Tokyo Revengers Parody Manga Coming from Kodansha

Publisher Kodansha has announced Todai Revengers, a new manga series that spoofs Ken Wakui's time-traveling shonen manga, Tokyo Revengers.

The new manga will be published digitally through Kodansha's Magazine Pocket app. Kodansha is also the publisher of the main Tokyo Revengers series, which is serialized in the company's Weekly Shonen Magazine. Todai Revengers will take place in Japan's prestigious Tokyo University (often referred to as "Todai" in Japanese, a shortening of "Tokyo Daigaku,") and will be drawn by manga artist Shinpei Funatsu. Magazine Pocket's official Twitter account is promoting the series by saying it is officially "tolerated" by Tokyo Revengers creator Ken Wakui. The first chapter of the parody manga will be released on Nov. 3.

Tokyo Revengers tells the story of Takemichi Hanagaki, a middle-aged loser who is stuck with a dead-end job and a run-down apartment. Takemichi's depressing life is made even worse when he discovers that the only girl he ever truly loved, his childhood sweetheart Hinata Tachibana, has been murdered by the violent Tokyo Manji street gang. Takemichi's life takes an unexpected turn, however, when he is pushed in front of an oncoming train and somehow wakes up in the body of his younger self, twelve years in the past. In order to save Hinata, Takemichi infiltrates the Tokyo Manji Gang while most of its founding members are still teenage delinquents and tries to change past events to prevent the tragic future he previously lived through.

Originally created by Ken Wakui in 2017, Tokyo Revengers has become one of the most popular anime and manga franchises in Japan in the span of just four short years. The series has over 40 million copies in circulation and was the recipient of a Kodansha manga award. An anime adaptation was produced by Liden Films, the animation studio that was also behind the Cells At Work! Code Black spinoff series as well as the card-battle anime Build Divide -#00000 (Code Black). The anime, which began airing in April and recently wrapped up its first season, was simulcast internationally by Crunchyroll. The series was also adapted into a live-action movie, which was released in Japan earlier this year. The movie has become Japan's highest grossing live-action movie of the year, outperforming big-budget blockbusters such as Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and Fast and Furious 9 in the region. The live-action film stars Takumi Kitamura as Takemichi. Kitamura will also portray another shonen manga hero, Yusuke Urameshi, in Netflix's upcoming live-action Yu Yu Hakusho series.

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