Tenjho Tenge Review
By tareren
Tenjho Tenge Review
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Plot Synopsis
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Story & Characters
Tenjho Tenge is basically a story about school life. The story started with two
gangster-like boys beating up a whole bunch of high school seniors in order to
"take over" the school. These two boys , Bob Makihara and Nagi
Souichiro, were then stopped by the Jyuuken club president, Natsume Maya. The
school that they attend to is one that put martial arts above everything (even
teachers know martial arts ^^)
The story would then develop to a typical boy fight story where the characters
are trying to be stronger and everything, though I have to admit Tenjho Tenge
has a nice past inserted to make the whole story make sense. There is also the
love triangle problem between Souichiro, Maya and Maya's sister, Aya.
Anyway, Souichiro turns out to be very talented in martial arts that the student
council of the school is terrified of his ability and tried to eliminate him
(expel him from the school) with any means possible. Another threat for them is
Natsume Aya, who has Ryuugan aka Dragon's Eyes, who is said to be able to see
the past and future. Aya herself seems to be having trouble controlling her
power and containing it.
The story is packed nicely, with a few flashback episodes in the middle,
explaining all about the past and the background, and where the story would go
to. I certainly look forward to see what will happen to the love triangle, the
Enforcers (student council), and the ending of everything.
- Rating
- 7 (above average)
Art
I like the character drawing, though it looks inconsistent sometimes, especially
for Souichiro. However, it can be seen that they tried to give each character a
unique design (appearance based) such as the spiral hair that Isuzu has or the
unique change over of Maya from kid form to her adult form and vice versa.
Clothes design is so-so, almost nothing special since most of the scene happens
in school where they usually wears uniform.
I hardly see any background characters as usually the screenshot only contains
the few people that matters in the scene, in a place and time where nobody is
around. And when there is a few, they seems to stoned so I do not like the
background characters.
Background view is also quite standard, nothing special about it, though I kind
of like the bathing scene view in the lake (or was it river?). Btw, this anime
is a tiny bit ecchi.
And to top it all, the art of the anime is nothing near the manga art, I think
the manga art is really awesome (other than the over-huge boobs 
)
- Rating
- 6 (average)
Sound
As for its soundtrack, I am sorry to say that I do not like its ending theme. It
is not very suitable with the lively atmosphere that the anime has (though
towards the middle it is a bit gloomy, I see the whole anime as lively one). The
opening song is okay (and lively) although I cannot say I like it (maybe it is
nice for those who like rap and stuff like that).
The seiyuu fits nicely with the character (chibi Maya's seiyuu is so cute), you
can see the character development with the change of voice that they have, like
the change of the old cheerful Mitsuomi to the darker and stricter one.
- Rating
- 6 (average)
Presentation
I found that though the storyline is quite standard at the beginning, it turns
out to be quite interesting toward the middle of the story when they started to
reveal the past. I cannot say that the whole story is quite original as it is a
normal kind of fighting story where characters tried to be stronger and
everything to avenge somebody, but the presence of the unique characteristic of
the school system and also abilities that some characters have had given the
whole anime a nice touch.
There is a nice bit of humor here and there, though not really a lot (I like
Maya's transformation a lot ^^). I think this anime is more of the serious kind
of anime (definitely not light hearted one). Lots of the characters has their
own problems and that made this anime has a gloomy feeling to it (especially in
the middle), what with all the fighting and the horrible past story (I am not
saying that it is VERY dark and gloomy though). However, I enjoy the whole anime
despite all that (mind you, am not exactly a fan of dark kind of anime where
everything is so serious). Oh, and I will recommend this anime to those 15 years
old and above (due to some pervertness and violence ^^)
- Rating
- 8 (good)
Final Verdict
7.00 (above average)
Reviewed by tareren, 3y 13wk ago
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the shows nice.. though the characters are a bit..unnaturally.. mature
Aside from that, there's a lot of ecchi present also...a guy's dream anime...sorta..
Yeah TenTen anime its little.....ehmmm crappy......it was made really just for commercial purpose
...cos' the manga its fuckin' awesome!!!! Its my fav of all and forever ^__^ +
I'll 
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Yes, I agree the anime is not really one of the best. The artists are just not paying enough attention to detail all the time. On the other hand the manga is really superb. The story is presented much better and the drawings are awesome.
i dun really think the story started off with 2 guys fighting off some other guys..in fact i think the story started with maya and her family problems..
i love this anime the style and artwork is pretty unique not to mention the fighting scenes xd
go Bobou xd
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yo amo este anime llamado tenjou tenje el estilo del arte que utilisan en el anime yen lamanga son exelentes de muy buena calidad ggggggggggggggggggggggggggaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii(...)
Art slashing!? This anime has some of the bestttttt art I've ever seen... blarg!!!
I can't really say that they've been inconsistent in drawing Souichirou, since I don't take notice of him too much. Anyway, Tenjho Tenge is really artwork-wise. Some people may not be comfortable of their art due to its ecchiness.
Rizov: Of course, manga's art is different from that of the anime. The reasons is it's hard to animate detailed pictures. But I agree that this anime is not one of the best. I'm not that interested with the story, and the flashbacks are too long.
i agree with natrinuretic...
the flashbacks is really waste alots of time...
but the way they animate this anime is very good...
coz i try to make screen shot when is come to fighting scene n i found out this anime did a very good job
I disagree. The flashback gives a lot of insight, although it makes the story in the present seem a lot shorter than the story in the past. I haven't watched the anime, but I heard it was an average series. The manga (unedited) though, is awesome from first-hand experience.
tenjou tenge is my favorite anime, it just has amazing fighting seens and a good story (but not as good as the manga). the animation is good at times buts sometimes its not that great but i hav gotten use to it. one thing is that i still havent found out whos the main character, first i thaught it was Nagi Souichirou, but then it was Takayanagi Masataka whos was telling the story, then when they went to the flash back, i was thinking the main character was Natsume Maya. thats why its different from other anime.
ppl plz tell me where to download dis manga
4 me tenjo tenge is a very good anime.
the 1st time i watch this anime i little bit complicated but when i watch it second time i realise this anime is really very good and i like it so much.
i like SHIN NATSUME alot................
does anyone know where to download this anime or manga
I like tenjou tenge , however i like the manga much better than the anime. I don't know if its becuz they cut off the anime very early, since i read up 2 issue 75 in the manga, and the anime stopped before half of the story was completed. This lead to incomplete development of some characters (like masataka,bob and nagi, i realised in the anime nagi isnt much of a main character). The art in the manga is some of the best I've ever seen,I mean some of the pages look like wallpapers instead of normal comic pages. The story telling is way better, for example the narrator takes time to describe the background behind abilities and families (u shud check out the takayanagi family TIGHT), and the what the thoughts of the characters are highlighted better as well. So all in all tenjou tenge is one of my favourite productions especially manga.
I like that anime .It is different i think and it worths to see it.
I like Tenjou Tenge, but i don't like the anime as much as the manga. Basicly because there's more of the action, emotion, story and, of course, fan service. But who's to blame?