I think one of the things that distinguishes Tokyo Revengers from its fellow animanga kaiju is that when it’s bad, it can be really really bad.  It has no single character as annoying as Zenitsu (not many series do), and JJK left me detached enough that I dropped it relatively early.  But as a total package I didn’t find their down episodes to be as outright inept as TMR.  I think that’s because, at their heart, both KnY and JJK (and certainly Spy x Family and Chainsaw Man) have a more coherent central premise than this series.  When Tokyo Revengers is stripped down to its bare essentials, there’s just not much “there” there.

So help me, I’m incredibly sick of watching Takemitchy get the crap beaten out of him.  How many times has this scene played out already – and how many more times to come?  Nobody could take that amount of punishment and not be seriously brain-damaged (I know, I know).  Boxers wear gloves for a reason, after all.  There is a kind of unintended comedy to it after a while, but that has a limited shelf life and it’s long-since expired.  This is not good writing and not for the first time, I’m left to wonder why and how a series got so massively popular.  I guess if the audience didn’t like this sort of thing, TMR wouldn’t be the kaiju it is.

The revelation about Hakkai and Yuzuha wasn’t really all that shocking, in light of how it was built up.  One way or another Taiju is just a cartoon villain and the sooner the series sweeps him aside the better.  Mikey’s arrival at least promises to end the status quo, so that’s a positive.  He seems to have come by himself, too (though I’m not sure it’s going to stay that way).  Just do whatever you’re gonna do and get the story out of that church already, because this arc has turned into the anime version of a 3-hour Palm Sunday service.