桃源暗鬼

TOUGEN ANKI

MANGA

STATUS
RELEASING
VOLUMES
Not Available
RELEASE
Invalid Date
CHAPTERS
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DESCRIPTION

Shiki Ichinose's blood is Oni, and his father's is Momotarou. Normally, those with Momotarou blood hunt the Oni—but Shiki's father refused to kill him as an infant. Instead, he adopted Shiki and raised him despite the rebellious attitude and dangerous temper that come with Oni blood. When a member of the Momotarou Agency kills Shiki's father, Shiki vows to avenge him. But as he hones his abilities and learns to control his Oni blood, will he be strong enough to survive the dangers waiting for him…?

(Source: Yen Press)

CAST

Naito Mudano
Shiki Ichinose
Jin Kougasaki
Kyouya Oiranzaka
Momodera Mikado
Homare Byobugaura
Ikari Yaoroshi
Hayate Todoroki
Jyuuji Yusurube
Rokuro Kiriyama

CHAPTERS

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REVIEWS

JohnDoe32
90/100
How come I'm the first (no, I really mean it) writing a review of this manga? I really recommend it.
The fascinating manga started around mid-2020 by the hand of Yura Urushibara, Tougen Anki has really gone beyond many had expected.

Have you ever heard of the Momotarou story? It's a very famous fairy tale in Japan, well, to put it short, a noble hero takes down the villainous demons to bring peace once again to the world.

Now, the story didn't go quite like that, Momotarou fought the evil original demons, the pure blood known as Kishin, without knowing that they left a numerous offspring with human women. Momotarou in response did the same as well, so his descendants would finish the job for him, with this the eternal fight between Oni and Momotarou continued for hundreds of years.

This manga starts with betrayal and death, it follows the development of a young Oni called Ichinose Shiki as he learnt the truth of his world, the Oni are hunted down and massacred because of their blood, many of them are just children or citizens that weren't aware at all they were something else than regular people. The degree of cruelty you may see from the relentless Momotarou members is unspeakable at some times, most of them are somewhat really out of their minds for enjoying it or showing a completely indifferent behaviour towards killing what used to be normal citizens.

The power system, the Oni have the ability to control their blood in different ways, to make weapons or use it in a non-combatant way but practical in the battlefield, the nature of the ability depends from Oni to Oni. On the other hand the Momotarou have their own abilities, something called black bacteria or fungus, by the moment is still unknown it's true origin, but it works following the same principle to that of the Oni blood.

The main reason why the Momotarou have to eliminate all of them is because the Oni despite being partially human they have a tendency to change into what is called 'Berserker Mode', apparently it's well-known they don't have any capacity of controlling such state of complete destruction and could happen anytime no matter the place or age while they are living among humans, they must be wiped so there wouldn't be large casualties, is what the very few sane Momotarou members think while doing their job.

Even in these circumstances the comedy is quite good at times, as well as seeing some character development in a positive direction; one of the strong points of this manga is that you have indeed quite a large variety of characters with what you would call 'unique personalities' (many of you might say it's the basic for every Shonen but I don't get tired of this move)

I genuinely like this manga, for a while I lost the trace, but after a season I hooked again to found out the story was going through an interesting arc, there is only one issue, maybe you haven't noticed (or haven't read the manga) but whenever a finger is drawn pointing directly to the front it seems a bit off the shape of the hand, I know it isn't that bad nonetheless I have to say as well the negative sides, right?

On the whole I wouldn't mind such a little thing, I think this is a manga worth of your time if you like secret wars, conspiracy and super powers.

With that being said it's time for wild guesses with zero fundaments!
1. During this year and the next one we'll get news for an adaptation.
2. I would say the series will end around 350-400 chapter.
I humbly apologize for all the text and the fact that these pseudo-predictions might get into your nerves (Thank you for reading and see ya later!)
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