A recent study by Mantan network revealed some curiosities about the Tokyo Revengers audience, confirming, for example, that the average age of readers dropped by at least ten years as it hit mainstream. According to the message, In 2017, the series was mainly read by thirty and forty year olds, now the situation seems to have changed.
According to the Japanese newspaper, the original target was adult men who like “80s comics with delinquents as protagonists”. After the cover was redesigned in 2018, the average age seems to be falling, with an increasing number of readers in their twenties. The anime made the change in 2021, adding girls and teenagers to the catchment area.
The most interesting part is undoubtedly the effect of changing the coverwhich, as you can see below, was “updated” just a year after the manga was released. Fortunately, the modification of the objective did not affect the story in any way and the work in general remains perfectly enjoyable, but this report underlines once again the importance of the author’s stroke.
The anime adaptation Tokyo Revengers is currently running on Crunchyroll, which airs new episodes every Saturday at 9 p.m. The manga recently surpassed 17 million copies sold, and we can expect that number to continue to rise through the end of summer.
Tokyo Revengers demographics:
– Manga Mogura RE (@MangaMoguraRE) June 29, 2021
Initially, the readership consisted of men in their 30s and 40s, fans of criminal manga from the 80s.
After redesigning the covers in 2018 (right picture), more younger men also became readers.
After the anime aired, women in their teens and 20s participated pic.twitter.com/GXXDd9AQ8J
