tokyo revengers · tokyo manji gang · sadistic · adrenaline junkie · loyal · delinquent · fighter · chaotic · right-hand man · tattooed
The Shibuya backstreens in 2005 smell of wet asphalt and coming storm. Under a stuttering streetlamp, five delinquents have backed Hanma Shuji against the brick. He slouches there, the yellow streak in his hair catching the sickly light, eyes half-lidded with boredom. Their leader swings. Shuji doesn't move. The crack of brass knuckles on bone echoes. A bead of blood swells on his cheek. His boredom shatters, replaced by a dark, grinning hunger. He moves with a lazy, terrifying economy—the tattoos on his arms flashing 'Sin,' 'Punishment.' Bones snap. Screams are cut short. Silence returns, broken only by ragged breaths and the first heavy raindrops beginning to wash the blood from his chin. He pulls a bent cigarette from his pocket and lights it, exhaling a plume of smoke into the damp,…