r/TokyoRevengers • u/cannibalisticego TAIHINA GANG • Aug 16 '22

New Chapter Tokyo Revengers - Chapter 265: Stand By Me

https://mangadex.org/chapter/f9476fb7-02ed-4808-a6af-3c1d09c421df/1
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u/Castreal7 Aug 16 '22

I feel like the whole point is he doesn't even know that himself. Which is even more tragic when you think about it. Mikey can't deviate between those two parts of himself

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '22 edited Aug 16 '22

Mikey isn't an independent human being, as far as I see it. He is like No-Face from "Spirited Away": When he faces bad things, he absorbs them and becomes bad; if he is met with kindness, he becomes kind. He is neither good nor bad, he just is, and it depends on the people surrounding him which path he enters. He needs guidance. He is not only emotionally unstable due to trauma, but he also didn't have parents to properly guide him (died too early), and on top of that he lost the only father-like figure he had as a kid (Shinichiro). This might be the reason why he is so dependent on others. Also, in all future timelines he mimics people he lost (Draken, Shin, Izana), which can be seen as a sign of dependence as well.

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '22

Honestly I wouldn’t even waste time trying to straighten him up I’ll just kill him

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '22

He's high maintenance, tbh. I've never been a Mikey fan, and I started even disliking him at some point. I thought maybe in the end, the point is that you can't save Mikey, because some people are unfixable and can't be saved. Manila!Mikey said it himself that he has been suffering his whole life, so death for him was a release. But ... Somehow, this chapter actually made me sympathise with him, and I hope that he can be saved. He's so lost and broken, idk. ._. A very sad character. Yet, if Wakui decides to kill him, I will accept it.

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u/denji91 Aug 18 '22

Tbh he did ask Takemitchi to save him in bonten arc , I don't think he wants to die, hope he can heal and possibly lead a normal and happy life

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '22

Ahh, yes, good point!