On Tuesday, the sixth volume of Shinpei Funatsu's Tdai Revengers (Tokyo University Revengers), which is a spin-off of Ken Wakui's Tokyo Revengers, announced that the spin-off series will end with its seventh volume, which is set to release on May 17.
In November of 2021, Funatsu debuted the spin-off manga in the Magazine Pocket app and website published by Kodansha. The protagonist of the narrative is Michitake, a recent graduate of Tokyo University who is both jobless and has not yet experienced his first sexual encounter. Something within him is triggered when he marries the one and only love of his life, a graduate of Kei University, and he finds himself transported back to his days as a student seven years earlier.
In March of 2017, Wakui debuted the Tokyo Revengers manga in Kodansha's Weekly Shonen Magazine. The final chapter of the series was published in November of that same year. On January 17, Kodansha released the manga's last volume, which was the 31st overall. More than 70 million copies of the manga are currently available to readers. Around November 2023, Wakui will release a special arc for the manga, and his spin-off manga, Tokyo Revengers Extra, will be serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shonen Magazine.
The English translation of the manga is being made available by Kodansha USA Publishing in both digital and physical copies.
In April of 2021, the MBS channel released their version of the story as a television anime adaption. The anime was broadcast in Japan exclusively. The sequel anime, Tokyo Revengers: Christmas Showdown, debuted on January 7 and is adapting the "Seiya Kessen" (which translates to "Christmas Showdown") arc of the source.
The manga was adapted into a live-action film for the first time in July 2021, and that picture went on to become the most successful live-action film released in Japan that year. Chi no Halloween -Unmei-, also known as Bloody Halloween -Fate-, is the name of the first of two live-action films that are being produced as a sequel to the original film. It is scheduled to be released during the Golden Week festivities in Japan this spring. The second movie is going to be released this summer under the title Chi no Halloween -Kessen, which translates to "Bloody Halloween -Decisive Battle."
It will be fun to see all of these films come to life in the upcoming year.
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