Takemichi, a virgin, learns that the only woman he has ever dated and the girl he dated when they were in middle school has died. Takemichi is now 26 years old and unemployed. After an accident, he then realizes that he has traveled back in time to when he was a middle school student. He aims to rise to the head of the most vicious criminal gang in the Kantou region in order to fulfill his promise to change the course of events and rescue the child. at the 44th Annual Kodansha Manga Awards in 2020, the winner of the Best Shounen Manga Award.
The manga received a Kodansha Manga Award in the shonen category for 2020.
The Tokyo Revengers manga series, sometimes referred to in Japan as Tokyo Ribenjzu, was written and illustrated by Ken Wakui (Hepburn: Tokyo Ribenjzu). It was published in Kodansha’s Weekly Shnen Magazine as a serial between the months of March 2017 and November 2022. Its chapters have been collected in 31 tankbon volumes as of January 2023. a Liden Films-produced anime television series that ran from April to September 2021 and was a translation of the manga. January 2023 saw the start of the second season. The first episode of a live-action film adaptation was released in Japan in July 2021, and the second episode will follow in 2023.
The manga was one of the most popular manga series in the medium’s history, with an estimated 70 million copies in circulation as of December 2022. For the shnen category in the year 2020, Tokyo Revengers won the 44th Kodansha Manga Award.
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An ex-girlfriend from middle school, Hinata Tachibana, and her younger brother, Naoto, were killed by the Tokyo Manji Gang, according to Takemichi Hanagaki, a freeter in his thirties, who learned about the murders one day. A member of the Tachibana family, Hinata and Naoto were both. When he is pushed in front of a train, Takemichi has the ability to travel back in time exactly twelve years to the year 2005. When Takemichi is reliving his middle school years, he meets Naoto and informs him of the exact day that he and Hinata would die. Takemichi is immediately sent back to the present after shaking hands with them, creating a paradoxical situation in which Naoto is able to survive and is currently employed as a detective. Naoto has deduced that Takemichi is time-traveled by an interval of fifteen and a half years whenever the two of them hold hands. Takemichi has vowed to use his knowledge of the future to help Hinata.
Kiyomasa, a member of the Tokyo Manji Gang, forced Takemichi’s former allies to take part in clandestine combats that he oversaw. Because to his unrelenting dedication to their protection, Takemichi gains Mikey’s esteem, the leader of the group. Takemichi discovers that one of his other friends, Akkun, was about to be arrested when he recently connected with Mikey, and this knowledge helped prevent it. When Akkun kills himself out of fear, Takemichi realizes that the Tokyo Manji Gang is more dangerous to his friends than he initially thought.
After traveling back in time, Takemichi learns that the Tokyo Manji Gang is at war with the rival Moebius gang in retaliation for Pah-companion. Mikey becomes angry as a result of Takemichi learning that Draken, his second-in-command, will be killed in the future. Pah-chin surrenders to the police after stabbing Osanai, the leader of the Moebius gang, while Draken escapes the fight unharmed. The Tokyo Manji Gang disagrees about how to help Pah-chin in this circumstance as a result, leading to conflict.
However, on August 3, 2005, the Tokyo Manji Gang were assaulted by a group of Moebius members led by a Valhalla member by the name of Shoji Hanma, despite Takemichi’s successful mediating of the dispute between Mikey and Draken. Takemichi learns that Peh-yan teamed up with them in retribution for Mikey and Draken permitting Pah-chin to be jailed, and that Kiyomasa attacked Draken in retaliation for Draken humiliating him and making him leave the Tokyo Manji Gang. Peh-yan teaches Takemichi this knowledge. Takemichi defeats Kiyomasa, the Tokyo Manji Gang triumphs in the conflict, and Draken recovers completely from his injuries.