Chapter 1

Reborn is the first chapter of the Tokyo卍Revengers (Manga).

Summary
Takemichi eats in front of the TV and hears news about dispute involving the Tokyo Manji Gang and as a result Naoto Tachibana and Hinata Tachibana had died, the girl he dated when he was in middle school.

At work, Takemichi gets scolded for not doing his job properly and that annoys him. Returning from work, and waiting at the train station, someone pushes him and he falls on the tracks as the train comes. His life flashes before his eyes, but as he opens them, he sees his friends from middle school and then sees his face in the mirror and realizes this was him from middle school. He sees his phone date being July 4th, 2005, and realizes that is 12 years ago. They were heading towards Shibuya Third Mid to fight some seconds years and if someone gave them trouble, they plan on using Takemichi's cousin name Masaru, who is the ruler of the school. Takemichi gets shocked they are going to fight for no reason, but starts recalling something like this indeed happened. As he haven't fought in 10 years, he starts to getscared of the fight. Waiting in a part, Takemichi starts to recall of what happened and Shibuya Third Mid third years appear. Led by Masataka Kiyomizu, they heard someone was looking for their second years, but as they are on a school trip, the third years came to beat them. Yamagishi comments they have connections with Masaru, but that makes the third years laugh as they call out Masaru and order him to go buy them some drinks, revealing to be just an errand boy. The third years then beat Takemichi's group and tell them that they are now soldiers in the Tokyo Manji Gang. Takemichi recalls this was the moment when his days as slave for him and his friends started, and after he graduated, he just ran away and went living on his own. He took variety of jobs, but as he sucked on them all, he kept apologizing.

Takemichi then remembers Hinata and that Tokyo Manji Gang killed her in the present. As he couldn't remember how she looked, he ran to where he lived. As she sees his beat up face, she questions him if she got into another fight, but Takemichi starts to cry and attempts to leave. Hinata stops him and wants to know what happened as she is his girlfriend. They talk a little and Takemichi leaves and goes to sit on the swings. She hears a boy being mugged and as he gets annoyed, he punches one of them and uses a broken bottle to chase them. He gives the boy some advice about how to stand his ground, but as the boy tells him his name, he realizes its Hinata's little brother, Naoto. He tells Naoto to protect his sister and that in 2017 he fell in the train track and ended up here, making Naoto excited that this is a time leap. Takemichi tells Naoto to remember July 1st, 2017, as on that day, both Naoto and Hinata die. As Naoto agrees, he shakes Takemichi's hand and Takemichi blanks out and wakes up in the hospital on July 4th, 2017. A grown up Naoto then wants to speak with Takemichi, telling Takemichi he changed his destiny and that Takemichi performed a time leap. Naoto explains that he took Takemichi's words seriously and he studied hard to protect his sister and had became a detective, but she still died. Naoto asks Takemichi to work with him in order to save Hinata.