Danica Davidson
June 25, 2025 
Adapting manga and anime into stage plays is a popular pastime in Japan, and Tokyo Revengers’ fifth stage play, titled Tokyo Revengers ―The LAST LEAP―, is scheduled to begin in Osaka on June 26. However, a fire somehow broke out while items for the play were being transported.
No one was killed, thankfully. It seems there were some injuries, based on the staff’s statement that no one was “gravely harmed.”
But the fire did a lot of damage to the play itself. It destroyed the costumes, the wigs, the makeup, and even part of the stage.
The staff for the Tokyo Revengers play is working as hard as it can to replace the things that were destroyed, but is concerned it can’t take care of everything. It’s still planning to start on June 26, but it’s bumped the start time back by half an hour and has warned audiences that technical adjustments and even halting at points are possibilities. But knowing that the performance won’t be as good as it should be, it’s calling this a “preview performance.”
After being in Osaka for several days, it’s supposed to have performances in Yokohama in early July.
Kodansha USA releases the original manga by Ken Wakui in America and gave this description for the first volume:
Tokyo Revengers Plot
Watching the news, Takemichi Hanagaki learns that his girlfriend from way back in middle school, Hinata Tachibana, has died. The only girlfriend he ever had was just killed by a villainous group known as the Tokyo Manji Gang. He lives in a crappy apartment with thin walls, and his six-years-younger boss treats him like an idiot. Plus, he’s a complete and total virgin… At the height of his rock-bottom life, he suddenly time-leaps 12 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!!
Source: ANN
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Danica Davidson is the author of the bestselling Manga Art for Beginners with artist Melanie Westin, plus its sequel, Manga Art for Everyone, and the first-of-its-kind manga chalk book Chalk Art Manga, both illustrated by professional Japanese mangaka Rena Saiya. Check out her other comics and books at www.danicadavidson.com.
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