Ken Wakui's Tokyo Revenges manga has increased its circulation to around 8.5 million copies! Such a feat was accomplished in late March to over 14.5 million copies now. Additionally, the manga has added nearly six million copies to achieve a 670% jump in sales since the television anime adaptation, where it premiered a month ago on April 10.
Kodansha came to report last week that the response to the manga since the anime's inception has been positive and higher than expected, with around 2.4 books sold per second. Wakui launched the manga in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen magazine in March 2017, and Kodansha published the manga's 22nd compiled book on April 16. Additionally, Kodansha Comics is publishing the manga digitally in English, and it describes the story:
Watching the news, Takemichi Hanagaki learns that his girlfriend Hinata Tachibana, since starting high school, has died. The only girlfriend he 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 boss of six years treats him like an idiot. Plus he's a complete and total virgin... In the prime of his rock bottom life, he suddenly time jumps twelve years back to his high school days! To save Hinata, and change the life he spent on the run, desperate part-timer Takemichi must aim for the top of Kanto's most sinister delinquent gang!!
Debut and Cast in Tokyo Revengers
The anime premiered on the MBS channel on April 10. crunchyroll is streaming the anime as it airs in Japan.
Koichi Hatsumi (Berserk: The Golden Age Arc I - The King's Egg, Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga, Deadman Wonderland, Gangsta.) is directing the anime at LIDEN FILMS, and Yasuyuki Muto (Basilisk, Deadman Wonderland, Sengoku Basara - Samurai Kings.) ) is responsible for the scripts for the series. Kenichi Ohnuki (Golden Kamuy, Gundam Build Fighters) and Keiko Ōta (Ace Attorney, Hyakko) are designing the characters. Satoki Iida is directing the sound, and Hiroaki Tsutsumi (Children of Whales, Dr. Stone, Jujutsu Kaisen) is composing the music.
Warner Bros. Japan is putting on a show! The manga's action movie, which was scheduled to premiere in Japan in October 2020. However, it will now be released on July 9. Tsutomu Hanabusa (live-action Kakegurui, Miseinen dakedo Kodomo ja Nai) is directing the film.
Finally, the anime's debut ended up boosting the manga's sales at a very high level. After all, when we watch the anime, we get a sense of why. In addition, with excellent animation quality, the story that is being portrayed, and the protagonist's overcoming. We can imagine and of course, after all we are more eager to know what will happen in the manga.
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