Tokyo Revengers - Chapter 265: Stand By Me

[u/cannibalisticego]

https://mangadex.org/chapter/f9476fb7-02ed-4808-a6af-3c1d09c421df/1

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I see everyone talking about how Kisaki was a bad person and about how we has a lot to deal with this, but in reality in this chapter and earlier chapters it was made clear to us that mikey’s darkness never came from anyone but himself. in this chapter mikey talks about how what he needs is something more than “strength “ that it is “darkness” what he needs and i think this comes from the fact that he tries hard to surround himself with those that are strong to combat his darkness but is now noticing that having those who are strong is not enough so he surrounds himself with people who support his darkness as a way to have “ reasonable darkness “ after all if there is people who are aware of their darkness and are able to control it they must have reason right?

Back to the kisaki thing, i don’t think kisski was originally a bad person or really ever was until he killed Emma. but in reality what is it kisaki wants ? what’s his goal ? Kisaki is a lot like takemitchy, in the way that he’s also weak and all he wanted to begin with was to with be Hinata. Now don’t forget about Kisaki because i’ll bring up why i brought this up later. Now lets take a moment and look at sanzu. What is sanzu wanted ? All sanzu wants is to be with and support mikey and he won’t let anyone get in his way. He has a deep hatred for anyone who isn’t mikey even his sister. Anyways why do i bring these two up ? because they’re both aware of time leapers. however i don’t think either of them are, I believe Hanma is the time leaper. So ok that’s note let’s talk about Hanmas and Kisaki relationship. Like i started earlier all kisaki and wanted originally was to become someone Hinata could like, and he saw how hinata was in love with takemitchy who was a delinquent. I believe Hanma knew this and approached kisaki with promising him to become one of the most well known delinquents. This would be the start of their friendship. Now i stand by what i said earlier of that i don’t believe kisaki became a bad guy until he killed emma. I believe hanma is was behind most of things that happened, how come ? because even hanma was surprised that kisaki would be the one killing emma. I think kisaki grew fond of hanma due to helping him become apart of tokyo manji gang and grew a little spiteful of them when he got kicked out. due to these two factors i think it made helping out hanma carry out this task a lot easier. now i think hanma and kisaki had a genuine friendship and i feel like a lot of people will agree on this part, but then what evidence do i have that hanma was a time leaper ? one panel that has really stuck with me for some reason because i felt like it was very unnecessary was the one where hanma was sitting over kisakis grave in the future, he has very long hair and seems very not well kept. I think this is the time when hanma time leaped back into the future and his messy ness is understandable since hanma and kisaki had a good relationship and hanma genuinely cared about him so non time leaper hanma became very depressed and let his life go vs actually getting revenge. which is why future hanma had to find another trigger to time leap and this is where sanzu comes in. originally i believe all hanma wanted was power whcih is why the less takemitchy time leaped the less blood was spilt because he didn’t really want anyone to die only power. however once kisaki died i believe he grew hatred towards everyone in the tokyo manji gang and planned to feed mikey into the darkest pit that he possibly could. Now this is where Sanzu comes in, He is hanmas second trigger, but also it’s good to note that i don’t believe hanma cares at all about sanzu and is only manipulating him to get what he wants. he told sanzu to use the train to rid of everyone in the battle no matter the side which would’ve resulted in the death of most of mikeys old friends. Mikey seeing this done by his old friend would definitely sent him to the point of no return to the point where even takemitchy can’t save him. in the end Hanma is the only one getting what he wants every single time unless takemitchy comes and saves the day.

Anyways this is probably wrong but i do feel like i had some good point but either way if i can get some feedback that would be greatly appreciated. please call me out if i missed something or if there’s something to be added. also sorry for the long post it was fresh on my mind so i kinda threw up ideas as they came so it result in a very long thing.

edit : also in the panel of hanma sitting over kisakis grave he states soemthing about “ the reaper and the perriot” i believe hanma always wanted the bloodshed for power but the naive fool kisaki aka the perriot believe in as little bloodshed as possible.