The production team for the television anime adaptation of Ken Wakui’s Tokyo Revengers manga has announced additional cast and opening theme song information for Tokyo Revengers: Tenjiku Arc (Tokyo Revengers: Tenjiku-hen), the latest installment. in the anime adaptation, on Saturday.
The newly announced cast members are:
Kengo Kawanishi as Sōya Kawata
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Nobuhiko Okamoto as Haruchiyo Sanzu
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Rock band Official HiGE DAndism returned from the previous Tokyo Revengers: Christmas Showdown to perform the opening theme song “White Noise”.
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Other new cast members for the anime include:
The band HEY-SMITH performs the ending theme song “Say My Name.”
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The anime will premiere in Japan on October 3 on MBS, TV Tokyo and AT-X channels, at 24:00 JST (actually at 12:00 midnight on October 4), then on 31 consecutive channels. worldwide connections in Japan. Disney+ will exclusively stream the anime worldwide (except mainland China) starting at 11:00 p.m. JST on October 3 (actually at 3:00 a.m. on October 4).
Wakui launched the manga in Weekly Shōnen Magazine in March 2017 and ended the series last November. Weekly Shōnen Magazine is publishing a spin-off manga Tokyo Revengers Extra about the founders of the Tokyo Manji gang.
Publisher Kodansha USA is releasing the manga in English and describes the story:
Watching the news, Takemichi Hanagaki learned that his middle school girlfriend, Hinata Tachibana, had passed away. The only girlfriend he ever had was just killed by a group of villains called the Tokyo Manji Gang. He lives in a shabby apartment with thin walls, and his boss who is six years younger than him treats him like an idiot. Plus, he’s a complete and utter virgin… At the height of his rock bottom life, he suddenly time jumps twelve years back to his high school days!! To save Hinata and change the life he spent running away, Takemichi, a hopeless part-timer, must aim to become the head of Kanto’s most sinister crime gang!!
The manga’s first television anime adaptation premiered in April 2021. Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired in Japan. The anime’s Tokyo Revengers: Christmas Showdown arc debuted on January 7 and aired for 13 episodes. Disney+ and Hulu streamed the series as it aired.
The first live-action film based on the manga debuted in Japan in July 2021 and was the #1 live-action film in Japan in 2021. Crunchyroll is streaming the film. The first of two live-action sequels Chi no Halloween-Unmei-(Bloody Halloween-Fate-) opened in Japan on April 21, while the second Chi no Halloween-Kessen-( Bloody Halloween-Decisive Battle-) opened in Japan on June 30.
Source: Tokyo Revengers anime website, Natalie Comics
