Okay,
So this one is a little different. I haven’t done posts on individual episodes. Nor am I going to do separate posts for each season of this anime. The reason for this is pretty simple. I ended up binging two seasons in the span of a week.
And that definitely says something. I first found out about Tokyo Revengers from a friend of mine. We were talking about the different anime we were watching and he highly recommended this one. So I gave it a shot, and oh boy do I not regret that one bit.
I’d say the storyline is rather simple, but it’s not. It follows Takemichi Hanagaki, a self proclaimed loser who is one day watching the news and sees that his ex girlfriend from middle school and her brother have been killed in a gang related attack. That same day, Takemichi is pushed onto the train tracks in an attempt on his life, however he saved. The incident sparks in him a power of time travel, and he goes back twelve years to when he was in middle school, and part of the gang that kills his girlfriend in the future.
The two seasons are essentially Takemichi going forward and back in time with the goal of saving those who die in the gang violence as a result of this once pure gaggle of motorcycle riding middle schoolers turn bad for unknown reasons in the future. I’m skipping over a lot of detail here but to go into all of it would be to almost write a book in and of itself.
What I really loved about this anime is that the main character, Takemichi is the hero. But he’s kind of useless. Essentially every fight he gets in results with him getting absolutely pummelled. He’s not meant to be physically strong, or even a cool guy character. What makes him the hero is his spirit. Takemichi doesn’t really win any fights, but he never loses them either. He simply doesn’t let himself loose. No matter how big the opponent, and how beaten up he already his, Takemichi always gets back up and keeps fighting. That’s what makes him a hero.
I really like that idea. I found myself cheering Takemichi on despite knowing he’d never be the one to win the fight. Instead by putting on display his unbreakable character, he inspires the other characters around him to be better. So, you don’t need to be big, strong, or cool to be the hero. Takemichi shows anyone can be the hero if we have an unbreakable spirit.
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