Review of Tokyo Revengers

While the synopsis of this show is interesting enough, the plot itself is kind of bland. Spoilers ahead. The series follow Takemichi, your typical shounen protagonist, who is a 26-years-old loser that has a pathetic life and lives in a trashy place. One day, Takemichi is watching the news and he discovers that his former high school girlfriend and her brother are dead after being involved in some kind of gang-war. He barely remembered his ex girlfriend name, but the show wants you to think that he was really shocked. Later on, Takemichi is about to take the train when somebody pushes him in front ofthe train and in his last seconds his life flashes in front of his eyes. Next thing he sees is that he's 14 years old again and he remembered that this year was his highlight in life (talk about lame). We see how he had a group of high-school delinquent friends and they get their asses kicked by another gang. Here the shows gets messy because it's stated that this moment in his life was the best, but also he remembers that the other gang members made their life a hell all year long.
We get to know Hina, his girlfriend and we see how he suddenly remembers that he loved her a lot. What Hina sees in Takemichi that she is so loyal to him? Beats me. Every time he leaps back in time we see that he was on autopilot either cheating on her, or being cold or straight up ignoring her. The guy is awful to her when he's not in the personality of his 26yo and he's only kind of caring then. That's also creepy if we consider Hina is like 14yo and he's a 26yo crushing on her. He doesn't even remember how he dumped her and after 12 years we see how she still loves him.
Then we meet the most compelling characters of this show: Mikey and Draken. They are the leaders of ToMan, the gang responsible for Hina's death in the future. Once we know them for a while we (and Takemichi) realise that there is no way they would do something like that, therefore something went really wrong with ToMan in those 12 years.
Other interesting characters are presented later, such as Baji, Kazutora and Chifuyu. In fact, I would have liked this show a lot more if it would focus on their story along Mikey and Draken.

Takemichi serves little purpose on the plot despite being the only capable of leap trough time. He doesn't know how to fight, he doesn't put effort in learn about relevant information about the past he's supposed to change, and he does stupid decisions in general. Many times you wonder how he's held in high esteem so much by ToMan higher-ups. He doesn't have much development and by the end of the show you have to believe that somehow he's became a higher up himself despite still being a crybaby incapable of fight (remember is a fricking GANG).

Art is messy too. Some characters are drawn with much more care than others. On the other hand, the majority of them don't look like high schoolers, and they don't act like it neither. The story could be a little more believable if they were at least in their 20s in the past timeline.

Parents are no showed and have not relevance whatsoever (until Hina's funeral, and that's it) it's like there are no adults in this world. In some cases makes sense, like in Draken's backstory, but you can't convince me that the dozens of high schoolers we see in the show are all orphans.

The main antagonist gets what he wants by the end of the season (is obviously a cliff-hanger for a part 2) and we still don't really know what are his motivations. He's shown as a terrifying presence but we actually see little of it. Hina is supposedly the protagonist main drive, but they don't even show us anything relevant about her in the last (at least) two episodes.

If you like generic shounen with lots of unrealistic action you may like Tokyo Revengers, but be prepared to suspend all disbelief. Some episodes are genuinely entertaining, but many times it's dragged and it's frustrating.