Tokyo Revengers manga spoilers! Do NOT read if you're anime-only and haven't read manga yet or haven't finished it yet!!
Summary: Curse of Sano family, Dark impulses, how Takemichi is able to break the curse, what is Takemichi to Mikey and why.
What is Dark Impulse exactly? It's the curse that was given to Sano family by previous timeleaper, who was killed by Shinichiro then. Old man's curse wasn't only affecting Shinichiro but the whole Sano family--especially Mikey.
Shinichiro got his karma, but "Dark Impulses" aim wasn't to ruin Shinichiro only, but also his siblings, everyone Shinichiro held dear to his heart.
Dark Impulses are called Dark Impulses because Mikey introduced them as that, since the curse was violent and pushed its owner to the embrace of evil and wickedness.
The most interesting thing about it is that Dark Impulses are also introduced as another Mikey, ANOTHER HUMAN and living being. Just in one body. (I thought it was DID reference ngl)
I just think that it's interesting way to introduce a curse because it's usually introduced as someTHING and not as someONE ("there's SOMETHING inside of me that I cannot control" for example) but I think this shows how Mikey thought that Dark Impulses were HIM, that it was Inseparable from him and it was part of who he was. Which makes sense because he has had it since he was very young and learned to live with it. Mikey has been struggling to keep his darkness away but that just caused it to bottle up and get harder and harder to control.
His Dark Impulses got so much worse because of the loss of his loved ones, since his mentality got so much weaker to the point that he wasn't able to fight back dark impulses and Kisaki's manipulation, he has fallen victim of them. He managed to appear calm about it and pretend that everything was alright but there's a limit to how much one can take.
Many people thought that Takemichi was stupid for this and I've even seen the comments saying that they didn't get this part at all. But Takemichi, in fact, was the ONLY ONE who could break the curse and it's because Shinichiro transferred his powers to Takemichi, but not his curse. Let's note one thing that Shinichiro died few days after giving his power to Takemichi, which could be interfered as that he was alive (after his time leaping) because of his powers. Which means that the power to timeleap can and will break the curse of previous timeleaper. In order for Takemichi to do that, Mikey had to completely give in his Dark Impulses and placed his trust in Takemichi to break the curse.
Which is why Takemichi actually was Mikey's hero, because he was the only one who could break the curse that he has been suffering with for a good while. Takemichi is indeed a hero. Mikey's hero.







