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lyquynhnhu · 2 years

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Takemichi & Takemitchy

My biggest problem with Tokyo Revengers is that I don’t fully understand the time-leaping process.

I always wondered what happen to the Takemichi of the past when Takemitchy (of the future) take over his body. I mean, every time the timeline change, the Takemichi that have lived during that 12 years disappear to leave his body to Takemitchy? Is Takemichi (of the past) okay with that?

Technically, if you have the chance to go back to the past (well, realistically is impossible, but this is fiction), there is nothing wrong to try to change your future to make it better.

I’m used to this trope, but this is the first manga where the MC can move between past and future. The other stories I read (like Re Zero), the protagonist is only able to go back to the past.

And since some characters are aware of Takemitchy’s ability, how do they feel about Takemichi?

It’s a pity that this theme has not been explored, so I came to the conclusion that the time-leaping is a device/process for Takemitchy to shape his life.

Takemitchy started time-leaping with the purpose to save Hina from death. By doing so, he also get revenge on the regrets of his past life.

When he was a child, Takemichi wasn’t a coward. Hina, Akkun and Kakucho see in him a hero.

In particular, since Kakucho and Takemitchy met after many years and Kakucho said that “Takemichi hasn’t changed a bit from when they were children”, I think that the current Takemitchy is what Takemichi was meant to be if he hadn’t have been traumatized.

The original Takemichi ran away from everything after middle school. The Takemichi of the past was bound to follow the same path if Takemitchy hadn’t intervened with this fate.

The first obstacle was to confront Kiyomasa and put an end to his enslavement. This would have been enough to have a better future, if Takemitchy hadn’t involved himself with Toman.

I’m convinced that past Takemichi is aware of Takemitchy existence. I want to believe that past Takemichi is conscious of the future, too. The more about the future he knows, the more Takemitchy and Takemichi destiny align.

Takemitchy is the one that have experienced all the bad future on his person, but Takemichi has some kind of awareness on a knowledge level.

Let’s analyze every step:

After saving Draken and defeated Kiyomasa, Takemichi life in the future hasn’t changed much. I think that he end up escaping from Toman after witnessing the Valhalla incident, where both Baji and Kazutora died. He also break up with Hina because he was under pressure because of her father.

In the post Valhalla timeline, Takemichi became a Toman admin because in the past he was appointed division captain by Chifuyu. He break up with Hina anyway and that’s likely made him vulnerable to Kisaki schemes. As a matter of fact, he got corrupted and in the future he ordered Akkun to kill Hina.

In the post Christmas future, Takemichi left Toman on his own will. He realized that Toman was degenerating, but since he couldn’t do anything, he escape.

So, with every timeline, Takemichi (past) became more mature and similar to Takemitchy. But we have to take in consideration that past Takemichi has lived for 12 years before Takemitchy return to the future. It’s a lot of time and things change.

And also, every time Takemitchy leave the past, past Takemichi probably think that he succeed in achieving a better future.

What I think is that past Takemichi can empathize with Takemitchy and wants to help him to avoid the bad futures, but he fails and end up distancing from the problems because it’s the easiest thing to do.

Takemitchy and Takemichi are the same person, after all. I don’t like the idea of Takemichi having no idea about his surrounding when Takemitchy is inside his body.

Another thing that concern me is Naoto situation. With every change of timeline, Naoto memories get rewritten. But what exactly happen to him? His life doesn’t change drastically like it happen with Takemichi, but, well, how does his life change?

Looking things from past Takemichi POV:

In a normal day, he got a “prediction” of his future. At the beginning, he didn’t believe it, but the ”prediction” turn out to be true. However, he can’t do anything to change his fate because he has already been traumatized.

When Takemitchy saved Draken, Takemichi thought that he has succeed and that he will have a better life. But he was wrong because Valhalla happened and he break up with Hina.

After breaking up with Hina, Takemichi, now a member of Toman, get corrupted by Kisaki live anyone else. He probably tried to resist Kisaki, but in the end he gave up.

When Kisaki got fired, Takemichi thought that the future is safe and kept following Mikey. Unfortunately, Kisaki used Izana to corrupt Mikey. Takemichi noticed that the course of events would led to a bad future, but he was too late to do something and his only option was to leave Toman.

So, if Takemichi is aware of Takemitchy and all the futures, although on a superficial level, I think he his okay with leaving his life to Takemitchy. They are the same person and share the same values.

In some ways, Takemitchy has saves his past self, as well, from an unhappy and lonely life.

One last thing… If Takemichi was not aware of Takemitchy, he would have no idea about proposing to Hina.

In Bonten timeline, Hina, Draken and Chifuyu said that they were waiting for Takemitchy to come back from the past… but that doesn’t mean that Takemichi got replaced by Takemitchy.

Takemitchy is an irreplaceable part of Takemichi. From Takemichi point of view, every time Takemitchy possess him, it’s like he have an epiphany.

This is how I interpret the time leaping factor in Takemichi life.

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