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Tenjo Tenge: Full Contact Edition #3
Tenjo Tenge, Vol. 3
Knuckle-busting brawls, badass babes, and the toughest student body ever to mix it up under one roof. Welcome to Todo High, where the only rule is: get strong or get schooled.
Mitsuomi and Maya are now rivals, but once they were close friends. Their lives were changed forever because of one person: Shin Natsume, Maya’s older brother and Mitsuomi’s mentor. Inheritor of the Dragon Eyes and leader of the Supreme Warrior Faction, the charismatic Shin also bears dark and terrible secrets. Struggling under the burden of the immense power he possesses, and manipulated by those who seek to use that power, Shin begins to lose control. Maya and Mitsuomi each have their own ideas for how to deal with his increasingly erratic behavior, but it’s up to Bunshichi to really beat some sense into him!
Mitsuomi and Maya are now rivals, but once they were close friends. Their lives were changed forever because of one person: Shin Natsume, Maya’s older brother and Mitsuomi’s mentor. Inheritor of the Dragon Eyes and leader of the Supreme Warrior Faction, the charismatic Shin also bears dark and terrible secrets. Struggling under the burden of the immense power he possesses, and manipulated by those who seek to use that power, Shin begins to lose control. Maya and Mitsuomi each have their own ideas for how to deal with his increasingly erratic behavior, but it’s up to Bunshichi to really beat some sense into him!
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440 pages, Paperback
First published October 18, 2011
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About the author
Oh! Great
238 books126 followersOh! great, whose real name is Ito Ōgure (大暮維人 Ōgure Ito) is a Japanese manga artist most recognized for the manga series Tenjho Tenge and Air Gear. In 2006, he received the Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen for Air Gear. Apart from working with manga, he designed some of the alternate character outfits in the PlayStation 2 version of Namco's 3D fighting game Tekken 5, and a guest character in Soul Calibur IV named Ashlotte.
His pseudonym "Oh! great" is a play on words. His pen name, written in Japanese order, is "Ōgure Ito", which is pronounced similarly to and can be romanized the same as the Japanese rendering of the English words "Oh great," ōgurēto. Furthermore, "Oh" can mean "king" in Japanese, making it possible to read the name as "the great king".
His pseudonym "Oh! great" is a play on words. His pen name, written in Japanese order, is "Ōgure Ito", which is pronounced similarly to and can be romanized the same as the Japanese rendering of the English words "Oh great," ōgurēto. Furthermore, "Oh" can mean "king" in Japanese, making it possible to read the name as "the great king".
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March 3, 2019
*Edit*: My reread review (which ended up being more comprehensive than my original review //shot) has been added to the bottom
The two volumes in this bundle are completely comprised of backstory for Maya, her older brother Shin, Mitsuomi, and Bunshichi.
The art has been really good in these two volumes which has been a real treat. The art has always been nice, but around volumes 3-4 there were some bouts of shitty/lazy drawing, which is something that always annoys me when reading manga. However the art has been so nice lately that even the fights don't bore me anymore because they're so nice to look at! The nicer and more detailed the art is the more intense the fights feel because I can feel more emotion behind the drawings. This can definitely be a drawback in some manga--because as a mangaka you want fight scenes to be fast paced and intense and don't want the reader dawdling around spending too much time looking at the art and slowing down the pacing. This can also end up un-immersing readers from the story/fight/manga/whatever. In actuality this felt like the fastest I have ever read a manga. It felt like it took me the same time it would normally take me to read a volume, but in this bundle there were TWO volumes! What a blast.
This continues to be a very fun and entertaining series to read through! Honestly my rating for each volume probably has more to do with how depressed I'm feeling at the time rather than the contents of the manga, so the star ratings are essentially inconsequential.
REREAD REVIEW:
Reread on May 21 2018
5 stars
Yo. Even though it’s only been a few months since I read this volume for the first time, re-reading this was a gosh darn blast. Even more fun than the first time. This backstory arc is just so much better than anything else in this series, which, you know what, maybe isn’t that much of a compliment because everything else in this series is pretty... Not great. For context, I’m currently in the middle/endish of volume 15, so that’s how far I am in this series as of writing this reread review.
This arc is better than everything else because it shows Mistuomi’s (wow I actually remembered his name for once; Not. I peeked it on the back cover blurb. If you don’t remember who that is, it’s big brother Takanahashi) INSANE character development, it actually incorporates some romance instead of fricken blue balling us like the rest of the series does, it doesn’t have a stupid one-off useless villain and is instead centred around a really interesting time in these character’s lives which ends up having significant impact on all of them moving forward. This arc is an actual properly constructed story that shows that Oh!Great-sensei might actually have some storytelling skills, a concept that quickly dissipates once you continue reading past this arc.
Mitsuomi’s character development is one from our dreams. It’s soooo satisfying? In a way? To see where he started from while keeping in mind the FRICKEN MONSTER he eventually becomes. It’s actually so nice being able to read about him while he was still a wholesome baby bird in grade 10. He really was such a sweet character. During both volumes 5 & 6 he remains pure and even exhibits feelings of crippling fear, which is such an amazing thing to see in the past of someone who eventually becomes extremely scary himself. Reading about his character and transformation is definitely one of the big highlights of this arc.
I know I said that this arc doesn’t blue ball us, but honestly it still kind of does, it’s just that it’s not as bad if we compare it to the rest of the series. We see some romantic acts between Mitsuomi and Kuzunoha, which is something that adds another compelling dynamic to the characters and story, so that was good. However, Maya and Mitsuomi’s relationship remains vague and in the dark. We hear several characters mention how Mitsuomi likes Maya, and we also get the sense that she probably(?) likes him back, but we never see any of them do anything about this. There are some hints that maybe something might be going on off screen, but since they’re so vague and we never actually see anything our balls remain blue and unsure. MayaxMitsuomi is my OTP so this is frustratiiinngg. At least they went on a pseudo date at the end of volume 6, which was FANTASTIC. All-in-all, Oh!Great-sensei really knew how to treat us right during this arc by still giving us a little bit of what we crave while keeping us yearning for more.
The story and art are also great, and work together well. This series is actually proper drop-dead GORGEOUS which is a big reason of why I keep trudging on despite its huge faults past this point. Everything that goes on in this arc, from the character development, the character dynamics and interactions, the intense fights, the consequences to character’s actions, to the changing nature of their school and environment itself is all so greatly done and amazing to read about. Every aspect of this arc really complements every other aspect so well. It’s such a pleasure to read that even though I already read this arc I was still on the edge of my seat while reading and I never wanted to put the book down.
I only have one problem with this arc, really. With Bunshichi. He does a really good job of making me like him: He has a cool character design, he’s calm-cool-and-collected, and he’s a badass monster in a fight. So it’s really unfortunate that he also threatened to rape women on two different occasions during these volumes, which was not okay in the slightest. It sucks that the book made me like him, but then shows me that side of him that I cannot endorse in any capacity, which ends up putting a really sour dampening on his character. So that sucks! Bunshichi I really wish I could like you, but I can’t.
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The two volumes in this bundle are completely comprised of backstory for Maya, her older brother Shin, Mitsuomi, and Bunshichi.
The art has been really good in these two volumes which has been a real treat. The art has always been nice, but around volumes 3-4 there were some bouts of shitty/lazy drawing, which is something that always annoys me when reading manga. However the art has been so nice lately that even the fights don't bore me anymore because they're so nice to look at! The nicer and more detailed the art is the more intense the fights feel because I can feel more emotion behind the drawings. This can definitely be a drawback in some manga--because as a mangaka you want fight scenes to be fast paced and intense and don't want the reader dawdling around spending too much time looking at the art and slowing down the pacing. This can also end up un-immersing readers from the story/fight/manga/whatever. In actuality this felt like the fastest I have ever read a manga. It felt like it took me the same time it would normally take me to read a volume, but in this bundle there were TWO volumes! What a blast.
This continues to be a very fun and entertaining series to read through! Honestly my rating for each volume probably has more to do with how depressed I'm feeling at the time rather than the contents of the manga, so the star ratings are essentially inconsequential.
REREAD REVIEW:
Reread on May 21 2018
5 stars
Yo. Even though it’s only been a few months since I read this volume for the first time, re-reading this was a gosh darn blast. Even more fun than the first time. This backstory arc is just so much better than anything else in this series, which, you know what, maybe isn’t that much of a compliment because everything else in this series is pretty... Not great. For context, I’m currently in the middle/endish of volume 15, so that’s how far I am in this series as of writing this reread review.
This arc is better than everything else because it shows Mistuomi’s (wow I actually remembered his name for once; Not. I peeked it on the back cover blurb. If you don’t remember who that is, it’s big brother Takanahashi) INSANE character development, it actually incorporates some romance instead of fricken blue balling us like the rest of the series does, it doesn’t have a stupid one-off useless villain and is instead centred around a really interesting time in these character’s lives which ends up having significant impact on all of them moving forward. This arc is an actual properly constructed story that shows that Oh!Great-sensei might actually have some storytelling skills, a concept that quickly dissipates once you continue reading past this arc.
Mitsuomi’s character development is one from our dreams. It’s soooo satisfying? In a way? To see where he started from while keeping in mind the FRICKEN MONSTER he eventually becomes. It’s actually so nice being able to read about him while he was still a wholesome baby bird in grade 10. He really was such a sweet character. During both volumes 5 & 6 he remains pure and even exhibits feelings of crippling fear, which is such an amazing thing to see in the past of someone who eventually becomes extremely scary himself. Reading about his character and transformation is definitely one of the big highlights of this arc.
I know I said that this arc doesn’t blue ball us, but honestly it still kind of does, it’s just that it’s not as bad if we compare it to the rest of the series. We see some romantic acts between Mitsuomi and Kuzunoha, which is something that adds another compelling dynamic to the characters and story, so that was good. However, Maya and Mitsuomi’s relationship remains vague and in the dark. We hear several characters mention how Mitsuomi likes Maya, and we also get the sense that she probably(?) likes him back, but we never see any of them do anything about this. There are some hints that maybe something might be going on off screen, but since they’re so vague and we never actually see anything our balls remain blue and unsure. MayaxMitsuomi is my OTP so this is frustratiiinngg. At least they went on a pseudo date at the end of volume 6, which was FANTASTIC. All-in-all, Oh!Great-sensei really knew how to treat us right during this arc by still giving us a little bit of what we crave while keeping us yearning for more.
The story and art are also great, and work together well. This series is actually proper drop-dead GORGEOUS which is a big reason of why I keep trudging on despite its huge faults past this point. Everything that goes on in this arc, from the character development, the character dynamics and interactions, the intense fights, the consequences to character’s actions, to the changing nature of their school and environment itself is all so greatly done and amazing to read about. Every aspect of this arc really complements every other aspect so well. It’s such a pleasure to read that even though I already read this arc I was still on the edge of my seat while reading and I never wanted to put the book down.
I only have one problem with this arc, really. With Bunshichi. He does a really good job of making me like him: He has a cool character design, he’s calm-cool-and-collected, and he’s a badass monster in a fight. So it’s really unfortunate that he also threatened to rape women on two different occasions during these volumes, which was not okay in the slightest. It sucks that the book made me like him, but then shows me that side of him that I cannot endorse in any capacity, which ends up putting a really sour dampening on his character. So that sucks! Bunshichi I really wish I could like you, but I can’t.
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Volumes:
1 (01-02) | 2 (03-04) | 3* (05-06) | 4 (07-08)
5 (09-10) | 6 (11-12) | 7 (13-14) | 8 (15-16)
9 (15-16) |
*Current review
July 19, 2018
This one was super confusing
October 17, 2019
Love this manga
May 4, 2020
Gets deeper
Vol. 3 gets deeper into the past that is linked to current events in the manga. Still decent story telling and great illustrations.
Vol. 3 gets deeper into the past that is linked to current events in the manga. Still decent story telling and great illustrations.
November 2, 2020
1.5 stars.
May 22, 2021
Good book
We find a little more about the older characters and their story in this really good flashback book. Let's keep reading.
We find a little more about the older characters and their story in this really good flashback book. Let's keep reading.
June 21, 2017
As one of the few excessively violent books with dangerous levels of fan services that I really enjoy those that might consider reading it should be warned that it is rated Mature so no one under the age of 18 should be reading this book series dealing with a school filled with martial artists where (as the book description aptly explains) you get strong or you get schooled. If mature situations, bloody violence, and strong language does not bother you then you are more then welcomed to hop in and try this series though might I suggest starting at volume one since we are presently in arc that explains the past of many of the established characters.
Volume 3 picks up in the aftermath of the fight between the Juken Club fight in the bowling Alley for a bit but then dives right back into the story of Maya's brother Shin and his Gang which takes over much of these volumes at this point. The truth of the Katana hunter is revealed and Shin's demons come to life giving Bunshichi the motivation to put Shin back in his place before he cannot return from the brink of madness. Manipulations abound as each character is manipulated all so one true martial artist can rise from the ashes but you'll have to see for yourself exactly how each person suffers or is glorified as the past continues to reveal its many layers.
Being an omnibus I would like to point out a favorite part of mine from the first and the second half of the book though there are many interesting parts to look forward to. In the first half of the book the best part in my opinion would have to be When Bunshichi tries to get a taxi after defeating his opponent and wants to track down wherever the tracker was leading him. Some taxi drivers just have no luck. In the second half of the book I really enjoyed the interaction between Shin and Bunshichi after the fight in the hospital room. It feels like there are no hard feelings in the end but there seems to be something dark coming over the horizon that will test the friendship of those involved.
Volume 3 picks up in the aftermath of the fight between the Juken Club fight in the bowling Alley for a bit but then dives right back into the story of Maya's brother Shin and his Gang which takes over much of these volumes at this point. The truth of the Katana hunter is revealed and Shin's demons come to life giving Bunshichi the motivation to put Shin back in his place before he cannot return from the brink of madness. Manipulations abound as each character is manipulated all so one true martial artist can rise from the ashes but you'll have to see for yourself exactly how each person suffers or is glorified as the past continues to reveal its many layers.
Being an omnibus I would like to point out a favorite part of mine from the first and the second half of the book though there are many interesting parts to look forward to. In the first half of the book the best part in my opinion would have to be When Bunshichi tries to get a taxi after defeating his opponent and wants to track down wherever the tracker was leading him. Some taxi drivers just have no luck. In the second half of the book I really enjoyed the interaction between Shin and Bunshichi after the fight in the hospital room. It feels like there are no hard feelings in the end but there seems to be something dark coming over the horizon that will test the friendship of those involved.
March 13, 2014
Synopsis:
Mitsuomi and Maya are now rivals, but once they were close friends. Their lives were changed forever because of one person: Shin Natsume, Maya’s older brother and Mitsuomi’s mentor. Inheritor of the Dragon Eyes and leader of the Supreme Warrior Faction, the charismatic Shin also bears dark and terrible secrets. Struggling under the burden of the immense power he possesses, and manipulated by those who seek to use that power, Shin begins to lose control. Maya and Mitsuomi each have their own ideas for how to deal with his increasingly erratic behavior, but it’s up to Bunshichi to really beat some sense into him!
My Thoughts:
In this volume, we're still very much in the past. We're still learning about Shin, Maya and Mitsuomi. Not to forget Bunshichi. Maya's brother was quite the monster. The Dragon Eyes and the ceremonial sword Reiki had both pretty much taken him over. It takes a serious ass-kicking from Bunshichi to get him to get his act together. I think that fight was good for Shin, though. He's actually a pretty fun guy when he isn't such a damned psycho. His weak spot, though, is Maya. Any threat to Maya and he has to put it out immediately. Even though it's no good for him and he knows it, he loves his sister way too much.
It turns out that what was going on with Shin is actually much deeper and more dangerous than I would have thought. And it's all tied in to the Takayanagi family. Things just weren't meant to be for the Natsumes and Takayanagis, I think. Mitsuomi sure has no idea what his grandfather had been up to that whole time. I wonder if things would have gone differently if he knew?
We see the beginnings of Mitsuomi and Maya getting close here and how it affects Shin. He doesn't like it, but he seems to have accepted his fate. I already know what happens to him in the end, but I've still got a bad feeling.
Mitsuomi and Maya are now rivals, but once they were close friends. Their lives were changed forever because of one person: Shin Natsume, Maya’s older brother and Mitsuomi’s mentor. Inheritor of the Dragon Eyes and leader of the Supreme Warrior Faction, the charismatic Shin also bears dark and terrible secrets. Struggling under the burden of the immense power he possesses, and manipulated by those who seek to use that power, Shin begins to lose control. Maya and Mitsuomi each have their own ideas for how to deal with his increasingly erratic behavior, but it’s up to Bunshichi to really beat some sense into him!
My Thoughts:
In this volume, we're still very much in the past. We're still learning about Shin, Maya and Mitsuomi. Not to forget Bunshichi. Maya's brother was quite the monster. The Dragon Eyes and the ceremonial sword Reiki had both pretty much taken him over. It takes a serious ass-kicking from Bunshichi to get him to get his act together. I think that fight was good for Shin, though. He's actually a pretty fun guy when he isn't such a damned psycho. His weak spot, though, is Maya. Any threat to Maya and he has to put it out immediately. Even though it's no good for him and he knows it, he loves his sister way too much.
It turns out that what was going on with Shin is actually much deeper and more dangerous than I would have thought. And it's all tied in to the Takayanagi family. Things just weren't meant to be for the Natsumes and Takayanagis, I think. Mitsuomi sure has no idea what his grandfather had been up to that whole time. I wonder if things would have gone differently if he knew?
We see the beginnings of Mitsuomi and Maya getting close here and how it affects Shin. He doesn't like it, but he seems to have accepted his fate. I already know what happens to him in the end, but I've still got a bad feeling.
December 2, 2016
Artísticamente increíble y una historia muy profunda y llena de filosofía, lo recomiendo a todo el mundo.
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