With a live-action film set to open this fall, Ken Wakui’s manga series Tokyo Revengers revealed last summer that an anime TV series is in the works for 2021. The series is set with an April 10th, 2021 premiere where Crunchyroll had already scored the rights to last year. With the show underway and it doing so well by increasing the manga sales in Japan by a significant amount, the folks at Crunchyroll are doing some new promotion for it. They’ve scheduled and now launched a “special feature” for streaming on YouTube today that you can see below. We set this to go live when it goes live and have no idea what it actually is. But can Tokyo Revengers fans miss out?
The series has Koichi Hatsumi directing it based on the scripts by Yasuyuki Muto. Kenichi Ohnuki is on board with Keiko Ota on character designs with LIDEN FILMS handling the animation production.
The previously announced Japanese cast includes Yūki Shin as Takemichi Hanagaki, Azumi Waki as Hinata Tachibana, Ryota Ohsaka as Naoto Tachibana, Yuu Hayashi as Manjirō “Mikey” Sano, Tatsuhisa Suzuki as Ken “Doraken” Ryūgūji, Takuma Terashima as Atsushi “Akkun” Sendо̄, Yūya Hirose as Takuya Yamamoto, Shunsuke Takeuchi as Makoto Suzuki, Shouta Hayama as Kazushi Yamagishi, and Satoshi Hino as Masataka “Kiyomasa” Kiyomizu.
The newly announced members include Masaaki Mizunaka as Keisuke Baji, Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Takashi Mitsuya, Subaru Kimura as Haruki Hayashida, Yukihiro Nozuyama as Ryōhei Hayashi, Kengo Kawanishi as Nahoya Kawata, Daisuke Ono as Yasuhiro Mutō, and Eiji Takeuchi as Nobutaka Osanai.
The opening theme song is “Cry Baby” by Official HiGE DAndism and eill is handling the ending theme song for the series with “Koko de Iki o Shite.”
Kodansha Comics picked the series up for release back in 2018 and has been releasing it digitally since.
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Plot Concept: Watching the news, Takemichi Hanagaki learns that his girlfriend from way back in middle school, Hinata Tachibana, has died. The only girlfriend he ever had was just killed by a villainous group known as the Tokyo Manji Gang. He lives in a crappy apartment with thin walls, and his six-years-younger boss treats him like an idiot. Plus, he’s a complete and total virgin … At the height of his rock-bottom life, he suddenly time-leaps twelve years back to his middle school days!! To save Hinata, and change the life he spent running away, hopeless part-timer Takemichi must aim for the top of Kanto’s most sinister delinquent gang!!
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