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Tokyo Revengers Manga Scores Higher than Jujutsu Kaisen and Attack on Titan on MAL

As of August 25, 2021, “Tokyo Revengers” manga by Ken Wakui is sitting on a comfortable top 39 spot on MAL (My Anime List) rankings. Right now, the popular manga has a score of 8.74, scoring higher than a lot of extremely popular manga titles.

“Tokyo Revengers” ranking top 39 on MAL

Among the manga that “Tokyo Revengers” has surpassed over on MAL, we can see titles like “Chainsaw Man,” “Attack on Titan,” “Jujutsu Kaisen,” “Hunter x Hunter,” and even “Death Note”! What’s more, the manga is selling incredibly well as, just a month ago, it exceeded over 32 million copies in circulation! To top it off, the “Tokyo Revengers” live-action adaptation earned over 3.2 billion yen (~US$20.4 million) in just a month! Right now the series also has an ongoing anime adaptation which, as of the moment of writing, has 20 episodes.

Also, you can check out the cover of the “Tokyo Revengers” volume 1 below:

Cover of the first volume of “Tokyo Revengers”

In case you don’t know what “Tokyo Revengers” is about you can read the synopsis below:

Watching the news, Takemichi Hanagaki learns that his girlfriend from way back in middle school, Hinata Tachibana, has died. The only girlfriend he ever had was just killed by a villainous group known as the Tokyo Manji Gang. He lives in a crappy apartment with thin walls, and his six-years-younger boss treats him like an idiot. Plus, he’s a complete and total virgin…

At the height of his rock-bottom life, he suddenly time-leaps twelve years back to his middle school days!! To save Hinata, and change the life he spent running away, hopeless part-timer Takemichi must aim for the top of Kanto’s most sinister delinquent gang!!

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The “Tokyo Revengers” anime also has a decent score of 8.28 on MAL, making it the top 8 airing anime in the Summer 2021 season.

Source: My Anime List
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Jakub Kejza

Hello, I'm Kezja! I used to write gaming articles, but now I'm back to writing about manga and things related to anime!

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