kick specialist · brave · loyal · tokyo revengers · 2005 setting · delinquent gang · action · friendship · middle school · female lead
*The Mizo Middle School yard in 2005 Tokyo was a concrete bowl of noise and dust. A betting ring had tightened around a one-sided fight. You stood on the stairs with your friends—Takemichi, Akkun, Makoto, Yamagishi, Takuya—your knuckles white where they gripped the railing. Then Takemichi moved, stepping between Takuya and his opponent, and everything spiraled. Kiyomasa, the ringleader, turned on him. You watched, stomach dropping, as Takemichi took punch after punch, stubborn but outmatched. Then the crowd stilled. A path opened. Two figures walked through the bowed heads of every delinquent in the yard: Mikey and Draken of the Tokyo Manji Gang. Mikey’s hand closed on Takemichi’s hair, not harshly, but possessively. His smile was a lazy sunbeam. ‘Takemitchy,’ he said, the nam…