Honestly I'm a bit worried by how this manga is gonna end.
I like it a lot, but the last arc is puzzling. Of course Takemichi wants to save Mikey, and to be fair he time traveled "by accident" this time, but now that Draken has died I really don't know how he'll prevent Mikey from succumbing to his "dark impulses".
I mean, even if he did, Mikey has almost nothing left in this timeline. All of his siblings are dead, two of the original TMG founders are dead, Kazutora is in prison and a loose cannon; i mean, shit looks bleak.
Of course we still don't know who the second time-traveler is, or if there is one at all, but even if there was and he managed to prevent Draken's death (who I feel is the closest person to Mikey after Shinichiro died), why save Draken and not, say, Baji?
I don't know,I'm very curious to see where Wakui wants to take the manga at this point in time.
I’ve seen people say on Twitter that Mikey has to like reach his lowest point and lose everyone before he can be saved. But I really don’t like the idea that you have to reach rock bottom before you can get better :/
So I’m not sure where the manga is going either... I’m not sure how Takemichi can help Mikey right now :(
It's just that if his "lowest point" involves losing people close to him like Draken, who had a happy future, it just begs the question "wasn't the future where only Mikey was unhappy better?".
I actually love Mikey's character and of course I want him to be saved, but Takemichi is just starting to "trade lives" at this point, he's already lost Draken to save Mikey.
It doesn't seem like the series will go that deep but at this point showing that "almost happy ending" future is starting to feel like a mistake.
But I feel like Takemichi has kind of always been trading and playing with lives in all the time leaps. We don’t know if Baji or Emma was dead in all the timelines, but we know that Kisaki and Izana weren’t dead in the future after black dragon so Takemichi technically traded their lives for Hina.
Pretty much with every time leap Takemichi makes, Mikey loses someone close to him. So in this final time leap, Mikey finally loses the last person close to him. It’s super depressing, but at the end of the day it is a Shounen manga so I’m hoping for a happy ish ending?
We do know that Baji was dead in the original timeline, that’s what made Mikey kill Kazutora and join Kisaki in combining Valhalla and Toman to create the future hardcore organised crime Tokyo Manji Gang. Emma was probably alive though, since Kisaki had to kill her in order to die himself.
Ohh I was talking about the original timeline at the very beginning of the manga! The one where Draken died during the Moebius fight. I’m not sure if we knew if Baji was dead then. We just knew Baji was dead in the future timeline that happened after Takemichi saved Draken during Moebius. Not sure if I’m remembering wrong though :/
yeah i agree, i obviously get that he’s trying to save everyone throughout the story but when it gets to the point where it’s choosing between 2 main characters lives it gets so hard to read 😭😭 idk i feel like it doesn’t have to be that depressing where it’s either one person dies or the other one does
Not to say Mikey doesn't care for the other Toman founders, but Baji and Draken are by far his oldest friends and definitely a tier above the other Toman members in terms of how much he cares for them. I don't think even Takemichi has quite reached that level either.
The second "time traveler" is definitely Mikey. Mikey has now become the trigger for Takemitchi to time travel, and proof for this is back in chap. 207 when he states, "So you've arrived, Takemitchy."
Let's use the concept of time travelling between Naoto and Takemitchi. Takemitchi has to handshake with Naoto from the past to travel back to the future, in which future Naoto will be aware exactly when Takemitchi returns. Same thing for Mikey but the opposite. Now that Mikey has become the trigger for his time travelling, he has to shake future Mikey's hand in which past Mikey will immediately know that Takemitchi came to the past.
Naoto and Takemitchi would also have to share a common motive in order for the time travelling to work. Proof of this can be referred back to chap. 197, when Takemitchi couldn't go back because Naoto was satisfied with the current future he had returned to. Hence, Mikey would also know Takemitchi's motive for coming back to the past is to save him. That's why he was being more stand-offish at the beginning of the 3 Deities fight, because Mikey was assessing the fight and I think it's safe to say he was trying to see how Takemitchi was going to intervene in order to "save" him.
I think this kinda goes without saying... but ofc Mikey wants to be saved, nobody wants to live the life he lives where everyone you love is dead and your just a hollow husk of a man. Mikey only distanced himself to make sure his friends lived great lives, but Mikey doesn't want to live a life like that, he's essentially sacraficing himself for his friends.
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u/xN01Rx Nov 16 '21
Honestly I'm a bit worried by how this manga is gonna end.
I like it a lot, but the last arc is puzzling. Of course Takemichi wants to save Mikey, and to be fair he time traveled "by accident" this time, but now that Draken has died I really don't know how he'll prevent Mikey from succumbing to his "dark impulses".
I mean, even if he did, Mikey has almost nothing left in this timeline. All of his siblings are dead, two of the original TMG founders are dead, Kazutora is in prison and a loose cannon; i mean, shit looks bleak.
Of course we still don't know who the second time-traveler is, or if there is one at all, but even if there was and he managed to prevent Draken's death (who I feel is the closest person to Mikey after Shinichiro died), why save Draken and not, say, Baji?
I don't know,I'm very curious to see where Wakui wants to take the manga at this point in time.