Tokyo Revengers Manga Slips Past 70 Million Copies Printed

 

The final volume of Ken Wakui’s mega-popular Tokyo Revengers manga releases in Japan on January 17, ending the time-slipping adventures of Takemichi as he maneuvers the Tokyo underground. After announcing the details of the release of the series’ 31st volume, Kodansha also revealed that the series has had 70 million copies printed (physically) and sold (digitally).

 

Though Kodansha did not specify whether these numbers were international or domestic in Japan, the last update the publisher gave in July confirmed that the series had passed 65 million copies around the world, with 7 million of that outside of Japan and 58 million inside Japan.

 

This brings the Tokyo Revengers manga up to the same sales number as that of JUJUTSU KAISEN‘s August numbers and inching close to that of Fairy Tail’s lifetime print number.

 

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The first season of the TV anime adaptation of Tokyo Revengers streamed on Crunchyroll as it aired from April to September 2021. The second season, dubbed Tokyo Revengers Christmas Showdown Arc, will be streaming worldwide on Disney+ services from January, with the Japanese broadcast confirmed to be starting on January 7 at 27:00 (effectively, January 8 at 3 AM). Crunchyroll describes the series as such:

 

Takemichi Hanagaki is a freelancer that’s reached the absolute pits of despair in his life. He finds out that the only girlfriend he ever had in his life that he dated in middle school, Hinata Tachibana, had been killed by the ruthless Tokyo Manji Gang. The day after hearing about her death, he’s standing on the station platform and ends up being pushed over onto the tracks by a herd of people. He closes his eyes thinking he’s about to die, but when he opens his eyes back up, he somehow had gone back in time 12 years. Now that he’s back living the best days of his life, Takemichi decides to get revenge on his life by saving his girlfriend and changing himself that he’d been running away from.

 

Source: Mantan Web

 

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Daryl Harding is a Senior Japan Correspondent for Crunchyroll News. He also runs a YouTube channel about Japan stuff called TheDoctorDazza, tweets at @DoctorDazza, and posts photos of his travels on Instagram.