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Review: Tenjo Tenge, Vol. 8

Tenjo Tenge, Vol. 8 Tenjo Tenge, Vol. 8 by Oh! Great
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Aya Natsume

The first two chapters of this (88 & 89) were pretty sick… they showed the ending of the battle from the previous volume which included all of our faves: Mitsuomi, Maya, and Nagi, versus that guy whose hair makes him look like a cockatoo (Sohaku is his real name). Those chapters were sick, just because it was a cool fight that I actually enjoyed (for once) because it included characters I actually like (for once).

Mitsuomi catching Maya as she falls from exhaustion
//nosebleed

(view spoiler)

But then… Oh god.

All of a sudden Aya’s guardian spirit (or something) came back and took her on another flashback, but this time to see what her ancestor was up to. I think this was supposed to have some cool reveal or something about how her ancestor used to be in some type of cahoots with Sohaku? Or, his ancestor as well? This was confusing, because it might have also literally been Sohaku back then as well??? Like, he has some kind of powers, like shapeshifting, and… Being old… I don’t know honestly. I started reading this volume four and a half months ago and stopped because this ancestors arc was SO FRICKEN BORING OH MY GOD. I didn’t know what was going on and I also didn’t care. I don’t care about Aya (sorry) and I care even less about what her great-great-great grandma was up to. I really hated this goddamn ancestors arc.

Oh!Great-sensei has literally, LITERALLY, been hyping up the tournament arc since volume EIGHT, and it's only going to finally start in volume SEVENTEEN (next volume). Jesus Christ!!!!! There were eight whole volumes just filled with in-between bullshit, oh my god!! It has just been full of so much useless and boring shit! Let's get it freakin' moving already!

Chapter 99, page

“Lucky” for me, the last two chapters where back to the present with the people I actually want to read about. Nagi turned into a pirate, so that was cool. I’ve never been a fan of his super-dumb-anime looking hair, but I absolutely love his new hair!! Short bangs on guys are always my favourite.

Four of the twelve chapters in this bindup were good, and eight were literally nonsense boring zero star garbage. [(4*4 stars)+(8*1 star)]/12= 2 stars for the volume. I was going to give mercy and say I’m rating it 2.5 stars, but the math doesn’t lie, sorrry.


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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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