Audience reviews
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Jastereich
Tenjou Tenge is a very interesting show. After a closer look, one could think that this is the show about fights and busty characters – however, it is far from such understanding. The story is about Souichiro and Bob, two delinquents who initiate a brawl in school and are defeated by Maya who has great fighting prowess.
The series has a great number of characters; for instance, the Enforcers are its antagonists who have killed Maya’s brother Shin. The narrative is non-linear because we learn about the characters’ past which defines present events. There are bloodshed and fighting scenes all through the first episode but may be appealing those who like action. However, the story’s progress slows down a bit during the flashback arc taking up much of the series. While the flashback arc offer…
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Besides the fact that it reminds me that hideous JoJo art-style sometimes… it has a solid animation and a well written plot.
The first episodes were kinda boring and I was trying so hard not to sleep while watching but later on it became enjoyable.
The main plot focus on the past of the characters in such smart way and besides having many cultured scenes it’s kinda touching…
The last episodes were kinda eh and it’s ending was vague, it probably continues in the manga.
Overall… I came here because of air gear (manga) and it has that same sprinkle of nonsense but oh..! great art. I kinda want to read the manga (mostly for the art) but yeah.
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"Tenjō Tenge" is something that I really enjoyed as teenager. The show's vivid cast of characters were bright and nearly popped through the television screen, with their vivacity! It had cool fight scenes, pretty girls, unrequited love, dramatic backstories, etc. But, let's be real, I think I was mostly into it because I thought Maya Natsume was a total babe! While Tenjō Tenge's target demographic will most-likely be a teenage audience, who plays rounds of beat 'em up games with their siblings, "Tenjō Tenge" sets itself apart—with a cacophony of interesting narrative choices and entertaining character antics!
⚠️ This review is spoiler-free ⚠️
—Story/Characters
This series starts a basic high school, battle story—the first episode introduces a variety of very colorful characters, both f…
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INFORMATION
It has 24 episodes. It has been broadcast on Japanese television since Apr 2, 2004 to Sep 17, 2004. Its producers are Asashi TV and its studio is Madhouse, which has many other strong titles at the moment. The genres of this anime are Action, Ecchi, Martial Arts, Comedy, Super Power, School, Shounen. Each episode is about 23 minutes long and it is recommended for people over 17 (violence & profanity).
STORY
The story contains a lot of comedy, very good fight scenes and somehow not so badly fitting pervert scenes. There are a few things I didn't like. Half of the anime goes into stories about the past and there is no trace of the main characters Nagi Souichirou and Makihara Bob. This is a minus for me because I got used to them and wanted to see more of their development. Nag…
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Started out quite interesting. Had alot of potential. The art is decent. the ending song is pretty nice. the opening is whacky and doesn't fit the anime but it's okay.
After a few episodes they start doing flashbacks and I was hoping to find out the characters motivations, the backstory, what a delight. well no.
The backstory just makes me hate the characters.
It's interesting in it's own way but just raises more questions than it answers. and the last episode is the most rushed episode i have ever seen ever. it made me facepalm and laugh at how ridiculous it was. Overrall it had potential but just kept getting more and more annoying as it went on
little rant coming up, for those who've watched
Maya is completely at fault for everything. why did Mitsuoni turn into a bad guy? we have…
Read at the sourceBrynhilder
First of all,I think writing a review for an incomplete work is a disgrace.But to save those see this half done anime and get frustrated... this review is to save them.
I think the only good thing about the anime is the motion of characters...i mean the actions or fights are nicely done.
Based on the character development and overall story I should say one thing .... Utterly pathetic!
Character Maya Natsume is worst I have ever seen personally.She can fall in love within seconds and also with multiple persons and will even steal her sisters love.I think after seeing this series everyone will get mad at story and the thinking of the characters.
The climax is idiotic in many ways and anyone can say that it's not a proper way of settling things.It's a waste of time to see this.
Read at the sourceAyrReaper
....You know a show is bad when the only thing it has going for it is the opening. Which, to its credit, is badass. But with a soundtrack that doesn't standout nearly as much as its opening theme, there's no way it could make up for the other tracks.
Having no nostalgia for this show and watching it in 2018 in a binge, all I can say is I'm not sure if I've ever watched a show as bad as Tenjou Tenge to near completion before, and stopped only a few episodes away from the ending because everything prior to it was so awful that I couldn't bear another second of it.
...Oh, and by the way, after stopping I thought back on what I'd watched and asked myself an important question - "Did half of that entire show take place in a FLASHBACK!?". The answer to this question is no, but it comes pretty…
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This story starts with the first manga volume I bought, Tenjho Tenge, I loved it and got the second volume then learned of an anime adaptation and set aside the manga to get the anime. I bought the first two disks episodes one through seven and still loved it. But I never got around to finishing the series until now. And it feels like a total utter let down after all these years. Don't get me wrong the cast of Maya, Aya, Masataka, Bob & Souichiro are interesting and unique and are what make this series fun and sexy and action packed virtually everything one can desire in an anime (unless one is vehemently demands anime be devoid of misogyny; then let me say this, "is not the anime for you!"). It tell a coherent story and introduces a diverse cast of villains. The let down part comes with t…
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I really wanted to like this anime. Sadly, the more I watched of it, the less I got into it until the final episode where I was happy to have watched it... because I didn't want to watch it anymore.
Its not a bad anime, but I think that somewhere along the road it became a disaster. The story stopped making sense, the characters were flipping out for silly reasons and did things that at the end of the episodes made no sense.
What killed it for me was the story. After episode 6 or 7 the anime turned into another anime that I didn't sign up to watch. It really dragged on, like a naruto filler arc. Worst part of it was the mid-episode pauses and the intro / outro cinematics showing all the main characters... THAT I WASN'T WATCHING THEM ANYMORE. The main character became the brother of the t…
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The ratings for this show are terrible. 1 and 3...no...don't believe it. Tenjou Tenge is very typical but by no means does that make it bad.
If art is really important to you, then the art and animation in Tenjou Tenge is great.
The characters are all very colorful. Each having their own unique personality. In short, each character had at least a fair amount of depth.
I say anime is best when it's 12 - 24 episodes. 24 episodes is not so infrequently messed up though. It's just enough episodes to use incorrectly. Tenjou Tenge, well...doesn't complete the show in 25 episodes...
I liked the flash back. I enjoyed the story. However, they spent as much if not more time with telling how the bad guy became the bad guy...which is why we have an ova now :P
My one thing that I didn't like wa…
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Tenjou Tenge is a short 24 episode drop in drop out anime experience. I gave the story a 6. It was fair, it didn't go many places and a lot of the episodes were basically full flashbacks. They were however events that added to some already existing characters and brought some flavour to current situations, but I feel too much time was spent there when I personally wanted to be with the current team. (Souichiro Nagi, Bob and the rest.)
The art in the anime was actually quite good. Sure it wasn't anything special but even though I only just finished this series it still holds up rather nicely with some action packed fight scenes.
The sound I gave an 8. (Very good)
That opening and ending were sweet! Super catchy and got you pumped for the episode. And a mellow ending that closed the show.…
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Summary: There are a ton of things this anime gets right. It has the makings of an epic fighting anime, including awesome fighting scenes and tons of blood and some gore. It has insanely powerful characters with a ton of diversity. There is romance, intense hatred, crazy plots and interesting character development for most of the main characters (though a few characters don't have much development and fall into stereotypes.) The problem with the anime is it's story is drawn out. More than half of the anime is flash backs to a different set of characters (though some are common) that leave you wondering who the main characters are. Also, the last episode was REALLY different from the others and had too much comedy, breaking of meta (mentioning things like the amount of screen time character…
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In the beginning of the story, you think that it will be a great anime. But the main characters disappear of the story and the story starts focusing in the past of others characters. The story is unfinished.
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Honestly i was kind of expecting a lot from this anime since the first 2 episodes had really epic fight scenes and what looked like room for character development. But the support characters became the main characters and the main characters became the support characters. 90% of this anime revolves around flash backs about Maya and Aya Natsumi's older brother Shin Natsumi. The fight scenes were epic i must say, story wise. No. There is no character development and for around 10+ episodes is straight flash backs which really bothered me because there was NOTHING on Souichirou Nagi and Bob, they kept getting their asses beat, no character development. And they were barely even involved in this anime.
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The main character, Souchirou is not an charismatic character. So it is in my opinion the first fail. The rest of the characters are not bad in my opinion or annoying, which is something I appreciate, looks like in every anime is there at least one annoying character.
The storyline is not concluded at all, the two final chapers got me asking myself "what the fuck?!". It was so absurd that I liked it. I don't considera good ending to end a series whose most interesting part was the flashbacks -which were the part wherein the character development and emotional bonds showed up- in a random-comical way. Even though the flashbacks were interesting for me, they took too long and left a few chapters to show the path it was going to head. And that path headed nowhere.
I understand it's not a re…
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I started off enjoying this anime pretty much but sorta got bored near the middle and end of it =/. Gonna explain why now :
Story: 7/10
The story wasn't half bad, though they sometime skip some parts that would be interesting to emphasize more on and thats one of the thing that really turned me off about this anime. I liked the theme but i guess it was just missing some action like real fights not just bloodsheds everywhere.
Art: 7/10
Not really good at explaining my point of view on art but guess il try. I found this art style quite nice. I'm not really into the old styles of animes from the 90's so this anime was quite good for me. Though they sorta let themselves go on the fanservice during the anime.
Sound: 6/10
I find that at some times the backround noises get to rowdy and s…
Read at the sourcePaulwillson26
Tenjou Tenge is an anime with teenage girls with enormous breasts and teenage guys with over developed muscles for their age doing gravity defying martial arts.
The anime really comes in two parts. The first is actually quite entertaining. Souichiro and Bob,two tough guys, enter Toudou Academy with the intention of ruling the school and promptly get their arses kicked by the members of the Jouken Club (Maya, Aya and Masataka). Their conversation during their fight with the Jouken Club in the first episode is a classic:
Maya tells Souchiro and Bob to stop in her chi / ki self
Souchiro: "Bob there a weird little girl talking all grown up what do you think should I do about this?" and continues to beat someone up
Bob: "I don't know!" not paying attention whilst beating someone
Maya changes…
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The anime as very well done sticking to manga with minor cuts to stick within the 26 eps. The only downside is towards the end of the anime they cut out the 2nd story arc and left you hanging in the middle of the story
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Everything about this title just reminds of one other show which has something to do with it being a shounen title and most of the time, I can get easily bored with shounen anime with dragged out storylines, flashbacks and stilted frames of fights instead of actual fights being animated onto there but what I heard from the manga adaptation, it has plenty of intense fight scenes, completely uncensored and outstanding artwork. But how can I compare the manga to the anime considering I haven’t read the manga and from what I know, the manga was still running at the time after the anime was finished and the manga was finished printing in August 2010……6 years after the anime adaptation. Let’s just get into the plot summary.
Souchirou Nagi and Bob Makihara (also named the Knuckle Bomb) are two…
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To make a long story short, this anime showed incredible promise in the begining, but ultimatly fell way short of expectations. The first few episodes start down a cliched but engaging story setup but by the middle of the the series, it starts to drown in a pool of it's own complexity. The story is way too weighted down by the backstory of people who aren't the story's heroes. And don't even get me started on the fact this series is incomplete; it has no resolution whatsoever!
The story Failed.
Art was good enough.
Sound was forgetable.
Characters were interesting but had little to no growth.
The fighting and humor was enjoyable but not always.
Overall, I was left wanting...
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