‘Tokyo Revengers’ Anime is Coming Back With New Trailer & Cast
Season Two of Tokyo Revengers is coming in January, but for now we have art, casting announcements, and a trailer.
The lengthily named streaming event “TV Anime Tokyo Revengers Halloween Special 2022!!” was on Monday. And for anybody who tuned in, there was a ton of new information for the next chapter in the Tokyo Revengers story. Key visuals, an entire trailer, and cast announcements were all released, and I’m just as excited for this season as ever.
Tokyo Revengers: Christmas Showdown
The first season of Tokyo Revengers had the timeline slowly escalate into a huge gang war and a cliffhanger. For anybody who jumped into the show without any knowledge of the manga, the twists and turns of season one were almost enough to give us whiplash. And we were all left wondering why a second season hadn’t been announced immediately.
Premiering in January on MBS, TV Tokyo, and AT-X, the next chapter of Tokyo Revengers, the Christmas Showdown, will be back to fix the problems in the timeline and ask our questions. Presumably while creating other, worse, problems in the timeline and creating exponentially more questions. I can’t wait.
The Christmas Showdown is a reference to the battle between the Tokyo Manji Gang and the 10th Generation Black Dragon, which includes key members of Toman, Black Dragon, and the Shiba family. It promises to be an intense and probably even bloody fight. Especially considering the show revolves around gangs of literal children.
This season Manjirō “Mikey“ Sano will be played by Yū Hayashi, and Ken “Draken“ Ryūgūji will be voiced by Masaya Fukunishi (he was previously voiced by Tatsuhisa Suzuki). New character Inui Seisyu will be played by Junya Enoki (Jujutsu Kaisen), Kokonoi Hajime will be voiced by Natsuki Hanae (Demon Slayer), Hakkai Shiba will be voiced by Tasuku Hatanaka (My Hero Academia), Yuzuha Shiba will be played by Mikako Komatsu (Jujutsu Kaisen), and Taiju Shiba will be voiced by Tomokazu Sugita (Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure).
About Tokyo Revengers
The official summary of Tokyo Revengers from Kodansha USA Publishing is:
“Watching the news, Takemichi Hanagaki learns that his girlfriend from way back in middle school, Hinata Tachibana, 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!!”
It’s a little bit sci-fi, a little mystery, a little gang and high school delinquent drama, and a lot of reminiscing (and cringing) back to our own middle and high school days. Tokyo Revengers is a slightly different take on the “what if I traveled back in time and changed a few things?” trope. And of course, everything goes spectacularly wrong every time. To catch up for yourself before the Christmas showdown, you can catch all 24 episodes on Crunchyroll. The streaming service has it dubbed or subbed.
Have you seen Tokyo Revengers? Are you excited about season two? Do you know what’s coming, or are you looking forward to being surprised? Let us know in the comments!
Ja Ne, Adventurers!
