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Review: Tenjo Tenge, Vol. 9

Tenjo Tenge, Vol. 9 Tenjo Tenge, Vol. 9 by Oh! Great
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Aya Natsume

The tournament arc—and simultaneously the self proclaimed “final chapter”—begins!

This volume kind of made me regret not paying too much attention to the ancestor’s (feudal Japan) arc, because there’s a lot of callbacks to it and every time I’m just like:

Jim Carrey from the movie ‘Dumb and Dumber’ being confused

But I mean, it’s not my fault that that arc bored me to death.

I think the worst part about this series is how booooring all the tangents Oh!Great-sensei always makes his characters go on are. This volume had some also, as literally every volume does, and I think the quality of each volume is largely proportionate to the percentage of dialogue which is made up of tangents. This one kept it decently low, and as such I was kept decently entertained and gave the volume a decent rating.

This volume was only decent at best because for the hype for this tournament arc, it has been very underwhelming so far. It has pretty much comprised of only useless fighting, which isn’t interesting. Maya is basically dead after being beaten to a pulp by… *looks at notes* Tetsuhito Kagiroi, so she’s been out this whole arc so far, and all of the hard hitters have been standing back and letting the losers on their teams (shoutout to Asshat who made the cover for volume 17) take care of the fighting in the early rounds so not a single fist of Nagi’s, Maya’s (duh), either Takayanagi brother’s, Bunshichi’s, Isuzu’s, or Bob’s has been swung. (view spoiler)

One of the only okay things that happened was that Aya had an okay-ish faceoff with that guy who looks like Masataka Takayanagi, *returns to notes*, Hirohiko Kabane. Jesus Christ all of these people have such complicated names. Anyway, apparently I was supposed to recognize him from his ancestor in the feudal Japan arc, but you know how my reaction to that was. He was pretty strong, and Aya was pretty strong too, so it was a decently okay fight to read. You know it can’t really be much better than that when you don’t really give a damn about the characters fighting.

The next and even better thing was that, contrary to what I said earlier, there actually were some big-boy punches thrown. Kind of. And in the same vein as Aya’s and Hirohiko’s fight, it didn’t even happen in conjunction with the tournament so what is even the point of the tournament??

Back in the day after Mitsuomi had been the big dog for a while, Bunshichi told him that if anyone else dies (in reference to Shin dying), he won’t hesitate in either beating the shit out of or killing Mitsuomi (don’t exactly remember which). So, in light of Maya’s new potato-esc state, Bunshichi barges in on Takayanagi headquarters to make true on his promise. (view spoiler)

I didn’t even want to write a review for this volume because it ended pretty hype and I wanted to immediately continue on to the next one, and yet here I am, and hour later and having written a novel about these volumes. I am too much.


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