Manjiro "Mikey" Sano is the main character of this series named “Tokyo Revenger's “. His real name is “Manjiro Sano”. Mikey and his friends are part of a Gang named “Toman”. In this article, I will tell you some interesting facts about Tokyo Revenger's Mikey.
Anime characters in Tokyo Revengers are all physically fit. But Mikey is the best among all of them. Mikey's physical proficiency can be linked to both his official training and his superior strength. Not only physically, but Mikey is also really strong mentally.
Manjiro "Mikey" Sano is the deuteragonist-turned-final antagonist of the 2017 Japanese manga series Tokyo Revengers and its 2021 anime adaptation. He is a founding member and President of the Tokyo Manji Gang, the younger brother of Shinichiro Sano, the founder and the very first president of the Black Dragons, and the half-brother of Emma Sano.
Throughout the arcs, he played as the deuteragonist, however, his fourth timeline counterpart played a minor villainous role in the Tenjiku, his Bonten timeline counterpart served as the main antagonist of the Bonten Arc, then Mikey after 2 years later after forming the Kanto Manji Gang serves as one of the main antagonists of the Three Deities Arc (alongside South Terano) and the titular main antagonist in the Kanto Manji arc, two parts of the final story arc for the series.
While he is mostly an anti-heroic character, as the series furthers more throughout the arcs, he is beginning to slowly embrace his "dark urges" due to the loss of his older brother, Shinichiro Sano, and childhood/long-time friend, Keisuke Baji, but he is trying to maintain his mind's conscience and not let the death get to him. However, everyone he cherished and loved begins to fall apart under Kisaki's actions as the only one left was Emma, who has been keeping Mikey in check of his mental state. It was also the final straw for Mikey to no longer accept loss as he begins to slowly descend into darkness.
Before his "dark urges", he was mostly a carefree, optimistic, and caring teen who cherishes everyone around him, even Takemichi, who he considers as one of his dearest friends alongside Draken. Apart from what he becomes in the series, later on, Mikey had intentions regarding that he and all members of Toman, formed by himself and his dear friends, to have the ambition of creating an era for all delinquents as a whole once he and the rest of Toman become top of Japan one day. However, said intentions evade once he lost the three things he cherished most.
He is voiced by Yū Hayashi in the Japanese dub and Aleks Le in the English dub.
Appearance
As a child, Manjiro is a small boy with a set of pitch black pupils and rather long, slightly wavy and dyed (or more likely, bleached) blonde hair tied on top of his head sideways. He is mostly seen wearing a white long sweatshirt that is underneath the signature Toman outfit, consists of a baggy jacket, pants, and beige boots.
In the fourth timeline, being all grown up, Manjiro "Mikey" Sano s hair is black which is its natural color, resembling his brother Shinichiro's, as well as having to have got himself a tattoo on the left side of his neck near his left shoulder. In which his clothing attire consists of a a black colored sleeveless shirt, a white long-sleeved shirt that reveals his shoulders and left one button open on the upper top of his chest, black pants and slippers.
In the Bonten timeline, Mikey has then dyed his hair once more, only for it to be the same haircolor that resembled his "brother" Izana Kurokawa (White/Silver), in which his hairstyle seems to consisted being a haircut due to the middle part undercut down to the bottom near his neck, in which the neck down there has the official Bonten symbol behind it for a tattoo. He also seems to have bangs over his eyes, showing the results of Mikey not having to have slept well to that matter.
In addition for the Bonten timeline of Mikey's clothing, he is seem wearing the very same earrings that once belonged to Izana, with his clothing attire being the same one as his fourth timeline counterpart's, the only difference being a black colored sweatshirt, black pants, and the only thing remaining to be slippers.
Personality
Manjiro "Mikey" Sano is described to be a completely complex individual, with a lot more expressions and feelings reflecting to his personality. For instance to one hand, Mikey is mostly seen as a serious and strong person, meanwhile he's more of a carefree optimist, who values and cherishes everyone around him, especially his comrades in Toman and his half-sister Emma, being big examples to his pride.
For the first thing to know about Mikey is that most of his carefree nature consists of his mischievousness, laziness, and child-like demeanor. Despite being the leader of Toman, whenever he's not serious, he can be somewhat acting more of whatever a little kid could think or just play around and mess with his friends. An example to his type of behavior occurred when he whined about his kid's meal not having a flag and can be a lot reckless when arguing with Draken, to which they destroyed all of Takemichi's childhood possessions. Additionally, he has a sleeping habit after having to eat a meal every time and can sometimes be a jerk when it comes to his mischievous nature when he and Draken made fun of Takemichi having dog poop on his hair.