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Is the Tokyo Revengers Anime Based on a Manga or Light Novel? Current Status Revealed


Is Tokyo Revengers Anime Based on a Manga or Light Novel? Current Status Revealed
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If there is one anime series that significantly became popular in recent years, it's none other than Tokyo Revengers. It features a captivating story about Takemichi Hanagaki's do-over of life, but is the Tokyo Revengers anime based on a manga or a light novel? And what is its current status? Find out right here!

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Is the Tokyo Revengers Anime Based on a Manga or Light Novel?

Is Tokyo Revengers Anime Based on a Manga or Light Novel?
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Tokyo Revengers is based on the popular shōnen manga series of the same name by Ken Wakui. It was published in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine starting in 2017.

Tokyo Revengers is an award-winning manga series that won the 44th Kodansha Manga Award in 2020.

As of January 2023, it has been compiled into 31 tankōbon volumes.

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Is the Tokyo Revengers Manga Finished or Ongoing?

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Sadly, good things come to an end, too. As such, the Tokyo Revengers manga had its final run in November 2022, showing the end of Takemichi Hanagaki's journey with a blast.

Despite being over, Tokyo Revengers remains to be one of the best-selling manga series of all time with 70 million copies in circulation as of December 2022.

Fortunately, the Tokyo Revengers manga is still available for those who haven't started reading it.

On top of that, Tokyo Revengers also has an anime television series by Liden Films.

The first season of Tokyo Revengers aired in 2021 while its second season is currently streaming on Disney Plus and Hulu as part of the Winter 2023 anime lineup.

If that isn't enough, Tokyo Revengers also has a live-action movie that came out in 2021. The sequel to the Tokyo Revengers movie is slated to release in 2023.

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What Is the Tokyo Revengers Manga All About?

Tokyo Revengers follows Takemichi Hanagaki and his amazing ability to travel through time. At 26 years old, Takemichi had been living a hard life on his own.

One day, Takemichi learned that Hinata Tachibana, his ex-girlfriend and the only girl he loved, died at the hands of the Tokyo Manji Gang.

The Tokyo Manji Gang is known to be a notorious group that does ruthless acts.

After having given up on life, Takemichi gets pushed in front of a train. But instead of dying, he gets transported to 12 years ago, in 2005.

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There, Takemichi gets to relive his middle school years and tries to stop the Tokyo Manji Gang from being the notorious group in the present.

Takemichi meets with Naoto, the brother of Hinata, and divulges that in the future, Hinata will die.

To stop all this from happening, Takemichi goes back and forth between the past and the present to ensure that he succeeds in saving Hinata.

Tokyo Revengers Season 2 is currently airing on Disney Plus and Hulu for international fans.

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