CLAWING BACK FROM ROCK BOTTOM The brutal showdown between Mikey and Takemichi is finally over, and it’s ended with Takemichi in a hospital bed, and one of his friends dead and buried. Takemichi came to the past to try and save Mikey from himself. Instead, he only ruined the future he worked so hard to create. It’s a time to make hard decisions: Just how much further is Takemichi willing to go, and how many people will he put in danger, for the sake of the man he swore to save? Series Overview: Watching the news, Hanagaki Takemichi learns his junior-high girlfriend Tachibana Hinata has died. A sudden shove sends him 12 years into the past to face the Tokyo Manji Gang that once made his life hell, which is also responsible for Hinata’s death in the present. To save Hinata and change the future, Takemichi must rise to the top of Kanto’s most sinister delinquent gang! But things aren’t so simple when he befriends the gang’s leader, Mikey. What turned Mikey from a petulant child to the leader of the most infamous gang in Tokyo?