#Tokyo Revengers Anime Gets New Visual

The official website for the upcoming TV anime adaptation of Ken Wakui’s Tokyo Revengers manga revealed a new teaser visual. A pre-screening event for the anime featuring its cast will be held on March 30th at Kanda Myojin Hall in Tokyo. Tokyo Revengers is set to premiere in April 2021.

The anime’s main staff includes Koichi Hatsumi (Deadman Wonderland, Gangsta) as director, Yasuyuki Muto (Deadman Wonderland) as the scriptwriter, and Kenichi Ohnuki (Golden Kamuy) and Keiko Ōta (Ace Attorney) as the character designers. Satoki Iida will serve as the sound director, while Hiroaki Tsutsumi (Jujutsu Kaisen, Dr. Stone, Children of the Whales) is composing the music. The animation production will be from LIDEN FILMS.

The anime’s main cast includes Yūki Shin (Haikyu!! To The Top) as Takemichi Hanagaki, Azumi Waki (How NOT to Summon a Demon Lord) as Hinata Tachibana, Ryota Ohsaka (Log Horizon) as Naoto Tachibana, Yuu Hayashi (Bungo Stray Dogs) as Manjirō “Mikey” Sano, and Tatsuhisa Suzuki (Kingdom) as Ken “Doraken” Ryūgūji.

Kodansha Comics is publishing theTokyo Revengers manga digitally in English and describes the story as:

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!!

Sources: Tokyo Revengers anime’s website