While fans wait for the anime’s second season, they can turn to other shows to keep them entertained. Tokyo Revengers has a unique mix of grounded (for battle shonen) delinquent action mixed with time travel. Finding a series that has both of these elements is nearly impossible, but there are plenty of great shows that strike a similar chord. What are the best anime like Tokyo Revengers?
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Updated on January 3, 2023, by Mark Sammut: Tokyo Revengers: Christmas Showdown is set to debut in Winter 2023, commencing the anime’s second season. As the previous series was among the better shonen shows of 2021, the sequel is unsurprisingly attracting quite a bit of hype. The show’s blend of time travel and gang warfare has helped set it apart from its contemporaries, although there are a few anime like Tokyo Revengers out there.
16 Yu Yu Hakusho: Ghost Files
People who love a show about high school delinquents will find Yu Yu Hakusho to be right up their alley. The series features a student who saves his life to help a child, only to come back to life as a Spirit Detective instead.
Yu Yu Hakusho features some iconic shonen moments, with the Dark Tournament arc being the best of the bunch. It might not have aged all that gracefully, but it’s still a brilliant title for fans of Tokyo Revengers to check out.
15 Bungo Stray Dogs
Bungo Stray Dogs is a great anime that takes the concept of supernatural powers and weaves them into a modern setting. This leads to some amazing battles as characters duke it out in modern and familiar environments.
The protagonist, Atsushi, is a weretiger with amazing powers of his own. He’s the beating heart of the show and one of the biggest reasons why so many people love Bungo Stray Dogs.
14 Parasyte: The Maxim
It’s always satisfying to watch a person down on his luck get amazing powers and become a force to be reckoned with. This is precisely what happens to Shinichi in Parasyte: The Maxim.
Be warned that the show is not for the faint of heart, with ample amounts of gore and body horror present in the title. The relationship formed between Migi and Shinichi is surprisingly riveting and makes for one of the best parts of the show.
13 Gantz
Speaking of brutal and gory shows, it’s impossible to not mention Gantz. The mind-bending series features a plot that is surprisingly engaging, coupled with some great characters to keep things interesting all the way to the very end.
The iconic fights of Gantz coupled with the flippant manner in which characters are done away with make for one of the best and most entertaining shows of all time. As a result, Gantz is easily one of the most engrossing watches on this list.
12 Great Teacher Onizuka
Great Teacher Onizuka is about an ex-Yakuza member who stumbles his way into teaching children. He may not be a delinquent himself anymore, but he still uses silly tactics to get the job done. Even though he comes across as crass, Onizuka has a heart of gold and genuinely cares about his kids.
It takes a while for everyone to warm up to him but that’s part of the fun of the show. The tender moments are sweet but so is watching the vice principal’s beloved car get totaled repeatedly.
11 Mob Psycho 100
Mob Psycho 100 follows a seemingly ordinary high school student who happens to have psychic powers. He looks unremarkable and people treat him that way even though he is probably the strongest psychic in the world.
The anime begins with rival schools duking it out in psychic battles before things move on to a bigger scale. There are only two short seasons of the anime but the manga is a bit longer and it’s done as well.
10 Cromartie High School
Cromartie High School is a slapstick comedy that is presented as a Sunday comic strip. Each episode has several skits which sometimes tie together thematically.
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The comedy comes into play given the juxtaposition of the street toughs looking cool but behaving like nerds or total goofs. It’s a dramatically different feel than Tokyo Revengers, but both anime feature delinquents so fans still may enjoy checking it out.
9 The Future Diary
Future Diary, at its core, is similar to the film Battle Royale. The god of this anime is dying and has chosen a group of people to compete for his position. Whoever comes out on top will ascend to the heavens as the next god.
Everyone is armed with a phone that can predict the future in various ways. That’s one element of the anime but there is more to it than that. Going any further will spoil things but rest assured this anime is worth it.
8 Steins;Gate
Steins;Gate is similar to Future Diary in that phones play a pivotal role in the plot. After various experiments, a group of scientists discovers they can send texts back to the past in order to change the course of time.
This series began as a light novel in 2009 before getting this anime adaptation l in 2012. Since then there have been sequels, prequels, spinoffs, games, and more. It’s a wide-reaching series but starts first with this initial anime.
7 Eden Of The East
Eden of the East starts off with Saki visiting the White House on her Japanese trip. She soon discovered a naked man, Akira, and the two get wound up in a plot involving espionage.
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Akira has lost his memory but it seems like he can time travel. How does he do it and for what reason? That’s the core mystery of this short, but thrilling mystery anime. For those interested, there are also sequels to Eden of the East.
6 Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-
As an isekai anime, Re:Zero’s setting is nothing like Tokyo Revengers’ world. The former takes place in a medieval fantasy realm that incorporates things like magic, which is a complete departure from the latter’s modern urban setting. That said, Re:Zero’s Subaru and Tokyo Revengers’ Takemichi share a few things in common. Both protagonists are physically weak, at least compared to other key figures who populate their universes; however, they make up for this disadvantage through a unique ability that gives them insight into forthcoming events.
While Takemichi travels through time, Subaru restarts at a checkpoint whenever he dies. Consequently, both characters must use their knowledge of what’s to come to change the future, a process that is rarely painless. Re:Zero gets a bit more complicated than Tokyo Revengers, but the isekai anime is generally fantastic.
5 Erased
Erased has a plot very similar to Tokyo Revengers. The main character, Satoru, goes home one day to discover his mom had been murdered. This transports him back in time for some reason when he was a child.
Satoru has to solve some mysteries in his past in order to prevent his mother’s murder from taking place. As always there is a lot more to it than that such as love slowly blooming in the schoolyard. What else can Satoru change in the future, or will it end in tragedy?
4 Dr. Stone
Dr. Stone is sort of a time-traveling anime but instead of going back to the past, human civilization fast-forwards thousands of years into the future. One day a giant virus covers Earth, turning everyone into stone.
This preserved their bodies and didn’t actually kill them though. One by one, they start to recover their consciousness. Now it’s up to a budding group of teenage scientists to rebuild society. Not everyone is for this plan though so, as always, conflicts ensue.
3 The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time is a movie and not an episode-based anime. Time traveler fans will love it though. The premise is in the name as it sees the female heroine, Makoto, slowly discovering her ability to time travel.
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At first, she uses it to fix small mistakes at school like bad cooking. This eventually leads to a wild plot involving someone else with the power as well. Going any further would spoil things, but it is certainly a movie with plenty of twists.
2 Your Name
The beginning premise of Your Name sees two high school students swapping bodies. They’re different genders as well which leads to a lot of comedy. It’s not an ordinary body swap film either. To speak about Your Name’s true plot would be a spoiler.
Suffice it to say if it made it on this list then sort of time or warping ability must be involved. That hint alone may be too much, but without saying anything more, this movie is highly recommended as it was nominated for many awards when it came out.
1 Link Click
A Chinese ONA series, Link Click has a fascinating twist on time travel. Cheng Xiaoshi and Lu Guang take on cases revolving around photos, which typically involve a client asking about an image’s context so they can learn about the people in it. The two leads have unique powers that work in tandem together. Cheng Xiaoshi can jump into a photograph and take over the actions of one of the people in the image. On the other hand, Lu Guang gets a holistic view of the world around the photo.
Just to be clear, Cheng is specifically time traveling, and his actions can change the past and future. However, the protagonists try to avoid this as much as possible, which is not always an easy task. As Link Click season 2 is set to air in 2023, this is the perfect time for Tokyo Revengers fans to watch the 2021 cour.
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