The TV anime adaptation of Ken Wakui’s “Tokyo Revengers” (東京卍リベンジャーズ) delinquent manga reveals the first promotional video, cast and main staff. The series will premiere in April 2021.
The anime is directed by“Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga” director Koichi Hatsumi and animated by LIDEN FILMS. “Sengoku Basara – Samurai Kings” writer Yasuyuki Muto works on the script.
▍1st PV
▍Characters and Cast
■ Takemichi Hanagaki (花垣武道) – CV: Yūki Shin (新 祐樹)
▼Present
▼Past
■Hinata Tachibana (橘 日向) – CV: Azumi Waki (和氣あず未)
■ Naoto Tachibana (橘 直人) – CV: Ryota Ohsaka (逢坂良太)
■ Manjirō Sano (佐野万次郎) – CV: Yuu Hayashi (林 勇)
■ Ken Ryūgūji (龍宮寺 堅) – CV: Tatsuhisa Suzuki (鈴木達央)
▍Synopsis
It all starts when Takemichi Hanagaki learns that his girlfriend from way back in middle school 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!!
▍Staff and Production
Original Works: Ken Wakui’s (和久井健) [Serializing at Kodansha’s Weekly Shōnen Magazine]
Director: Koichi Hatsumi (初見浩一)
Series Composition: Yasuyuki Muto (むとうやすゆき)
Character Design: Kenichi Ohnuki (大貫健一), Keiko Ōta (太田恵子)
Sound Director: Satoki Iida (飯田里樹)
Music: Hiroaki Tsutsumi (堤 博明)
Animation: LIDEN FILMS
▍Cast
■ Takemichi Hanagaki (花垣武道) – CV: Yūki Shin (新 祐樹)
■Hinata Tachibana (橘 日向) – CV: Azumi Waki (和氣あず未)
■ Naoto Tachibana (橘 直人) – CV: Ryota Ohsaka (逢坂良太)
■ Manjirō Sano (佐野万次郎) – CV: Yuu Hayashi (林 勇)
■ Ken Ryūgūji (龍宮寺 堅) – CV: Tatsuhisa Suzuki (鈴木達央)