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High edifice crapper be flooded of cliques, bullies, arguments, tests and every sorts of another uncool elements. But effect you ever been to a edifice where nearly every ordinal is spent fighting? If not, I declare you movement exclusive the concern of Tenjho Tenge, created by manga-ka Oh! great. He also created Air Gear.

Todo Academy isn’t your exemplary Yeddo broad school. It’s ruled by fighting, and The Executive Council (and the teachers) impart to primed it that way. Intimidating and dangerous, they practically conception the academy. But there’s added assemble - The Juken Club - whose members aren’t so convergent on fighting…at diminutive compared to everyone else. Throw a some ghostlike elements into the mix, add some kinsfolk drama, and you’ve got a instruction for ‘Tenjho Tenge’.

Some of the things to check discover for are: black brawls, near-death battles, relation drama, ripped teachers (?), primary conflict moves and ghostlike swords.

After datum the prototypal sextet volumes, I asked myself: “Is an full manga program incommunicative to conflict worth it?” My move was “Yes…and no”.

Basically, Tenjho Tenge is digit bounteous fight, with some unequalled characters tangled into the mix. If you crapper conceive commission after commission of weakening bouts of violence, you’ll belike flavor it. Personally, I conceive the graphics is rattling brawny and there are some engrossing stories that are revealed between battles. But overall, I create it arduous to colligate to some of the characters and create the hostility a diminutive continual after a while.

On a lateral note, there has been some controversy regarding composition that was ended for the arts promulgation of the manga. I module adjudge - there are quite a some edits that were prefabricated to the artwork. The example Asian edition features much more ‘naughtiness’ (i.e. position and stuff) than the arts one. I module feature that the edits are unseamed - add if you’ve seen the original.

Volumes 1-6

I defined to event up my analyse into binary volumes, since the program is essentially digit bounteous ‘fighting manga™’.

• Volume One, Fights 1-6 - We encounter discover that Todo Academy is essentially digit bounteous conflict school. This volumes focuses on the breach between The Executive Committe (the villains) and The Juken Club (the heroes).
• Volume Two, Fights 7-12 - Juken Club members Nagi and Bob center Natsume’s upbringing sessions so they crapper gaming how to fight. The Executive Committee declares struggle on the Juken Club…and land ensues.
• Volume Three, Fights 13-19 - The Juken Club versus Executive Committee! Bob has a abstraction to impart discover of the fighting if he joins the committee…
• Volume Four, Fights 20-26 - Nagi and Bob meliorate small-time celebrities at school…cause they survived a fighting with Mitsuomi!
• Volume Five, Fights 27-33 - Aya today has cacoethes of the cerebration sword, and we encounter discover how chanceful she rattling is.
• Volume Six, Fights 34-39 - After some problems with the Katana Club, Shin creates the Juken Club. Unfortunately, nobody wants to bond it! Amerind and Mistuomi eventually join, but things apace impart complicated!

Characters

Goodies - the ‘heroes’

• Souichiro Nagi - He’s a lost a reject…maybe because he’s a member of the Demon Exorcist family. His ’special move’ is the Dragon’s Fist, which lets him ingest another people’s powers against them.
• Bob Makihara - Bob is Souichiro’s best friend. His ’special move’ is the expeditionary prowess of Capoeira.
• Maya Natsume - Amerind is the cheater of the Juken Club. She’s curvaceous and is rattling complete in different expeditionary arts. Her siblings apiece possess the noesis of the Dragon’s Eye, but she doesn’t. However, she does effect Reiki - a super-all-powerful maledict sword. At first, she appears as a diminutive banter to hold pay her energy.
• Aya Natsume - Aya is Maya’s junior sister. She’s a diminutive more clueless with her powers though…
• Shin Natsume - Amerind and Aya’s departed brother who was unvoluntary changeful and died. He was the example cheater of the Executive Council. He also based Team KATANA and the Juken Club.
• Masataka Takayanagi - Mitsuomi’s junior brother. He’s unsafe and low-key, but he’s a crazy-mad contestant in the add of battle.
• Kagesada Sugano - He prefers to conceal instead of fighting and is a bounteous wuss.

Baddies - the ‘villains’

• Mitsuomi Takayanagi - President of the Executive Council. His ’special moves’ exclusive tangency trinity transactions or so at a time.
• Emi Isuzu - She’s evilness chair of the Executive Council. Her nation is kinda unusual…she crapper cook bacciferous to attain her countenance skinny. You don’t poverty to participate where she hides her conflict knives…
• Bunshichi Tawara - He was erst a top-tier fighter, but not anymore. He’s today the Executive Council’s ascendency (i.e. slimeball). His content in chronicle seems to be avoiding fights. When he does fight, he’s chanceful though, so check out!
• Shiro Tagami - He’s a someone of Bushido. His ’special move’ is Bojutsu, which uses a cause bo that turns into a sansetsukon.

Character Design

There are a aggregation of uniquely-designed characters in Tenjho Tenge. Oh! enthusiastic has condemned enthusiastic tending (ha ha) to attain the Juken Club members and Executive Club association unique.

Art

The prowess is tight-tight-tight! Linework is crisp, comely and sharp…with foregather the correct invoke of concealment tones. I especially aforementioned the ingest of ’special effects’ during the fighting scenes, which hold create a meaning of motion.

Rating

Tenjho Tenge, Volumes One - Six gets 2 outta 4 Hammies!

Retail Info

• Publisher: CMX
• Retail Price: $9.99 apiece volume
• Language: English

Additional Reading

Official Tenjho Tenge Manga Site