~~~THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS~~~

Tokyo Revengers: The anime where middle school delinquents have more power than anyone else in the world. Tokyo revengers got to be one of the dumbest anime I have watched this year. The main problems I had with Tokyo Revengers is that it is a bad time travel anime set in a world where adults seem to not exist, the story is also really predictable and to top it all off the main character is really unlikeable.

TIME TRAVEL IN TOKYO REVENGERS IS ASS

Time travel films in a nutshell:
Something bad happens -> main character goes back in time to fix that bad event -> fixing that bad event causes more bad events to happen -> Now you just accept that the past can’t be fixed or you’re just stuck in loop of bad events. Well, Tokyo revengers follow the same formula. Tokyo revengers is your typical time travel anime with a time travel system that is unexplained and is concealed for literally the entire anime. Time travel plays a major role in this anime yet we don’t know much about it, other than Takewimpy shaking hands with Naoto allows Takewimpy to go back 12 years to the past or 12 years to the future. Why Naoto? Why not anyone else? Why does it have to be a handshake? Why 12 years? These are questioned that is never asked by Takebitchy or Naoto. I see this as lazy writing by the author Wakui, Ken. The time travels could’ve been explained a little more for people who have never seen a time travel film. But all the other people like myself who have seen time travel films we can just theorize about how it works even if the mangaka doesn’t straight up tell us. I also find it stupid how even after Takemitchy makes changes to the past nothing changes for him in the future up until the very last ep of season 1. If Takemitchy became a loser because he got bullied by a bunch of 3rd years why didn't the future change after he met Mikey and had a better school experience than the first time?

TAKEMITCHY IS A TERRIBLE PROTAGONIST FOR THIS ANIME~~~



I usually love watching shounen anime even if it’s a very generic shounen anime, but Tokyo revengers is one of those anime’s I just couldn’t enjoy because of how aggravating the characters were. Mainly because of how much of a crybaby, feeble, pussy, Takebitchy was. I see Takemitchy as more of a side character than a main character I have never in my life seen a more useless main character than Takemitchy. Tokyo revenger is a gang anime and Takemitchy the main character in a gang anime doesn’t know how to fight or even defend himself. Im not saying every shounen main character needs to be overpowered but at least make it so Takemitchy can defend himself. 24 episodes into this anime and Takemitchy hasn’t gotten any character developments physically. Mentally Takemitchy has become more confident but that’s about all the character development he’s gotten over the span of 24 episodes. Literally every scene with a conflict between Takemitchy and any other character Takemitchy will start using talk no jutsu instead of throwing hands. I find it hilarious how Takemitchy constantly says “ I WILL BE THE HEAD OF TOMAN” yet this idiot can’t even defend himself, how is he gonna become head of toman? By talking his way to very tipitty top? It’s really pathetic seeing the main character whose only purpose in the anime is to get his ass beat and somehow talk his way out of situations.

BAD WORLD BUILDING

Like I said earlier Tokyo Revengers seems like it's set in a world where adults don't seem to exist. Every gang is filled with teenagers in middle school and these kids can do whatever the fuck they want because there's never any adults around to stop them. There was a scene in the anime where Mikey goes into Takemitchy's school, beats up like 5 kids, and walks into Takemitchy's classroom and not a single teacher was there to stop him. No teachers, no security guards, not a single adult anywhere. The only time I see adults interfering with these gang activities in this anime is when gang fights are over and the cops pull up. To most people, this might not be a problem but to me I just find Tokyo Revengers to be extremely dumb because of moments like this.
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__ OTHER THINGS I DIDNT LIKE__~~~

Mikey's plot armor - There was a segment in the anime where Mikey got hit by a metal rod like 5 times in a row and Mikey somehow survives. There was another moment where mikey's brother got hit on the head by a metal rod once and he died. I mean it's pretty obvious Mikey is the Levi of this show, this man has insane plot armor.

Characters being over emotional - Every character in this anime resorts to violence, there's never a moment where characters talk things out it always end with a fight or a threat. Like when Mikey threatened to kill Takemitchy if he didn't bring baji back from Valhalla. I guess this was supposed to be a badass moment for Mikey but i just found weird how he threatened to kill his own friend, his own gang member if he doesn't do something that is very difficult to do.

Final Thoughts

Overall I found Tokyo Revengers to be extremely dumb and unenjoyable, at times I was confused by who their target audience was, one moment they are talking about pah chin's girlfriend getting raped and next moment they are making poop jokes. Personally I believe Tokyo Revengers could've been much better if it had a better main character and a time travel system that wasn't concealed.