#Tokyo Revengers Anime PV Reveals April 2021 Release Date, Cast, and Staff

The official website for the upcoming TV anime adaptation of Ken Wakui’s Tokyo Revengers manga revealed a new promotional video as well as character designs for the anime. The promotional video features the anime’s main cast, staff, and April 2021 premiere date.

The anime’s main staff includes Koichi Hatsumi (Deadman Wonderland, Gangsta) as the director at LIDEN FILMS, 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 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 the 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, ANN