Understanding Storytelling: Choosing the Wrong Main Character with Tenjou Tenge

So I recently wrote a post about why I thought anime was a better medium than light novels and manga.  While I was writing that, I decided to do a little experiment, specifically I would re-watch the Tenjou Tenge anime, which I remembered being pretty mediocre, and I would read the manga alongside it to see…

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Tenjou Tenge Top Characters, GAOI Archive Wikia

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Tenjho Tenge: Complete Collection [DVD] : Movies & TV

Tenjho Tenge: Complete Collection [DVD]

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