Tokyo Revengers manga gets Tōdai Revengers parody
The official Twitter account of Kodansha's Magazine Pocket app and website revealed on Tuesday that Ken Wakui's Tokyo Revengers manga is inspiring a parody manga titled Tōdai Revengers (Tokyo University Revengers) which will launch on Magazine Pocket on November 3. Shinpei Funatsu is drawing the manga. According to his description, the parody will be a time travel comedy centered around the University of Tokyo.
Wakui launched the Tokyo Revengers manga in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine in March 2017, and Kodansha published the manga's 24th volume on September 17. The manga has more than 40 million copies in circulation.
Kodansha Comics is publishing the manga digitally in English and describes the story:
Watching the news, Takemichi Hanagaki discovers that his middle school girlfriend, Hinata Tachibana, has died. The only girl he ever had was just killed by an evil group known as the Tokyo Manji Gang. He lives in a shitty, thin-walled apartment and his six-year-younger boss treats him like an idiot. Plus, he's a complete and utter virgin… At the height of his tattered life, he suddenly jumps back in time twelve years to his middle school days !! To save Hinata and change the life she has spent on the run, desperate part-time Takemichi must aim for the top of Kanto's most sinister gang of thugs !!
A television anime adaptation premiered on the MBS channel on April 10. Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired in Japan. Warner Bros. Japan produced a live-action film of the manga, which was released on July 9th. The film sold 3.287.966 tickets and earned a grand total of 4.380.828.440 yen (about $ 39,47 million) as of September 26, making it the highest-earning live-action movie of the year in Japan so far.
