The time-traveling gang series Tokyo Revengers ends in five chapters, and the news is giving fans mixed feelings.
Ken Wakui’s official Twitter account confirmed that Nov. 16 is the date of the last chapter with the words “Revenge Completed” in red. The series will not take a break until then and will release the final chapter in Weekly Shonen Magazine No. 51. The series announced that it was in its final arc in June 2021. Tokyo Revengers currently has 274 chapters as of this article’s publication.
One commenter to the announcement noted that the series had some high points but had fallen short in the recent arcs. Ultimately, the commenter hoped that the series would have a “decent ending.” Other commenters worried that the mangaka may rush the finale due to the number of loose ends that still remained in the story. While fans were shocked and devastated at the announcement, they thanked the mangaka, Ken Wakui, for creating Tokyo Revengers.
Serialized since 2017 in Weekly Shōnen Magazine, Tokyo Revengers follows a downtrodden loser named Takemichi Hanagaki who finds out that the formidable Tokyo Manji Gang killed his girlfriend from middle school and her brother. Shortly after learning this, someone pushes him in front of a train. Instead of dying, he time travels back to his middle school days and vows to save his girlfriend from the Tokyo Manji Gang. In Takemichi’s present day, the Tokyo Manji Gang, or Toman for short, is a group who has done every heinous crime imaginable, from arson to murder to rape, but when he meets the leader of Toman, he realizes that something must have happened to lead this gang down a dark path. After several time-traveling adventures and managing to save his girlfriend and his friends, Takemichi has a bigger task up his sleeve in the final arc. He must now find some way to save Toman’s leader, Mikey, and give him the happy ending he deserves. The manga has over 65 million copies as of July 2022.
International Releases Omitted the Manji Symbol
Adapted by Liden Films (Cells at Work! Code Black and Otherside Picnic), Tokyo Revengers premiered in April 2021 and ran for 24 episodes. Although the manji symbol is considered an auspicious symbol representing peace, spirituality and prosperity in Buddhism and other religions, western viewers may associate the manji symbol with Nazism despite the different angles that the two are positioned in. When the anime received distribution outside of Japan, the manji symbol found itself heavily edited out of the series. A second season adapting the “Christmas Showdown” arc will premiere in January 2023. A live-action adaptation premiered in 2021, with a sequel to release in 2023.
Fans can read the manga digitally on Kodansha USA or the print version from Seven Seas Entertainment. The first season of Tokyo Revengers is available on Crunchyroll.
Source: Twitter
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