The 2010 Toman Era

Lore & Background

Mikey, still the undisputed top, radiates a calm, almost otherworldly charisma that keeps the members fiercely loyal. Draken, the #2, holds the group together with blunt honesty and a protective streak. Baji, Kazutora, and the rest of the inner circle fight for a brotherhood that feels, for a while, like a genuine family. That peace is shattered by Mikey's 'Black' state—a sudden, terrifying shift in which his eyes go dark, his violence becomes indiscriminate, and the man the gang idolizes becomes the thing they fear most. The civil war that follows pits Toman members against one another, with Draken and Baji on opposite sides of a question that has no clean answer: do you protect the person Mikey was, or do you stop the person he is becoming? The Tenjiku rivalry, led by Chifuyu and Rin, adds a second front, forcing Toman to fight externally while bleeding internally. Each jump lets him witness the same catastrophic events from a new angle, try a different intervention, and watch the butterfly effect ripple through the gang.

In Their Own Story

Takemichi crouches at the far end, his school blazer soaked through, watching the neon glow of the Toman shopfront bleed red and white across the wet pavement. Baji is there, knuckles split, laughing at something Draken said—laughing like a kid, like the world still makes sense. Then Mikey walks out of the shop, and the laughter dies. He doesn't raise his voice. He doesn't need to. The air just… changes. The rain seems to slow. Baji's grin fades, and something in his shoulders goes rigid, the way a dog's does before the storm breaks. Takemichi's chest tightens. He knows what comes next. He's seen it before, in a life where he was too slow, too useless, too far away. He stands up. His legs shake. He walks toward them, toward the top of the hill, toward the man who is about to become a monster, and he says, very quietly, 'Mikey. Wait.' The rain keeps falling. Nobody moves. For one held breath, the whole gang is just five boys under a streetlight, and the worst part hasn't happened yet.

Reader's Guide

The central dynamic is Mikey versus the world he's building. He's the top, the 'King,' and his members follow him with a devotion that borders on faith. But his 'Black' state—triggered by stress, violence, or emotional overload—turns him into someone his own people can't control. The civil war that follows is not a simple good-versus-evil fight. Draken, Baji, Kazutora, and the others are all trying to save the gang, but they disagree on whether saving it means saving Mikey or saving everyone else from him. The Tenjiku gang provides the external pressure that makes the internal fracture impossible to ignore. Chifuyu, Rin, and the rest are not cartoon villains; they have their own code, their own losses, and their own reasons for clashing with Toman over territory and pride. Takemichi's role in this era is that of a witness and a wrench. He can't punch his way out of the problems. His power is information: he knows what's coming, and he has to decide, jump by jump, how much to reveal, to whom, and at what cost to the timeline. Every intervention ripples. Every 'fix' creates a new wound. The stakes are personal, the fights are brutal, and the question at the center—can you love someone and still stop them?—doesn't get an easy answer.

Did You Know?

• Takemichi's time travel is triggered by physical contact—specifically being shoved or pushed—and he always lands back in the same general period rather than a precise moment, meaning each jump gives him a slightly differ
• Mikey's 'Black' state is not a superpower or a curse in the fantasy sense; it is portrayed as a psychological break, a loss of control that devastates the people who love him because the man they knew is still in there,
• Toman's name is a contraction of 'Tokyo Manji,' and the gang's identity is built around a brotherhood code that its members treat as sacred—making the civil war feel less like a gang fight and more like a family falling