This movie is actually pretty good, I highly recommend it, which is surprising because I usually don't like live action anime adaptations. This is based on my third favorite anime, and all-time favorite manga series of which I am currently up-to-date with. I don't know a single soul who has seen this movie because no-one knows it exists, I ought to talk about the actual movie now so I guess you can call this part an introduction.
The start of this movie is really rushed, Hanegaki quickly "dies" at the five-minute mark where we also see that the CGI isn't that bad. Then his friends get introduced just like in the anime (but just worse) And then they're forced to fight some evil dudes. This first fight scene is a lot more realistic than in the anime, instead of the boys fighting in the middle of a park where everyone can see them, it's set at some abandon junk yard so that their asses can be beat privately.
One of Takemichi's friends (Akkun) Is like "Hey, you're supposed to meet up with your girlfriend or whatever", so then Takemichi runs away to see her and then when he does, she says "You always show up out of know where", which makes no sense because they were supposed to meet up together (Just because this is based on a good series, doesn't mean that it's perfect)
We then get introduced to Naoto, and the worst part is they used the same actor for him when he's an adult and a kid (He looks at least 4 years older than Hanegaki) He's meant to be thirteen! I don't care that Takemichi is the same because he looks the same as an adult anyway, but with different hair. The next day Crybaby hero gets his ass whooped and before he's killed, Mikey's stunt-double comes to save him. We also see Draken for the first time, and he looks like a cosplayer (Like Edward Elric in the live action Fullmetal Alchemist)
I don't really mind Mikey in this movie, he's the same charismatic, bad-ass, murderer guy. Like seriously, when he visits Takemichi's middle-school, he throws two dudes out the window. I think I should mention now that this movie is pretty funny, if you haven't read the manga or seen the anime then these jokes will be a lot funnier. And the music fits in well with what's going on from time to time. The gang meet-up seen at the shrine was kinda boring. It just indicates that Moebius is a threat and must be stopped because they're evil.
Also, the guy that likes to beat up Hanegaki, Kiyomasa, gets kicked out of Toman for being a moron, so he decides to join Moebius after he randomly encounters Kisaki the pedophile (In some pretty cool lighting too). Afterwards Takemichi accidentally goes back to the future, then attempts to convince Naoto that Mikey isn't that bad of a guy. This doesn't really work so for a reason that I forgot they decide to go and visit Hanegaki's old friend Akkun.
He now looks like a drug-addicted rapper man with arm tattoos. They have the same conversation from the anime and essentially the exact same thing happens. But this time it is unnecessarily long, this scene easily could have been shortened, but no. After Takemichi fake cries, He somehow accidentally goes back to the past, right before he was going to learn more about Draken's death. When he goes to Naoto's apartment, it turns out that he's in Hawaii... For a school trip. What kind of lame-ass excuse is that, he could have just gone to like Kyoto or something, that's pretty far.
Now that he can't go back, Takemitchi tries to stop Mikey from brawling with Moebius because he knows that if he doesn't then Draken will die, and then Hinata will die and nothing would have changed. Mikey says no, then out of nowhere Osanai (The leader of Moebius) storms in the abandon wear-house that they're hiding in and stabs Draken in the hand. Takemitchi is all like "YATA! I did it!", but no, this wasn't the real battle.
Whilst he waits for Naoto to return, Hanegaki goes to a festival with Hinata to lose his virginity. His plans are ruined when he sees some evil Moebius guys roaming around, so he follows them leaving his girlfriend behind. He encounters Kiyomasa, who ties him up BDSM style, then leaves him in the forest where Hinata somehow finds him. She then explains the story of how they first met at 7/11 and it makes absolutely no sense (I can't be bothered explaining it) After they kiss like in the anime, he runs off to save Draken who is currently receiving a beat-down by 100 hundred men.
Mikey, Mitsuya (Who looks like a drug-addict) and the other boys from Toman arrive to save Draken because Hanegaki is too slow. Once he does get there, he just watches Draken get stabbed in the stomach by Kiyomasa, then we randomly see Hanma just watching from above weirdly. Takemichi carries ya boy Draken to the hospital, only to have the path blocked by Kiyomasa the evil dude.
For some reason they fight for an obnoxiously long amount of time, and Hanegaki doesn't get stabbed in the hand. Draken gets taken to hospital (And lives) then we see that Mikey is the only person who actually cries in the whole film. Whoever played Takemichi Hanegaki wasn't really fit for the role. And then we get this really epic shot of Takemichi running as a kid, and then he's off-screen for a bit, then he's running as an adult (I just thought that shot was really cool) Then he runs past adult Akkun who works as a barber, then we see that Hinata is alive, and the movie ends with her saying "You always show up out of know where", then the credits role (with a pretty good song too)
Damn I love that ending (I don't think they intend to make a sequel) My final verdict for Tokyo Revengers 2021 is... 7/10. If you've got a friend that doesn't really like anime, then show them this, they might like it. So might you, so try really hard to find it (Cuz you probably won't)
THE END.
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