Sep 24, 2020
Tough is the sequel to Tekken den Tough, which if you read it was okay but nothing more. Tough is more evolved than that.
Art-10
The art is realistic, gritty, and overall very good. I really enjoyed looking at the panels during fights and seeing how much the author must have researched in order to draw out some of these scenes. reading through you can see how the characters get caught and trapped in submission holds, how their bones break from taking serious blows, how their ligaments get stressed from certain actions. The art is no holds barred, it can be a little gross for some
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readers so I would recommend going into it expecting blood, bonesbreaking, bones sticking out, ligaments being torn, etc.
Story-7
The story is like any other martial arts mangas. Pretty basic, straight forward battle to battle writing. There is some parts where the main character is able to get out of something using a move that the reader had no knowledge about, which is a cop out to me. I wouldve preferred consistency, in that the main character is always hiding something from the reader, something that we had no idea was even in his aresenal. But other than that, the story is straightforward and is really easy to follow. There is some great plot twists that I found surprising and I foudn myself reading to the end quite fast becuase the pacing from each fight was really good.
Characters-8
The characters felt kind of weak, as I find with a lot of martial arts manga like this one. In the beginning the main character reminded me of a shounen. Talks about never giving up, and always wins at the end with some random trick, but as I read on I started actually liking the characters. They arent just muscle heads, there is actually really good character development (although I cant say I agree with a certain characters development throughout the story, felt like another cliche but I cant say without spoiling)
Overall-9
I really enjoyed reading this, I really cant recommend this enough especially if you read and liked Baki. It really is a great manga to read through fast, as there is not much dialogue needed to understand whats going on. And between fights the author does keep the readers entertained with different twists that surprised me.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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