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Review: Tenjo Tenge, Vol. 4

Tenjo Tenge, Vol. 4 Tenjo Tenge, Vol. 4 by Oh! Great
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Maya Natsume and Mitsuomi Takanahashi
*Edit* Reread review added at the bottom.

Holy fucking shit. Volume 7 was the best volume. 5/5. So intense. Fuck.

I've shipped Mitsuomi and Maya so hard ever since volume 5 but still nothing has happened with them and at this point it seems like nothing ever will. Why the heck were people in the future saying that they used to be dating???
Disappointed gif
But yenno other than that it was fuckin hype as hell. The story and fights and art and everything was so nice and juicy.

But then volume 7 wraps up the backstory arc and we go back to our main characters... And honestly.....

Disappointed gif ... Again.

At this point, after that awesome arc, I like those guys way more than the actual main cast. This whole manga should have just been that backstory arc and it would have been a 5/5 series just for that last volume alone.

But hope is not lost, I'm sure in due time I'll come to re-connect with the main cast again. Though I'm still salty about Takanahashi's character being ruined. I was going to specify that I was talking about the younger brother, but it's actually kind of both of them.


REREAD REVIEW
May 21 2018
4 stars
Maya Natsume and Mitsuomi Takanahashi

I liked this volume a good deal, god damn it!!!!!!!!!!!! The whole double works, as in BOTH volumes 7 AND 8. I handled the transition out of the flashback arc and back into the main story a lot smoother this second time around, and I loved it from start to finish. The first time I read this, volume 7 was my favourite of the bunch, but this time around I think I disagree. Volumes 5 and 6 were just such a blast to read a second time that I didn't think that volume 7 was really any better. Volume 7 is when Shin corrupts wholesome Mitsuomi and shows the beginning of his downfall, so I didn't enjoy it as much, even though that's what made me enjoy it more the first time. Volume 8 ends right before the series starts going into lots of annoying/useless/pointless fighting arcs, aka at the perfect point in order to finish off the flashback arc on a high note.

These are some quotes that stuck out a lot to me that I somehow didn't notice during my first read:
"My life as a martial artist died at that moment... And now... He's trying to take away the one person I love more than anyone!?" Mitsuomi, pg 173

SORRY THAT'S JUST THE SOUND OF ME SOBBING HYSTERICALLY IN THE BACKGROUND BRB. I'm not even joking when I say that I actually teared up a teeny tiny bit when I read that. It's Mitsuomi literally admitting that he loves Maya!!!!!!!!! MORE THAN ANYONE ELSE!!!!!!!! Oh my god I ship this so hard. It's so sad how he went kind of berserk and that Maya hates him now. It's also super sad how he words Shin's damage as the death of his martial arts (which is essentially the death of himself, as martial arts=life).

"Why on earth was I hesitating so much? I spent all my time staring at the ground... Even though the sky is so big and beautiful." Aya, pgs 188-189
A really cute and relatable quote that also shows some (much needed) growth from Aya!!

This volume as a whole--even the end that's no longer the flashback arc--was such a nice read. Still a 4 star rating though, as compared to the previous two volumes which I rated 5 stars as a whole.


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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) |
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