Review of Tokyo Revengers
The doomed ending of Tokyo Revengers is what compelled me to leave a review. Tokyo Manji Gang (Toman) is a neighbourhood delinquent group from the early 2000s that becomes a big-time corporate gang and criminally violent that their crimes become aired on TV during the late 2010s. Takemichi Hanagaki, a shut-in reaching his 20s finds his first love from middle school has been murdered by the gang, he thinks nothing of it until he is pushed from a train platform. He is taken back 10 years to his adolescent delinquency where his journey to prevent his first love's demise. Or so that's what I thought, thestory is fairly entertaining and has some plot twists here and there but the rate of progression felt dragged out and MC has nearly no progression. His only stunning feature is his invisible plot armor, he climbs the ranks of Toman because he is 'special'. Instead of fighting for his first love, as the story progresses he becomes more absorbed by the gang and the connection begins to fade until the end where there aren't any traces of Naoto and Hinata Tachibana. The abrupt ending hints to a second season but it left nothing resolved in the first season. It just fed us storytelling from other characters with slideshows such as the end where it establishes Mikey's disappearance and Kraken's execution.
Art and Sound are not the best but it still holds well so I have no comment about the series or studio behinds it.
Tokyo Revengers left a lot to be desired, the character connections, greater storytelling elements, straying away from character storytelling, because that portrayal of information is just plain lazy and unoriginal. I did enjoy it in the beginning but as the story progressed and characters that died and revived in the future it's surprising Takemichi didn't have personality alterations from his time travel because that would be more difficult than him being shocked at every new detail changed by his travelling.
As it stands, Tokyo Revengers Anime is an average series that I feel might be over glorified because of its edgy sci-fi storytelling. I look forward to a second season however, and hope this is enough to change my perspective on the show.