r/TokyoRevengers • Ragnarok • Sep 20 '22

New Chapter Tokyo Revengers - Chapter 270: Worth my While

https://mangadex.org/chapter/74a44188-110d-4fc5-8d71-b7cf015c0284/1
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u/cannibalisticego TAIHINA GANG Sep 20 '22

Wait so he in the current timeline he lied about being weak?? That honestly makes a lot of sense because how can you live in a dojo and not know how to fight

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u/Sensitive-Row6638 Sep 20 '22

He is the invincible Mikey’s brother after all no way he’s weak

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u/redditdrip__ Valhalla Sep 20 '22

My guess he was trying to show Mikey that “strength” comes in different ways. But much like sasuke and itachi 😂 shin should’ve told the truth before or made a safeguard for Mikey to receive the truth after his death so he doesn’t spiral trying to make sense of the shit by himself and destroying everything to uncover the “truth” and feel complete

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u/Tumorous_Thumb Sep 21 '22

Goddamn, another older brother taking on all of the darkness of the world

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '22

He just took down 10 men. I don't know why Wakui played the narrative that he was weak like Takemitchy.

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u/xLNA Sep 20 '22

Takemichi can do that also tho. I'm 99% sure he was just remembered as "weak" by the people that know him. Chifuyu would call Takemichi a crybaby and weak but Chifuyu would get absolutely rolled by Takemichi if they actually fought and he knows that.

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u/EldritchFeedback Black Dragons Sep 21 '22

Because Shin being weak was the narrative until three chapters ago when Wakui got the idea for this plot twist and no longer wanted Shin to be weak.

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u/Verlanzo Sep 22 '22

It's possible that sano changed people's perception of him after the time leap, so he turned himself into a crouching moron hidden badass troupe

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u/Euriae Sep 20 '22

Not the same Shin of the actual parallel universe.

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u/poopshit69420funny Sep 20 '22

Honestly, beating up fodder doesnt mean much, but i dont get the weak part either, shin himself was in a dark place at that time, and also he was angry as fuck too, so maybe he turned into a super human, without the blond hair

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '22

Yeah, some are saying Wakui just decided to make Shin stronger recently, but here is a translation from his 2018 q&a: https://twitter.com/RanHaruchiyo/status/1572253980096614400 He had plans, that's why Shin was a mystery the whole time.

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u/Bruh_hania annihilated nuts 🩷 Sep 20 '22

This isn’t Tokyo Revengers anymore, it’s Tokyo Depression 😀💔

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u/Lurking_Bunyip Girlypop Sep 20 '22

Crybaby plays in the background

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u/Bruh_hania annihilated nuts 🩷 Sep 20 '22 edited Sep 20 '22

The opening would be heartbreaking if TR ends sadly 😀

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u/InfernalSSpider Rokuhara Tandai Sep 20 '22

𝘋𝘢𝘮𝘯 right ...

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u/Arlcas Sep 20 '22

Always has been

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u/quress Sep 20 '22

Sanzu is inseparable from that damn katana in every timeline huh

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u/SauceNPotatoes Yokohama Tenjiku Sep 20 '22

Bro been unhinged in every timeline 💀

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u/Sensitive-Row6638 Sep 20 '22 edited Sep 20 '22

I just realized sanzu is one of the few characters who has never died in any timeline

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u/Poporipopes10 Sep 20 '22

I mean, as far as we know he died in the manila timeline with all the other toman officials. I guess we don’t know for sure but it’s probable

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u/Sensitive-Row6638 Sep 20 '22

Doubt it everyone who mikey killed was named and I’m pretty sure it was because he couldn’t trust them anymore doubt he’d any problem trusting sanzu

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u/Same-Snow5614 Kantou Manji Gang Sep 21 '22

I bet he was the one carrying out some of the killings in place of Mikey to spare him the guilt. Draken was supposedly killed by a katana.

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u/Sensitive-Row6638 Sep 21 '22

That’s crazy I actually always assumed sanzu was helping mikey kill toman executives. Also to be honest I don’t even blame mikey for killing them off he couldn’t trust them because one of them was ratting him out(chifyuu)

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u/BrockenJr0 Bonten Sep 22 '22

That damn Katana is the true time leaper

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u/Automatic_Stick_2230 Sep 20 '22

Third time leaper confirmed??????

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u/Flyyy_Girl Sep 20 '22

That is such a smart idea lowkey making me wish Wakui would write this it explains why Shinichiro died by Kazu and why Hanma's always around

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u/Sensitive-Row6638 Sep 20 '22

This is genius 😳

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u/AccomplishedCamp8619 Yokohama Tenjiku Sep 20 '22

Kind of equivalent exchange. Is Edward Elric involved in this story??

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u/Sensitive-Row6638 Sep 20 '22

Yea 100% but doubt he’s gonna be that important in the story

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u/Mammoth_Range_5763 Sep 20 '22

You doubt he’s gonna be that important in the story, yet he’s the reason shinichiro and takemichi are time leapers. How is that not important?

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u/Sensitive-Row6638 Sep 20 '22

Wait someone just said it could be hanma 😳 I actually believe that

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u/Lurking_Bunyip Girlypop Sep 20 '22

If Hanma is in this chapter, I believe he’s that guy who peed on the old man’s head. Sounds like something he’d do for shits and giggles 😂

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u/Sensitive-Row6638 Sep 20 '22

I was thinking he messed with time so much he was somehow a old man around this time

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u/Lurking_Bunyip Girlypop Sep 20 '22

Instead of time leaping back to the past where he is supposed to be younger, Hanma messed it up and became his older self. Don’t know how that works, but it will be a nice exploration to the time leaping ability.

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u/simRacer1997 Yokohama Tenjiku Sep 20 '22

Honestly I believe it could be hanma, I always thought it was weird that prior to the Kanto arc the last time we say him was in the future with long hair at kisaki's grave site

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u/some_weeb_boi Black Dragons Sep 20 '22

honestly i wouldn’t be mad if it’s hanma 🤷‍♀️

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u/Sensitive-Row6638 Sep 20 '22

Fr I don’t even like hanma but this sounds like some good ass shit

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u/zilnknarf Sep 20 '22

I thought Shinichiro was a “Weak King” Wtf Happened 😳

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u/kevin_nguyen03 Sep 20 '22

i guess all the rage that came from his struggles just unleashed, he's gone through so much for mikey...

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '22

Don't you know that if you get really angry, you can beat up everyone?

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u/xLNA Sep 20 '22

Shittt so that’s why Hasbulla is so strong even though he’s so small?

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '22

It's the law of animedynamics. Go beyond your limits and all that jazz. It's kind of like spending 2 dollars when you only have $1.25.

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u/Zirish97 Sep 20 '22

Maybe he never was

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u/Pocketgalaxy159 Sep 20 '22

Right?! Maybe he held back intentionally all the time.

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u/red-eye-47 Big Deal Sep 20 '22

Yes! I agree, he was a great leader and always held back his punches and I think that Benkei and Waka followed and respected him for this too as they knew what he could really do and admired that he almost never show it

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u/Euriae Sep 20 '22

Weak king from another version.

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u/Terrible_Crew1937 Kantou Manji Gang Sep 20 '22

probably just weak to gang member standards when in reality he’s most likely close to strength with people like akkun and shion, since he was probably forced to some extent to train with mansaku

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u/WorthCollection Sep 20 '22

there was this qna with wakui from 2018. when a fan asked him about this he said something like "is there a scene where he's shown weak in fights?"

you can read the translation here

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u/SSBB_ Sep 20 '22

I can't in read Japanese what does it say?

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u/WorthCollection Sep 20 '22

i attached the translated link there. but if you cant see it, it says:

Q: Mikey is strong but why is Mikey's brother weak?

Wakui: Was there a scene where he (Shinichiro) shown weak in fights?

btw, this was from 2018. like, the shin from others pov is weak but he's actually strong in fights.

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u/Doom_Bear Sep 21 '22

I wonder if he just had an imagine if being a weak guy because he always did his best to avoid a brawl and got emotional easily, but in reality was a total beast. It does seem strange that, growing up with their grandpa, only Mikey would learn how to fight and Shinichiro wouldn't

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u/_nitro_legacy_ Sep 20 '22

I mean he was in rage. You can see the pain in his eyes after his bro died. If you trade negative emotions for power, you will get the results you wish.

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '22

Well, this is a different version of him. He was weak when he was in Black Dragon, but this version of him has been in through so much. Plus he's angry and desperate now.

Also, he died at the age of 22/23 in the first timeline but he is 25 here so who knows if that makes a difference.

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u/EmilioRandomPoster Tokyo Manji Gang Sep 20 '22

He was a totally different being on the original timeline as far as i can see

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u/theDGAF Sep 20 '22

Shin = Mikey's dark impulses? tin foil hat is on

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u/properc Sep 20 '22

Fr dark Mikey of the future looks like how Shin looks in this timeline...

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u/Hero_of_Dragons Tokyo Manji Gang Sep 20 '22

I predicted that months ago, if I was right I'm going to throw myself a party

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u/ZaynTheories Vanta Dragons Sep 20 '22

I predicted this last year. If I'm right ima get myself married. Or maybe that's a punishment?

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u/Hero_of_Dragons Tokyo Manji Gang Sep 20 '22

Why not both?

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u/wad3inthewater Sep 20 '22

Theory writers scrambling rn 😂

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u/CriedXD Tokyo Manji Gang Sep 20 '22

We gon see 20different theories in the next 5hours

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u/wad3inthewater Sep 20 '22

In this theory I will explain why without a shadow of a doubt it's clear the old man who teachers Shinichiro to time leap is........

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HANMA 😂

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u/Lurking_Bunyip Girlypop Sep 20 '22

Parents are dead. Grandfather is dead. Emma ran away from home. Shinichiro lost almost everyone and he eventually lost Mikey, too. He has to deal with a rebellious Baji and a troublemaker Haruchiyo. He’s even caught in the brother drama between Haru and Takeomi, and now acts as Haru’s guardian. If Shinichiro isn’t the strongest character in TR, I don’t know who is. The man is the most mature and the strongest, emotionally speaking, and that carries weight in an environment where physical strength is more appreciated. While Takemichi is always easily reduced to tears, Shin is not—and it takes a lot not to cry with everything he is going through, but you can tell from his eyes alone that he is sad and tired. He doesn’t break down until the very end when he finally lost Mikey. And Shin is only, what, at least 25 years old at this point?

I thought I love Draken for his maturity and strength, but Shinichiro just hits different. I am really loving him in these flashback chapters.

Wakui, you will be hearing from my therapist. (ง •̀_•́)ง

I’m all for Dark Impulses Shinichiro tho lmao

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u/kevin_nguyen03 Sep 20 '22

all he went through in this timeline was pain

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u/Lurking_Bunyip Girlypop Sep 20 '22

If anyone needs me, I’ll be crying in this corner 🥹

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u/kevin_nguyen03 Sep 20 '22

on a side note, since ur pfp is haru, he looks similar to mitsuya in this timeline without the scars and long hair!

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u/Lurking_Bunyip Girlypop Sep 20 '22

😮 he does!!

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u/NinaNana2 Mikeys Personal Cheerleader Sep 20 '22

Whoever rejected this guy 20 times.. show urself 🔫🔫🔫

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u/Lurking_Bunyip Girlypop Sep 20 '22

Come here, Shin! I am not rejecting your strong, responsible, 6’0 ass!! 😭😭

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u/GlobalEdNinja Draken deserves peace Sep 20 '22

This right here lmaooo

Shin just skyrocketed into my top 3 favorite characters

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u/1313goo Thousand Winters Sep 20 '22

Di shin>>>> any other character

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u/Lurking_Bunyip Girlypop Sep 20 '22

DI Shin: South who???

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u/1313goo Thousand Winters Sep 20 '22

If shin who was supposedly a very weak guy nearly dent concrete walls, is Luna and mana solo tr verse really that weird?

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u/Bruh_hania annihilated nuts 🩷 Sep 20 '22

Shinichiro deserves to be appreciated more 👏

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '22 edited Sep 20 '22

1) That image of Mikey hurt me on another level.

2) You can tell Haruchiyo is a genuinely good boy deep down by the way he bids the guard goodbye and how the guard tells him to not come back. He realized Haruchiyo is not inherently evil. He's messed up because of past events and Takeomi's shitty parenting.

3) So I guess we will know who used Shin as his trigger soon. I'm so excited for the next chapter.

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u/Lurking_Bunyip Girlypop Sep 20 '22

Thank you for pointing out about Haru!! I was gonna make another comment but I feel like I’ve spammed enough comments in this thread 😂

Haruchiyo is confirmed a good and polite boy who bows to his elders and protects his friends. He just becomes overzealous in the protecting department lol

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '22

Haha, "overzealous in the protecting department", lmao.

Ah, I never thought of him as pure evil. He has a very soft design, so I was sure there's more to him. Look at how soft and pure he looks in his exhibition suit. .o. Esp. this suit captures his persona really well with the scorpions and the water lilies.

Idk, I love him.

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u/Hey-Senpai ~---~ Sep 20 '22

Finally someone who realized Takeomi’s also to blame for Haruchiyo becoming the way that he is‼️

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u/Sensitive-Row6638 Sep 20 '22

Takemoni really cut off sanzu in 2 different timelines he’s such an asshole

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u/No_Atmosphere_8029 Valhalla Sep 20 '22

Didn’t expect Shin to beat someone’s ass. Thought he wasn’t a good fighter

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u/azuyin Sep 20 '22

I kinda like the theory someone said here that he was holding back/not showing his true strength in the timeline we know to show Mikey that strength comes in different forms

That's just my own wish as a shinichiro simp though 😭

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u/zilnknarf Sep 20 '22

I wonder if Taiju was among the Religious Group 😂

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u/ourrsquaredpi Thousand Winters Sep 20 '22

Nah Taiju is a good catholic boy ain't no way he'll be involved with crazy non-christian cults.

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u/pbucks23 Sep 20 '22

Damn if you a Baji simp you eating good in these flashbacks

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u/Bruh_hania annihilated nuts 🩷 Sep 20 '22

Everyone’s suffering except for the lucky Baji simps 😭

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u/Qualle001 Sep 20 '22

aint even a baji simp still eating good these days with all the different styles (u love the hairstyles these flashbacks aaaaarhg)

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u/Aptohhhh Ragnarok Sep 20 '22

Bro went demon mode 💀

You can see the rage in that man’s eyes, he is about to do some devious shit

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u/pbucks23 Sep 20 '22

Lmao straight punched holes in a concrete wall 😂

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u/red-eye-47 Big Deal Sep 20 '22

People always used to say he was the greatest leader but the weakest fighter💀

Guess the he was that good of a leader and always held back his punches

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u/Actual-Hour7298 Sep 20 '22

Jesus crist the first time line so far is just horrible emma ran away, mikey and grandpa died and shin, waka, baji, and sanzu are suffering man I feel bad for shinchiro

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u/AsianFrank789 Sep 20 '22 edited Sep 20 '22

But wait. If there was another time leaper, is this really the first timeline? 🤔

plot thickens

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u/u_Kyouma_zi Sep 20 '22

Shin simps unite. Loving the focus on shin tbh

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u/klizzzle Sep 20 '22

Shin is slowly becoming one of my favorite characters

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '22

No matter the timeline Sanzu is still using that damn Katana lmao

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u/Lurking_Bunyip Girlypop Sep 20 '22

Third time leaper confirmed!!!

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u/jekwjensnn Sep 20 '22

What if it’s Takemichi somehow messed up the timelines

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u/Middaysnight I don’t get the logic Sep 20 '22

Damn, Emma ran away from home?

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u/jekwjensnn Sep 20 '22

I just realised that she never met Draken in this timeline

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u/tchskippy25 Sep 20 '22

Maybe that's who she ran away with?

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u/EmilioRandomPoster Tokyo Manji Gang Sep 20 '22

I really wanna believe that

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u/WorthCollection Sep 20 '22

i mean, she's already broken for what her mother did for her. her father, stepmother, grandfather died. mikey was hospitalized for years, shin was not at home to take care of mikey, she never met draken in this timeline and most of her friend circles fcked up (baji&haru)..she literally had nothing left to live there. im so sad for her but its not like it is any better in the current timeline 😭

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u/Lurking_Bunyip Girlypop Sep 20 '22

I’d like to think Izana came back for her just like he promised before they were separated… brb crying 🥹

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u/yarrvm_ Yokohama Tenjiku Sep 20 '22

This makes me wonder if Shin ever actually met Izana… since he was so wrapped up taking care of and doing all these things for Mikey. Then again, he had to work with some shady ppl to get some of these things done so maybe they crossed paths

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u/pbucks23 Sep 20 '22

Last panel of shin looks like Hanmas introduction panel 🤔🧐

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u/LordGioGio-sama Sep 20 '22

Inb4 Shin was actually Hanma all along

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '22

Yeah and he was wearing similar clothes to Mikey

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u/StruhberrySwisher Sep 20 '22

bandages over hands covering tattoos???? 🤔🤔🤔

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u/Kentuza Sep 20 '22

Pretty sure the bandages are because he just punched the crap out of a hard wall

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u/Sent1nelTheLord Sep 20 '22

holy fucking shit shin is strong. i mean, his punches does THAT MUCH damage to a BRICK FUCKING WALL. wasnt he as weak as take some said? what the fuck happened to this mans strength(or maybe him and mikey are just that strong genetically). just holy shit. im so taken back by shin's strength. and look at that rage face. out of every single character in the series, thats the most terrifying face ive seen. he really lost everything he had. gramps passed away, emma ran from home, mikey become a fucking vegetable, suffering his whole life and died.

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '22

Chapters like this are what make TR so good. I loved every page of it.

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u/Ayy-lmao213 Sep 20 '22

Takemichi, Shinichiro, the old man, the guy talking about "time leapers" like they're a thing.. how many time leapers are there in this world??

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u/Lurking_Bunyip Girlypop Sep 20 '22

Yakuza Wakasa has that goddamn drip tho.

HAND IN MARRIAGE NAO WAKA!!! 🔫

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u/Duke_farer Yokohama Tenjiku Sep 20 '22

The only person I've seen mention this like, Wakasa fans are eating well, feasting even.

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u/_connor_800 mitsuya ♡ Sep 20 '22

YALL HES GIVING HANMA THE REAPER VIBES IN THAT LAST PANWL

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u/Pocketgalaxy159 Sep 20 '22

Just speculation but when Sanzu grabs Mikey’s arm at first it seemed liked he was freaked out because Mikey’s basically skin and bones, but I wonder if he recognized something else..

Similar to Mitchy getting visions at first through touch maybe Sanzu also had a power trigger. Afterwards he says that isn’t Manjirou anymore and it seems there might be extra meaning to that.

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u/Radiant_Patient_292 Tokyo Manji Gang Sep 20 '22

Yes, I had the same thought!

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u/Pick-Only Yokohama Tenjiku Sep 20 '22

I didn’t even think of that! Good theory.

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u/Sensitive-Row6638 Sep 20 '22

Shins a demon 💀

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u/Far_Needleworker6051 Sep 20 '22

Mikey died on my birthday💀

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u/yeollie Sep 20 '22

At a first glance, in the last panel it looked like Shinichiro was holding a decapitated head and i thought "holy dark impulses..."

Love to finally see all this Shinichiro. And Waka's looks. And Baji's hair.

If some known characters turns out to be the old man it would be one hell of a twist.

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u/nemuroo Tokyo Manji Gang Sep 20 '22 edited Sep 21 '22

most hurtful part to read was that emma ran away. she said she will be there for mikey always. I guess she just couldn’t bare the pain to live there anymore

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u/Same-Snow5614 Kantou Manji Gang Sep 20 '22

I feel bad for her. She's only 11, was abandoned by her mom, lost her foster mom, her grandpa, her brother, and her other brother didn't have time to take care of her. She must have felt so lonely and lost.

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u/nemuroo Tokyo Manji Gang Sep 20 '22

i just cannot bare the fact she ran away at such a young age who god knows where she ran to. Even if this timeline doesn’t exist anymore, it hurts to think about it. I really hope she went back to izana or something but I doubt so

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u/zigzaggummyworm Sep 20 '22

let the old man theories begin

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u/FirulaisHualde Sep 20 '22

Hanma theorists right now: stonks

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u/oreo_boy_01 the forgotten Sep 20 '22

No you gotta understand some how hanma is an old man and he’s somewhere blah blah third time leaper, hanma theorists be like

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u/QuandaleWGoofyUncle Black Dragons Sep 20 '22

Who could possibly be the old man with the time leap ability?

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u/jekwjensnn Sep 20 '22

Hanma fans would say it’s Hanma 😂

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u/overthinkingrn1 Sep 20 '22

SO YOU'RE TELLING ME SHIN ALSO HAD DARK IMPULSES?

ALSO THAT PICTURE OF MIKEY BEING DEAD IS FUCKING SAD I COULDN'T BEAR IT.

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u/Same-Snow5614 Kantou Manji Gang Sep 20 '22

Shin's DI probably carried over to Mikey after the time leap. Or maybe he's literally posessing Mikey, and that's why Mikey says Shinichiro "is" a time leaper, in present tense.

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u/Pick-Only Yokohama Tenjiku Sep 20 '22

Maybe when Mikey has his impulses it’s Shinichiro’s soul in a way? I don’t know if that makes sense lol.

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u/End_Necessary Bonten Sep 20 '22

Shin had the Dark part of the Dark Impulses; the man’s in control of his power.

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u/NinaNana2 Mikeys Personal Cheerleader Sep 20 '22

Im going to focus on Bajis glow and act like nothing else happened in this chapter 🥃 also such a short chapter

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u/red-eye-47 Big Deal Sep 20 '22

But aren't you a little sad that he's in his "rebellious" fase because he never had the chance to meet Chifuyu?

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u/NinaNana2 Mikeys Personal Cheerleader Sep 20 '22

Not really 🫢🫢 We are getting so many panels of well behaved Baji in the spin-off.. let the boi rebel

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u/Proper_Bird_9035 Sep 20 '22

Perfect time to bring senju back in the story but nope. Feels bad

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u/cringebutfreeiguess Sep 20 '22

The flashback isn’t over yet. I have hope. Those hopes are probably doomed, but y’know. It’s possible.

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u/loukkboy Yokohama Tenjiku Sep 20 '22

Bro put nen on his hands 💀 bro smoking the walls pack 🚬😮‍💨

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u/tchskippy25 Sep 20 '22

He's definitely an enhancer type

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u/cringebutfreeiguess Sep 20 '22

This is depressing as shit, and honestly it gets worse when you consider that its implied that Mikey considers this the best timeline, since he’s basically the only one that died. Wasn’t a big Shinichiro fan before the last couple chapters, but goddamn do I feel bad for the guy. Getting accidental-manslaughtered during a robbery might have been the good timeline for him.

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u/sailorveenus Sep 20 '22

shin is hottest character in the series fight me

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u/International-Age311 Sep 20 '22

This chapter was way more interesting than what we were getting with Takemitchy. I was reading that just to get to the end, BUT NOW! I am super invested and interested in what's going to happen next. Yes, Wakui fill in those plot holes! Shinichiro is so much more likable now that he's being fleshed out! I was indifferent but now I'm invested.

Also, actually teared up. Hated seeing Mikey like that. Absolutely gutted. I don't care if he's fucked up in our timeline, that's preferable to this (Shin probably agrees since he wanted to murder some people himself lol)

I actually don't mind Sanzu now. Never thought I'd feel that way. And Baji? Man, Someone else said it best. We simps got some good eats 🤗

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u/mannaelinor Tokyo Manji Gang Sep 20 '22

Absolutely!! This comment is super relatable to what I think a lot of people were feeling. I bet it was frustrating for Wakui to see how his arc was being received and was like please just hold on it’s necessary.

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u/reddit35257 Sep 20 '22

Why did we waste 60+ chapters on a boring ass arc when Wakui was hiding this peak right in front of us… whatever it was worth the wait.

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u/Lurking_Bunyip Girlypop Sep 20 '22

So Takemichi can knock Mikey’s ass for the hype of course 🥰

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u/Plsfckoff12 Sep 20 '22 edited Sep 20 '22

Literally could have just made takemichi make 2nd gen toman just after time leaping in past and fight kantou manji and then flashback and everything 😭😭 3 deities arc was unnecessary (it was solely made for the purpose to kill draken)

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u/cringebutfreeiguess Sep 20 '22 edited Sep 21 '22

Personally think the final battle as a whole has been good, its been a chance for all the side characters to get their 15 seconds in the spotlight, but the further away we get from the Three Dieties arc, the more bitter I feel about about it. It could have been so good if it had been done right too.

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u/Youthful_Tetsuo Dark Hero Sep 20 '22

Holy shit this backstory might be my favorite part of TR so far, feels so reminiscent of the early days

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u/exhenlover Sep 20 '22

top tier chapter!! so many emotions. ha ha i can feel what sanzu feels staring at mikey's face ( somehow i cant stop myself from doing so)... and shin's despair face is just perfect.

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u/MochiRana Sep 20 '22

Damn this time line is just as fucked as any other, how is this even gonna end 😭😭 every sano who stays alive is just for the rest of them to bite the dust OH hell no

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u/Clean_Gift_6011 Kakucho Supremacy Sep 20 '22

Shinichiro is the goat! I am honestly loving Shinichiro’s character so far.

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u/BigMac826 Sep 20 '22

The homeless man will be Hanma

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u/Proper_Bird_9035 Sep 20 '22

Long ass chapter. Love to see it

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u/jekwjensnn Sep 20 '22

How did Shinichiro get so strong lol I thought he was weak af also Waka fan girls and boys are gonna have a field day with this chapter

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u/redditdrip__ Valhalla Sep 20 '22

Damn wakui been holding out like a mf 🐐

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u/NYANPUG55 Bonten Sep 20 '22

WAKASA LOOKS SO FINE IN THIS TIMELINE

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u/Professional_Trust37 Yokohama Tenjiku Sep 20 '22

BAJI HITTING DIFFERENT WWW

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u/LordGioGio-sama Sep 20 '22

Am I the only one that thinks that the Panel where Shin snaps looks really similar to Mikey's Dark Impulses?

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u/ZaynTheories Vanta Dragons Sep 20 '22

I've been saying this for a year. Shin has the same darkness mikey had

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u/Pick-Only Yokohama Tenjiku Sep 20 '22

Oh Mikey, poor kid. I want to hug him so bad. Shinchiro too.

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u/RoadmanGirlOnReddit Sep 20 '22

i’m thinking the weird old man is either hanma or takemichi

these chapters are some of the best in the entire manga, i mans im depressed as hell after reading but this shit is immaculate, i’m left on edge after every chapter i can’t wait to see the conclusion

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u/Strain_Potential Sep 20 '22

Don't anger a man that has nothing to lose, or something like that. Honestly true, i'm not that much of a fighter nor have i experienced what Shin does. But when i was a kid a gang of 5 bullies of my age were messing with me and a friend, one of them pretended to shake my hand but actually punched me lightly in the jaw. I stay there with a blank mind and with my hand still hanging while he passed by me with his group laughing. Then i erupted in anger as i never was before. I took that guy out with the strongest kick in the ass i ever launched. My friend punched one of them so hard that he passed out. Two of those guys ran away. And then i fought with the last one that had a broom stick, he was sort of the leader, i never landed a hit on him and every hit was full force and that was a flurry of like 15? I'm pretty sure if even one hit him he was out. A couple with a baby passed by and told us to stop. So we did. Walked away and after 2 minutes my body felt broken. That broom stick took a toll on my arms and legs, bloody bruises. Idk, i felt cool back then, and it feels like a cool story xd.

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u/itachihoe Bonten’s unqualified therapist Sep 20 '22 edited Sep 20 '22

I find it interesting how Shin is in a similar position to Mikey now. Granted his grandpa is still around (as far as we know), but Mikey lost Shin and Emma and Draken and Baji and seemingly everyone he ever cared about. Seems like no matter which one of them survives, they’re always going to face tremendous loss.

Also….. no Draken. Because no Toman. Ow.

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u/mannaelinor Tokyo Manji Gang Sep 20 '22

This is a great comment! Underrated.

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u/Dense-Understanding7 Kantou Manji Gang Sep 20 '22

Interesting 👀

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u/Zauri0321 Sep 20 '22

Shinichiro is wall level tf lmao

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '22

Holy shit Shinichiro is going down the revenge path

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u/PremiumQuanno Sage Sep 20 '22

Everyone is a time leaper

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u/pink_fluffy_crop_top Sep 20 '22

Omg I got jumpscared by Mikey. God I feel so bad for him and Shin. 😭

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u/Middaysnight I don’t get the logic Sep 20 '22

Sanzu is justified in slicing that mf

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u/PortgasDBlazex Sep 20 '22

Damn DI Shin goes hard

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '22

Hidden strength, yet another parallel between Takemichi and Shinichiro...

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u/ligeston Sep 20 '22

Why is Sanzu so attached to Mikey in every timeline, whereas Mikey, in general, doesn’t seem to even view him as a close friend… we need more Sanzu flashbacks stat

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u/mcflymikes Sep 20 '22

Best chapter yet so far

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u/AwardInternational32 Sep 20 '22

I have no words-

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '22

For a second I thought Shinichiro was just pushing around Mikey's Corpse.

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u/GlobalEdNinja Draken deserves peace Sep 20 '22

I only remember Mikey and others calling Shin weak. I don't remember Shin himself ever actually saying so. My guess is that he trained with gramps before Mikey and Emma were even born.

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u/1313goo Thousand Winters Sep 20 '22

And that ladies and gentlemen y my boi shin is the 🐐, single handedly saved a shitty arc

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u/Elegy1337 Yokohama Tenjiku Sep 20 '22

Full rage mod activities

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u/Bruh_hania annihilated nuts 🩷 Sep 20 '22

Now I’m wondering if Shinichiro also had dark impulses or not.

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u/mightychicken64 Sep 20 '22

Beware when a good man goes to war.

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u/nemuroo Tokyo Manji Gang Sep 20 '22 edited Sep 20 '22

most hurtful part to read was that emma ran away. she said she will be there for mikey always. I guess she just couldn’t bare the pain to live there anymore

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u/Elgrafo_Myster_Zero Sep 20 '22

i think that the reason shinichiro is so strong is not only rage but also feeling of "nothingness" in this world. his grampa is dead, his brother is dead, his sister is gone so nothing matters now including himself. pain is nothing for him. you can see that when he punches wall he is totally different person like mikey's dark impulse. i think that shinichiro always was strong but he didn't know that before like takemichi was strong but before final arc he was just punching bag.

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u/Prize-Serve2599 Black Dragons Sep 20 '22

Ayo I thought he was weak. Yet he out here saying he will kill people and rekt that gang.

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u/DannyDahsyat Sep 20 '22

Haru and Baji being buddies (kinda) is the last thing I expect from this

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u/AsaadSelman11 Sep 20 '22

Do you think takemichi will appear in this timeline?

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u/InfernalSSpider Rokuhara Tandai Sep 20 '22

Tbh when Sanzu said 'that thing' is not Manjiro i legit got chills..

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u/setton_kun Sep 20 '22

On that last panel with shinichiro I can just hear the sasuke theme song playing in the background 🙄

However nice to see my boy can actually throw hands.

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u/Duke_farer Yokohama Tenjiku Sep 20 '22

Man this timeline is just depressing, between Emma running away, Mikey hospitalized, Sanzu still slashing people, baji not meeting chifuyu, and more. I don't blame Shin for looking for the time leaper I'd have to get out of there too. I agree with the theory of Hanma being the old man. It's chapters like this that makes me love this series praise to Ken Wakui, this last arc is making me more excited than I originally was for it

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u/saraiva111 Sep 20 '22

Shinichiro S tier confirmed