With the ending of this wonderous story and my revisit to this site for the first time in months, it's time for a review of a manga that I feel quite strongly about :D
Tokyo Revengers starts wonderfully in my opinion. Lots of action surrounding our main character, but he is too much of a wimp to partake in it himself. That means he trains and becomes big and strong right? No. Tokyo Revengers has an ever so slightly different take on the protagonist of the Shonen action genre and Takemichi, our protagonist in this story, is what makes it pretty good.
There are 2 things in
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this story that control the flow of the story and keep it going: Time travel and our main character being immortal(plot armor).
The thing that sets the whole story and motion and is recurrent throughout the story is time travel. Takemichi needs to hold hands with someone and have both of them wish to go into the past, and then only Takemichi will go there. For the most part, this is how we are led to believe the power works. He uses this power to go back in time to save his middle school girlfriend from a notorious gang, gets tangled up in a fight with them himself, etc. Fast forward a bit and he's now close friends with the big shots of the gang due to his charisma which slowly grows over time. He goes back in time whenever there's something he wants to change but usually loses something in the process(someone dies, or betrays them. stuff like that). That is the other "unspoken rule" of the time travel power.
The other major point is plot armor. Takemichi just does not die, and it makes sense as he's the main character, but its a little more extreme in this story than most other ones. You'll see a character get absolutely bodied and basically killed with a single move and takemichi will jump in front of them to stop them with the "this is wrong" line and proceed to get hit multiple times with the same move that just almost killed another person. Multiple life-threatening hits later, he is still standing there spewing Shonen lines until someone actually strong comes and saves him. I did say the protagonist deviated "ever so slightly" just mainly in the sense that he doesn't actually fight in an action manga.
Overall though, the character interaction and the way the plot flows, if you ignore the plot armor part it really is quite a great manga. Boom bam, easy 9/10 for me. Incredibly enjoyable, you feel close to the characters, and you lose a few of them along the way, it's very moving. So if this is an easy 9/10... why is it 7/10 here on the review?
The Ending.
The way stories end in my opinion makes up about 1/3 of the grading scale of overall enjoyment, and boy did the mangaka do quite a terrible job. Nothing on the level of Sun-Ken Rock, but yikes is it bad.
Earlier on in the review, I explained the "unspoken rules" of the time travel power, which were that ONLY Takemichi could travel back in time, this was kind of solidified by Takemichi believing the main antagonist for most of the story had the power of foresight/time travel due to how well he countered Takemichi's plans but was ultimately just stupid smart. The other one was that there was always a drawback to the time travel, this was typically an important character dying. With the ending... you guessed it, the author throws all of that out the window :D
*** HEAVY SPOILERS ***
The author ends the story in a final arc to save the deuteragonist from his impending doom as a crime syndicate overlord who hates his life. In this arc we learn
-Mikey, the deuteragonist, knows about time travel
-There is another person capable of time travel
-Takemichi is truly immortal(seriously, Takemichi defeated a childhood bully who was known to be one of the strongest people in the country and has killed many people before)
Those aren't too bad by themselves, however, the REAL issue I have with the ending is when the other rule of time travel is broken.
Takemichi takes Mikey with him to the past.
In doing this, they save EVERY. SINGLE. CHARACTER. who had ever died in this story. So the emotional attachment you had to the characters you lost along the way is just made into a joke. There is no drawback to this time travel, even though there was one for every other time, characters who you were genuinely sad about losing are now back with no punishment, the entire massive, confusing cast of characters are now united underneath Mikey and Takemichi as a gang, only to be disbanded a few months later.
TL;DR the ending is a massive plot hole that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever and half ruins the manga.
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