Tokyo Revengers: Takemichi Determined To Change The Future For The People He Loves.

The first season of Tokyo Revengers comes to a close with some harsh losses but a new aim for Takemichi. The first arc of Tokyo Revengers comes to a close with Episode 12, leaving some unanswered concerns. During the episode, Takemichi thinks he’s succeeded in creating a future in which Hina is alive for a brutally brief moment, but nothing appears to go properly.

He’s lacking something in his time-travels that keeps him from rescuing Hina. Takemichi claims he hasn’t changed at all, but his most recent bold declaration reveals a renewed resolve that wasn’t present before.

Takemichi receives a call from Naoto at Akkun’s salon, offering to take him to see Hina. Takemichi is ecstatic to learn that his mission was successful and that Hina is still alive, but it’s been 12 years since they split up. Takemichi hasn’t changed in his own eyes despite accomplishing the impossible; he’s still a 26-year-old loser. He leaves before seeing Hina, embarrassed, but he runs into her on the way out.

Naoto is fed up with them being shy and awkward around one other, so he suggests they go for a drive. Hina advises stopping in the park, where she was discarded on Christmas Eve with the person she loved. She admits that she can’t get over Takemichi and turns back, tears in her eyes, to inquire as to why he dumped her 12 years ago.

Takemichi is taken aback because, despite seeing her wearing the same four-leaf clover necklace he gave her many years ago, he didn’t believe Hina still cared about him. He instructs her to stay in the car and wait for him while he goes to the bathroom to cool down. Takemichi has had enough of waffling and is ready to ask Hina out once more. On the way, he encounters a tall man in a suit with tattoos on his hands who expresses disappointment that Takemichi is not in the vehicle. It’s Hanma after 12 years.

Takemichi dashes back to the parking lot where he had instructed Hina to wait. He arrives just in time to see a huge truck heading right for her, crashing the car into a wall. Takemichi screams her name, his complete focus on getting to the automobile in front of him, when he hears another voice call out his name faintly. When he turns to face the driver, he sees Akkun, who he had only seen a few hours before.

Despite the fact that this Akkun appears to be healthier and happier than the one Takemichi initially saw in Tokyo Revengers Episode 4, he tells Takemichi the same things he told him before: he’s one of Kisaki’s soldiers and he’s frightened of him. With tears streaming down his bloody face, Akkun turns to face Takemichi and pleads the same thing: “please save everyone, our crybaby hero.” Since then, nothing has changed.

Akkun’s truck bursts into flames after a fuse is dropped into the gas. Takemichi rushes over to Hina’s car, yanks the door open, and tells her to get out. He discovers she can’t, but it’s too late: the force of the impact had pushed her seat forward, impaling her middle and trapping her to her seat. She’s in a bind.

Takemichi can’t bear leaving Hina after seeing Akkun’s death for the second time, and he’s willing to die with her. He embraces her and admits that he has always loved her, whether in the past or in the future. It’s exactly what Hina needed to hear. She grabs Takemichi’s arm and tells him he needs to leave because she can’t stand to witness someone she cares about die. She shoves him away at the last moment, just as a second explosion kills her.

Takemichi lets out a frustrated yell. He felt he’d done everything right: he’d protected Draken and kept Toman from splintering due to internal conflict, so why hasn’t anything changed? Why did Hina and Akkun perish in the end? Why wasn’t he able to save them?

The protagonist of Tokyo Revengers has just suffered one of his most significant losses, but rather than sinking into despair, it has the opposite effect. He declares to the roaring fire in front of him that he will save them no matter how long it takes or how many times he fails. Takemichi will never quit up until he arrives in a future where Hina and Akkun are secure and living, even if he needs to time-leap over and over again. Finally, he vows to become the head of Toman.