The official website for Ken Wakuies' Tokyo Avengers television anime manga released the first full promotional video and character designs on Wednesday. The video announced the anime's main cast, main staff, and April 2021 premiere.
The anime stars:
Koichi Hatsumi (Berserk: The Golden Age Arc I - The King's Egg, Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga, Dead Man's Wonderland, Gangsta.) Is directing the anime in COVERED MOVIES and Yasuyuki Muto (Basilisk, Wonderland Dead Man, Sengoku Basara - Samurai Kings) is in charge of the series scripts. Kenichi Ohnuki (Golden Kamuy, Gundam Build Fighters) and Keiko Ōta (Ace Lawyer, Hyakko) are designing the characters. Satoki Iida is directing the sound, and Hiroaki Tsutsumi (Children of the Whales, Dr. Stone, Jujutsu Kaisen) is composing the music.
Kodansha Comics is publishing the manga digitally in English, and it describes the story:
watching the news, Takemichi Hanagaki learns that his high school girlfriend Hinata Tachibana has died. The only girlfriend he ever had was killed by a group of villains known as the Tokyo Manji Gang. She lives in a shitty apartment with thin walls and his boss, six years younger, treats him like an idiot. Furthermore, he is a complete and total virgin… At the height of his background life, he suddenly takes a time jump twelve years back to his high school days !! To save Hinata and change the life she spent on the run, Takemichi, who works part-time, must aim for the top of Kanto's most sinister criminal gang!
Wakui launched the manga in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine in March 2017, and Kodansha will publish the manga's 20th compiled book volume on December 17. Comics Kodansha will publish the 20th volume digitally in English on February 9.
Warner Bros. Japan is making a live-action film of the manga, which was scheduled to open in Japan on October 9, but now open in 2021. Tsutomu Hanabusa (live-action Kakegurui, Miseinen dakedo Kodomo ja Nai) is directing the film. The production began filming last winter but stopped filming in April to prioritize the health of the cast and crew.
Wakui serialized Shinjuku Swan manga in Kodansha's Young Magazine from 2005 to 2013 with 38 volumes. The manga inspired a six-episode live-action television series in 2007 and two films in May 2015 and January 2016.
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