Tokyo Revengers: Is Takemichi Dead in the Manga? Here Is What Happened to Him!

Takemichi Hanagaki is the principal protagonist of the Tokyo Revengers manga and anime. Introduced as a 26-year-old freeter, Takemichi suddenly can travel back to the past when he is pushed under a train. Using his new time-leaping abilities, Takemichi aims to prevent the tragedies that happened to his friends and rewrite the past so that the present won’t be as grim as it is. Will he succeed? Well, with the manga over, we actually know what happened to Takemichi in the manga, and in this article, we are going to tell you whether he dies or not in the series.

Takemichi’s story is vital for the plot of Tokyo Revengers

Takemichi Hanagaki is the series’s protagonist and is a 26-year-old freeter working part-time in a film rental shop. One day, watching the news, he discovers that his middle school girlfriend, Hinata Tachibana, died during an attack by the Tokyo Manji Gang (or Toman), being killed by the latter.

Takemichi is then pushed in front of a train and while he is falling from the tracks, he realizes that he can travel in time to his middle school days by shaking hands with Naoto Tachibana, Hinata’s brother, and thus sets himself the goal of saving the girl by joining the Tokyo Manji Gang and, above all, in the good graces of the commander Manjiro Sano.

Over time, he becomes a very important member of Toman. He even manages to hold the role of captain of the first division, becoming a great friend of Chifuyu Matsuno, vice-captain of the first division. Later, Takemichi also became the eleventh president of the Black Dragons. He is nicknamed “Takemicchi” (Takemitchy in the anime) by Toman members. Takemichi has black hair in the present but dyed it blonde in the past.

Takemichi’s role in the series cannot be overstated, as he is responsible for the whole plot in that aspect. He realizes that he can change the future and the past. When he finally comprehends his powers and decides to use them to save his friends, he is drawn into a series of complex scenarios, some of which he manages to resolve successfully, while the desired effect is nevertheless missing. This is why his journey through the history of the series’ lore is so complex.

We won’t be spoiling too much here, save for the ending, but you probably know by now that Takemichi has traveled back to the past on more than one occasion and that he has been part of several various timelines with very different outcomes. Sometimes, he would do everything he thought he needed to do, but the desired effect would still not manifest itself in the present, i.e., the future, as his friends did not end up being saved.

This is why he traveled back so many times and, despite his own moral code, did things he would not have done otherwise. That is why he is so important and why his journey is so interesting despite the confusing plot. Now that we have explained this – Takemichi’s role in the story – we can now reveal what happened to him in the series’ final arc.

The confusing plot aside, we can confirm that Takemichi does survive in the canon ending of the story

As the anime series is still ongoing, we won’t be spoiling the plot of the current arc, so we’ll just skip to the Final arc and explain what happened there so that we can focus on Takemichi and his exact fate in the series.

At the beginning of the Final Arc, Takemichi once again returns to the present/future and finally sees that his friends are alive and successful, save for Mikey; Mikey had not been in contact with anyone for 12 years, and Takemichi finds out that he has founded a new gang called Bonten. This means that his mission is not over.

Takemichi soon realizes that he cannot go back in time using Naoto, which is a problem, but when he saves Mikey from jumping off a building, both of them are sent back to 2008, meaning that he can still leap in time. So, what’s the situation? With the Tokyo gang disbanded, there is now a war between Rokuhara Tandai, Brahman, and the Kanto Manji Gang, which is Mikey’s new gang in 2008.

Having experience with these kinds of situations, Takemichi joins Brahman, and out of the blue, he gets the ability to see into the future. Rokuhara Tandai soon attacks them, and while Takemichi saves his gand leader, one of their friends (Draken) is killed. This leads to the so-called “Battle of the Three Deities,” a major clash between all three gangs, resulting in Mikey’s gang absorbing Rokuhara Tandai and the disestablishment of Brahman.

So, what does Takemichi do then? He personally re-established the Tokyo Manji Gang and challenged Mikey’s Kanto Manji Gang to a face-off. After a brutal battle, he faces Mikey, who reveals that he has died in the original timeline but that Shinichiro went back in time to save him after stealing the time-traveling powers from a homeless person he had killed. This led to Takemichi inheriting the ability from Shinichiro.

Back to the present, Takemichi and Mikey fight once again, and Mikey manages to inflict a fatal wound upon Takemichi. When they come into contact, they go back to 1998 and decide to avert all the tragedies that had happened. They managed to unite all the gangs in Japan and ultimately create a completely peaceful timeline in which both of them survived; the ending proved to be quite controversial, but we can confirm that all of them survived.

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