past, because even his scars disappear. God knows how, since they were little kids when that happened. Remember that guy that abused his family? Well, he doesn’t anymore. Why? Because the holy spirit told him not to. My guess, though.

A bittersweet ending is never a bad option if it has a reason, if it’s necessary. You can’t expect everyone (literally, everyone) to be happily ever after in a manga that was severely pierced by death and tragedy. It’s forced and anticlimactic. However, a sweet ending that forgets and denies the last 277 chapters, is always a bad option.

In conclusion, it is a disappointment. If you only care about people being happy, read this, or go read a fanfic. It’s the same. If you care about a good writing, outstanding character development, or at least an attractive art, don’t bother yourself with almost 300 chapters.

I had a big affection for Tokyo Revengers even knowing all its big flaws during the first three arcs, but the last one was so ridiculous, that love’s gone behind.

You don't read stories like this because of their groundbreaking qualities; you read them because they can be so much fun. *A spoiler free preview* First, I'd like to point out that this is not a story about national socialists. The 卍 symbol in the series' name is a Buddhist symbol, manji. The original character of prosperity and good fortune has also become popular youth slang in Japan with an array of cool meanings, and regardless of its intended meaning in here, Tokyo Manji Revengers makes for one heck of a cool name. Comradeship, bromance and bad blood - that's what gang stories are made of. If you'redrawn to them like me, this one won't let you down since 99 percent of its characters are some sort of juvenile mobsters, gangsters and thugs. Our wimpy main character Takemichi is an ex-delinquent who discovers he's able to travel back in time and embarks on a quest to make things differently the second time around. As we can guess, turns out that changing the past is not so easy and can alter the future unexpectedly.

If you prefer you stories solid and logical...Tokyo卍Revengers doesn't have much of that: time traveling is like taking a taxi, outrageous plot twists just keep coming and sometimes there's so much going on that the story seems to forget what its primary target was. For those who don't mind, the story can be crazy engaging. I found myself slightly interested at first, somewhat immersed later on and at the moment I'm craving to know what kind of turn it's going to take next.

The more I have gotten to know all the characters, the more I've liked them. Our main guys are the Tokyo Manji Gang aka Toman, whose infernal conflicts and struggle for power against other gangs lay the foundation of the story. Takemichi is the kind of phlegmatic character who has to discover his guts and resolve in order to take action in the middle of all the fighting and scheming. Being a cry-baby, the butt of all jokes and chronically clueless, he's still a sympathetic character who has made me say time and time again "That's my boy!". Also, his puppy love with Hina is the sweetest.

What I really like about the art is how much effort have been put into making different hairstyles, clothes and accessories and how great the characters look in their badass styles. In general, the art is good and fitting and simple enough to follow with ease even in the action scenes.

Despite the never-ending plot twists, Tokyo卍Revengers is actually a pretty simple story. Simple, and cool. The characters are already my bros and I'm interested in seeing how the upcoming scenarios are going to play out.

TL; DR

Tokyo卍Revengers is a railway engine which prefers the journey over destination, gradually accelerates and takes random routes at intersections. Recommended for people who like bad boys, ass-kicking and getting thrown in the face by constant cliff-hangers and turns of events.

You could say that this manga is the combination of the delinquents genre and the concept of time travel, all in one: an unlikely combo which end up working beautifully. It is also about friendship, total bromanship, and the thick ties that connect these guys that go through fights and hardship together. Don't just read the manga synopsis and decide not to read this, it is much MUCH deeper than it so implies. Story: 10/10 Wakui Ken has set in place a very solid story structure within Tokyo Revengers that continues to carry the plot at a steady cadence, never letting it fall into monotony. Thereis always a direction, and Hanagaki always has a motive, or many motives at once. Although Hanagaki may know the possible outcome of an event, doesn't mean it'll always end that way and it doesn't mean he knows how things got to that point. The two timelines of the past and the future are comparably interesting for different reasons. Every time Hanagaki travels to the past he has a motive and a plan in order to fix the future, and every time he travels to the future he has an expectation and a hope that his actions in the past changed something. However the twist is that whenever he leaps, the past's plans and the future's expectations get turned on their head and he finds himself in a situation he never prepared for. This is what carries the character development of Hanagaki, and in turn the rest of the story. It's honestly a really clever setup, and I really thank Wakui Ken for using it so perfectly.

Also in Tokyo Revengers is a substantial amount of worldbuilding, but it's not really the kind that you might think. It's more like characterization, for the sake of giving the story more depth and weight. Wakui Ken builds up and develops the childhoods of these delinquents and the past histories that they have with each other. Honestly, I did not expect such heartfelt insight in a delinquent manga, but here I am caring a lot about this delinquent who runs a sewing club and the other who has a tough home life. The relationships between delinquents is fully fleshed out: you know who's best buddies and and you see it and you know it. You also get to see a lot of their families. The relationships between close people and the divisions between others is centrally what drives the push and flow of conflict.

Art: 10/10

The art is awesome. Each character has a very distinct character design; the shape of the face, the pupils, the hair texture, everything. It's quite crazy how detailed things can get. What I found to be especially remarkable is how the characters, who are drawn at different points in their lives (10 y/o, 14 y/o, 26 y/o) still look like the same person even their hair or their body structure is changed. Each of them are their own person, and Wakui Ken makes sure to assert this not only through their dialogue or actions, but through their appearances. I especially like how Mikey, Draken, and Hakkai look.

Character: 10/10

This might be the best part of Tokyo Revengers out of all. If the crux of a delinquent manga is disagreements between people, the people have got to be pretty interesting right? Well they're pretty damn interesting here. The personalities of these characters that Wakui Ken makes are incredibly nuanced and strangely subliminally complex. No-one is completely good or completely bad, and everyone is fallible to some degree. We not only get to see them at their greatest moments, like in beating up several enemies at once, but also in the worst moments of loss and heartbreak. We get glimpses into their pasts (as well as their possible futures!) and understand how they've become what they've become and why. And then, seeing how they change in reaction to Hanagaki's intervention, and watching as Hanagaki becomes the catalyst and the key, is an experience in itself. This is a breath of fresh air from other stories, in which the corruption of the self/mind is never even considered although it's something that everyone goes through in their lives. The honest conversation and the down-to-earth realness and imperfection that is simply human, that other mangakas might gloss over by explanation of creative liberty, are displayed in the forefront unabashedly.

Now, I have heard so many times that Hanagaki is a wuss, and that he sucks, and that's why someone dropped this manga. NO! The POINT is that although Hanagaki may not be the best fighter, and he may not be the most cunning, he has the most heart and he never gives up. In a way, Hanagaki is the foil to literally everyone around him. Surrounded by all these strong people, he, the weakest of them all, is just as great and perhaps greater, because he has chosen to make a change.

Enjoyment: 10/10

I enjoyed this very much. I love the pacing of Tokyo Revengers, first of all. The chapters are long and detailed, and multiple things happen in every chapter (which can be a tall order for many mangas). It's strange to think, but I like all the characters, no matter if they're good or bad and no matter what things they've done, because first and foremost they are portrayed as people with their own problems. I feel like if a mangaka has done that, they've effectively succeeded in creating an immersive work.

But as always, I end up with questions concerning the stability of the plot that I don't think have been answered. I don't think there are spoilers here beyond maybe the second chapter. How does Naoto always know when the timeline has changed? Shouldn't his memory also be altered when Hanagaki moves back and forth? What happens to Hanagaki in the past when Hanagaki moves to the future? What if he goes to the future or past while the other one is sleeping? And most importantly, Why, when Naoto shook Hanagaki's hand once, he immediately deduced that Hanagaki could move exactly 12 years into the past or future with a handshake, and specifically and only his? This is a strange assumption, because there could have been so many other factors going into this but they assumed something unlikely which became the premise for the entire manga. (which is still a good premise just not explained thoroughly).

Overall: 10/10

Yeah I know, 10/10 for all? Damn, that's pretty good. I'm not sure if you could call it a favorite of mine, since I'm not really thinking about this every day of the week, but it is pretty damn good. I don't think there's much that could be improved in Tokyo Revengers. It hits every beat on the mark, and exceeds in places where other mangas couldn't even wish to meet, whether out of ignorance or inability. I'm sure if you read this, you will have a wonderful time.

I heard this manga is getting an anime next year. I look forward to the next wave of fans who will discover Tokyo Revengers!

I will leave a few warnings here because I want anyone who starts reading to please not drop it.

- There are a lot of names. They're pretty unique, but they are thrown around in dialogue often so please don't forget them.

- Hanagaki is not a bad MC! He actually is pretty badass sometimes, and if you don't believe me just look at how integral he is in swaying the plot and the people. He can also fight for himself pretty well, it's just that he's being compared to insanely strong people.

- I think that the first / first few chapters may discourage some people. Please push through those! The Hanagaki that you see in the first chapter will never be seen again, and that's an ode to character development if I've even seen it.

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 newthings 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 tojust 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.

Tokyo revengers is interesting. It starts off with an exciting premise; a seemingly naive, innocent guy who has to go back into the past to save his girlfriend. The story that follows as our hero gains courage and makes friendships that he wouldn't otherwise have if not for the time leap are narrated quite compellingly. These friendships and the MC's relationship with his girlfriend in fact form the heart of the story and we understand his desperation, his motivations and the reasoning for decisions he makes as the story progresses. The plot twists in the beginning were convincing, but somewhere in the middle, the authorloses his steam and the plot twists seem start to seem contrived and introduced solely because the author didn't know how else to keep the plot moving forward. A great example of this is how, at the very beginning, we are introduced to who apparently is the main villain of the story, but then we move onto other small fries before the author finally pulls out another guy as the main villain in the very recent arc. There have been no clues about this new villain from the start of the story and yet we are to believe his background and intentions - why? Because the author says so in 2 chapters worth of background. The old villian is cast aside and we don't know why/how he is obsessed with the MC baring a couple of panels over 150 chapters. This essentially means there is no sense of brooding over the antagonist's schemes because of his poor development and this sense of fear is especially needed because that is what turns a good story into a great one.

The second protagonist - Mikey (who I believe could in fact be the antagonist of the story because of the author's tendency to jump between villains like he is playing football), and his relationship with the MC is interesting and the author creates a camaraderie between them that makes us believe that their relationship is reminiscent of the one Mikey had with his brother. However, Mikey's relationship with Ken is also very similar to his relationship with the MC, thus taking away the uniqueness. If I had to pick one relationship that seemed unique and written beautifully compared to a lot of shounen manga, I have to give it to his relationship with his ex-gf. The author narrates their relationship beautifully and we see why they care for each other as much as they do.

A minor complaint I have with this manga is the fact that the MC seems to never train and is a bit of a wuss, and usually I wouldn't have a problem with that, but, over the course of 150 chapters, I have yet to see him engage in a compelling fight. He is excellent at being the voice of reason and strives his best to endure in fights as much as possible, I just wish there was a training arc of some sort where he puts his best into learning how to fight. It seems a little ridiculous that we are to believe this guy grows up to become the biggest yakuza when he starts bawling at every opportunity available.

This came at a time when I was feeling the drought of good manga and it might be recency bias, but despite it's shortcomings, the art, characterization and plot of this manga deserve one read at the very least.

Tokyo Revengers is absolutely incredible, to this day I still have problems expressing my feeling towards this manga, not because the quality of its writing, but because it shows you how you can always go from worse to the literally absolute worse and just shit in everything that you have done in all of your work. This is the very example of doing everything bad at some point and I almost thought that the author made it worse on purpose due to the obvious lack of standard in quality or just lack common sense in the last path that Tokyo take. But don't be soimpatient, Tokyo Revengers is really a phenomenon and is something that needs to be talked meticulously:

Being one (if not the) most popular anime the last year 2021, Tokyo Revengers took plenty of popularity as the manga was quite well-received for people who just wanted to read some simple and entertaining manga about gangs and fights, but oh god, the amount of backlash that the manga received the last chapters along with the general discontent of people due to how a certain character died and how stupid the dialogue was in the final arc (even tho the dialogue was always stupid and boring). But we start with the introduction, about what tells us this masterpiece known as Tokyo Revengers: our protagonist is Takemichi and, well, his life was unfortunate, to say at least. He is a lonely 26 years old who have a shitty work and someone who just live a meaningless and boring life, he then watched on the TV that his girlfriend from school died in hand of the terrible Tokyo Manji Gang... Yeah, shit happens and then Takemichi is pushed into the train tracks, but instead of dying he finds himself 12 years in the past were his life as a student got ruined because of his involvement with the Tokyo Manji Gang, So Tamekichi decide to prevent what in future would be known as the most strong mafia en all Japan.

Well, our premise is kinda strange in how is presented, the presentation lacks sense and emotion, but we can let that slide as the time travels just works with the objective to start the plot (kinda like the psychic power in Mob Psycho or something like that), but let's see, the thing that most annoy me starting from the very first chapterr is the narrative and how convenient everything is gonna be until the last chapter and how boring the narrative is. Chapter 1, take attention to the whole scene in the park, every bit of the narrative is just to show us how Takemichi slowly remember literally the worst day of his entire life like what? He didn't remember the day that forced him in the future to live outside his city and the day that started his life as practically as a mere slave of his bullies, you can tell me "but hey, that happened like 12 years ago, it's normal for him to forgot about that" and yeah, you would normally be right, but that's the problem with the narrative of the whole scene with this first chapter, the descriptions are obvious and bland (literally just tells us everything that we can notice just seeing the drawing) while all the narrative indicates how Takemichi slowly remember that day, is just feel unreal and pretty lame in how all the things in this chapter rare warped... Now, let's talk about the other thing that is bad and will carry one of the worst things in this manga, Naoto and how Takemichi will travel between past and future, the handshake between Naoto and Takemichi as a way for travel in time is a bullshit, but like a real big one, Tokyo Revengers in this whole first chapter made me realize that I needed to literally turn a blind eye 3 times: How the protagonist travels 12 years to the past (which will never be well explained in the series), how he didn't remember the day that ruined his life and how stupid is this whole thing of Naoto and Takmichi (let's not forget how Wakui literally explained Naoto believing Takemichi as something so simple as because in that time Naoto believed in occultism)... Fiat is when, in a piece of fiction, something convenient happens but is justified with the fact that is something that is always in the realm of possibility and as long as is not overused it can be logical and not bad, but we have here three times were this manga just didn't even know what to present to us in a plausible way (by the setting we should never expect this to be realistic)... Dear Lord, this is just about the first chapter, we have a long way to go. But as a summary: Yeah, the plot is presented in a really bland, boring and convenient way while at the same time the narrative and the basic concepts of this manga are just something that force us to turn a blind eye.

The characterization of the character was kinda okay in the start, we know Mikey and Draken as your typical gang members who are tough and strong, damn, even the presentations of the characters go really well to what we expected about them, we can tell at the first moment how important, strong and frightening that they are to the other character with diverse perspectives without the need of something obvious or plain dialogue, but what is concretely interesting about this duo is how the series in the first arc literally was able to tell us how their relationship work and what they mean to each other (we have the scene of Mikey and Draken in the hospital when Mikey tells him about how without him, he wouldn't know what to do, which is easily one of the best in the entire series imo) and how they really want to be close with each other (how Mikey cry when knows that Draken is okay), is solid and have a great approach in the start... Yeah, just in the start, what happened? We will see it later with how the atrocious final arc literally ruined everything that was made here and how Mikey is just a little bastard that really doesn't care about others, but for now until chapter 180 I can firmly say that this relationship and dynamic of character is the only one that is good and entertaining to see. Good characterization and good dynamic between 2 of the most interesting character in this series, great no? Yeah, something valuable is found here for now, but what about other characters? Mmmh yeaaah... Let's not talk about this.

This is too long so let me summarize it for you:

--Baji and Kazutora: A duo that at first sight looks interesting but is actually pretty bad due to how pretentious and fucking stupid Kazutora is as a character, Baji, in the other hand, is a character that fulfilled his role even tho it wasn't long, he did good and remembered us that there are some circumstances that Takemichi cannot avoid what's going to happen, but he can change that horrible future that awaits him with managing to archive other conclusion even if the event happened. Then Kazutora a terrible and pretentious character (let's be real, what is about his quote about "the one who kills is a villain but the one who kills an enemy is a hero" is about? Literally a quote that in theory should summarize his character and attitude but is delivered and used in some random scene where it had noting to do about that) and Baji is okay because of what he means to the series and for Takemichi.

--Haruka and Ryouhei (Pah and Peh): Wanted to warp them in the same stack because the characters meant the same for the series, nothing more than just being strong, they had their interesting things in Moebius arc, and it was well handed, but then we realize that Moebius arc ended in chapter 33 in a manga with 278 chapters, the author just used them as some guys in the gang who fight alongside Takemichi and nothing more... Man, it really is difficult to talk about the character in this manga due to their lack of presence or interesting things (ah yeah, let's not forget about how idiot was Peh when he failed under the "manipulation" of Kisaki and how he never disbelieved him).

--Mitsuya: He just had bad luck, his character and dialogue were interesting to read and was good to the manga portraying the most mature side of a member gang who actually does something more than just go around picking fights or talking shit, his relationship with the Shiba brothers and with Draken was interesting, and it was reciprocal to the lector how while we knew more about his past and relationship with shiba we also understood how he was getting along with Takemichi, plus he is one of the few members in the whole series who isn't one dimensional, a pretty good character for the first 180 chapters... But why then I said he had bad luck? Because of all the characters that were spit out and totally thrown away, it was his character the one who suffered the most to the point that it not only made all of his interesting relationships and dialogue go to the trash can, but actually made the character even worse (he literally used the “the real treasure was the friends we made along the way”).

--Inui and Koko: Warped them in the same spot as basically their character is strongly based in how they change each other. Inui and Koko are good, probably the only two characters who even at the final arc aren't that bad at all (but this is more because they doesn't appear that much actually), the backstory of Koko is solid and some of the most interesting and unique thing that Wakui did in his manga, portraying the struggle of letting someone go, how we sometimes search for replacement in other people and how sometimes we need to sink in some vicious or bad thing due to trauma. Inui is just good I guess? Is just that the character is not bad, but I really can't see anything really special about him, how he gained trust in Takemichi was developed in a natural way and his relationship with Koko was good, the problem with almost every character in this manga is the lack of conclusion, this is almost applied to every character apart from Takemichi and Mikey, so in the end is difficult to see really something great in the journey and struggles of every character in this manga... But yeah Koko is good.

-Chifuyu: Just boring, his character just doesn't have anything interesting. His relationship with Takemichi is purely artificial, and we see this just because the series force you to see them as best friends out of nowhere (not forget how useless his character was in the last arc and his absolutely terrible and abrupt change from chapter 234... That didn't make any sense at all)

You know? Every other character in this manga just suck or doesn't have anything for them, maybe Shiba and Hina are good things but the development in Shiba is practically overshadowed in all of his scenes and Hina just have the work to make Takemichi feel good with himself and almost magically heal him from almost every injury that he gets from every enemy, she actually helped to the development of Takemichi in the first like 200 character, but everything is discarded at character 187 when he screams "I wish I could be able to fight against him again" that was the moment that caught me most off guard and the moment when I thought "Takemichi you really are a stupid bitch" that dialogue literally destroyed the character in few pages, yeah, I know that the intention was to show us how he learned to respect his rivals, but really? Wakui really didn't have other ways to portray it that didn't involve making his main character look like a stupid who really just spit "deep" bullshit about honor in a world of gangs? Thank goodness the series goes worst from this moment, so really this doesn't stand out at the end of the manga so our boy Takemichi is safe because his worst scene is the least bad in this festival of poor writing right? Well actually yes, for real At this moment I really can't think about other moment when he was worst as a protagonist, but there is the trick, in the final arc his character and the conception that we have about him is changed a little, everything about his as a main character worsened when he decided to time travel just to save Mikey, he doesn't have a specific moment that is atrocious, is just that his whole character as how he is just absolute terrible and a piece of garbage, the mere fact that he has thrown away his life and everything for what he fought just to save Mikey who literally shoot him to death is maybe just little pinch about how bad the thing are getting. Oh, yeah I was talking about Hina... But yeah, everything that he did for the protagonist was underdone due to the apparent lack of common sense of our protagonist and how the author just use her as a device for Takemichi to practically gain strength out of nowhere and to heal all his problems. Hina just isn't a good character.

The antagonist in this series are actually a little more interesting than the main and side cast (not much difficult tbh) Izana is okay at the end of his arc, the value and impact that Mikey saw in him was pretty interesting when reading that fight again. Izana is a character who tries to be deep but doesn't utterly fail but at the same time doesn't really connect with the lector or with other characters that aren't Mikey or Kakucho, his interaction with Kakucho was interesting as it wasn't the conventional loyalty relationship despite this being the most apparent thing at first view, but the trope of his character was precisely how even tho he was totally alone he finds Kakucho as someone who is equal to him and someone who he can call friend. His fight is boring tho even if the introduction was epic, Izana as a character just had the objective of being epic and making a frightening appearance in the "real final arc" (the series should've ended here) as some type of final boss, scenes like the one where they explain that he made a kid commits suicide or when he destroys the mound that Kakucho made to his parents are a clear hint of his presence and style in the manga, as a cool antagonist it works, but we had other antagonist who did this better...

The other antagonist who was actually pretty good and the main protagonist of the arguably best arc in the series is Taiju Shiba, to make myself clear and in short; everything I said about Izana can be applied to Taiju and is even better because his fight is probably the best in the whole series: emotional (with one of the best panels in the entire manga: "loneliness"), a good use of the scenario, plenty of character united just to fight someone who is stronger than them in every aspect... The bad is that the fight ended with the possibly most legendary technique in this series, yeah, with one single Mikey kick!! Sure, the ending of this fight is possibly the most lame in the entire series, but everything prior to that was good and funny to read, damn, if I am being honest I could even give a 6/10 to the entire Black Dragons arc.

Every other antagonist is bad or mediocre at least: Kisaki's motivations were lame, South was possibly the worst character introduced in the entire final arc (literally everything about him was bad) and Hanma is just a one dimensional character who literally fights because is fun, and we are never tell more than that (no, character 205 doesn't count, that character just told us what we already knew long ago). Then the list would be like this: Taiju - Izana - Kisaki - Hanma - (every antagonist or minor antagonist who appears before chapter 200) - South... I really want to talk shit about character like South, Sanzu or the Mikey of the final arc, but I just can't because this will be even more long that what it is, but South and Sanzu are literally everything what is bad about this manga, this is nor a metaphor neither in figurative sense, I really mean it, those two have every bad thing that a character in this manga can have: bad backstories, boring dialogue, edgy behavior in the whole manga, bad interactions, bad presentations and actions through the entire manga, bad fights, simple designs (even South who have some of the most outstanding design is just ok), bad conclusions (and even before everything just magically concludes happily they didn't have anything good, but after that they really didn't had anything).

The drawing is okay at best, as I say before, designs are okay in the best of cases like Draken, South or maybe Mikey. What I really dislike about the drawing are how Wakui are the manga panels, the focus is just to make every character to look the most edgy possible and the drawing in fight scene are easy to follow, maybe too easy to follow to the extreme that is because of the simple and boring drawing (along with the bad panels) that the fights are bad and so Goodman boring, the scenarios and facial expressions are good, I really think that when Wakui wanted to portrait an emotion with his drawing he was able to do it at some extent, but the lack of a style made all the experience worse in every moment of tension... Just read chapter like 232 or 233 you will have a plenty of panels that scream at the sky "EDGY!!!" for God’s sake I just can't believe that the author drew that thing about the "dark impulses" without thinking that it was bad, in a chapter they really said "South has more dark impulse than Mikey" what? Dark impulses are some type of chakra or ki in this fucking awful manga? This was my limit, I just couldn't took the manga serious after reading that, and the worst thing is that the drawing tries it best to be the most serious and it just fails so loudly that it's even embarrassing. Yeah, bad use of his drawing (or just edgy panels and drawing).

With this broken down, I feel more free to talk about the manga.

Now, Tokyo Revengers have plenty of characters, just write "Tokyo Manji Gang members" and you will see a variety of characters, each one more boring and edgy that the previous. The first arcs in this series are kinda ok I think, see, is just that all of the fights in like literally every arc are boring and just not interesting at all. Takemichi fighting against Kiyomasa, Mikey fighting against Hanma, Mikey fighting against Kazutora, and we can go on, but what I want to make clear here is the fact that in fights the tension is never present, in the Moebius arc the tension is not about the fight but about the fact that Draken was about to die because Kiyomasa stabbed him, the whole fight scene is forgettable and just a pretext to present this part of the plot (this concretely isn't bad, it's actually the whole idea of the arc that is just a pretext to kill Draken) but come on, at least make it slightly interesting and not dull for the lector to read it, we literally are in the chapter 33. The series also is showing us how it will tell us the story for the next 250 chapters, there will always be a boring chapters were Takemichi go to te future and just talk with Naoto about how Tokyo Manji Gang is still bad or even worse than before, making the plot not just lineal, kinda pointless and so boring, but it will maintan the same structure without trying to make the things interesting, but here, in Moebius arc, is something that we can let slide just because the series is starting and is searching for his place and how the narrative will be to future along with presenting us how the author is gonna handle the times travels... Which ended up very bad, the times travels are literally a device used to tell the lector in his entire face about what Takemichi needs to do and how he needs to do, like if the series is, as if the series was taking us by the hand and taking us for fools who need everything explained in the face to just follow a lineal plot... I don't know if I make myself clear here, but we are face to face against easily the worst type of narrative that a shonen can take; no emotions, everything explicit, so easy to follow that it gets boring, no tension and ultimately the most obvious and least interesting dialogue. Chapter 13, all of the bad things that I said about the use of time travels can bee se in some point in this chapter: the way Takemichi just go to the future as is the most simplest thing in the manga, the boring dialogue with Obanai hinting us about something big is going on... But why is this scene boring and enravel all of the bad things in the use of time travel in Tokyo Revengers? Well, let's see, first of all, the way Obanai is telling Naoto and Takemichi that that fight was something planned by "him" shows us how all the arcs are and they will be linear until exhaustion, you can say that this is something good, because it makes us feel that every arc is connected and everything in this manga matters, but that's not what I see here, what I see here is just the author telling us in our face what he have been telling us this 13 chapters, that something important and siniester is gonna happen and everything is the plan of a malicius man, you see why this is bad? This is still the poor narrative that I explained before but now we even have that in the future which are always the moments where the series is full of diloague, so you are telling me that we are gonna need to endure this dull dialogue in the other aspect of this manga? Yeah, peak fiction right here. In the last part of this chapter we have a scene were Naoto literally summarises everything to Takemichi in the simplest way and is just like "well Tamekichi go now we need to start the new arc and this will be the most basic way of telling it to ours lectors".

But ladies and gentlemen let's not be so hater in this series, this arc actually have quite good things that are at least a pleasure to read. The scene when Takemichi is surrounded by Kiyomasa and his other bullies and is about to collapse but is saved by his old friends is a lovely and interesting scene, not just making us clear that his friends can be useful and showing us without an overuse of dialogue that his old friends are really grateful to Takemichi about what he did against Kiyomasa and how he free them of that, but more importantly, it makes us clear the impact that the protagonist can make in other chapter while at the same time there is a clear joint between the first arc and the second arc not just by telling us with dialogue but with how the character comport themselves. Oh, and the series ironically presented us in a good way what it would be known as the worst thing in the whole manga, yeah, the first encounter in character 15 against Moebius shows us just how Draken and Mikey are, yeah, the introduction of Obanai and the gang entering the territory of Touman as the ending of the chapter is a really good bait, but that wasn't even the principal fight in that arc, and it didn't ruined the scene as it was the first time that we really see the power of Mikey and Draken... That's why I consider this as something good in this arc as this is easily the least bad moment when Mikey handled by himself a big army of enemies or the principal enemy in the arc.

Valhalla is other bad moment to the series, is bad, but pretty bad: Kazutora, Hanma and Mikey, the three MVP of the most atrocious things in this arc. We still have the bland and lineal plot and pacing in this arc, the character introductions are okay but the first touch of the infamous “dark impulse” was revealed here and that alone makes me dislike this arc like 10x more. But what do we have here? We have a pretentious and insubstantial antagonist who is possible the most futile character to the series and one of the characters who have easily the worst backstory in the whole series alongside South, I talked about Kazutora and Baji before, so I will save the trouble.

I just don't know what to say about this arc, is just boring, the climax point in this arc should've been the death of Shinicirou, but the flashback is just so convenient and stupid that it almost made me laugh because of how bad it is, Kisaki and Hanma shows really relevance here, but their roles here are just okay, Hanma in the entire series is just a punch bag who needs to endure every punch either from Mikey or Draken and Kisaki is just some guy who mysteriously have everything planned and is a genius... No, Kisaki, you're not a genius, is just that the average IQ of the character in this series is like 5, is surprising how the plot is so distorted to make Kisaki look like a genius or like someone who is really frightening and calculator, we really are supposed to believe that he planned how to domain Japan in just like 7 years while he was 14 years old? And he succeeded and everything went accord his plan? That some pretty big bullshit that the author made for us, thanks, Ken Wakui, for showing me how you can make something worse than before.

But returning to Valhalla: Everything that was made here is destroyed in the final arc; the death of Baji, the repentance of Kazutora, the meaning of everything to Takemichi and his development was everything ruined by the absurdity of the final arc, it really surprises me how bad is. The time travel this time just ended in a cliffhanger for us, but the fact that Mikey killed Hina was something fascinating to read... Is a shame that the author literally didn't use that for anything. Is just that this arc feels tasteless, the same narrative, the same type of fights, bad backstories, the same Mikey who just destroys every enemy while at the same time destroying every piece of tension in these gangs fights “but hey, the real tension in that arc was when Mikey almost killed Kazutora” Yeah it is, but the dark impulses kills every bit of seriousness in this entire scene, is hard to take it serious and is something that give just the vibes of edgy and the repentance of Kazutora didn't matter in the entire manga while at the start it was pointless and a way for us to feel bad for the character or that's what I guess because it really didn't do anything for the characters, just Mikey saying his typically "Takemichji you are incredible you remember me to my brother”... Oh yeah, the death of Shinichirou was literally the most “ok” death that I have read in any type of manga. Bad arc.

The Black Dragons arc is actually pretty good, I explained that later; Mitsuya and Taiju Shiba are good characters, so that carries this arc for almost the entire duration... This until Mikey appears and finish everything with just one kick and Draken defeats every member of the Black Dragons outside the chapel, Mikey is starting to develop into the most terrible thing in this manga; an edgelord who kills every tension in this manga who also doesn't have meaningful interactions with other characters. Draken in the other hand is still okay as a character as he has his values and morals established since a long ago with also good interactions with Takemichi or other character like Emma or Mikey, Mikey is just like South and Sanzu as I said before... Everything that is bad in the series, and this arc was where it was most notably just read chapter 106 and 107 and tell me what you can see in Mikey... Just a Gary Stu who at this point don't have anything to give to the plot besides the author just idealizing him in some type of genius in martial arts.

Mitsuya backstory and his words to Hakkai Shiba are potent in what the manga tries to transmit with his characters: The strong don't need to use his hands to hurt but to protect, that's it that was a fantastic way to give us the meaning of the entire arc while at the same time making the character's growth, this is clever and funny to read, this is what Tokyo Revengers should have done the entire series, giving protagonist to every relevant member in the gang, although the narrative is still the same as always it just works due to how the arc and how the spotlight is shared between every Shiba member and Mitsuya (chapters 101 and 102 have the same narrative but the panel and the fluidity and naturalness with which each scene passes makes it great). Black Dragons is at minimum a pleasure read, and I was willing to give Tokyo Revengers a 2/10 just for this arc... But I couldn't, I just couldn't with the late chapters in the manga, but this is without a doubt the peak of Tokyo Revengers and maybe the only moment when I can say that this manga was good and was something where the author really thought deeply about his characters and narrative. Best arc in the series and easily (as it was clarified before) a 6/10.

The Tenjiku arc is actually pretty easy to see what's bad: a lot of characters, not a lot of spotlights on them. The fights here aren't boring, the fights just don't make any sense, the strength of some characters are the pinnacle of the absurdity (just read chapter 162 and 166), Takemichi'plot armor here is over the clouds and is the most shameless thing in this entire manga, we really saw Takemichi won all his battles just because he doesn't know when to give up and this is all of his ability, this is just absurd and a bald and poor way to made everything goes the way Takemichi wants while also selling us cheap emotional moments about never giving up or always fighting for what you believe... Cheap and bland. All of the secondary antagonist are kinda just there to fight, Kakucho has really good moments, but his character is just standing aimlessly, Mucho had interesting psychological insights, but his character died literally after the arc was finished (let just slide how voluble his character was for the sake of make Takemichi look like a real gangster or a real man standing alone against all odds).

Kisaki's character also got ruined here, he wasn't charismatic, his backstory isn't interesting and neither justifies his actions, his plans were absolutely absurdly and just his character is enveloped with pure nonsense and some shit, I am just surprised that at this point of the review I think that I can still talk shit about everything that happened in these points of this piece of work. But yeah, Kisaki really fell off in this point of the manga at the point where he died most just because yeah, shit happens.

And those were the arcs of Tokyo Revengers by mi point of view, we discused everything that I think was interesting and was worth mentioning about every character, pacing and drawing. Now let's go to the real deal:

This final arc made every character from this series look like almost a retard: Mitsuya threw away his future just for the sake of the gang, Pachin reincorporated in this manga even tho he had a girlfriend and was arrested before, Chifuyu helps Takemichi even after telling him that undoing the perfect future was something unforgettable and what bring the death of Draken... Every character makes the decision of make the gang again just for the power of friendship. Draken died just because... Because I don't fucking know he literally came out of a bush to get shot three times a died, what the fuck what the meaning in that death? Why is this scene indirectly telling us that Mikey's live is more valuable than Draken's life in such a pessimist yet boring and artificial scene? What was the author even thinking? I don't have the slightest idea. But that's not all, South is a character that was introduced in the series just to be killed by Mikey in easily the most boring fight in this whole series (believe me, that's some big achievement right there), his backstory and all the time that this manga takes to ensure he is imposing and literally built different is utterly insignificant at the end, Why? Because Mikey just killed him using his apparently "ki" in this series, yeah, his dark impulses took over him and kill South. Senju is another character that adds nothing good to the series, from the strange and bad presentation and first interactions that she has to the almost funny way that she changes personality from chapters to other chapters in such a fast way that it makes her feel like an amalgamation of ideas of the author for a character yet without making himself clear with her intention, I am saying this because of how useless and convenient she is to the plot despite the plot trying it's hard to make us feel like she was always there, but without taking action. This whole final arc we had character like: Senju, Wakasa, Benkei or South, character who were there just to be menacing and cool without any substance behind them and without being to the expectations that the very manga made for us, it just doesn't make any sense to me how he can handle his characters so bad that we ended thinking that almost everyone apart from Mikey is just some weakling. Then we have Sanzu, who is another edgy yet superficial and uninteresting character who have a poor backstory, I know what you're thinking "man, you have been saying the same about every character. Boring is a subjective term" and yes, I've been saying that word plenty of times in this review, but this is precisely due to their lack of spotlight or how redundant are their dialogues and backstories, or how convenient is every character due to how Wakui is someone who has ideas for arcs and characters yet doesn't have the slightest idea in how to make a "harmony" in his series to telling us how everyone is related or how simply he doesn't know how to present characters to his lectors... And no, boring isn't necessary a subjective term as boring is directly telling that something lacks interesting or funny qualities, which indirectly translates to the fact that almost every character just have one side in them or that everything that they have isn't even worth mentioning neither making emphasis. I feel like that summarizes simply why this arc is so bad and infamous: everything that the author did before was thrown away due to how every character almost turns into an idiot or how everything that he introduced since here filed to its very core, do you understand what I'm saying with this? Because I feel like it doesn't sound that bad as how actually is: Everything that he has done before was futile and ended being obsolete, and everything that he did from now is also bad and a failure... Literally everything to this point was bad or wasn't having the effect the author wanted to make, this literally is the definition of utterly failure.

The backstory of Shinichirou could be a high point for many people due to be the great revelation of the base in this manga: how time travel works... It's not that good, the highest point in his whole backstory is Mikey, his vegetative future self was possibly the best of Mikey that we saw in the last 100 chapters: quiet, without his usual edgy dialogues and without being boring to the lector: +1 point to Shinichirou's backstory.

Now, the bad things. This whole backstory feels like is trying hard to justify every edgy scene and dialogue in this whole final arc: the chapter 232 in the fight between Mikey and South is an example of how childish is this whole thing of dark impulses and how is unjustifiable. The curse of dark impulse make some sense, yes, but that doesn't change the fact that this whole theme was handled in a way that even makes Mirai Nikki looks like a nature anime, the justification of how the power or impulse was created doesn't justify how bad the author handled it... That's my problem with this backstory, is just a poor and convenient justification to some shitty power, it's a backstory that has just the goal to tell you why Mikey is this edy bastard, but it almost doesn't even try to make something apart from that. We can't even feel sorrow for Shinichirou due to how the backstory is just oriented in such a way that it makes us feel disappointment... Let me explain this, Shinichirou was the character that was most idealized in the whole series, everyone talks about him as some type or martyr in the world of gangs, with everyone saying how "he wanted and almost created a golden era for the gangs" or how he "united the two most dangerous gangs in Kanto"... That's all just to be a boring chapter and having a lame excuse of backstory just for the sake of the convenience in this already so convenient manga. The scene when Takemichi has his power passed to him by Shinichirou is some big (really big) bullshit and a plot device so bad presented that it feels that the author just thought "oh, and that's why he has his powers btw"... Lame, boring and uninteresting are the things that immediately came to my mind when I was reading that part in the manga (but it's not like Ken Wakui has ability writing and presenting backstories or flashbacks to his audience, we know that from long ago in this manga): -10 points for this backstory.

The Bonten arc and final arc are the biggest piece of garbage that I experimented in a long time, it not just ruin literally every character, and it makes every arc completely useless at the end, it's also boring, stupid, and lacking of emotion and style/identity. Tokyo Revengers ending really undid everything. Character like South, Hanma or Izana just appears at the end without much explanation because the author laughed in our face pointing at how this is literally the perfect definition of a plain happy ending. In character 277 Wakui tried to conclude this entire manga in 2 chapters at the most garbage way possible, I just think that I am not expressing my disgust enough because I just can't. This final arc is literally the worst final arc and has the worst conclusion in every manga or anime or video game that I have experienced and makes everything that could be from before to just disappear into nothing for the plot, and it makes you feel like everything in this manga was pointless, not funny neither interesting. This is literally an insult for very lector that followed this manga for some time, thanks, Ken Wakui, for showing you disrespect to every lector that you had and for showing us what we never need to do when writing a story.

read until CH 205 the story is good in the first arc then it become bad and bad and wtf u must end it here why keep doing it author sama 1. how middle school deliquent can take over the city? i can understand if its high school gang but please, its just middle schoolerl 2. the power level is stupid there is a guy who strong then add another stronger guy and then keep adding another stronger guy the strongest here is Mikey cos he learn taekwondo? the only chara who have martial art background i think. 3. MC is 26 year old with 6 year old mind 4. thereis 5 division in manji gang

but after mc become leader of 1st division

the member is only 2people, the leader and vice leader

later add friend of mc

why bother to add division the if mc never doing anything what suppose to be the 1st division leader doing

i mean mc have 1st division in his back

but he keep doing anything with only him and his vice leader we never seen another 1st division member in his back except his old friend

started off as a very promising time adventure Shit itself at the end. Just writing this to remind me how much this angers me, starting off with my favorite character baji what a way ruined the character the sacrifice he made and all planning he did meant absolutely shit at the end, all the things made me love this manga it ruined by the shit ass ending that doesn't even makes sense, I'm angry and would always remember this as the shitty ending rather than the good moments. I'm angry that the character's death I cried makes me stupid now, I'm sad that heartfelt moment andevery achievement takemichi got meant absolutely nothing.

Should've ended at tenjuku with Kisaki and I would've still had some love left for this shit hole.

The journey to this manga finale was so agonizing and that's solely because of the rollercoaster type of chapters Wakui had for the readers, especially after certain choices he decided to pursue in the storyline. With that said, this review will contain spoilers so look at this with caution if you haven't finished reading it yet. Tokyo Revengers is a manga that involves both of my favorite things about different troops: time-lapping and gangs, but certainly those concepts were morphed into something more mystical to say at least, but it was fun while it lasted. The story has Takemichi Hanagaki, our MC, a regular young manwho had not prospered very well at the moment due to his difficult circumstances during his younger days and knows about the death of his high school girlfriend by the dangerous gangs in Tokyo that lead him to be pushed to the railroads to his imminent death, time-travels 12 years in the past and decides to take this chance to make things right. What he did not know was that the more he tried to save his girl, the more people would be getting the consequences of his actions which would trigger his intentions to save everyone he gets to encounter on his journey.

With that premise, it was obvious that Takemichi had to find himself the people involved in the Tokyo gangs in the future, and that was a huge task on his hands. Here is where I would like to stop and talk about two very important aspects: The story and the characters' roles in said story.

I'm pretty sure Wakui had a lot of ideas since he inspired his work from Black Emperor, a gang he was involved in -or that is what the media reports- during his youth, as well as the grasp he got from the time-traveling concept, which made things a lot more convoluted in future chapters. The idea of Takemichi getting to know, interact, and bond with almost every single member of different gangs as a way to introduce consequences to certain events was brilliant; it worked as a mechanism to give our MC a proper development through the arcs as well as the chance for characters related to each moment to grow. Takemichi, going back to the future and discovering how different each timeline was due to his choices and inevitable events was certainly engaging because who would've thought about the reasons for so much hatred and violence in all the possible futures? But then, with each character being introduced and how Takemichi's powers were evolving and working in those scenarios, the storyline went to something I did not expect, and I'm sure people will agree, was becoming whatever after the 1st wedding timeline, and here is when the characters and their roles enter by Wakui's logic and creativity.

I really enjoyed the whole Takemichi's motivation thing, to save his girlfriend and his friends, to gather the courage to not be a wimp about every single negative situation, and to actually take action as well as how his growth as an individual and skills was built...

But how are you gonna present to the reader a whole power that allows our MC to get premonitions, use it conveniently in very specific situations and never address it ever again? Why it took so much to explore the triggers of each timeline but not this power-up that came from nowhere? People would let that pass -actually, I did because even if it left a taste of plot-armor artistry, it gave space for Takemichi to act, specifically in the two last arcs. I'm a believer that if a power-up that special is introduced in the final moments of a story, is because it was being dragged for so long to a point where Wakui was probably asked to end it and pulled his last efforts to rush it in the most logical way possible and it felt that way, sadly...

Other proof of this belief is the most unfortunate pseudo-relevancy of characters and their final chances of proper development during the plot. It still seems unbelievable how Senju, the leader of Brahman, was hyped up so much for her same-level skills as Mikey, being part of the Three Deities, and yet she was almost a lady in distress if it wasn't for her physical skills. It was so contradictory to let her brother treat her as a capable member and still tell her to stay away from the battles knowing her reputation among the gangs and her own strengths. Hanma Shuji, an actual headache for the main characters, was given an actual chance to tell his story in front of his only friend and Wakui forgot about it, it was literally never addressed unless it was a metaphorical way to say how the rest of the manga would go on, which seems unnecessary due to the lack of depth it was given to him, an actual enemy on this story, in that precise moment. Kisaki, which I think is a great villain, by the way, is the only real enemy for who I felt something good in this area and that is because Wakui kept it real and all that motivation came from loving a woman, which is more likely to happen in real life tbh: changing for someone to be a better self. Mikey, a controversial yet hyped character in the main cast, became frustrating to see. The dark impulses plot was expanded in such a way that being described as a CURSE at the end felt laughable -great explanation made by Sanzu in the middle of a battle btw-.

In contrast, the story of Shinichiro Sano and the reveal of the second timelapper was so well done; I think Wakui had it already planned and it felt well planned and so the final arc was great for a moment. All the characters had significant experiences in all the arcs and learned how to carry on in their lives and then Wakui came with the most pulled-out-of-your-ass final I've seen. Because with a simple trip to their childhood, the whole cast's journey of growth became nothing. It felt weird to only see children Mikey and Takemichi casually meeting and gathering all the members as if nothing happened.

The finale is rather a scenario that I would've loved if a reset did not happen at all. The reader will know by then that only Mikey and Takemichi will remember the whole story, and even though this happy ending was for all the characters who might never know about the struggles lived in multiple timelines, it felt nice to see that Chifuyu had notions of it. Again, with the rushing to end this story, it can only be assumed that the other characters and triggers, especially Naoto Tachibana, the first and main trigger for Takemichi, had the same blurry memories of the past timelines. It was nice to see all those characters happy but was throwing all their stories and redemption moments into the trash worth it? Wakui had the chance to make a positive message out of this finale because I've seen a lot of people struggling with their circumstances, working on their traumas, and embracing their experiences to make themselves a better person, so knowing that all told stories in this manga were basically erased in this timeline was counterproductive -I will never forgive Wakui for this, Mitsuya had such a great development after Draken's passing... How sad-.

Good for them though! Takemichi managed to save all his beloved ones!

This is not the first work Ken Wakui has done, but it was his moment to improve his artstyle which I currently like. I really loved his previous works and first volumes ' artstyle, he managed to keep his characters almost realistic with the features he draws and later became something more anime-esque with more cartoonish aspects which will be assumed is for the sake of productivity on weekly releases. The art in Shinichiro's story with the expressions and effects in the panels was amazing and truly one of my favorites to see. It can also be noticed how important is fashion when it comes to his characters, his taste in outfits for each character's volume cover and special illusts was perfect and it shows in the way every character was dressed in their uniforms and casual fits as well as the creations Mitsuya has done in the story. The wedding dresses for Hinata Tachibana in both wedding timelines were lovely. So much to say about his art and how it progressed to the peak that it was Shinichiro's past- for real, the really angry Shinichiro panel was exquisite~- but so many written words already lol.

So...

Did I enjoy it? Yes, very much. The plot is engaging, the amount of action and fighting moments were great and the art is amazing. Each character is likable in their own way, it may resonate with the reader depending on their own stories or outcomes and the constant curiosity of knowing how the future will change with each step Takemichi did was thrilling.

Was it worth it? The answer is debatable. The Mixed Feelings recommendation is the only way I could put this. For others, it may be the worst manga finale, almost of bad taste. For me, it was an okay finale for such an amazing story but that was only because I let myself be in a state of almost faking dementia to let all the shitshow of the final arcs go as nothing lol.

So my overall rating is actually an 8. The whole story can not be left to rot in a corner just because of a mid ending. The art is great, the characters are cool and you can tell the love Ken Wakui has poured into his work.

TL,DR: If you enjoy some gang shit action with time-lapping in the companion of the realest MC out there, then Tokyo Revengers is a good story to jump in. Be careful while reaching the end though, it's better to be prepared for some of the weirdest asspulls of the year.

Update 17 November 2022: Do I think it's recommendable? - No. It was never exceptional in the first place, but got worse and worse as the story went on. The writing was quite disastrous. The ending was exceptional in a bad way, erasing all of the buildup and plot progression that made the story what it was. Did I ever regret reading it? - Well, yes, at one point it felt like so much time was wasted. But do I regret finishing the last 60 chapters when I had previously dropped the series? - I guess not. I'm glad I got to witness the ending. Now that this iscompleted, surprisingly I feel at peace. I had a list of things I wanted to rant about before chapter 276 but once I read chapter 277, all of a sudden it felt like I was able to reconcile with the story. Maybe it's because I simply do not care enough about it to even muster the energy to complain about things, maybe because it's so plainly disastrous that I know all of my feelings and rants will be reflected by other readers anyway, or maybe it's because real life is already so hard that it doesn't feel too bad to see fictional characters get a happy ending. If I were a fan I would be feeling so many different emotions, but I never was in the first place. Either way for me, with an ending comes closure and with closure comes peace. I'm just glad it ended relatively soon and did not drag out the torture any longer. I maintain my conclusion that if you didn't like it 50 chapters in you'll find that it gets worse, far worse in the latter parts. But if you're fine with not bringing your brain cells while reading it, then why not? I certainly had to force my brain cells to shut down at multiple points. In a way, this is going to be an extremely memorable piece of work. But not necessarily for the good things.

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Before update:

Disclaimer: If you're a fan of Tokyo Revengers, please don't read this. It'll probably just offend you.

TL;DR

1. 4.5 out of 10

2, This is going on for way too long. Like 100 chapters too long.

3. If you, like me 150 chapters ago, are not liking this but thinking if you should give this another chance because of all the raving reviews on MAL, heed my advice and just drop it. If you didn't like it 50 chapters in, you'll find that it gets worse.

4. Baji deserved better.

All the while reading this I kept asking myself why am I still reading it. The only reason why I kept going was, well, there has got to be a reason why people are giving out 9s and 10s right?

Admittedly my reason for starting the manga was shallow - I started the anime, felt meh about it, saw some fanart for Chifuyu and decided to give the manga a chance. Well. I won't say it's a complete waste of time, at least for the first 50 chapters or so, but it's definitely not for anyone who is looking for an intelligent piece of work about time-travelling. Or even about gangs.

Story: 3

The story is likely the weakest aspect of the manga. It's not all bad, but there are major flaws. I don't even like wracking my brains that much when I watch/read things but this entire set-up of time travelling with zero consequences or consideration for parallel timelines just screams HEAVEN FOR PLOT-HOLES if one starts to think about it for just a minute. Every single plot line is developed based on just one thing - the death of Tachibana Hina. Meaning that when she is rescued, there is literally nothing left for the story unless the mangaka decides to go the Boruto route (and this was what happened). This is one of the fatal points of the story - the mangaka has no choice but to expand on that single, thin premise of rescuing a girl because it all comes down to that. The plot is ultimately driven by this objective. Not very exciting. And after achieving that objective, the mangaka came up with a really brilliant idea - just add more people for Takemichi to save! Using the same formula!

I'm not even going to talk about the power-scaling or how realistic this manga is (in case you're wondering, it's not), I can disregard how unrealistic it is for 12-year-olds to start a gang that becomes a contender for the ruler gang of Tokyo, or how middle schoolers can take on 50 people at a time, or how they have enough strength to kill people left and right if they wanted to. It's a fictional story. The biggest problem with it isn't how many plot holes there are, or how unrealistic it is, it's how the story development is stretched thin over the same objective and so weak that it ends up boring and repetitive. The same pattern is executed repeatedly, camouflaged by the addition of more characters coming out of nowhere with zero buildup but apparently all really strong and have some beef with each other to make it seem like there was a huge, complicated plot behind it all along, right from the beginning. Not exactly the most intelligent way of story-telling.

Art: 7

I like the style. Nothing outstanding but it's good enough.

Characters: 5

This is where I fumble a little trying to rate it. Subjectively speaking, I do think there are some characters who are charming and deserve appreciation, but the MC kind of ruins it for me. I will say though, he's much more bearable than in the anime where I have to listen to him wailing. At least I can just skim over the panels in the manga. By no means is any of the character genius, but MC just takes the cake for being useless and pathetic. I do think I'm being very harsh on him, he's not ALL bad, but objectively speaking, this is all he is. The characters around him wouldn't be treating him the way they are/were if he weren't the MC and has the plot-armour. But he is the MC. So he gets brownie points from the cast for standing up against a big guy even though all he did is say something cool-ish and glare at the opponent for two seconds and then go cower in the corner, then realises he's the only one who can change the future but does none of the actual work and goes through the same thing all over again. He doesn't learn, he doesn't try to learn or plan, he goes with the flow and tries to think on the spot of what to do even though obviously he hasn't got the smarts for that. You'd think that he'd learn about the importance of planning ahead and collecting information 100 chapters in and after dozens of times of time-leaping but no.

A few others I do like, Mikey, Draken, Chifuyu, Mitsuya, Baji, Inui are all fan-favourites for a reason. They are not exceptionally-written, but solid enough amidst a rather big cast, and tick many right boxes to appeal to readers. Kisaki is probably the smartest guy in this manga. He's not bad as an antagonist, and a character who's written for people to hate on. Nothing much to say against him. On the other hand, I feel like there just isn't enough time for readers to really know the characters and witness their development. New characters, with zero buildup, keep getting introduced while I'm still trying to match the names to the faces of those who just got introduced 20 chapters ago. Just as you think they're not really important (because they get taken out by Mikey and conveniently disappear at the end of the arc anyway) and you can probably disregard them, they turn out to be recurring characters and one of them randomly gets a backstory reveal in the middle of the arc to make you like them, while there still hasn't been much time to connect/be attached to some in the main cast. Not as big of a problem as the storytelling, but it's still part of the weaker aspects of the manga.

Enjoyment: 3

I do want to know what happens in the end but I'm getting very, very impatient with the same pattern occurring over, over, over and all over again. There is manga where I am completely content with being there for the ride and the journey, and there is manga where I just want it to end. NOW. Tokyo Revengers is clearly the latter of the two.

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 weredating 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.

I've read and/or watch so many time travel stories but this one is by far one of the best! Every character is so likeable and has distinct personalities. Takemichi has all the qualities you want in a protagonist. He's not overpowered. He's weak, strong, loyal, devoted, and the list just goes on. I personally love seeing his growth and every characters interactions with each other. Also, the story revolves around gangs but as the story progresses, its more than gangs. It's about finding happiness. It goes from saving Hina to saving everyone. I love that the author takes his time developing the characters and arcs.

Its overrated. The art is good, there are couple of cool characters and the premise is somewhat interesting. That's almost all of the positive stuff that can be said about this series. The story is mediocre at best and its devoid of logic. Apart for few most of the characters are more of a caricature than a character. The plot is repetitive and getting more predictable as the story progress. The MC is a 26 years in a body of 14 years but still have the mental age of 14 years old. He doesn't seem to learn anything from his mistakes and act like achild and a very whiney one. He dive headfirst into the life of violence and doesn't give any effort to make himself stronger. He should at least try to be able to defend himself. Not even basic self defense! Him being physically weak and not knowing how to throw a punch isn't the problem here. The problem is that MC is a little bitch (and he stays like that for god knows how long).

I understand its fiction there has to be a certain level suspense of belief but this is too much. Like how Naota became a cop after a stranger, who is middle schooler, told him to protect his sister. And the other thing is how the story is trying to portray the characters as "good guys" when all they are is wanna be gangster delinquents. They are all terrible people with no regards for others but themselves. And wtf are the adults doing in this manga. The cops are just there for plot convenience.

I know its enjoyable for a lot of people but it's definitely overrated. Maybe the most overrated in the last few years. Tbh I enjoyed it but I wouldn't say it was good. It is somewhere between fine and above average. And it sure doesn't deserve the rating its getting.

I started the anime, it caught my eye as I thought it was good, but when I read the manga, it was okay in the start, but then I realized that the whole manga is the same scenario shit again and again. the main character needs to separate 2 people so his girlfriend doesn't die, he does that, now something new was the cause that the girl died, then he fixed that, then there is another reason she died, then he got to fix that, and its like that the whole series, it's sad to see because it could have done a lot of things, butit chose to do the same thing, just with different people again and again. just like the ending of "seven deadly sins" were they just kept using another reason not to stop because they don't know what to do.

This is my first ever review so I’m sorry if it seems too boring. Spoiler free review: The Tokyo Revengers anime caught my interest because it is legally available to stream in my country which is a rarity so I decided why not watch it. The first two episodes didn’t hook me in but I continued further. After finishing episode 4 and my interest was piqued so I read the manga. And I’m glad I did. Within 24hrs I blazed through the 200 chapters and I have never been this hooked to a story. Story: 9/10 The story is absolutely filled with twists at every turn and I lovedit. There were multiple times when I went wtf after something was revealed in the story. It makes you grow attached to each of the characters, and certainly can make you cry. As someone who rarely gets emotional over manga there were moments where I was crying over the story. If there was one issue I had with the story it would only be that sometimes I wished that the characters were high schoolers and not middle school characters because they seem a bit too OP for 14/15 yr olds but that’s my personal thought.

Art:9/10

The art is absolutely well done and i feel this was one part where the anime wasn’t up to the mark. Each of the character designs were so unique and well thought out, and reflect their personalities.

Characters: 10/10

I don’t want to say too much but my opinions on various characters did change throughout the story. The in depth flashbacks really make every character stand out and help make the cast very diverse in motives and actions making the story a joyful ride and rarely dull.

Enjoyment: 10/10

I definitely enjoyed this to the point I could barely put it down.

Overall: 9.5/10 or 10/10

The series is certainly worth reading, esp if you like gang stories or time travel type stories with multiple twists and very well done characters.

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 andplayed 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.

the premise of the manga isnt horrible but the mc is unbearable one of the worst ive ever seen. he doesnt do shit to improve himself and acknowledges this but then goes like "well i jus gotta beat this person" like dude u jus admitted how weak n pathetic u are theres no way u stand a chance and hes the biggest fucking crybaby ever despite being like 28 or something n dealing w teenagers lmao. after seeing the same scenario of him crying about how weak he is (and hard to feel bad for him cuz he doesnt try to get stronger or anythinglol) and then being like "im gonna beat this guy way stronger than me" all seriously, multiple times by chapter 100 i had to drop it, dogshit mc n jus bad writing all around. i would not recommend lol waste of time