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Review: Tenjo Tenge, Vol. 7

Tenjo Tenge, Vol. 7 Tenjo Tenge, Vol. 7 by Oh! Great
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Maya Natsume

Ho-ho-ho-holy shit—that ending. Yo, if I was reading this series as the volumes were being published I would be capital “P” Pissed!!! Jesus. Obviously it has got to be some sort of dupe/trick, but it’s still shookening nonetheless.

So, back to 3-star rating regularly scheduled programming, eh? These volumes had a much better balance of fighting and… Not fighting, so they were a lot more enjoyable for me. There is still waaay too much friggen voice over (characters talking over scenes either in the form of internal thoughts or future narration) though. That’s still super annoying, useless, and makes it harder to follow the actual story.

You know how I was complaining about how all the boys are all annoyingly stoic and emotionless? I was reminded in the first few pages of this volume that there is actually an exception to that: Takayanagi Jr, aka ex-best character. I like how he actually has feelings and that his crush on Aya always gets little highlights here and there. It was also nice how we kind of got a teeny tiny bit of MayaxSouichirou (and MayaxTakanahashi Sr., an even teeny tinier amount) action, though in a super vague and stoic way as usual. God damn it.

Also for the record: I still ship MayaxTaka Sr., though I think it’s cute that Sou likes Maya. I was definitely AyaxSou for a long while, but during the beginning of this volume I was thinking that AyaxTaka Jr. would be cute, so I dunno. In the same vein it also feels like I might be leaning more towards MayaxSou now too, though I honestly don’t even know for sure anymore. I just kinda go with the flow of things at this point.

Honestly though, Takanahashi Jr. has started acting like a good character again so maybe I ought to un-revoke his best character status (which as you probably don’t recall I vaguely alluded to doing in my review of volumes 3-4). We’ll have to see about that in later volumes, as Takanahashi Jr. was unfortunately put in the backseat of these volumes, as we finally see what Maya and Souichirou have been up to during the past two volumes in which they were absent.

Thank God they finally showed up, because the rest of the gang wasn’t doing too well of a job holding up the series without them *cough* 1-star rating *cough*. We also got more Takanahashi Sr. which was great! I always love seeing him as well—even though he’s a dickhead now—because he still has a rose-tint in my eyes as I reminisce to the good ol’ days of his character in the Flashback arc. I still like to pretend that he’s actually a good guy, deep, deep, deep down. I love seeing him be protective of his younger brother and Maya and of course being badass. I guess I just always love when my favourite characters are badass, eh?

(view spoiler)

So yeah, the final battle is going to be hype hopefully. I feel like seeing a Nagi and Takanahashi Sr. tag-team is going to be cool.


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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)
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