You can do a first season that is mostly flashback with a cliffhanger ending, like Berserk, or you can do anime that is equal parts flashback and present day with a conclusive ending, like Gungrave, but you can’t do an anime that is mostly flashback and ends in the middle of nowhere like Tenjho Tenge did.
Not even all the waggling martial arts boobies in the world could save it from impending obscurity now.
Alternative Titles:
- Tenjo Tenge
- Heaven and Earth
- 天上天下
Year Anime Premiered: 2004
Animation Studio: Madhouse
Number of Seasons: 1 + 3 OVA
Source Material Country of Origin: Japan
Source Material Available: Manga
Is It Officially Licensed Past Where The Anime Ends?: Yes
Is It Fan Translated Past Where The Anime Ends?: Yes
Entry Last Updated: October 29th, 2024
Where To Start The Tenjho Tenge Manga After The Anime?
If you finished the Tenjho Tenge anime and wish to continue the story in the manga, you can start at Volume 9, Chapter 52.
The OVA is technically canon to the story, but adapting any part of the manga.
What to Expect From The Tenjho Tenge Manga?
It is common for the manga to be “everything from the anime, but done better” in a lot of circumstances, but it is a particularly apt saying for Tenjho Tenge.
The anime makes a number of small changes that don’t change the events much, but are a change none-the-less. However, the most noticeable difference is that the anime is quite censored in many ways when compared to the manga.
That said, you don’t need to read the Tenjho Tenge manga from the beginning for anything it skipped or changed in the plot. Only if you want to for the uncensored ecchi and violence.
Is The Tenjho Tenge Manga Over?
The Tenjho Tenge manga is complete. It ended in 2010 with Volume 22, Chapter 136.
Will There Be A Tenjho Tenge Season 2?
As the anime came out in 2004 and the manga ended in 2010, Tenjho Tenge’s time is long done. Furthermore, both anime and manga struggled heavily under criticisms that would have made another season, even back in the day, very unlikely.
