Thread: Tenjou Tenge General Info

Tenjho Tenge






Plot Summary: Souchirou Nagi and Bob Makihara are two delinquents who arrive at Toudou Academy with the objective of ruling over the school with their strength. But on their first day, they encountered the Jyuukenbu, a martial arts group of the school. Members of the group, Maya Natsume, her sister Aya, and Masataka Takayanagi easily overpowered Souchirou and Bob. And what's more, due to what was assumed to be their "connections" with the Jyuukenbu, the two were attacked by members of the Enforcement Group, which oversees the martial arts groups of the school. Drawn into the personal conflicts between the Jyuukenbu and the Enforcement Group, Souchirou and Bob have no choice but to join up with Maya Natsume's group and to hone their skills to become even stronger.



Nagi Souichirou Kengo
Age: 15
Clan: Nagi(demon exorcist)
Mother: Nagi Makhiko
Father: Kago Souhaku Joun
Power(red): Dragon Fist
Dragon Claw(stolen)



Souichiro is a teen obsessed with fighting and takes a lot of pride in that. Initially, he is believed to have an average, or below average intelligence. He is very cocky and gets angered easily, and always has wise cracks. He isn't very good with being around and talking to girls. When he enrolled into Todou Academy, he fought Masataka Takayanagi resulting in him losing his first fight. He falls in love with Maya Natsume, and decides he wanted to get stronger to protect her. Though he loves Maya, he never really shows any affection towards her, and although he is often rude to his mother he cares for her a lot too. Souichiro is slowly changing, and starting to become more intelligent and starting to build the charisma of the leader. He is a member of one of the Red Feather families.

Techniques:

Forged Iron Needle: Technique he learned from Maya, though it is originally a Takayanagi secret, it was stollen by Shin, maya's brother.It is a technique which uses the fulcrum-based transference skill of "reverse striking" to transmit the user's power through the air. This is achieved by collecting the rotational force of one's motion until it forms unto a needle, forged by their own ki. At that point, that collected atmospheric force would then be directed from the circular motion into a straight line (via punch), where it is sent barreling into the target.

Magarabai(Demon Exorcist): The Magabarai blood that runs through Souichiro's vein allows him to tune into the Red Wing Resonance of anyone of the Red Wing blood lineage. This Red Wing Resonance Effect allows Soichiro to transform, turning his arms and hair black as ki enters into him and exits through his dragon gates, activating his chakra thusly. In this form, the limitless amount of ki flowing through him greatly strengthening his supernatural abilities. However, Soichiro was inexperience with this phenomenon and the resulting surge of ki forced tremendous strain of his body, and in some cases, was on the verge of being consumed by his own dragon. Only while in Sohaku's custody was he able to freely access his chakra, without the assitance of the R.W.R Effect.

Dragon Fist: It is a unique power that his Demon Exorcist blood permits him to use. It allows him to steal Dragons and other supernatural powers and
to use them as his own.

Red Dragon Earth Gate, "Thundorous Lightning Rapid Strike": Non red feather power, "earth ki". When his gate opens, Souichiro can harness the earth's electrical fields and generate electricity. However, this works as long as his legs are connected to the earth. If no contact is made between the ground and his legs, his power remains idle.

Orage dragon water gate, "TouraRyuu seirengeki": "water ki". Using his Dragon Fist, Souichiro inadvertantly stealed Ishiyumi's technique within him. But with this chakra, as long as there is contact with water, Souichiro can manipulate it using his ki. so far even without water, Souichirou can use blood as a substitute for water because of his Demon Exorcist Blood.

Dragon's Claw: Souichiro used his dragon fist to steal Mataza Tsumuji's dragon. This power could pierce and cut through anything.

Imperial Deer Kick: Technique he stole from Kamura Shidzuku. Is a technique that can cross the distance of a 1000 tatami mats(.62 miles) quickly.
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Maya Natsume Danjo
Age: 17
Clan: Natsume
Father: Natsume Kaima
power: none

Maya Natsume is a beautiful, almost gratuitiously well-endowed woman who has long silvery-purple hair. Maya also has the power to manipulate her body size and appear as an 8 year old girl. She is the head of the Juuken Club, and an upper level martial artist. Maya is not shy about her body, she usually wears revealing clothing and has no problem with her underwear showing.

Maya fights using a style invented by her family, Natsume Goushin Ryuu. It is revealed that her chi revolves around the power of the element of wood.

What makes Maya unique is that both her brother and sister have dragon eyes, yet she does not. Because she lacks that power she was picked as Reiki's guardian since she can't activate it, or be driven insane by it. She was given the sword as a child, not knowing its importance she allows Shin to gain possession of it despite being told to keep it away from him by her father. Aya doesn't understand the sword importance and tries to use it when her sword is broken, causing an uproar in the school. Maya now retains possession of the sword, usually carrying it with her everywhere.



Technique

Iron Forge Needle: Technique which was taught to her by Older Brother.(view souichirou's)

"Ki" control: It permits Maya to manipulate the size of her body.

Natsume Goushin Ryuu: Natsume fighting style.
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Bob Makihara

Age: 16

Bob Makihara is a young man of African descent in Japan, hence most in the series refer to him as "the foreigner". He has long dreads, and a muscular build, in fact he is one of the most physically strong characters in the series. Little is known about his past, we know at some point he met up with Souichiro Nagi and started calling themselves the knuckle bombs. His girlfriends name is Chiaki, and she seems to really love Bob. After the events at the landry mat and the bowling alley, Chiaki would prefer it if Bob would quit school and stay home with her. Bob seems to enjoy fighting, and is a very skilled fighter so he has no intentions of doing so. He definitely has better powers of perception than Souichiro, as he almost immediately picks up on the fact that something is different about Todou Academy.Mitsuomi Takayanagi says Bob has great potential and wants to be the one to train him as opposed to Maya.

Techniques

Capoeira (pronounced ka-po-air-uh): Capoeira is dance-based as the slaves in Brazil weren't allowed to practice martial arts and disguised it as a dance. Capoeira moves strongly resemble break-dancing.
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Takayanagi Mitsoumi
Age: 17
Clan: Takayanagi
Father: Takayanagi Dougen

Mitsuomi is a tall, very muscular man with short green hair and long bangs. He has a scar on his chest and back, but usually wears very tight fitting clothes covering them. The scars were caused by Shin Natsume when Mitsuomi rushed in to stop him from his rampage.Mitsuomi can only fight for three minutes due to a condition with his heart (explained later), yet very few can actually last for three minutes against him. Mitsuomi is among the strongest characters in the series, almost ridiculously powerful at times.It's worth noting that while early on Mitsuomi and Masataka seem to hate each other, later Mitsuomi makes comments indicating that is not the case. Masataka does seem to blame his brother for all these events, and does not like him. Mitsuomi however, shows more concern for his brother later, him punching Inue Noriko Shindayuu in the face after telling her not to touch Masataka is a good example. It is starting to be implied Mitsuomi is hard on his brother, because he wants him to be stronger; not because of the Juuken Club issue.

Techniques

Muukuken: Technique in which muscle memorization is used to set the brain and nervous system apart from the action of a punch. The user can still strike even if his tendons are torn.

Muscle Bomb: collective muscle mass to reflect the force of any attack back at the attacker.

Horned Needle: Family secret of the Takayanagi family. it is the same technique that was stolen by Natsume Shin. Mitsumi can use this technique with Both hands realeasing two horned needles at the same time.
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Natsume Aya:
Age: 16
Clan: Natsume
Father: Natsume Kaima
Power: Dragon Eye

Aya, Maya's younger sister, but equally busty, becomes infatuated with Souichiro after he falls through the roof whilst she is taking a shower. However, he does not return her affections, even when she fixes him lunches. She possesses the 'Dragon Eye', an ability which allows her to see into the past and the future, as well as communicating with inanimate objects such as Shin's motorcycle, which Aya was able to drive despite not learning how to in the first place. Maya believes it is this power which draws Aya to Souichiro, as he may well become the strongest of all the members of the Juuken Club.

Techniques

Ryuugan: Red feather power of the Natsume family.It allows her to view past and present events.
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Takayanagi Masataka

He is the younger brother of Mitsuomi Takayanagi, but the two aren't on good terms. Masataka is your average high school student at first glance, but he is a surprisingly powerful martial artist. He is always a formidable fighter, but he becomes much more dangerous when he is serious, or angered. He actually seems to be somewhat shy, despite his inner nature being perverted. Masataka falls in love with Aya Natsume at first sight, but is disheartened when she falls in love with Souichiro Nagi instead. He maintains his crush on her, yet seems to be oblivious to the other girls who have a crush on him. After the incident at the bowling alley we see the other girls at Todou Academy seem to like Masataka, he just doesn't seem to notice. Later Madoka Mawari develops a crush on him, that he is also oblivious too. it sems deeply inside that Masataka doesn't like Souichirou, mostly because of Aya's affection for nagi which Nagi doesn't return. It was revealed that while Nagi Souichirou was kidnapped by his father, he was the only one who not only didn't miss him there but also didn't want him to come back.

Techniques

Kenpo: Anti-weapon technique where the user waits for an opening before he attacks.

Hakka Soudou Shyou: it is a 'Ki" ability.
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Natusume Shin(deceased)
Age: 16
Clan: Natsume
Father:Natsume Kaima
Power: Dragon Eye(Ryuugan)

Shin has dragon eyes (竜目, ryuu me), they allow him to see past, present, future and pretty much anything else he wants, it can even read minds. He gained this power as a child, and it was far too much for him. Shin is very violent, and is pretty much insane. He has a severe sister complex, his girlfriend says Shin and his younger sister Maya Natsume have more in common with lovers than siblings. Shin is extremely protective of Maya.

Shin awakened his dragon eyes as a child, however he was unable to control it. Kaima Natsume, shin's father, tried to hide him from the other families of the Takayangai flying phoenix because he was afraid they would kill Shin out of fear that he couldn't handle it. Shin was locked up in an underground dungeon, only visited by Maya. Shins dragon eyes allowed him to see dead spirits that were in the dungeon, Kaima's plan actually drove Shin crazier as opposed to helping. As a result of Maya being the only one to vist him, or bring him food Shin became very attached to her.Maya was entrusted the Reiki, an evil ceremonial nodachi, by her father and told to keep it away from shin. She failed as Shin escaped his prison and used the Reiki to kill his parents.

Though Maya seems to be blaming her brother's death on Misuomi who also takes credit for killing him, It is revealed that Shin is the one who took his own life.

Techniques
Dragon Eye(Ryuugan): Red feather power which permits him to see past and present events.

Forged needle attack: Technique he stole from the Takayanagis(view nagi's).
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Kago Souhaku Joun
Age: Unknown
Clan:Kago
Power: Dragon ability is unknown

Souhaku is a buddhist priest. He is the father of Souichirou and the Husband of Makiko. He first appeared in the series after Souichirou's fight with Mataza. His dream is to combine all the blood of the founding families into one. So far, it seems the only reason he had to get married to Makiko was because of her demon exorcist blood which is the only blood that can realise his dream. He first attempted to combine all the blood of the founding families into one using Makiko but failed because her body was too weak and could contained them. He succeeded in combining all the founding families blood into one using his own son(nagi)who has no recollection of the event.It is also revealed that Souhaku has control over death. Though he was killed by Mitsumi, it seems that he was the one who allowed himself to be killed. Currently, He lives inside Nagi and plans to takeover his body. The only one who knows about it is Aya who hasn't revealed it to anyone.
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Bushinchi Tawara
Bunshichi is a 20 year old white haired man, who is in his 3rd year as a senior at Todou Academy. He actually is not stupid, the question of why he has still not graduated is never answered. He is without question the laziest character in the series. Bunshichi does not like to do anything, joining the Juuken Club solely so they would have enough members. Later as a member of the executive council, Mitsuomi Takayanagi appoints him as the advisor (essentially their strategist), where he again does nothing claiming he only signed up in name only. Not only is he lazy he is also perverted, usually focusing on women's breasts, and sometimes referring to them as deadly weapons. In the manga he repeatedly threatens to rape people, it is a joke of his own perversion, he has no intention to actually carry out the threats.

Despite his appearance and attitude, when Bunshichi actually fights he is quite dangerous. He was ranked as the strongest fighter in Todou until Mitsuomi won the Tournament 2 years ago. Bunshichi is likely the only character so far capable of lasting the full 3 minutes with Mitsuomi.

Bunshichi has no martial art style, he uses his own street fighting style utilizing his very strong arms. He has earned the nickname "Double Impact Tawara" for his powerful arms. He also refers to himself as "Exorcist Tawara" as a running joke when fighting people with special powers.

Despite how powerful he is, Bunshichi is frequently used as comic relief. Both his perversion and laziness are subjects of the jokes, but occasionally his actions are part of the jokes as well. A good example is in the bowling alley, he tells Mitsuomi that Souichiro Nagi is only responding to his murderous intent, and is harmless. Insisting Mitsuomi should leave him alone. Souichiro then punches Bunshichi in the face and Bunshichi wails on him. He often disguises intelligent moves as humor as well. When he interfered in that fight, by pouring water on Mitsuomi then pointing out Souichiro was only reacting to Mitsuomi, it was first thought only to be humor. However Mitsuomi later references that if Bunshichi hadn't shown up he may have hit his time limit and lost.
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Chiaki Kounoike: Bob's girlfriend.
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Emi IsuzuA 3rd-year senior at Todoh as well as the vice chairwoman of the Executive Community. Not only is she Mitsuomi's second-in-command, but one who harbors a deep love for him. Because of a misunderstanding, Emi sees Maya as someone she must kill. At first sight, Emi appears to be a drop-dead gorgeous girl, but she is not called, "The Black Blade," for nothing. To the untrained eye, Emi seems to able to pull out knives from nowhere. However, Emi's true secret is that she can control her fat folds, giving her the appearance of a gorgeous and model-figured girl. In reality, Emi is gigantically overweight, but with this and her ability to fold in her fat, she can hide knives between her folds, confusing the enemy.
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Nagi Makikoh Kengo
Age: 30-32 years old
Clan: Nagi(demon exorcist)
Husband: Kago Souhakou

Makikoh is the mother of Nagi Souichirou and the wife of Kago Souhaku who she married Souhaku at a very young age. It seems that she loves him more than anything in the world(except for souichirou of course), to the point of giving him an arm and eye, Literally. She is really good at Red feather magic but i think she mostly learn them from Souhaku. Later in the series, she lost her other arm while saving Souichiro who had begun losing himself. She's the one who told Maya about Kagiroi and how to defeat him, though that came at a great cost. She hasn't been shown in her Demon exorcist form.
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Takayanagi Dougen
Age: Unkwown
Status: Ex-Leader of The Takayanagi Clan

He is the father of Mitsuomi and Masataka. He is the one responsible for what happened with Shin, at any point he could of stop Shin from losing himself , but he pushed even more. The last straw when he ordered Fu'chien to use any method to force Shin to turn into a Demon. His goal was to create the "True Warrior" from the Takayanagi legends with his Son(mitsuomi). His plan was to use Shin as a catalyst to turn Mitsuomi into the "True Warrior" which was backfired. He was ousted from the Takayanagi group by Mitsuomi and force to live as a regular middle class man.
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Kabane Myouun HiroHiko
Age: 15-17
Clan: Kabane

He first appeared in Vol. 14 while Aya was revisiting the past, he knows a lot about the red feather powers, He is the one who pointed out the weakness of Ryuugan that when it's activated and its user is collection information whether it be from the past or present, his or her physical body is vulnerable to any attacks. She spends a lot of time with the head of the Shyoujyou clan. he has Buddhist seals on her body when we first meet him. The Kabane family is supposed to have control over the dead, but we have not seen him do anything special yet.

Techniques, weapons
Kabane Blade: It belongs to the Kabanes much like the Reiki to the Natsumes
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Shyoujyou Tokuan Mitsuhiro
Age: 15-17
Clan: Shyoujyou

She first appeared in Vol. 14 while Aya was revisiting the past. Not much else is known about her.

Techniques:
Shapeshift: ability where one can read "Ki" of a person and change into that person and can use that person's technique, but not to their Full extent like the original could.
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Kagiroi Tetsuhito
Age: Unknown
Clan: Kagiroi

He has been with Souhaku since the begining. He carries around with him a "zhanmadao" which a 114 cm long blade very straight with a slight curve in the last half but with short hilt. He is not a red feather, the only reason why he's able to use Red Feather powers is because he has Makikho's eye implanted in place of his own. The eye contains all the techniques and abilities that Makikho has, even the ones she ate(Souhaku fed her just like he did with his son). Though he can use all the powers without fear of being devoured, this process has a major weakness: You can see where the "Ki" is travelling because of the Acupuncture spell which tells you what gate he will use next, thus makes his attacks predictable. Since he had no Demon Exorcist blood, after Maya stabbed his eye(Makikho's) which was regulating the abilities, he lost control and Maya killed him.
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Tsumuji Mataza
Age: 16
Clan: Tsumuji
Father: Tsumuji Mataza Yorihira
Power: Dragon Claw

He inherited his red feather blood from his mother who's from a Kabane branch family. He had his powers stolen from him by Souichirou who nearly killed him breaking all the bones in his body.

Technique
Tsumuji Spear Technique: Extreme transmission "the First Thrust": It is a deadly spear technique where you distance yourself from your opponent and thrust the spear right through your opponent.
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Ishyumi Tessen
Age: 16
Clan: Ishyumi

He is a member of "F" which are wings assigned to Mitsuomi by Souhaku. But different from the Mataza,Kagiroi,Kabuto and Madoka, He chose to become Mitsuomi's strength as to compare being under the order of Souhaku. He was the first one to be concerned when he heard Souichirou was being trained so he could face Mitsuomi. He later fought Souichirou but had his powers stolen. He no longer can make "Water Bullets".

Techniques
Orange belt water dragon, "TouraRyuu Seirengeki": "water Bullets". As long as there is contact with water, Ishyumi can manipulate it using his "Ki".

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12 founding families: Families that support the Takayanagi Family, represented as the "Feathers" of the Takayanagi Flying Phoenix.


Red feathers and white feathers:
White Feathers:These are people with no supernatural powers. They acquire techniques through Martial arts. Through strong training, or other meditaion, or thought, or emotions: They could invoke upon the so-called 7 dragons, that lives within everyone and governs over the 5 elements(wood,metal,air,fire and water), depending on their nature.The so-called "7" dragons that live within everyone and govern the powers of wood,fire,metal,water, and air. WHen enough "Ki" is consumed then an ability is born. Their "Ki" is limited so they can't keep the gate open for long.
people who've invoked these dragons
Natsume Maya: Blue Belt Wood dragon
Ryuuzaki: Yellow belt Fire dragon
Isyumi: Orange belt Water dragon
Fu'chien(deceased): Red Belt Earth dragon
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Red feathers: The confusion starts here, The red feathers also belong to a respective nature(element) which they could invoke once enough "Ki" is consumed(ex: Again'st Isyumi, Nagi's magarabai blood open the Earth gate and he was able to use "Lightning"). But on top of that, they have their own "Unique dragon Gate" which white feathers can't invoke and basically don't have. Their dragons is different from the 7 dragons that govern over the the elements(water,wood,fire,metal,water and air). It is said that their dragon is the 8th element which was used in the construction of the World. When they open their "Unique" gate, some physical part of them changes, Ex: Nagi's hair turns black, Mataza's hands becomes claw-like(hence the name), Natsume's pupil changes shape....

Unlike the white feathers who fight in battle, The red feathers role is to support those in battle, each can use different abilities due to the 8th dragon gate that they have. Due to the unfair amount of difference in power there is between them, the white feathers fear and hate the red feathers, you could even say they envy them.

Branches of the 12 founding families:They are about 36 branch families. There used to be more but since Red feathers powers wasn't needed anymore, some families died out. Ex: Shyukyou family(Kabane), Enmi family(Natsume)...



Red Feathers

Nagi clan(head of Red feather families and junior head of the Takayanagi Flying phoenix)

Head: Nagi Souichirou
Power: Dragon Fist
They are also called Demon Exorcist because to fight a demon, they take the form of a demon. Though in the present, it seems that Natsume is the head of the Red feathers, in reality, The Nagi family is the Head of Red feathers and the Junior head of the Takayanagi Flying Phoenix. They are the Unique branch of the 12 founding families of the Takayanagi flying Phoenix, because with their Dragon Fist they can steal an ability or power and make it their own. They are the most despised of all the 12 families.
Magarabai(Exorcist form): Arrived at the flood gate at Hyuugabashi(name of bridge) in Aokigara, purified myself, and prayed to the spirits, i submerged myself into the river, and became a god. The God Yatsumagatsuhi, the God Oomagatsuhi, these two gods came to the country at a time when it was unpure, and as a originally unpure spirits themselves, continued on defiling themselves. The gods are evil, briging bad luck, and have become demon-like. I am a God to purify these things.

Natsume clan(Red feather)
head:Natsume Maya
Power: Dragon Eye(Ryuugan)
Red feather family, they themselves as braches such as the Enmi family. They own the Reiki which can cut through anything. The original use of the Dragon Eye was to collect information.They aren't the only one who can use the Reiki, back in the flashbacks Shyoujyou also activated it.

Hotaru clan(red feather)
Power: Dragon Palm
You can call them the "medic division". With their dragon palms, they can heal any injuries. They do not fight in Battles.

Kabane clan(red feather)
Head:Kabane Myouun HiroHiko
Just like the Natsumes posess Reiki, this family has a weapon called "kabane Blade". From the latest flashbacks, we can say that they practice Bodhisattva(wiki).

Shyoujyou clan(red feather)
Head: Shyoujyou Tokuan Mitsuiro
They could read the "Ki" of a person and change into that person and can use that person's technique, but not to their Full extent like the original could.


Kago clan(red feather)
Head:Kago Souhakou

Souhakou is and have been the only Kago. He is Souichirou's father. He was, is It is said that Souhakou has power over death, it is not the Kago family's but Souhakou's own power.As long as the Ki remains, Souhakou can bring a person back to life. This is one of the reason why Souhakou as lived for hundreds of years. Souhakou's weakness is his eye, To kill him you have to destoy his eye, and that's the same eye that's in Souichirou's right eye socket now which was put there by Inue. Currently Souhakou is trying to ressucitate through Souichirou's body much like he did with Shyoujyou in the past. Only Aya is aware of that.


White Feathers

Ishyumi clan(white feather)
Head: Ishyumi Tessen
Archery division of the 12 families.

Tsumuji clan(white feather)
Head:Tsumuji Mataza
Spear troupe(division) of the 12 families. They go in after the main Archery Forces. They are called the "8 spears of Tsumuji"


Kagiroi clan(white feather)
Head: Kagiroi Tetsuhito
They can make their whole body as hard as a iron. This is due to the fact that all Kagiroi women have been drinking Iron for 2000 years, finally they developed blood and skin impervious to iron, and the Iron Fist.

Mawari clan(white feather)
Head: Mawari Madoka
Hand-2-Hand combat division of the 12 families that goes in after the main force have finish fighting.

Wani clan(white feather)
Naval Division of the 12 families. it currently unknown who the leader is.

Kabuto clan(white feather)
Head: Kabuto Katsumi
This family's job is to be the commanders of the advance guard. It fights to unify the forces in place of the Takayanagi family. Even more than that job, compared to other families, thier thought on "strenght" is different.

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Takayanagi Family:
Leader: Takayanagi Mitsuomi
x-leader: Takayanagi Dougen
Heir: Takayanagi Masataka
The Takayanagi Family controls the top of the Japanese Martial Arts world. It has been this way since Ancient times. They say that the heroes of Ancient Myth and legends were the Takayanagi ancestors but that is the modern interpretation. They have been careful to keep their lineage pure since the ancient times so they are the same as they have always been. For that reason, the Takayanagi Family and the 12 Founding Families have a sort of counter-measure relationship, and you can say that the Takayanagi family is representative of the 12 Founding Families. But the Takayanagis fundamentally have stronger techniques(Ex:Iron forge Needle,Muuken...) due to their direct relationship to the heroes of the past.

History of the 12 founding Families(or each have a similar Legend): On the way here, they found something that should have surprised them, The 8 rivers that ran through the country were stained entirely blood red. According to the locals, this blood river only flowed during the summer, the rice plants from the fields all wither. When they investigated, they found out that near the source of the river, many prospectors that came from the kudara were making a real mess of the mountain. In order to get the staggering iron manifacturing industry going in the fall, they took iron particles and wood. When Iron touches the oxygen particles from the air or water it turns blood red. The shogoun who controlled the local army was furious. The mountain is our God the river is our god. The regime in power at that time was founded upon that faith, native to the area, in other words, it was the same as if the prospectors were picking a fight with the local people and the government, but people who came from the continent just didn't understand that. Even though Iron had more than enough power to change an era. In other to make this most advanced material of the time, many bad effects were encouraged. The evil dragon that is being eaten by the government must be deafeated.
I don't know the shogun's true name but everyone called him "SUSA" or the "SUSA MAN". SUSA is an honorific meaning "scary" or "amazing". He was an extremely powerful and scary man. They were enticed to drink some sake by SUSA and when they were really drunk, the 8 heads of the leaders of the metal working families members were severed in an instant. Before long, either the leaders'daughter or wife got pregnant. And it was SUSA's kid. The women were pierced through by pride of the iron workers, and committed suicide by drinking Iron sand but, no matter how much iron sand one of them drank, she never died. In the end, she gave birth to the child and then died.
*notice how this story closely resemble that of Susanoo and Yamato no Orochi(wiki for more info).


Gaokishi Takehaya Susano Oumikoto:
True Warrior, The god of numerous warriors. Souhakou wants to combine all the 12 founding families blood to turn Souichirou into him since all the bloods(red and white) used to be one to begin with. It is said that Takayanagi comes from the Gaokishi founding family and that all the blood was split among the 12 founding families to cover for the deficiencies in the weaknessess of each ability or special power.(see,http://www5a.biglobe.ne.jp/~ky_yasu/p-11-1-2.htm, http://www5a.biglobe.ne.jp/~ky_yasu/p-11-1-6.htm, and http://www.avexmode.jp/animation/tenten/ahureko.html).

Magatame shrine Maiden: She is somebody who is rarely born with a unique gate, the Amaterasu Gate, that, influenced by the rotation of a unique type of "ki", a special type of Birthmark(a magatame birthmark, check wiki) clearly appears over the breast. Their ability is the "neutralization of all Ki". She doesn't belong to any of the 12 founding family. Even "susa" the only "True warrior" in history failed to kill her. Her Amaterasu gate rotates counter-clockwise as to compare to the Red and white feathers'gate which rotate clockwise.

100 year war : This is a war started by Souhakou, he put Hideyoshi Toyotomi under a spell and took control of the Osaka Castle. Since the magatama shrine maiden was none other than Hideyoshi's granddaughter. He then killed some white feathers because he knows that would cause the Red feathers to come out come after him. But that was his plan all along, He wanted to use himself as bait to attract the Red feathers. He then took Senhime's counter-clockwise gate and turned it into clockwise thus making it go from "neutralization" to "amplifications". With so many Red Feathers in one spot, and the resonance effect amplified by Senhime's power, Many more people with special power will awaken and again cause even more Resonance. As a result, the war will continue for another 100... 1000 years.And it will not be man against man, it will be people with power against man with no power. It will be a war like no other war...
Though During the attack led by Nagi Ichiyou(souichirou's ancestor), Souhakou was killed by Natsume Aya(maya,aya and shin's ancestor) since the magatame shrine was near him, it made it possible for him to be killed so Aya stabbed him. What makes Souhakou immortal is his eye where all his techniques are stored in. With Inue's help who had souhakou's eye, Souhakou took over shyoujyou's body and ressucitate himself. The war ended with the defeat of the twelve founding families because though they knew Souhakou ressucitated inside Shyoujyou, they couldn't kill him because Shyoujyou(now Souhakou) was to be SHogun(general) for the next term.With all the losses suffered from both sides(souhakou and 12 families), they couldn't afford another war. And If they killed him, that would cause chaos and render the Country weak to attacks from stronger countries which could result in Occupation and all that's come with it. So the twelve founding families accepted Souhaku's terms, and the war ended.
Present(Continuation of 100-year war):Souhaku plans to continue where he left off, But this time around he plans to use the Enforcement Election as the stage for his goal. He already fooled everybody including Mitsuomi into thinking that he is dead. We still don't know whether he plans to participate or not since he is in process of taking over Souichirou who seems to be losing himself and already have forgotten some of his memory, including the events after his father death and whenever Souhaku makes his presence felt. There is somewhat way less obstacles standing in Souhaku's way because you could say that Nagi who was his biggest problem in the previous war is somewhat on his side now.


True Essence of a "warrior":Since ancient times the way of the warrior has been set. By the well-known saying: 1st eyes,
2nd feet, 3rd courage and 4th Power. The ability to conceptualize the space you are in, your footwork, your center of gravity, and your physical strength...It could also be applied to how one's live his life. In other words, it is easiest to train and improve you backbone strength, if you just work hard at it, anyone can improve there but strength is in your courage... That is, easily control with your mind or try to hold down your fear to be a person that is perfect in Mind and Body, one must have an advantage from their feet... Namely, if your opponent has an advantage in spacing, an advantage in location, or an advantage in tactics then everything is controlled by the opponent, Furthermore, the people who are able to look contemptously over all that, and have the insight to abandon everything about the "Battle"... so to speak, are the ones who have always been the strongest and will be victorious.


"7" dragons that governs over the Five elements(Wood,metal,air,Water and Fire):

They live within everyone. Anybody can open their respective gates with martial arts, or other meditation, or thought, or emotions. They should not be confused with the "special Unique dragon gate" of a red feather.

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Would you do the whole Black Dragon v. Flying Dragon? I am still having some problems getting my head around that. I think your thread is great. Very helpful

guyes you rock tnx a lot this tread is very helpful

hey ghost i think your wrong about ishiyumi tessen being an white feather family... when the 12 red feather family trained nagi ishiyumi was there... so i think that means hes one of the red feathers family

Originally Posted by zikor21

hey ghost i think your wrong about ishiyumi tessen being an white feather family... when the 12 red feather family trained nagi ishiyumi was there... so i think that means hes one of the red feathers family

hey, whats that anime your sig is showing? and wasnt it 6 red and 6 white??

Originally Posted by zikor21

hey ghost i think your wrong about ishiyumi tessen being an white feather family... when the 12 red feather family trained nagi ishiyumi was there... so i think that means hes one of the red feathers family

Check the Tenjou tenge Ultra Jump Issue. It's like a ten ten databook.

Originally Posted by jimbo98765

hey, whats that anime your sig is showing? and wasnt it 6 red and 6 white??

are you talking about my sig...?? its naruto... dont you know this anime?? weird....hehehehe...its one of the most popular anime

Originally Posted by ghost305

Check the Tenjou tenge Ultra Jump Issue. It's like a ten ten databook.

ahhh ok ill check it out... by the way just like to ask one question... sorry when i read your guide my mind was confuse about it...


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