Man If I Had A Nickel For Everytime That A Character Who Wishes To Be Loved But Who Doesn't Want To Express

Man if I had a nickel for everytime that a character who wishes to be loved but who doesn't want to express that desire because consider that as a weakness and for fear of being hurt, did a lot of horrible things, the others are afraid of them, has abandonment issues, has derived mental disorders of childhood traumas, are smart but unstable, become paranoid thinking that others betray them and has hallucinations in front of a mirror, I would have three nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's just weird that it happened three times you know.

Takemichi's ability to see the future works like Boku no Hero Academia's quirks: it evolves by the user's strong emotions and by the user's constant uses of it.

Everyone remember this part where Mikey meets Kisaki after the latter shot Izana?

Before I thought that Kisaki was scared because he was found out and his whole plan failed but now I think Kisaki was scared because he knew about Mikey's Dark Impulses because he told him before and therefore he knew that when Mikey was consumed by his impulses he always kills those who were targets of his wrath so Kisaki feared becoming the target of Mikey's wrath because that would mean that Kisaki would be killed by him in a horrible way. I think that even though Kisaki admirated Mikey and manipulated him, actually Kisaki deep down was always afraid of Mikey.

A fairly frequent theme in Tokyo Revengers is how adults influence the behavior of young people and how the lack of affection, supervision, positive attention and care lead them to create these gangs to unload the emotional stress that this causes them as well as fill their emotional emptiness. This can be seen in how adults abandon their children (Izana), are abusive (Kazutora), are absent most of the time for work (Mitsuya) or for other reasons (Sano siblings), have no one to take care of them (Draken and Kakucho), are guide and teach the kids to an wrong path and then not help that kids to abandon said path because they cannot do it or they're not interested in it (South) and we even see how some adults are still stuck with the gangs (Takeomi, Benkei and Wakasa) as they don't feel like they have anywhere else to belong and the closest they have to a home or a place where they feel comfortable or welcome is with the gangs, this is because Shinichiro (leader of the Black Dragons, a rather notorious gang) was there for them when no one else was.

One of the reasons that Pah, being in the correctional facility, didn't become someone like the S-62 is because his parents visited him every day giving him support and positive attention, thus showing their love and concern for him.

Even Kisaki's situation would have been avoided if only his parents had provided positive attention and been more aware of him, what he does, his behavior and setting limits on it.

Also, in a previous post, I mentioned that Mikey has never had a positive interaction with any adult in his entire life. That's why Takemichi must defeat Mikey and not kill him because he's the first adult who cares about him and doesn't want him to go down the wrong path besides being the first adult to guide him, correct him and make him see reason.

Takemichi (an adult who can travel back in time to his teenage self) is the protagonist, and also one of the reasons why I like him as character and protagonist, because symbolically he's the adult who does what no other adult wants or can do: provide positive support and care for kids who belong to gangs and keep them from going down the wrong path. Tokyo Revengers is the story of how an adult (Takemichi) takes revenge on the system that abandons or sets aside people like him, like Mikey or like all the people he knows by not caring what happens to them or simply considers them criminals, forgetting that they're people, and there is no better way to take revenge on a system that makes adults absent from the lives of teenages than an adult doing the opposite of the system: caring, guiding, providing support and positive attention to said teenages.

Bruno Bucciarati, Eda Clawthorne, Captain Grime, Johnny Lawrence and, in a strange way, Takemichi Hanagaki are adults who lead pretty empty and messy lives and it doesn't seem to bother them in the least.

But then a series of events occurs and they meet someone (Giorno Giovanna, Luz Noceda, Sasha Waybright, Miguel Diaz and Manjiro "Mikey" Sano) and that kid makes them realize that their lives are a mess and inspires them to change for the better as they completely grow and self-reflect and mature for the sake of that kid.

Bruno, Eda, Grime, Johnny and Takemichi seek to help and protect that child as a way of gratitude to that loved one because it made them realize who they are and turned them into the best version of themselves and then in moments of (near) death and sacrifice, they thank that kid for making them realize that life is not just about existing with an empty routine that just goes through and start all over again but that life is much more than that.

Those kids inadvertently saved these adults from an empty existence full of problems and regrets by giving them a reason to live a better or at least happy life as the best version of themselves and the adults want to do this in return with these kids.

The people that predicted that Shinichiro is the second time leaper as a joke and it turned out to be true: