Manga / Tokyo Revengers

Takemichi Hanagaki is a part-timer who lives in a crappy apartment and works at a job where his six-years-younger boss treats him like an idiot. One day, while watching the news, he finds out that the only girlfriend he ever had, Hinata Tachibana from middle school, was killed by the infamous Tokyo Manji Gang. As if to hammer in how much his life has hit rock-bottom, he later gets pushed in front of a moving train. However, instead of dying, he time-leaps twelve years back to the past to when he was in middle school. To save Hinata and change his own life, Takamichi must ascend to the top of the Tokyo Manji Gang.

Tokyo Revengers is a manga written by Ken Wakui, best known for his other hit yakuza manga Shinjuku Swan. It launched in Weekly Shōnen Magazine in 2017 and concluded in 2022.

An anime adaptation by Liden Films, adapting the first and Bloody Halloween arcs, premiered in April 2021. A live action film and stage play premiered in the same year. A second season of the anime, subtitled Christmas Showdown and adapting the arc of the same name, began airing in January 2023, with a third season, Tenjiku Arc, following that October.

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This manga provides examples of:

• Accent Upon The Wrong Syllable: Mikey mispronounces Takemichi's name as "Takemitchy" upon their first meeting, and when Takemichi attempts to correct him, Draken tells him to go along with it because no one questions Mikey. It later becomes an Affectionate Nickname that the Tokyo Manji Gang uses to address him.
• Adapted Out: Peh-yan and Emma were not cast in the film. In addition, Emma was not cast in the first stage play.
• Age Lift: The Live-Action Adaptation of the manga ups the ages of the characters into high school students to compensate for the age of its cast playing both their adult and younger selves.
• All Bikers are Hells Angels: Some of the gangs depicted in the series are biker gangs, like the Black Dragons. The Tokyo Manji Gang themselves are bikers, as each of the founders have their own unique bike.
• Artistic Age: A lot of characters do not look or act like they're supposed to be in middle school.
• Backup from Otherworld:
  • During Mikey's fight with Izana, Izana sees Emma and Shinichiro standing behind Mikey in support.
  • Kakucho sees Izana coming back to help him pull the brakes to a train in the final arc.
• Bad Future:
  • After Takemichi prevents Draken's death on August 3, 2005, the series' first Hope Spot gives way to a similarly bleak outcome as the original future: Akkun's attempt to murder Takemichi leads to both his and Hinata's deaths, rendering Takemichi's efforts moot. Furthermore, Draken is on death row.
  • After Takemichi prevents Mikey from killing Kazutora after Baji's death on October 31, 2005 (aka Bloody Halloween), he finds himself becoming one of the gang's top administrators. However, because Kisaki wasn't fully stopped, this results in Takemichi being manipulated into orchestrating Akkun and Hinata's deaths, as well as Chifuyu getting shot by Kisaki.
  • After Takemichi causes the Black Dragons to dissolve on December 25, 2005 and gets Kisaki kicked out of the Tokyo Manji Gang, which he assumes will solve all future problems. Unfotunately, Mikey ends up becoming hollow after Takemichi leaves the Tokyo Manji Gang, loses trust in the other Tokyo Manji members, and eventually kills the Tokyo Manji members. When Takemichi goes searching for Mikey, Mikey threatens to kill him, only for Naoto to fatally shoot him. Then Tenjiku targets Takemichi and end up killing Naoto.
  • After Takemichi defeats the Tenjiku Gang on February 22, 2006 (Kanto incident), there's a Big Damn Reunion where Hinata and everyone else is alive and happy. Everyone else, that is, except for Mikey, whose darkness has completely consumed him.
• Better to Die than Be Killed: During Bloody Halloween, Baji is fatally stabbed by Kazutora, but he later stabs himself so that he dies on his own terms instead of letting Kazutora be blamed for his death.
• Big Bad: Kizaki Tetta. He is the main influence on the Tokyo Manji Gang that turned them from a rambunctious delinquent gang into one of the most dangerous organizations in Tokyo. He is implied to be responsible for Hinata's (and originally Naoto's) deaths, and also implied to have ordered Akkun to push Takemichi onto the train tracks.
• Big Brother Instinct:
  • Mikey compares Takemichi's determination to his older brother Shinichiro. In fact, in the Bad Future, it's repeatedly shown that Takemichi influenced him in a similar way.
  • Mitsuya is the Team Mom of his family and knows how to cook and sew due to taking care of his younger sisters as a child. He becomes an older brother figure towards Hakkai.
• Body Horror: Kisaki gets fatally wounded after getting hit by a truck, with his arms and legs twisted in unnatural angles.
• Bolivian Army Ending: In 2017 during the Tenjiku arc, Takemichi and Naoto seek help from Taiju Shiba, who gives them information on Tenjiku. However, they are ambushed by Tenjiku in mid-conversation, and Taiju decides to hold off the entire group to help Takemichi and Naoto escape.
• Break His Heart to Save Him: Takemichi eventually learns that on Christmas of 2005, he broke up with Hinata. When he relives these events, he understands that it's because Hinata's father pressured him to leave Hina due to his standing as a delinquent.
• Breaking the Fellowship: After defeating Tenjiku and learning about Takemichi's time-leaping, Mikey chooses to disband Toman while they're on top. This works well for the Toman members, who go on to survive and live honest lives in the future... except Mikey, who becomes the leader of Boten, leading to Takemichi time leaping one last time to save Mikey.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Mikey has a rather unorthodox personality, but make no mistake—cross him, and he will end you.
• But Not Too Foreign: Emma is half-Japanese and half an unknown ethnicity given her appearance and her name. Mikey is fully Japanese, but he decides to adopt a "foreign-sounding" name so that she won't feel alone.
• But Now I Must Go: Several times after Takemichi resolves a critical conflict, he bids farewell to his friends before returning to the present. At the end of the Black Dragons arc, he even takes a memorial photo with them.
• Cain and Abel: Izana is the Cain to Mikey's Abel. As a child, Izana kept in contact with Shinichiro and admired him as his "ideal" older brother, only to be crushed when Shinichiro revealed that he intended to let Mikey lead the Black Dragons instead. This causes Izana to grow extremely jealous, and he creates Tenjiku with killing Mikey as its main objective. As Tenjiku's power rises, Izana becomes determined to "steal" everything Mikey loves, including killing their sister, Emma.
• Chance Meeting Between Antagonists: In Chapter 5, just as young Takemichi considers the possibility of an event that could have changed Mikey, he passes by a young Kisaki (though he doesn't recognize Kisaki, only noting that he seems familiar).
• Childhood Friends: Many of the characters who have friends have known those friends since middle school, and the head Tomen members have been close since they were 12. In fact, depending on how late you define childhood, this applies to almost half the cast.
  • Notable examples of this trope include Takemichi and Kakucho, Mikey and Baji, and Kokonoa and Inui.
• Cooldown Hug: After changing the events of Bloody Halloween, Takemichi travels to the present and discovers that in this timeline, he was the one who ended up causing Akkun and Hinata to die. He briefly contemplates giving up, but Naoto hugs him to calm him down.
• Crusading Widow: Present-day Draken (after Takemichi prevents his death) is sentenced to death after murdering multiple people to avenge Emma, who was killed by Kisaki.
• Death Equals Redemption: Izana is fatally shot when he instinctively protects his Morality Pet Kakucho from Kisaki, showing that there is still humanity in him.
• Demoted to Extra: Takemichi's Social Circle Filler, consisting of his cousin Takuya, Akkun, Yamagishi, and Makoto, rarely get any character focus after Mikey is introduced (with the exception of Akkun). In fact, subsequent chapters focus more on Takemichi's interactions with the Tokyo Manji Gang and their division captains and vice captains, such as Draken, Chifuyu, Mitsuya, Hakkai, Peh-yan, and so on.
• Determinator: Takemichi is perhaps one of the worst fighters among the delinquents, but has the resolve to take any serious beating that comes his way to save the people he cares about.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Hina manages to slap Mikey when defending Takemichi from him.
• Died in Your Arms Tonight:
  • Baji dies in Chifuyu's arms.
  • In one of the altered present timelines, when Tenjiku takes over the Tokyo Manji Gang, Mikey threatens to shoot Takemichi and is killed by Naoto, who shot in defense. Mikey dies in Takemichi's arms.
• Dies Wide Open: Izana dies with his eyes open.
• Driven to Suicide:
  • In almost every alternate present timeline, Akkun commits suicide out of fear of Kisaki.
  • Mikey himself becomes suicidal in the present timeline. In the final arc, he attempts to go through with it but fails thanks to Takemichi.
• Dude, She's Like in a Coma: In his childhood, Kokonoi attempts to sneak a kiss at Inui's older sister while she's sleeping, but she catches him and advises he should save it for the person he loves. Shortly after she dies, in a flashback, Kokonoi kisses Inui while he is sleeping, imagining him to be her.
• Dying Declaration of Love: Right before Emma dies, she asks Mikey to tell Draken that she loves him.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: Every single character has different hairstyles in the past and present, with the exception of Naoto, whose change is noted by his mature looks and height (though even Naoto gets one in the final chapter to represent
• Face–Heel Turn: Mucho, a captain of the Tokyo Manji Gang, later joins Tenjiku.
• For Want Of A Nail: This is basically the core idea behind the premise. Takemichi's meddling in the past keeps opening up new avenues and causing chain reactions, requiring even more meddling. In the first arc alone, he prevented Naoto's death and inspired him to become a police officer; he then stopped Akkun from stabbing Kiyomasa and being subsequently arrested, allowing him to make it up the ranks of Toman. The changes he makes get more and more numerous from there.
• Forgotten Childhood Friend: The founders of the Tokyo Manji Gang are Mikey, Draken, Pa-chin, Baji, Mitsuya, and Kazutora. However, Kazutora was removed from the social circle and the gang after mistakenly murdering Mikey's older brother. Takemichi only learns of his after he finds an old photo tucked away in Baji's charm.
• Forgotten First Meeting: According to Hinata, she and Kisaki first met Takemichi in elementary school after he saved her from some bullies (though he did end up getting beaten up). It was Love at First Sight for her.
• Four Is Death: The Tenjiku have their own top agents known as the Four Heavenly Kings.
• Future Loser: Present-day Takemichi is this to his middle school self. But ironically, present-day Takemichi in his middle school version's body is a lot cooler than how he actually was back then.
• Genre-Busting: The series could be described as a something of a mystery coming-of-age dramedy thriller with elements of romance and sci-fi.
• Go Out with a Smile: From the moment he takes his own life and all throughout his dying moments, Baji never stops smiling.
• Grievous Harm with a Body: In the beginning the fight against Tenjiku in Chapter 154, Peh-yan grabs a couple of guys by their hair and starts swinging at his other opponents with them.

  Takemichi: Damn, he's beating dudes with other dudes...

• Heel–Face Revolving Door: Kokonoi changes sides several times throughout the story. He starts out as a member of the Black Dragons, and after they are defeated, he joins the Tokyo Manji Gang under Takemichi's division. He is then forced to join Tenjiku on the condition that they spare Takemichi and Inui, but he later grows to favor Tenjiku anyway as they can make more money than the Tokyo Manji Gang. After Tenjiku is defeated, Kokonoi goes on to join the Bonten, a new gang formed by Mikey.
• Heel–Face Turn:
  • Kazutora is accepted back into the Tokyo Manji Gang and works closely with Chifuyu after he is released from juvenile detention.
  • Inui joins the Tokyo Manji Gang once the Black Dragons are defeated and grows to genuinely admire Takemichi.
• Heroic BSoD:
  • Every time Takemichi returns to the present, only to find out Hinata and his friends are dead, he falls into a deep state of depression. After saving the Tokyo Manji Gang from Valhalla and learning in the changed timeline he was directly responsible for Akkun and Hinata's deaths, he seriously considers giving up until Naoto boosts his morale.
    • After Takemichi dissolves the Black Dragons, the present timeline goes From Bad to Worse, leading to Naoto getting fatally shot, leaving Takemichi with no means to time-travel back to the present and without a valuable informant. Takemichi breaks down upon confirming Naoto is dead in the present timeline and is unsure of what to do next.
  • Mikey completely blanks out after Emma dies, so much that he is unable to fight.
• Heroic Sacrifice:
  • In the Tenjiku arc, present-day Naoto is fatally shot and killed while trying to protect Takemichi.
  • During the final arc, Kakucho chooses to stop the runaway train by himself, which saves numerous lives but results in his death.
• Hollywood Healing:
  • Characters get horribly beaten but are able to recover and walk in the next chapter like nothing happened.
  • Subverted in the final arc: After getting brutally beaten by Mikey, Takemichi is unconscious for three days and suffers multiple injuries including a broken arm, which takes a whole month to heal.
• Honor Before Reason: In the timeline where the Black Dragons corrupted the Tokyo Manji Gang, Chifuyu was very close to defeating Kisaki. However, because Chifuyu decided not to turn in video evidence, Kisaki was able to figure out his plan and kill him. The reason why Chifuyu did not immediately turn in the video was because the footage was specifically of Takemichi unknowingly arranging Hinata's murder, and he wanted to protect him.
• I Hate Past Me: Zig-Zagged. Later on, when Takemichi comes back to prevent Draken from getting killed to find himself about to have sex Emma in a karaoke booth, and later learning from Hina that he (past him) has been acting cold to him since the fireworks festival, he's quick to call his past self a moron.
• If I Can't Have You…: Kisaki's motivation has always been trying to get back at Takemichi for capturing Hinata's affection, and that no matter what he did, Hinata rejected him in all timelines. He would rather let Hinata die than let her be with Takemichi, so he had her killed.
• In Spite of a Nail: No matter how many times Takemichi travels back to the past and alters events to try and prevent the Tokyo Manji Gang from becoming the worst criminal organization in Japan, there are several events that just seem unwilling to change.
  • Hinata always ends up murdered, Mikey is nowhere to be found until several changes later where he comes at Takemichi with a gun, Draken is always either already dead or on death row, and Toman is corrupted by the presence of Kisaki Tetta.
  • Most of the above is justified in that all of it is caused by Kisaki climbing through the ranks of Toman and turning it into what it is in the modern day, removing Mikey's closest friends and loved ones and leaving no one to rein in his own darker impulses, in order to become the greatest delinquent in history and show up Takemichi, because Kisaki loved Hinata - and because, no matter the timeline, Hinata always turns down Kisaki's confession.
  • Slightly downplayed with Takemichi himself, as we don't see the gist of what he does between the point in time he travels back to and the present day, but it takes several timeline changes before his past self's actions stop defaulting to him dumping Hinata, leaving Toman, and generally cutting himself off from everyone he knew in high school and becoming a loser.
• Killed Off for Real:
  • Despite Takemichi preventing Kazutora's death, Baji dies anyway in the aftermath of Bloody Halloween.
  • By the time Takemichi realizes that he hasn't seen Emma in the present, Kisaki kills her.
  • Izana and Kisaki die at the end of the Tenjiku Arc.
  • Shortly after Muto is freed from prison, Sanzu kills him.
  • Draken dies again in the final arc.
  • Eventually subverted at the end of the series: thanks to Takemichi and Mikey traveling back to before the events of the story and essentially rewriting the entire series, every single person who died is alive in the final timeline.
• Long-Lost Relative: Izana is Emma's brother, which would also make him Mikey's half-brother. However, it later turns out that Izana's real parents are a Filipina woman and the ex-husband of Emma's mother, so he is not related to the Sanos at all.
• The Lost Lenore:
  • Takemichi becomes motivated to change the past after realizing he is able to save Hinata's life.
  • Kokonoi's loyalty to money is tied to Inui's older sister dying from severe burn wounds and being unable to afford a time-sensitive surgery that would have saved her life.
• Love Makes You Crazy: Can you believe that the Tokyo Manji Gang's present-day corruption was motivated by an elaborate scheme from Kisaki to make himself the most powerful man so that Hinata could fall in love with him?
• Love Triangle: Takemichi and Hinata are in a relationship. Meanwhile, Kisaki has known Hinata much longer and has a crush on her of his own.
• Magical Homeless Person: The final arc reveals that the time leaping powers Takemichi Hanagaki and his co-star's brother, Shinichiro Sano had originally came from a random homeless man. No one knows how he got it, but he imparts information on how to transfer the power to Shinichiro and gets the latter to kill him to make the transaction final.
• Meanwhile, in the Future…: The story constantly shifts between 2005 (the year Takemichi time leaps back to) and 2017 (Takemichi's present day).
• Mental Time Travel: When Takemichi time travels, his mind replaces his middle school self while his present self lies in a coma.
• Mistaken for Romance: Takemichi mistakes Emma and Mikey as a couple and tries to hide it from Draken. It later turns out that Emma and Mikey are half-siblings.
• Morality Chain:
  • Draken is the one who keeps Mikey from succumbing to his worst instincts. As Takemichi put it, Draken is Mikey's heart. Draken dying on August 3rd is what drives Mikey to make Toman as ruthless as it is in the Bad Future.
  • Takemichi also later realizes that Mikey's half-sister Emma had kept Mikey grounded even after Shinichiro and Baji's deaths. After she dies, all his losses hit him hard and he is Driven to Suicide in the post-Kanto incident present timeline.
• Necessary Fail: Every time Takemichi thinks he fixed something in the past, something worse happens in the present time that drives him to time leap once more. On a larger scale, the events of the entire story eventually cultivate in Mikey and Takemichi time leaping back to elementary school and using their knowledge of the future to prevent every single tragedy that occurred, resulting in the happiest possible timeline.
• Never My Fault: Kazutora's main flaw. While trying to steal a bike for Mikey, he ends up breaking into a shop and killing the owner. It turns out the owner was Mikey's older brother. Unable to handle what he's done, Kazutora decides that it's Mikey's fault. It takes Baji's death to finally get him to take responsibility for his actions.
• No Historical Figures Were Harmed:
  • The Tokyo Manji gang is loosely inspired by the infamous Tokyo-based Kantō Rengō gang, while their clothing is based on their predecessors, the Bōsōzoku gang Black Emperor (changing their swastika symbol to a left-facing manji).
  • The main villain Tetta Kisaki is loosely inspired by the Kantō Rengō's former leader Shinichi Mitate, the mastermind behind the 2012 Roppongi Club Assault Case (a homicide by mass beating that quickly dissolved the gang). Mitate was nicknamed "残虐王子" / "Cruel Prince" for his honor student grades, allegedly high IQ and violent personality. Finally, the Kantō Rengō was involved more than once in murders of unrelated bystanders by accident (i. e. mistaken as targets), just like in Hinata's death: besides the mentioned Roppongi Club Assault Case, they were involved in the "Toyo Bowl Case", where they lynched a boy who was mistaken as a rival gang member.
  • While it may be a coincidence, the Kantō Rengō had a friendly relation with the Sino-Japanese street gang Dragon, which sounds similar to Draken.
• Not What It Looks Like: When Emma visits Takemichi at the hospital, she starts crying into his lap over Mikey and Draken fighting. Hinata happens to walk in on them, and from her perspective, it looks like Emma is giving Takemichi a blowjob.
• One Cast Member per Cover: Every volume cover features a different character (though a few later volumes have two characters).
• Our Time Travel Is Different: Takemichi time travels back and forth by holding Naoto's hand. He can only travel back twelve years to the exact date he time traveled.
• Out of Focus: Pah-chin is one of the founders of the Tokyo Manji Gang and is also the captain of the 3rd division. However, after he stabs Osanai, he decides to turn himself into the police and is pretty much missing from any of the action since. He does eventually get a moment to shine in the final arc, when he goes toe to toe with Mikey.
• Planning for the Future Before the End: After Emma is mortally wounded by Kisaki, Mikey tells her about the future he envisioned for them as he carries her to the hospital: how she and Draken will get married, have a child, and what all their lives will be like in the future. However, Emma dies within minutes of Mikey saying this.
• Prone to Tears: Takemichi is a very emotional guy, and whether he's sad, happy, or simply overflowing with passion, he's liable to burst into tears. It reaches the point where Akkun's nickname for him is "Crybaby Hero."
• Rank Scales with Asskicking: Mikey and Draken were the commander and vice-commander of the Tokyo Manji Gang respectively 12 years ago and had the fighting skills to definitely prove it.
• Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Moebius not only attacks Pah-chin's friend, but they also rape his girlfriend in front of him. This horrifies all of the Tokyo Manji Gang, especially as one of their core values is to not hurt women, which motivates them to help Pah-chin avenge his friend.
• Real Men Wear Pink: Thanks to growing up as the main caretaker of his two younger sisters, Mitsuya is good at cooking and sewing. He is also the president of the sewing club at his school and creates Takemichi's uniform once he officially becomes a member of the Tokyo Manji Gang.
• The Reveal: Takemichi finds out from Naoto that Akkun stabbed Kiyomisa when he was 16, becoming nothing more than a low-level punk when he was released. However, the real reveal was what happened when Takemichi traveled back in time: him standing up to Kiyomisa and freeing his friends from servitude prevented Akkun from stabbing Kiyomisa—eventually turning him into a top lieutenant in Toman 12 years later.
• Ripple-Proof Memory:
  • Both Takemichi and Naoto still remember events that happened before Takemichi goes back in time to change them. It's later established that anyone who was directly involved in the time leaping has this ability, with the time leaper remembering the original timeline while the time leaper's trigger has two separate sets of memories from the original and the new timeline.
  • Inverted in the case of the past Takemichi, who is the only one unable to remember what his future self did with his body. As a result, past!Takemichi makes choices that his more knowledgeable and confident self isn't aware of, like trying to sleep with Emma while he's dating Hina. As a result, Takemichi repeatedly has to deal with starting off in a completely unfamiliar situation before pursuing his goal.
• San Dimas Time: Because of how time travel works in the series, Takemichi has to time travel to the exact date something happens and fix it on that day or else he can never go back to that date again. Additionally, for every second he spends in the past, the same amount of time passes in the present.
• Secret-Keeper: The only person who knows Takemichi can time-travel besides present-day Naoto is Chifuyu, who acts as a confidant to him. After present-day Naoto is killed, in a moment of despair, Takemichi unknowingly tells everything to Hinata, mistaking her for past Naoto. While Hinata pretends not to hear anything out of courtesy, she eventually tells Mikey and Draken.
• Set Right What Once Went Wrong: Takemichi travels back in time in order to prevent the Tokyo Manji Gang from growing as big and violent as it became and end up killing Hina.
• "Shaggy Dog" Story:
  • Every time Takemichi manages to solve a problem in the past, the Bad Future is the same, only under different circumstances.
  • In the final arc, Takemichi's previous efforts in preventing every major incident directly leading to the Bad Future are starting to become undone. Draken dies, and Mikey murders for the first time.
• Ship Tease: Yasuda and Peh-yan have Belligerent Sexual Tension, where Yasuda will chew Peh-yan out for just existing while Peh-yan can't help but listen to her. The sewing club already thinks they're Like an Old Married Couple.
• Sliding Scale Of Silliness Vs Seriousness: Tokyo Revengers often switches between introspective character-focused drama and cerebral mystery to exaggerated comedy in a heartbeat.
• Social Circle Filler: Takemichi's friends are rarely given focus (with the exception of Akkun, though even he fades into the background during the story's second half). After Chifuyu appears, Takemichi spends most of his time interacting with him.
• Take My Hand!: In present-time of the final arc, after Mikey jumps off a building, Takemichi grabs his arm and begs him to hold on. Mikey eventually gives in after Takemichi scolds him with a Full-Name Ultimatum.
• Teens Are Monsters: Thanks to the series being focused on young teenager delinquents, there are quite a few monstrous teenagers among the cast. Standout examples include Kisaki, who manipulates others' murders to rise up the ranks of Toman, Kazutora, who's very unstable and sadistic, Taiju, the brutal leader of the Black Dragons who regularly beats his younger siblings, and Izana, who cruelly rules over his subordinates in Tenjiku and wants to take everything dear from Mikey out of jealousy.
• Together in Death: Draken is killed in the final arc, and his last moment of consciousness is him meeting Emma.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: In the alternate timeline where the Black Dragons corrupt the Tokyo Manji Gang, Takemichi becomes subservient to Kisaki and forgets the original goals of the gang, which causes even Chifuyu to distrust him.
• Tragic Keepsake: Mikey's CB25OT Motorcycle. Before his death, Mikey's older brother was intending to give it to him as a birthday present.
• Undying Loyalty: Takemichi's circle of friends and Chifuyu are undoutedly loyal to him.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Middle school Mikey, despite still being violent, was a lot nicer and moralistic than who he becomes in 2017. This also applies to more than half the characters, given that a main theme of the series is that good people can become warped and twisted by unfortunate circumstances.
• We Used to Be Friends:
  • For a while, Kazutora was removed from the Tokyo Manji Gang's founders' narrative after unwittingly killing Mikey's older brother.
  • Takemichi and Kakucho were friends in second grade before Takemichi moved away. The next time they meet, Kakucho is a member of Tenjiku, and when the Tenjiku take over present time, he even fatally shoots Takemichi. He later becomes a member of the Bonten gang.
  • Kokonoi and Inui were friends from childhood, but after the Tenjiku arc, they part ways due to different loyalties.
• Wham Episode:
  • Episode 4: Akkun reveals that he hadn't seen Mikey in years despite becoming a lieutenant in Toman, revealing that he changed because of Draken's death. He also reveals that he was the one that pushed Takemichi onto the train tracks in the first episode, supposedly under orders. This all gets capped off with Akkun committing suicide out of pure fear, completely disillusioned by Kisaki's orders and influence.
  • Chapter 268 reveals another time leaper aside from Takemichi.
• Wham Line:
  • Chapter 88:
    Hinata: Tetta Kisaki-kun, who else?
  • Chapter 146:
    Takemichi: Did Emma-chan exist in the future?
  • Chapter 184:
    Kisaki: You still... think I'm a time leaper?
  • Chapter 268:
    Mikey: Sano Shinichiro...was a time leaper.

• Would Hit a Girl:
  • Taiju Shiba, the 10th leader of the Black Dragons, often abused Yuzuha.
  • Kisaki mortally wounds Mikey's sister Emma in the Tenjiku Arc, and she dies before reaching the hospital. Takemichi even mentions that he is appalled that Kisaki would go as far as to hurt a girl to get what he wants.
• Xanatos Gambit: Since early on in the story, Kisaki has kept a low-key profile and orchestrated the Tokyo Manji Gang's violent reformation. For starters, he egged on Pah-chin to fight Moebius; Kiyomasa and Peh-yan to kill Draken; Kazutora to kill Mikey; and Yuzuha to kill Taiju. When all of this results in him getting kicked out of Tokyo Manji Gang, he attempts to use Izana to manipulate Mikey.
• You Are Worth Hell: Takemichi is willing to put himself in dangerous situations over and over again if it will ensure that Hinata and his friends are alive and well.