Ken Wakui’s hit shōnen manga Tokyo Revengers is getting a spinoff manga centering on the bondings between Baji and Chifuyu. The new series, entitled Tokyo Revengers ~Baji Keisuke Kara no Tegami~ (A Letter from Keisuke Baji), will be written by Yukinori Kawaguchi and supervised by Wakui.
Baji and Chifuyu are introduced during one of the series’ earliest arcs as the First Division Captain and First Division Vice-Captain, respectively, for the Tokyo Majin Gang. The new manga series will tell the encounter and parting of the two as they run Tokyo Manji Gang’s First Division together. Chifuyu, who lost his captain during a conflict with Valhalla, was struggling to accept his death. At that time, a letter from the place where he was alive arrived…
The spin-off is set to begin serialization on July 27 at Kodansha’s Weekly Shonen Magazine, which is where the mainline series is also currently being serialized. Wakui’s original story is currently going through its final arcs, with many fans expecting it to end sometime later this year.
▍About Tokyo Revengers
Ken Wakui first serialized the series in Kodansha’s Weekly Shōnen Magazine in March 2017. Kodansha has collected its chapters into individual tankōbon volumes. As of June 17, 2022, twenty-eight volumes have been released. As of July 2022, the manga had over 65 million copies in circulation, including 7 million copies outside of Japan. The manga won the 44th Kodansha Manga Award for the shōnen category in 2020.
An anime television series adaptation by Liden Films aired from April to September 2021. A second season is set to premiere in January 2023. A live-action film adaptation was released in Japan in July 2021.
The story of Tokyo Revengers starts when Takemichi Hanagaki learns that his ex-girlfriend was killed by a villainous group known as the Tokyo Manji Gang. 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.
