The anime Tokyo Revengers: Christmas Showdown, based on the manga Tokyo Revengersby Ken Wakui, ended this Sunday with the announcement of the adaptation of the Tenjiku Arc in the anime.
Tokyo Revengers – Anime adaptation of the Tenjiku Arc announced!
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The announcement also revealed that Nobunaga Shimazaki will play Izana Kurokawa, head of the Tenjiku team from Yokohama, while Tetsu Inada will play Kanji Mochizuki, one of the Four Heavenly Kings of Tenjiku.
Ken Wakui launched the manga in Weekly Shonen Magazine in March 2017. Kodansha published the manga's 30th volume on November 17th.
The anime adaptation of the manga premiered in April 2021. Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired in Japan, and the Tokyo Revengers: Christmas Showdown arc of the anime premiered on January 7th of this year.
Synopsis
Takemichi Hanagaki is an unemployed man who survives on odd jobs and is depressed. He discovers that Hinata Tachibana, his first and last girlfriend, whom he dated in elementary school, was killed by the ruthless Manji Gang of Tokyo. The day after the news, he's on the edge of a train platform and is pushed by the crowd. He closes his eyes, preparing to die, but when he opens them, he's traveled back in time to when he was 12 years old. Now that he's in the best time of his life, Takemichi decides to avenge his past, saving his girlfriend and stopping his relapse into self-preservation.
Source: Comic Natalie
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