Upon reaching the past, he collides with two angsty teens playing dress-up as gangbangers: Mikey and Draken. Mysteriously, Takamichi is granted time travel abilities. After finding out his middle school crush died in a car crash, he’s given a chance to challenge fate. Takamichi isĪ 26-year-old loser with no future. Two middle school gangs wrapped in a turf war lead to the murder of an innocent person-one man has the power to prevent it all. Its utterly unremarkable story about middle school gang wars is only worsened by sluggish pacing and ugly art. But this adaptation of a multimillion-dollar franchise has the unbelievable audacity to look like it was animated on a shoe-string budget in the early 2000s. Tokyo Revengers made me feel déjà vu because it is the latest of many overhyped shounen adaptations with nothing to offer except for animation. The dictionary tells us déjà vu is an unpleasantly familiar feeling. Given the chance to prevent his ex-girlfriend’s tragic death at the hands of the Tokyo Manji Gang, Takemichi decides to fly through time to change the course of the future. It seems as though Takemichi can alter the flow of time. Takemichi urges him to protect his sister before inexplicably returning to the future. Without thinking, he admits to his seeming death before flashing back to the past. Half a second before a train ends his pitiful life for good, Takemichi flashes back to that same day twelve years ago, when he was still dating Hinata Tachibana.Īfter being forced to relive the very same day that began his downward spiral, Takemichi meets Hinata’s younger brother. A sudden news report on the Tokyo Manji Gang’s cruel murder of the only girlfriend he ever had alongside her brother only adds insult to injury. Today, he’s a nobody: a washed-up nonentity made fun of by children and always forced to apologize to his younger boss. He had respect, a gang of friends he could count on, and even a girlfriend. Takemichi Hanagaki’s second year of middle school was the highest point in his life.

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