Tokyo Revengers, Vol. 1

東京卍リベンジャーズ [Tokyo Revengers] #1

by Ken Wakui

Watching the news, Takemichi Hanagaki learns that his girlfriend from way back in middle school, Hinata Tachibana, has died. The only girlfriend he ever had was just killed by a villainous group known as the Tokyo Manji Gang. He lives in a crappy apartment with thin walls, and his six-years-younger boss treats him like an idiot. Plus, he’s a complete and total virgin … At the height of his rock-bottom life, he suddenly time-leaps twelve years back to his middle school days!! To save Hinata, and change the life he spent running away, hopeless part-timer Takemichi must aim for the top of Kanto’s most sinister delinquent gang!!

Genres: Manga, Comics, Time Travel, Shonen, Action, Graphic Novels, Comics Manga

192 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 17, 2017

About the author

Ken Wakui (和久井健, Wakui Ken) is a Japanese mangaka.

Reviews

[emily · Rating 4 out of 5]

anybody wanna start a gang?

[richa ⋆.˚★ · Rating 5 out of 5]

These kids do everything other than study.

[lu · Rating 5 out of 5]

draken te amo wtf

[Irish · Rating 4 out of 5]

Tokyo Revengers is one of those series which receives a lot of hate for some reason. I think it's a trend nowadays. So, let me tell you what I thought about this series.

THINGS I LIKE:
✔time travel with a different twist
✔badass gangs
✔has a solid start
✔the drip (just look at the manga covers)
✔intense plot twists (has a great antagonist too)
✔lovable characters

THINGS I DON'T LIKE:
✘pacing towards the end was rushed
✘introduced too many characters who were basically forgotten
✘you just won't get the logic (literally taken from the manga)

I started reading this manga as soon as the first season of the anime finished airing. Those who have watched that cliffhanger would definitely understand me. I think that was one of the best anime finale I've ever seen. It is such a shame that the series started really great but falters a little bit towards the final arc. Tho, I still consider Tokyo Revengers close to my heart.

P. S. It was not Mikey's fault.

[James DeSantis · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was WAY different than I expected.

So Takemich is just some 20 somewhat old loser who is unsure of what he's doing in life. One day he sees on the news his girlfriend from way back in middle school died. So the next day he somehow almost dies on the train tracks, or well he does die, but then gets brought back in time from when he in middle school but remembers everything in his last 12 years...so he wants to change/do things different and meets his girlfriends brother who he warns what will happen and so then her brother saves him 12 years into the future and he decides to go back into the past to now save his girlfriend from dying in the future.

Confused yet?

Anyway, it's fairly interesting story. The fights are very yakuza fist to fist based. If like GTO early years and things like that you'll enjoy this. The storyline itself moves quick with plenty of "What will happen next." And I do enjoy the pacing. I wasn't sold on the characters yet, none really pop out to me. I also think the storyline feels like it's really going to stretch if his main mission is to somehow save his girlfriend.

But it is on Comixlogy Unlimited so I'll keep reading. A 3 out of 5.

[Lau ♡ · Rating 1 out of 5]

Tokyo Revengers is a manga that a lot of my friends loved, but it’s not for me.


This year I’m trying to read more genres, and I was very interested in trying more manga. I chose this because my library had it, but I should have done some research and picked something I can actually like.


My main problem is that I hate fighting. I’m okay about it in fantasy books, but not in books set in the present day. This book starts with the main character and his friends (all teenagers) going to another high school to pick a fight with the students there, and that’s just not for me.


I hate criminal bands, I hate mafia romances, I hate all the books that deal with violence that it’s a reality in the current world. I read the first two volumes because my edition had both in the same book and I wanted to give it a fair chance, but I hate everything they are doing: killing people just because, fighting with people as a hobby and dreaming about becoming delinquents (that was the villain, but the way it’s shown in the book sounded like it was something cool 💀💀). I won’t be continuing this series.

[Rodrigo · Rating 3 out of 5]

No ha estado mal, trata sobre bandas callejeras, mezclado con un suceso trágico y con un viaje en el tiempo.
Parece bastante introductorio, pero creo que se pondrá más interesante en los siguientes.

[Emi.acg · Rating 1 out of 5]

No me gustó, de plano no me interesó la historia. Se trata de un tipo fracasado, tiene como 26 a 28 años y no ha hecho nada con su vida. Un día cae a las líneas del tren y de repente pum, vueleve 12 años en el tiempo y tras un par de sucesos, entre ellos que en su vida escolar era un "delincuente" ahora tiene como misión evitar que la chica que era su novia en esa epoca muera en el futuro.

Sinceramente, para mí, una historia sin fundamento no me gustan los saltos en el tiempo cuando son usados de forma de tan simple porque resulta que tras su primer viaje, altera un hecho del pasado y resulta que una persona que había muerto esta viva, lo salva a él de morir y encima le da toda la explicación del salto y le entrega su misión... No se ah . Los personajes tampoco me gustaron y los dibujos eran feos xd es una historia que olvidaré fácilmente.

[Karen's Bookshelf · Rating 5 out of 5]

Don't mind me.
I'm just here reading the manga after I finished season 1 of the anime.
The cliffhanger was just illegal and I need to know (っ °Д °;)っ

[ale (taylor's version) everett · Rating 4 out of 5]

2022
releer tokrev sólo está reforzando mi amor por takemichi y por todo lo que es tokrev también

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2021
Estuve postergando comenzar este manga pero fui seducida un montón.

Tengo que decirlo y me pareció demasiado atrayente la idea de viajes en el tiempo, pero lo que más me está gustando de todo son, claramente, los personajes. Y definitivamente también LA ILUSTRACIÓN.
Soy muy débil a cuando me atrae demasiado el estilo de ilustración del artista porque si me atrae desde el comienzo es posible que sea feliz en el resto de la obra. Y si no me gusta un estilo de ilustración simplemente no lo leo no me importa que la historia sea buenísima.



Afortunadamente me gustó el estilo de Ken Wakui y estoy amando la historia y como se está desarrollando todo. Ya le estoy agarrando cariño a los personajes y no quiero que pase algo FEO porque no lo soportaría

TAKEMICHI????? ESTOY AMÁNDOLO DIOS
HINATA? MI NIÑA
PERO MIKEY? OMG MUERO
AAA PERO DRAKEN? SIN COMENTARIOS JUST GO TO THE HORNY JAIL

[siera 🪷! (haru’s!! vers.) · Rating 5 out of 5]

I LOVE THIS SERIES!!!!! next season needs to hurry tf up 😭. (this is basically a nonsense review of the full series) hina is SO lucky bc wdym your boyfriend literally goes back in time like 20+ times just to save your life? anyways, chifuyu is actually my husband, im also the no.1 bajifuyu shipper as well as the no.1 kazetora hater. i’m also the no.1 kazetora fan, im a complicated person. senju was my bi awakening fr. and also MITSUYA MARRY ME 💍🙏🏻. inui is best character.

actually though, this series is amazing. so many great and unique characters, great plot, but repetitive. i will not take any takemitchi hate bc if you got transported back into your middle school years, witnessed your gf die like 10 times, witnessed your friends dying over and over and trying to revive them, and then getting jumped like every episode, you’d cry too. the different friendships and relationships between the cast were so well written (chifuyu after baji ‘died’ actually kills me.) and everyone was so amazing 😭💗. one critique: i wanted to see chifuyu crash out on kazetora and i didn’t get that. recommend though! 10/10.

[not my high · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5

Bardzo spoko, zabawna kreska. Chaotyczna fabuła i dużo przemocy - chyba nie moje klimaty, ale się nie poddaję.

PS zakończenie było super <3

[Greg · Rating 4 out of 5]

4/5 Tokyo Revengers was not what I expected, mainly because I went into this one completely blind. Our Lead Takemichi lives a bland life where he never amount to much of anything. Then he sees on the news that the only girlfriend he ever had in his life was killed in a gang conflict.

Shortly after that Takemichi falls through time and winds up 12 years in the past when he was still dating the girl who was killed, in middle school. Takemichi has problems with the gangs growing up as well.

Through certain events Takemichi decides to try and save his exgirlfriends future by changing the past.

I really do enjoy these types of stories. The premise here is pretty unique in a Back to the Future meets The Departed kind of way.

I read this one as a buddy read but I may continue on with it the only thing putting me off is the length, 22 volumes and counting. At the very least I’ll take in the new anime. The over use of the “Manchu” swastika is a little weird though.

Our boy Takemichi on the cover of volume 1.

Read 6/8/21

[ekin · Rating 5 out of 5]

tokyo revengers diyince aklıma 10. sınıf geliyo direkt her salı bölüm geldikten sonra irem ve haticeyle ilk gruptan sonra ertesi gun tummmm gun bolum hakkında konuşmamız teorilerimizi sunmamız falan filan bittiğinde cok bosluga dustugumu hatırlıyorum cok degisikti bir suru kez plot twist yedik sevdigimiz karakterler oldu simdi bakıyorum da cok iyi kurgusu olmasa da sonu belki sinir bozucu bitse de benim icin cok buyuk bi anı ve o kadar cok seviyorum ki su an hala irem ve haticeyle tokyo revengers konusabiliyorum hayatımda en sevdigim insanlardan biriler ve ikisiyle de bu seri sayesinde cok cok yakınlastık belki yıllar sonra bir daha okurum belki bir daha okumam ama cok ama cok seviyorum benim için cok değerli bi seri öyle olmaya sonsuza kadar da devam edicek

[Bianca · Rating 3 out of 5]

Manjiro: I love you.

[Rosava Doshchyk · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5
- Люблю троп "виправити минуле". Завжди затягує.
- Хлопець чемненько стояв за жовтою лінією, але все одно вилетів під потяг. Отак і довіряй жовтим лініям!
- Давно не читала шьоненчиків зі шкільними бандюками. Нацукашіііі.
- Але чому молодші брати завжди виростають такими гарячими в манзі?
- "Уже навіть пересмикнув на кілька фото". Де б я ще дізналася, як можна розмовно називати цю дію українською. Дякую. ХД
- "Сано Манджіро не схожий на чувака, який організує масові вбивства і очолить жорстоку кримінальну банду". Такемічі, сонце, роззуй очі. Він при тобі перебив усіх старшокласників, тільки щоб витягнути тебе з уроків погуляти. Як мінімум, він психопат. Ех, я справді дещо підзабула логіку хуліганських шьоненів...
- Наото, я покладаюся на тебе. Тільки ти зможеш вбити здоровий глузд у голову головного героя.

[L Ann · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great start to the series. My only question is what the hell are these grown ass looking kids eating? 😨 Kiyomasa looks even older than 26 year old Takemichi from the future! 3.5 stars, rounded up

[Silvia Shika · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sono felice che questo manga meraviglioso sia finalmente arrivato in Italia 🖤

[Alexander · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good, facial expressions still are creepy. Mikey is defintley my fav character tho :D

[Jon Ureña · Rating 3 out of 5]

Three and a half stars.

I'm going to comment on the first four volumes or so. This is a story about a guy in his twenties who goes back in time to his school years to save a girl; in particular, the only girlfriend he ever had. The premise is very close to Kei Sanbe's manga "Erased", of which I initially watched the anime and I absolutely loved. As I wish more stories featured that time leap concept, I should have been all over "Tokyo Revengers", but I ultimately wasn't, and I don't plan on reading further.

The protagonist has hit a dead end at twenty six. He never went to high school, and can't perform properly any part-time job he's ever had. You could pity him from that, but he's not a good guy either. He used to be a gang member during his school days, and in the present he does infuriating stuff like keying cars of "rich people".

One of those days ends up being far more miserable than the rest, as he sees in the news that the biggest local gang, which for some reason has a swastika in its name, had driven a truck into some fair, killing the protagonist's former girlfriend as well as her brother. As the protagonist was attempting to handle that revelation he also gets pushed to the train tracks when the train was coming, only to "wake up" twelve years ago as he was hanging out with his delinquent friends.

We learn that this guy had had to flee from his original Tokyo district due to the events that happened that very afternoon. While in many mangas some characters are labelled as being delinquents but usually just look a bit menacing, these guys are thugs that are hunting students from another school mostly for kicks. However, they end up getting jumped by older students from that school and beaten half to death. This manga is set in a Japan far more dangerous than it actually is, so not content with having given the main characters such a beating, those other thugs enslave the main characters into becoming fighters for an underground fight club. To break that enslavement is the reason why the protagonist had fled from his former life and ended up as a twenty six year old with no prospects for the future.

In the process of fleeing he had also abandoned his former girlfriend to her eventual fate. Although beaten half to death, he staggers to his former girlfriend's apartment (her parents' apartment, more accurately), and is overwhelmed with emotion realizing that he was given the chance to see her one last time. At that point he believed that he was seeing his life flash before his eyes, and that this was God forcing him to confront his shame. After he says goodbye to this former girlfriend and he wanders the streets for a bit, he comes across some younger punks accosting a weak-looking kid. The protagonist has had enough of people tormenting others. He intervenes and knocks out the leader with a savage punch, and then threatens the others with a broken bottle. After they flee, the weak kid thanks the protagonist. He learns that the kid is none other than his girlfriend's little brother. They hang out for a bit; might as well. The protagonist, believing that this is some complex hallucination as he was dying, opens up about being from the future, and just in case he warns the little brother that in a certain day both he and the kid's sister were going to get killed, and that he should prevent it at all costs.

After they shake hands, however, the protagonist wakes up in the present. He's resting on a hospital bed, and waiting for him to come to his senses is none other that the grown up little brother. He had believed him; both because of the protagonist's heroics against the punks that had accosted the little brother, as well as the wish to save his sister from a terrible fate, he had become a police detective. However, he informs the protagonist that despite knowing the date of his sister's demise, she had gotten killed anyway. Excuse me? How do you fuck that up, knowing the date so far in advance, as well as being a police detective? This revelation, which feels more like a plothole than anything else, is accompanied by the revelation that both men shaking hands is the trigger for the protagonist to both travel back in time and return to the present. Why? It just is. After the little brother, now a policeman, informs the protagonist about the data he has gathered on those possibly responsible for killing his sister, who belong to the worst gang in maybe all of Japan, the protagonist goes back to the past again in order to push former events in the proper direction.

I won't say more about the plot, which goes back and forth between past and future. My main issue with the story is that most of the characters are related to gang activity, which I can neither empathize nor sympathize with, and ultimately I read fiction to connect with the characters. The police detective having failed to prevent his sister's death, which should have been as easy as just keeping her at home for a SINGLE DAY, is ridiculous, and that is the first in a long series of plot conveniences, characters acting weird (not quite human), etc. And the time travel in this story follows what I generally consider the "Terminator" rules: when the past changes, the events get rearranged into producing pretty much identical results somehow. There were two points in the story in which we saw the present version of a character from the past; in one he was the manager of some hostess bar owned by the gang. Tangled to the gang for life, he said and did certain stuff. After another long sequence of events, the protagonist's present gets changed: he now seems to be working happily as a hair dresser, having moved away from all the gang stuff. But some scenes later he says the same stuff and does some egregious shit as if changing the past hadn't worked at all, although it had changed that character's present circumstances. At that point the story felt too artificial for me, and I figured that I should simply move on to something else.

So that's that, I guess. DNF.

[Sandra Uv · Rating 4 out of 5]

4/5

Mikeeey <3

[Subham · Rating 3 out of 5]

REREAD: 23/5/21

The story reads well especially after the anime and I love the whole dynamic with Naoto and Hanagaki and the time travel element and the stakes involved! Also Mikey is so cool and that ending was awesome, Hina standing up for her BF and some interesting things! The art is >>>!!
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Its about this guy named Hanagaki Takemichi whose thrown in the past and he has to save his GF who dies in the modern day and he is back in school amidst the tokyo gang era and has to climb up their ranks to protect her as she gets killed in their war. He is back in present and this volume is him fighting random leaders and while in the past he was a coward now something has changed in him and he ain't no doohickie. He is a badass and this he shows. Also Hinata (his gf) brother is involved and he is the one who can send him back in time like exactly 12 years back and its there we have him meet Mikey and Draken (leaders) amidst some crazy fight and Mikey is cute and their interactions are so funny and dangerous. Its Takemichi's mission to prevent meeting of Mikey and Tetta and then the story continues. It was a fun issue, good MC who has a goal and who is growing, and his gf Hinata is cute and strong plus it has simple time travel rules but the ART is GORGEOUS.

[Paloma orejuda (Pevima) · Rating 1 out of 5]

Pues... no me ha gustado nada, ni la trama ni el dibujo.

**Alerta Spoiler!!

Parte de una premisa interesante pero poco novedosa, que no viene ni a cuento (viaje en el tiempo).
El prota es un llorón y la parte de los delincuentes juveniles no me llama y me pareció de lo más aburrida.
Tras leer este primer volumen me quedan cero ganas de seguir con la historia.

Lo mejor sin ninguna duda, Hina.

En fin, 1 insignia sobre 5 porque hacía tiempo que un manga no conseguía no despertar mi interés. De hecho, creo que nunca antes me había pasado.

[Jenny Clark · Rating 3 out of 5]

I wasn't completely blown away by anything in this, but it was alright. It's definitely an interesting concept, and I'm interested to see how Takimichi matures with his do-over.

[cäty · Rating 4 out of 5]

ta bueno👺

[Afi (WhatAfiReads) · Rating 5 out of 5]

Personal Ratings: 4.5/5🌟

Total No of Chapters : Chapter 1 - Chapter 5
Bonus Chapter : -
Episode of animation: (Haven't watched so will edit later when I've watched)
Arc: Toman Arc

Plot: 5/5
World-building : 4/5
Pacing: 5/5
Art-style: 4/5
Friendship: 5/5
Characters: 5/5
Easy to read: 4.5/5

Overall: A good start to a series that is pretty addicting. I was shocked on how much I loved it. It was a manga that had a good premise and the characters progression is pretty convincing for you to continue the series.




🌟Short Summary🌟
Takemichi Hanagi was a loser in his life. At 26, he's pretty much jobless, felt sorry for himself and want nothing but just felt like dying. When the news of his old ex girlfriend Hinata and her brother's death was reported in the news due to one of the biggest gang disputes in Tokyo, he was brought back to the memories when he was in middle school.

Whilst at the train station, he suddenly fell on the track of the train and his consciousness was somehow brought back to 20 years ago when he was still in middle school. A series of time leaps and changing the future, its a story about a guy who felt he can't change the world but tried his best to save the ones he loves.

🌟Thoughts🌟
Didn't know that this will be the start of me binge reading this whole manga series. The first volume revolves more on the progression of Takemichi as a person and he's working out with the time leap thing. In order to save the person that is dear to him, that he holds dear to his heart, he was brought back to a time where are all things matters.



I like the story progression, on why and how he had became the loser that he is of his future self. Takemichi is a character that you'll feel very annoyed at first on how he's the main but he has this huge self-loathing and self-blaming. But somehow, that's what makes this series enduring in a way, that the main character is just a normal person that is scared of everything that is stronger than he is. The one thing that made Takemichi enduring is his tenacity to survive. He may not be the best person in some ways but his character progression is immense hence this volume sealed the deal for me to continue this series.



The friendship in here was one that is most noble. I think the loyalty with your friends and your beliefs makes this series kinda worth it. In some ways, the time leap can get a bit redundant at first, but somehow, as the story goes, I've seen a pattern and its more on a mission based for every timeline which makes sense . Finding the root of the problem is more important in order to find the cause of the Toman Maji gang dispute.



Takemichi also met Mikey and Draken here hence, I was screaming when these two came out.

🌟Overall🌟
Its a series that is worth its hype and I'm excited to read the rest of the manga. I know it will break me for sure.

[Yukino · Rating 5 out of 5]

SERIE TOKYO REVENGERS vol 1

Ho letto recensioni entusiaste e la trama mi ha incuriosito, così l’ho comprato.
Adesso capisco perché piace tanto. L’ho semplicemente adorato.

Takemichi è un ragazzo solitario, che fugge da tutto. Lavora in un negozio. è il classico sfigato che non sa far nulla. Che non ha carattere.
Un giorno mentre ascolta il telegiornale scopre che la sua ex fidanzata delle medie (ovvero l’unica che lui abbia mai avuto) Hinata, muore con il fratello Naoto in un attentato organizzato dalla Tokyo Manji Gang. Questa notizia lo scombussola e mentre va al lavoro cade sui binari in metro, proprio quando arriva il treno. E...si ritrova a pensare a lui alle medie. Ma scopre che non è un flashback: è tornato indietro nel tempo. Rivede i suoi amici, che ha abbandonato. E rivive le sue giornate. incontra Hina e per caso aiuta suo fratello Naoto con due teppisti. Ritorna nel presente e con Naoto decidono di salvare Hina: Takemichi dovrà tornare nel passato e intrufolarsi nela gang per smantellarla e cambiare così il corso della storia.

Ho cercato di spoilerare il meno possibile, perché questo manga è da leggere. Io me ne sono innamorata per la storia, per i personaggi e per i disegni. Insomma per tutto. Mi piace l’evoluzione di Takemichi il senso di squadra e di amicizia con i suoi compagni delle medie. Mi piacciono Hina e Naoko. Davvero mi piace tutto.
Divertente e allo stesso fa molto pensare.
A me il prossimo!

[Mizuki · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pre-review:
Gangster-themed manga really isn't my cup of tea but after I read a few yaoi fanfics from this fandom even before I watched the anime adaptation. I was kinda smitten with the story and its characters! The time-travel theme is refreshing as well!

I like how the MC and his friends seized their second chance and stop submitting to the bullies.

However! After I watched the anime adaptation and saw how a certain character interacting with another certain character (I'm sure you know who I'm talking about), my reaction being: "Holy shit! You're telling me this is not a Boy's Love series!????"

More to come.

[paula ☁️ ·̩͙✧ · Rating 5 out of 5]

Me he dado cuenta de que en el anime han pulido ciertas escenas, pero el manga es igual de genial. Tenía muchas ganas de empezar a leer Tokyo Revengers. 🥺

Also, podemos hablar de los caretos que hay??? Soy muy fan.

[Mohamed El-shandidy · Rating 5 out of 5]

جميل جدا و القصة حلوة