KEY POINTS

  • Takemichi travels back in time to change his life
  • He will attempt to rescue his girlfriend by joining a dangerous gang
  • "Tokyo Revengers" Episode 1 is set to air Saturday

A young man travels back in time to join a ruthless Tokyo-based gang and fight back against the dangerous gang members. He also vows to save his girlfriend's life. "Tokyo Revengers" Episode 1 is titled "Reborn."

The official website released the synopsis and spoiler stills for "Tokyo Revengers" Episode 1. The synopsis introduces the protagonist Takemichi Hanagaki who is going through a terrible phase in his life.

His life falls apart when he learns the love of his life, Hinata, is murdered by the dangerous Tokyo Manji Gang.

Things take a wild turn when someone pushes Takemichi onto the train tracks. He closes his eyes as an approaching train is ready to crush him. However, when he opens his eyes, he finds himself back in his junior high school.

"Takemichi Hanagaki is a freelancer that's reached the absolute pits of despair in his life. He finds out that the only girlfriend he ever had in his life that he dated in middle school, Hinata Tachibana, had been killed by the ruthless Tokyo Manji Gang. The day after hearing about her death, he's standing on the station platform and ends up being pushed over onto the tracks by a herd of people. He closes his eyes thinking he's about to die, but when he opens his eyes back up, he somehow had gone back in time 12 years. Now that he's back living the best days of his life, Takemichi decides to get revenge on his life by saving his girlfriend and changing himself that he'd been running away from," read the official series synopsis, as per Crunchyroll.

The cast of the anime includes Yūki Shin as Takemichi Hanagaki, Azumi Waki as Hinata Tachibana, Eiji Takeuchi as Nobutaka Osanai, Daisuke Ono as Yasuhiro Muto, Masaaki Mizunaka as Keisuke Baji, Kengo Kawanishi as Nahoya Kawata, Satoshi Hino as Masataka Kiyomizu, Ryota Ohsaka as Naoto Tachibana, Shouta Hayama as Kazushi Yamagishi, Shunsuke Takeuchi as Makoto Suzuki, Showtaro Morikubo as Tetta Kisaki, Yuu Hayashi as Manjiro Sano, Yukihiro Nozuyama as Ryohei Hayashi and Takuya Eguchi as Shuji Hanma.

Crunchyroll will live stream "Tokyo Revengers" Episode 1 this Saturday. The episode will stream in Japanese with English subtitles.

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