Mar 28, 2024
Reading tokyo revengers and then coming to this one, the difference is enormous. The time plot tokyo revengers so carefully crafted at the start fell off at about the middle of the manga. I can't say it won't also happen to this, but one thing is certain, Nine peaks is the superior story.
I tried to like tokyo revengers, I really did, but there were oh sooo many issues, you simply can't overlook them. The teenagers in it acted like generic shounen sociopaths with the main villain the mastermind a cliche "I got you" mastermind. It based itself on the cool premise and mystery, both of
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which trailed downwards with every new reveal. The tipping point in quality was after the mc became a gangster irl.
The conflicts were all solved strangely too...
The MC is a generic shounen crybaby like deku from mha, and he solves everything by tanking hits, crying and inspiring others. This is a gimmick he never stops using, before being powered up in a bs fight at the end of the manga, and that horrid ending....
Anyhow, this is not a review of tokyo revengers, but it is important to note how different nine peaks is despite the borrowed half-premise.
I'll call the mc goku because I can't remember Japanese names. The tokyo revengers MC shall be TRMC.
Goku is the exact opposite to TRMC. He is too cold, detached to the world, as oppose to how TRMC is a pathetic loser both in the present and past.
Goku is not cold in an edgy way, it makes perfect narrative sense. He has a lack of both maternal and paternal love, the only way he could end up is an outsider, choosing to be one, or a man desperate for attention.
Goku is a loner, but in a way that he doesn't feel like he can trust people, his former friends using his name to get money from students, classic delinquents.
This in no way represents him after the time travel. He starts to learn to appreciate his father and make friends he can trust.
His rare crying made out of remembering his youth are much more nuanced than anytime TRMC does his "trademark". TRMC does it so often it loses all meaning.
Even more important is that the Author had the balls to let Goku fight, and even be good at it. I will never understand the idea that some would prefer a pathetic MC who only wins by being saved by other people.
The spotlight is also not stolen by him from his father. Goku is not inspiring, for he never knew something like that.
I fully recommend Nine peaks and Tetsuhiro Hirakawa's other works like Clover and Crows Zero 2, he is a master at delinquent manga.
Reviewerâs Rating: 9
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