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NEWS: Ken Wakui's Tokyo Revengers Manga Ends in 5 Chapters

Some people might dislike it, but I love when mangas has a little twist and a spicy ending (and this might be the case).

MakiharaMeiko wrote:

Some people might dislike it, but I love when mangas has a little twist and a spicy ending (and this might be the case).

One can only wonder how the whole entire plot conflict from beginning of the manga to now reduced to spoiler["it's actually just the Mikey magical curse bullshit that make everyone close to him (and including him) go bonkers"] can be considered "a little twist" and not just literally pulling the things out of the ass.

TR honestly got good potential, sure - but let's be real: Wakui literally killed anything that even remotely looks like a good writing months ago, and every possible ending route now is nothing but downward slope.

Oh yes please. TR is clearly overstayed in Magazine for far too long (with worse case than it is the To Your Eternity run) - only because it's the current biggest current thing of it (mostly because of fujo shippers), and for the supposed to be direct competitor of WSJ their battle shounen list is completely abysmal to the point that it is dominated for years by romcoms.

Honestly, the current direction of it is running dry for months, if not for years.

Nah, this manga never tried to be any smart, it's dumb fun from the start that doesn't really elaborate any further than something like JoJo to justify its own bullshit and over-the-top twists. Anyone expecting a brilliant plot twist from it that wasn't what we got have their expectations set wrong from the beginning.

It was well written to the very end with what it wanted to go with (though I must say I'd much prefer it ended in a bittersweet note just before this final arc). It's not like for example something like Fairy Tail, which started very ambitious and the author then admittedly just decided, in his own words, "to go with the flow and decide what was going to happen without planning, every week". This one never once cared much about what the whole premise was about even in terms of looping, it was always as minimalist as you could get for the fun and thrill of it.

danpmss wrote:

Nah, this manga never tried to be any smart, it's dumb fun from the start that doesn't really elaborate any further than something like JoJo to justify its own bullshit and over-the-top twists. Anyone expecting a brilliant plot twist from it that wasn't what we got have their expectations set wrong from the beginning. It was well written to the very end with what it wanted to go with (though I must say I'd much prefer it ended in a bittersweet note just before this final arc). It's not like for example something like Fairy Tail, which started very ambitious and the author then admittedly just decided, in his own words, "to go with the flow and decide what was going to happen without planning, every week". This one never once cared much about what the whole premise was about even in terms of looping, it was always as minimalist as you could get for the fun and thrill of it.

Oh heck no - Tokyo Revengers is basically a very case of the manga author with pretty mediocre skill of writing, but with "first-hand" experience of being bosozoku member, was carried hard by his editorial team (because even the experienced authors need a good editor nearby to not fail, like in case of Kishimoto and infamous Samurai 8 flop) who wanted him to relieve that experience. And that actually worked quite well at the beginning - even when MC was a complete joke, there was a chemistry, but of course, without decent skills you cannot be carried just by editors.

And then the anime came, manga got overhyped in epic proportions - and instead of wrapping it nicely even on highest note like Kimetsu, editors decided to ride the bus until the fuel turned into sand.