#i have a few gripes about the way the plot in tokyorev is written but honestly im just here for the characters at the end of the day

[kokoinupi]

hi op ive never spoken to you and your post just came up in my recommended so i hope its okay to dump my opinions on here lol. but like, i honestly think the same thing with all the complaints ive seen.

for me, the ending of tokyorev (and tbh all the plot writing thus far) is definitely not above criticism, there's been tons of plot holes and forgotten facts and pacing issues this whole time. and there are, of course, certain criticisms about the end in particular that are extra valid, such as, what happened with inupi's disappearing scar? you're really telling me they managed to stop the fire?? and most importantly, WHY WAS THE END ONLY TWO CHAPTERS??

but i can't 100% blame wakui ken for these problems, a lot of it im sure lies in deadlines and poor decisions made by editors, the life of a mangaka is tough and lacking a lot of control that fans seem to assume is there.

that aside though, we need to be focusing on if this the ending we deserve. after everything, does this ending fit the tone and genre of the story, does it fulfill the promises made from the start, does it feel like an appropriate ending to each character's journey? personally, i think it does. this feels like the right way to end everything. the problem i think the majority of the fandom is having is that it was so incredibly rushed that while, yes, tokyorev as a whole did deserve this ending, it didn't deserve it yet. i think if we had gotten another arc or two, and paced the denouement in a more palatable way, we would be seeing a lot less criticism of the ending itself. but i think a lot of people are confusing their disappointment in the delivery with the product.

that said, so many of the arguments are so stupid and nitpicky, and i feel like people are missing a lot of context clues that fill it out a bit more. yes, mikey and takemichi will remember, but they're not the only ones. not only do i think they would still relate the experiences of everything that happened to the people around them; they know from firsthand experience that sharing knowledge with their friends and taking some of the burden off their shoulders has only been a good thing, but also, chifuyu remembers!! this is really important to me, because there's no real reason why only chifuyu would remember along with them. which implies it could be more than just him too.

there's so many mysteries in how the final time leap happened, whether mikey and takemichi both count as the contact for each other, or if maybe someone else acted as a contact. you could say that chifuyu counted as a contact, hence why he remembered, but why would it only be him? why not... everyone else that was there at the kantoman fight?

the point im getting at here is, the missing chunk in the ending is very frustrating, especially combined with unanswered questions about how story arcs resolved in the final timeline (im personally very interested in how koko's character arc goes down, for reasons entirely unrelated to my url don't worry about it), but in a way, that openness is also an opportunity to think of your own answers, believe what you want of the ending, god forbid use some critical thinking and imagination? but it seems a lot of people in this fandom would rather complain about a happy ending than do any of that, which makes the tokyorev tag very sad to scroll through.

anyway sorry again op, im kinda sick rn and i have a lot of disjointed feelings about the ending and the fandom's response to it... it just seems so sad how negative everyone is being about what could be a very good ending given some fanon work to fill in what we weren't given.

I really really do not understand why people are so mad at the ending? You wanted a happy ending? You have it. You wanted draken back? You got it. But somehow you wanted him back without a time leap? What did you think he was gonna do? Be resurrected? You wanted everyone to be happy and alive? You got that. I understand it's been a bit rushed but why on earth would you be upset at having a happy ending where everyone lives when we've had so much death so far? YOU WANTED THIS AND NOW YOU HAVE IT AND YOU STILL FIND REASONS TO COMPLAIN.

And everyone complaining that "these aren't the characters we have struggled with" well how were you expecting an everyone lives ending without a time leap? You wanted an everyone lives ending! Would you have preferred everyone died? No because you'd have found something to complain about then too. The thing is, both takemichi and Mikey still remember, will always remember. The story has been about their shared bond, they will always know what they've been through. It doesn't mean everything is erased or that these are not the characters we know and love. Mikey and takemichi will always know how they came to be here and will always carry the same anxieties or even joys that they had before.