Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
itsmeyumi
This might genuinely be the most painful experience of my entire life.
I’ve seen flawed protagonists before, but this guy takes it to another level — every choice he makes feels like a social experiment in how far someone can go without a single critical thought. He only makes terrible decisions, is unbelievably dumb, weak AND aesthetically painful to watch.
I watched the entire series, start to finish, just to be able to say with full authority: IT DOES NOT GET BETTER
Personally, I don’t think the story idea is bad, but the execution is AWFUL. It unfolds in the dumbest, most childish way possible. Looks like the show’s terrified someone might accidentally engage a brain cell. It might be the perfect anime for 11/12-year-old boys who think time travel and street gangs are the peak of co…
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The plot for this anime was written by a 14 year old. I cannot explain why it's so bad in any other way.
Tokyo Revengers has an interesting plotlline: the main character goes back in time to try and stop the murder of his ex-girlfriend (and some other, less important characters') in the present. It's similar to that of Erased, which is why some people have compared the two - but such comparisons are simply insulting to Erased.
The most interesting part of such a plotline is how the main character will use the information he obtains in the present to change the past. This show seems to understand that, as to its credit, it spends a decent amount of time in the present, with the main character and his accomplice in time travel (the younger brother of said murdered ex-girlfriend) looking fo…
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Tokyo Revengers
I remember when the anime was released in 2021 and had gathered quite a lot of hype around it. It was compared to other similar works like "Erased" and seemed to be rather popular. Well at least for the first few months, somewhere in the middle of it, people suddenly stopped seeing any of the anime on YouTube or anywhere else, it was like it was gone and there was no trace of the fans. After I started watching this anime, I understood why that was the case.
Despite all expectations, this anime/manga is blessed with a very interesting concept, especially for thriller fans. We have unexplained murders, time travel, and a protagonist who wants to stop it all. None of this is new or revolutionary, but it is a relatively good and successful approach. Nothing can go wrong with…
Read at the sourceHarlock_Phantom
Honestly this would have been a really solid series if the protagonist wasn't so painfully unlikeable.
Story wise it's fascinating. A person with a limited ability to time travel using that ability to change past events to protect loved ones in the modern day is a great concept when used correctly. The tight limitations of Takemichi's abilities are brilliant in terms of drama as there's no "reset button", if he fails in what he sets out to do then there's no do over which makes the sense of danger feel far more genuine.
The gang warfare elements are also well done. The tensions between organisations as well as personal loyalties and relationships are fairly well established. Though some story elements do fall a little flat, some animosities carrying more weight than seems necessery.
The m…
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To say this was a pleasent surprise would be the understatement of the century
With animation that at times looks like it came out of a tamagotchi and an artsltyle which might take some getting used to, i avoided this anime like the plague untill i got it for MAL secret santa
Well now i can confidently say this has landed on the list of best christmas presents ever received
What Tokyo Revengers might lack in aesthetic is made up for 10 fold in the story it tells
The mystery elements are extreamly well done keeping you hooked episode after episode making it near impossible not to binge it
And although it's not the most character driven show it still does a great job illustrating what's behind each characters motives and behaviors and aces in their developement, there is not one member of…
Read at the sourceRebelPanda
Déjà vu.
The dictionary tells us déjà vu is an unpleasantly familiar feeling. Tokyo Revengers made me feel déjà vu because it is the latest of many overhyped shounen adaptations with nothing to offer except for animation. But this adaptation of a multimillion-dollar franchise has the unbelievable audacity to look like it was animated on a shoe-string budget in the early 2000s. Its utterly unremarkable story about middle school gang wars is only worsened by sluggish pacing and ugly art.
Two middle school gangs wrapped in a turf war lead to the murder of an innocent person—one man has the power to prevent it all. Takamichi is a 26-year-old loser with no future. After finding out his middle school crush died in a car crash, he’s given a chance to challenge fate. Mysteriously, Takamichi is g…
Read at the sourceBakugokatsuki09
as a lover of time traveling anime i would like to say this anime was my worst experience .this story is about to make people realize that delinquents are not LAME, but it makes it worse i ended up looking down on delinquents. the whole story is full of cliché and overreacting characters. i just wanted to drop this anime on episode 4 but as a lot of people exaggerated it so much i wanted to know when it will get better. i completed it with disappointment. this is predictable but at the same time it is not predictable. i predicted the story but realized that my prediction was better than the actual story. i have watched many masterpiece stories and they are masterpieces cause they are not at all predictable. the mc sucks, there is no character development at all, it even degrades. the mc th…
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Most overrated bullshit of 2021, with trash story and cliched garbage characters.
[MIGHT CONTAIN SPOILERS]
First of all, the story. Guy goes back in time 12 years back from the present. After doing so, does gang fights to change the future & prevent the death of his gf. Not original, but if done right I might enjoy it. But guess what, I didn't.
The show is repetitive. Every time a stronger and bigger gang members gang up the MC, all he does is cry about how weak of a person he is, waiting for someone to save his ass. The MC cries EVERY EPISODE, like every no exaggeration. Heck, even the concept of time travel isn't even well-explored. There's also so many times where Takemichi hints to other characters that he knows the future, but they act as if it were normal. This doesn't make any s…
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This is an anime that borrowed almost everything it has from other better shows: characters, story, humor, and even down to the script, wrapped neatly in a red bow, and tried to pass itself off as something original and unique.
Story:
Although the story isn't wholly original it should work on a macro level since it is interesting enough. However, everything falls apart once you see it under a microscope. The fantasy element doesn't make any sense. The butterfly effect of time travel comes and goes. There is the gigantic plot hole which was mentioned but they can't justify properly as to why the protagonist can't do just that (of course the answer is "so that the plot can happen" *yawn*). Something convenient or far fetch always happens just to drag the plot forward. The humor is old schoo…
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I’m starting this review off up front by saying that “Tokyo Revengers” is, for me, a 10/10 series, but I’m a big softie when it comes to anything unique. I tend to score things a bit on the higher side, so, for you it may be an 8 or a 9 (if you like the same kind of things I do), but I want to be up front that I think this is a great anime and that it absolutely must be seen. I’m putting this at the beginning of my review, because I’m going to sound pretty mean about this anime a bit later, but I want it to be known that it’s very minor stuff, mostly dealing with visual elements, and doesn’t change the fact that this series deserves near perfect marks for its originality, story, and characters, and by no means does the visual side detract from any of that. This was not a bad adaptation, it…
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Where To Start:
This was a roller coaster from happy, sadness happy enjoyment lust all on 24 ep
why u ask :
the Characters were amazing , the animation was amazing , story could be better but overall one of the most fun and Enjoyment i had in years after jujutsu kaisen ofc the first epi's were doll boring but after it got into the story and the Character development i wanted to become a gang member u got no idea how much fun u are missing out ATM if i say it even surpassed one piece at making you wanna just pay and watch all the ep in one day , i hope a new season soon in 1 year at best will make it a lovely time if it take too much it might kill it did not read the manga and probly will not im more of a animation guy but i would recommend it 8-9/10
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This is just wish-fulfillment fantasy garbage. Generic self-insert MC, blatant wish fulfilment, everything works out for the MC no matter how bad things get.
Tokyo Revengers is poorly written trash.
Its full of plot convenience, plot armor, and plot holes. Most fans are simply hyping it up because they're either 12 year olds who haven't watched many anime before, or they dont really care how good it is as long as the characters are yelling and shouting generic lines like "I'll never give up!" or "I'll save her!"
"I'll never give up! I'll save you!"
The dialogue in this anime is lackluster and doesn't require any thought or engagement. The characters will shout out emotional lines to get the 12 year old fans frothing at the mouths. Its ridiculous. The monologues are just empty lines…
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Before we start, there are some slight spoilers in this review, so read it for your own risk.
The Time Travel stuff can be mostly complicated. They're not entirely explained, so there's nothing to input on this mysterious genre. Tokyo Revengers is one of those shows fitting itself with the Time Travel aspect to change the future and prevent any menacing things from happening. Like myself as a watcher, I checked this out. From here the show was on a roll for the 1st half of the season, flowed nicely, nothing unbearable and entertaining. Nevertheless, the 2nd half became too much of a nuance and dismally presented.
Story (6/10)
The story is somewhat interesting. Trying to save someone you are deeply in love with, is a compelling premise and ideally, fascinate you for what it offers. The…
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Tokyo Revengers is a decadent shallow manufactured collection of frames. Featuring one of the most abhorrent main anime characters that I had the displeasure to watch, the series is an aggravating disrespect to the viewer from beginning to end, without any sense of connection to anything resembling human behavior set in a world where the latest update of human intellect didn’t hit yet to let a set of pathetic intent of emotional baits flow. Born from the delusion of what coolness and edginess could fare in the human reality, the anime hits you throughout all its runtime with an extravagant spice of dishonesty and lack of care to provide anything more meaningful than hormonal screaming.
*During this review I will use spoilers because of two reasons. The first is that to illustrate the dis…
Read at the sourceMarinate1016
If you could go back in time and change anything, what would you do? It’s a question and concept as old as humanity itself, yet it constantly appears in media time after time. Why? Because it’s integral to the human condition, we constantly want to change our mistakes or do something we didn’t get a chance to. The fact that we can’t, is what makes life some meaningful. Every encounter, every action counts.
Despite it being an old concept, Tokyo Revengers does an excellent job of presenting it with a rather unique twist. The MC being able to time-travel via connection to his deceased ex gf’s brother was something I hadn’t seen before and really enjoyed. The gang warfare and logistical management of a gang aspects were fun and original. While at times the story is far fetched and kind of u…
Read at the sourceMozillaFennekin
“Both sides lose somebody. Somebody dies, somebody goes to jail.” --Kid Cudi
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA” --some goofy mf named mitch or something idk
Tokyo Revengers is an anime about middle school kids, but they’re actually RUFF N’ TUFF DUDES who spend most of their time punching people, riding motorcycles, and punching other people who also enjoy punching people and riding motorcycles. Given such a gritty subject matter that is rarely touched upon in shounen anime, it’s pretty clear to see why there’s so much hype for this series. And I certainly respect that.
But in reality, the display of violence and conflict in ToRev is comical, to put it nicely. To put it meanly, it’s a mafia anime for children. Every conflict in this series begins and ends with characters punching…
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Time travel, the most overworked setting of every sci-fi show to ever come out. It’s such a simple concept on paper yet extremely difficult to execute properly in any medium. Most time travel shows follow two paths. They either shine brightly and is remembered by people as a revolutionary piece of media such as Terminator or Back to the Future, or is over hyped and falls into the pit of mediocrity and is forgotten by most people. Tokyo Revengers unfortunately follows the latter of these two paths.
If the word “Overhyped” had a picture, it would be the Tokyo Revengers poster. A show filled with annoying characters and a story with enough plot holes to make a sponge seem like a plain surface. The story follows our mc travelling back in time to save his girlfriend from her demise. It’s your…
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I went into Tokoyo Revengers for the delinquents. I wanted to see the intricacies and inner perspectives of being a gang member. I wanted to see how they think and operate. Well, it’s safe to say that I only got crumbs of it. Instead, what I got from this anime is about a 26-year-old man in the body of a middle school kid running around crying and whining about his incapabilities and lamenting for a girl he dumped long ago. To that, I couldn’t care less.
Welcome to Tokyo Revengers. A 26-year-old who got his life fucked up from his times of being a delinquent now lying in his squalid apartment eating chips and working in a shop to clean the dust off the shelves as a job. On his way back to his filthy apartment, he was pushed off of the train station, practically murdered, and got transpor…
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Even if you ignore the snail’s pace, the five minute recaps, and the shitty slide-show animation, this show is just dumb and bad.
Spoilers ahead.
Fans of shounen anime do themselves and their favorite new seasonal show a huge disservice when they label it as being “different” or unique, because when this ignorant praise catches the attention of anyone who has seen more than a few dozen anime, those people are immediately disappointed the second they see it. It’s often said the worst thing you can do to a series is overhype it, because when it inevitably turns out to be utterly mediocre, it won’t meet anyone’s expectations. Tokyo Revengers is not only unexceptional, but it’s painfully generic and boring as sin, and since its production values are shoddy as shit, you’ll never be able to pu…
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This is the Tokyo gang life. Yankee, violence, terrain, status, pride. One man sets out to take his re:venge Re:Zero style (we are running out of ideas) on this cursed life that harmed his future, and the futures are many others.
Tokyo Revengers is a great shounen product. It is entirely unrealistic, whilst performing a realistic story. I see a few complaints about the logic in this world. Rule 1 of shounen anime: there are no rules, we're here to see madness break loose. Tokyo Revengers is a ridiculously biased story, shamelessly leaving burnt tracks of unbalanced plot points in order to get to the destination it seeks, that is, this story which is based on infamous Tokyo gangs. So I find no point in complaining about something that (hopefully) is aware of its asinine power levels and ti…
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