Tokyo Revengers Posters Decorate Shibuya

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A series of posters from Tokyo Revengers recently popped up at major train stations in the Tokyo area. The posters feature new artwork of most of the major characters. The new posters were put up in celebration of the series' recent anniversary event.

The posters first showed up on June 13 in Tokyo’s busy Shibuya Station. The posters were only on display for a very limited time, from June 13 until June 19. Fans of Tokyo Revengers traveled from across the city to see the huge display of posters.

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Tokyo Revengers is a popular manga and anime series about a man named Takemichi who can travel back 12 years into the past to when he was in middle school. In doing so, he tries to change future events — especially tragedies — from happening. Every time he travels into the past, things inevitably change for his own fate and that of those around him. The manga was first published in 2017 and is currently ongoing. It won the Kodansha Manga Award for the shonen category in 2020, and has sold over 50 million copies so far.

Both a live-action movie and an anime series were released in 2021, and have become hugely popular in Japan and abroad. The anime was first announced on June 19, 2020, which is what the special series of posters is celebrating. A special event was held in Shibuya on that day as a 2nd “Memorial and Formation” live celebration, Many voice actors attended the live event, including Yuuki Shin (Takemichi Hanagaki), Yu Hayashi (Manjiro Sano,) Masaaki Mizunaka (Keisuke Bachi), Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (Takashi Mitsuya), and Sho Karino (Chifuyu Matsuno).

The posters themselves have most of the main Tokyo Revengers cast — Takemichi, Draken, Mitsuya, Baji, Chifuyu, Parchin, Peyan, and Ichitora.