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Tokyo Revengers

Tokyo Revengers (Japanese: 東京卍リベンジャーズ, Hepburn: Tōkyō Ribenjāzu) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ken Wakui. It was serialized in Kodansha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Magazine from March 2017 to November 2022, with its chapters collected in 31 tankōbon volumes.

The story follows Takemichi Hanagaki, a 26-year-old part-timer with a gloomy life, who learns that his ex-girlfriend, Hinata Tachibana, has died in a dispute involving the Tokyo Manji Gang. The next day, while returning from his part-time job, Takemichi gets pushed off the subway platform by someone. As he is about to be hit, he jumps twelve years back in time, to the year he was dating Hinata. Discovering this, he makes the decision to do everything to prevent her death.

An anime television series adaptation produced by Liden Films, aired from April to September 2021. A second season aired from January to April 2023. A third season aired from October to December 2023. A fourth season is set to premiere in 2026. A live-action film adaptation was released in Japan in July 2021, with its two-part sequel released in April and June 2023.

By June 2024, the manga had over 80 million copies in circulation, making it one of the best-selling manga series of all time. In 2020, Tokyo Revengers won the 44th Kodansha Manga Award for the shōnen category.

In 2017, Takemichi Hanagaki, a 26-year-old freeter, discovers that his former girlfriend, Hinata Tachibana, and her younger brother Naoto have been murdered by the Tokyo Manji Gang. The following day, as he returns from work, an unknown assailant pushes him onto a train platform. Facing imminent death, he is suddenly transported twelve years into the past, to 2005, during his middle school years. Naoto later deduces that physical contact between them triggers Takemichi's time leaps.

In the past, Takemichi finds his friends coerced into underground fights orchestrated by Kiyomasa, a member of the Tokyo Manji Gang. His growing friendship with Mikey alters the present, preventing Akkun, one of his friends, from being imprisoned—though Akkun later takes his own life out of fear. Realizing the gang poses a greater threat than he anticipated, Takemichi witnesses the Tokyo Manji Gang declare war on the rival Moebius group to avenge Pah-chin's friend. He also learns that Draken, Mikey's second-in-command, will be killed, leading to Mikey's descent into brutality. Though Takemichi reconciles their conflict, the gang is ambushed by Moebius, led by Shūji Hanma of Valhalla. The attack is revealed to be a betrayal by Peh-yan, angered over Pah-chin's arrest, while Kiyomasa stabs Draken for humiliating him. The Tokyo Manji Gang emerges victorious, Draken survives, and Takemichi defeats Kiyomasa.

Returning to the present, Takemichi finds Hinata and his friends still dead, with Tetta Kisaki having transformed the gang into a violent syndicate. Back in 2005, Kisaki exploits Pah-chin's absence to become a division captain. Mikey promises to expel Kisaki if Takemichi retrieves Baji, who had faked his defection to investigate Kisaki. Takemichi joins the gang under Takashi Mitsuya and uncovers Mikey's unresolved hatred for Kazutora, who killed Mikey's brother, Shinichiro, years prior. He also learns Kisaki formed Valhalla intending for Mikey to lead it, with the Tokyo Manji Gang eventually merging into Valhalla after a decisive battle on October 31, 2005—Bloody Halloween. Though the gang wins, Baji dies, but Takemichi prevents Mikey from killing Kazutora, who surrenders to the police.

Yet again, the present reveals the Tokyo Manji Gang has expanded into a criminal empire by absorbing the Black Dragons, and Takemichi's friends remain doomed. Returning to the past, he intervenes in Hakkai Shiba's forced recruitment into the Black Dragons by his abusive brother, Taiju. With Mitsuya's negotiation, Yuzuha is freed from Taiju's control, and Takemichi helps Hakkai defy him. Mikey and Draken's intervention secures victory, disbanding the Black Dragons. Koko and Inupi, now co-leaders of the gang's 11th generation, join the Tokyo Manji Gang under Takemichi.

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