Mitsuomi Takayanagi
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Mitsuomi Takayanagi is a character in the manga and anime series Tenjho Tenge. He is the president of the executive council.
[edit] Character outline
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 uses many different martial arts, but he is especially proud of the style invented by his family and its secret technique, the horned needle attack. Another style he knows is Muukuken, 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. He also has picked up moves that are not necessarily martial arts, such as Saga Mask's Muscle Bomb, which uses collective muscle mass to reflect the force of any attack back at the attacker. When Aya Natsume attacks Mitsuomi with Tagami's staff in the manga, he uses the Muscle Bomb to break the staff and knock down Aya without even the slightest visible motion.
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.
[edit] Anime and OVAs
As a freshman, Mitsuomi was taken under the wing of Shin Natsume. Shin announced Mitsuomi would be the next leader of his gang Katana. Shortly after he is challenged by Shins younger sister Maya Natsume, with Shin's permission he defeats Maya. The two seem to like each other and a relationship slowly starts to develop. Mitsuomi quickly starts to become concerned with Shin's lack of restraint after he nearly kills a guy for fighting Maya. Mitsuomi meets Mana, Shin's girlfriend, and discovers with out her skill as a member of the medical club almost everyone Shin has fought would have died. Mana invites him to meet her later, and he does. Due to Mana's advances Mitsuomi has a running affair with Mana. Mitsuomi however is confused as to why Mana has any interest in him, as an answer she gives him a video. Mitsuomi watches the video with Bunshichi Tawara, a long time friend of Shin's and another member of Katana. The video starts boring enough but then radically changes, depicting Shin mercilessly slaughtering people for no apparent reason with the Reiki, an evil ceremonial nodachi. Bunshichi comments, that he has known Shin for 10 years, and that is not Shin. Mitsuomi is struck with fear, believing no human could do those things. Bunshichi goes to beat sense into Shin, and discovers the Reiki, combined with Shin's dragon eyes is driving his friend insane. After Shin's defeat, things seem to return to normal. Mitsuomi's father, Dougen however, wants to create the ultimate warrior in Mitsuomi. He believes Mitsuomi needs an evil to fight to accomplish this, so he plans to use Shin as this evil. He tries to return the Reiki to Shin but he refuses, Dougen orders Fu Chien to attack Maya to drive Shin crazy anyway. Shin sees Maya injured, and the Reiki actually activates even though Shin isn't in possession of it. Shin kills Fu Chien's men and rips off Fu Chien's hands. Mana runs to get Mitsuomi, believing only he could stop Shin. Maya calls out to Shin calming him down just as Mitsuomi bursts in. To stop Mitsuomi Maya calls to him too, enraged with jealously Shin loses it again and blasts Mitsuomi with a large quantity of ki. Mitsuomi is taken to the hospital but is said to be fine, later that night however he pukes up blood and is taken back to the hospital.
Days later at the finals of the school's tournament, Mitsuomi shows up late, and defeats the joint team of 5 of the strongest fighters at Todou Academy by himself. After the fight Mitsuomi grabs his chest and leaves. He meets Mana outside, who tells him all the matches took 3 minutes total. He collapses on her and pukes blood behind her, she then explains to him what has happened to his body. The large quantity of ki fired into his heart has sped it up, far beyond anything drugs could mimic. As a result his body is becoming super oxygenated, vitalizing his muscles, improving his metabolism and even improving his brain functions. Essentially, he gets super human abilities for 3 minutes. If he fights longer than that his heart rate will surpass 200 beats per minute, and will rupture. Even if Mitsuomi doesn't fight he has 2-3 years of life left.
Shin's insanity continues to grow, now taking over protection to the extreme. Shin plans to kill anyone who gets close to Maya, even Mitsuomi. Mitsuomi swears to defeat him and free Maya from him, eventually challenging Shin for the president position of the executive council as an excuse. Mitsuomi dominates this fight, Shin tries to take Mitsuomi out with him and fails. The Reiki, has no plans to let Shin die and activates his dragon eyes. Blasting through Mana to hit Mitsuomi, Shin proceeds to pummel Mitsuomi. He also takes out everyone else in the room. In the end he returns to normal, and has Mana assist him in taking his own life, while she is dying. Mitsuomi is now the president of the executive council. Not satisfied yet, Mitsuomi hires people to take over the Takayanagi estate, and kicks his father out of power.
Maya blames Mitsuomi for her brother's death, and believes he has been corrupted by his power. She becomes the captain of the Juuken Club and opposes him. Eventually, much to Mitsuomi's disapproval, Masataka Takayanagi his younger brother, joins the Juuken Club. As Aya Natsume, Maya's younger sister enters Todou Academy it is discovered she has dragon eyes like Shin. When Aya takes possession of the Reiki Mitsuomi agrees to help Maya find her and take it away from her. Mitsuomi, for whatever reason, has a strong distaste for Souichiro Nagi frequently clashing with him after he arrives at Todou. At the end of the incident with Aya and the Reiki Mitsuomi agrees to put off all aggression until the schools annual tournament.
[edit] Manga
The manga is far more graphic than the anime, although this is edited out of the CMX version. The manga has a large quantity of nudity and sex related material, not present in the anime. It is also contains more blood, and shows more graphic techniques than the anime. The manga has proceed much farther than the animes or OVAs.
The Takayanagi family has historically been supported by 12 families, represented as the feathers of the Takayanagi family flying phoenix. A new alliance of these families has formed under Mitsuomi (although all 12 families have not joined), that calls themselves 'F'. While F is supposed to follow Mitsuomi's orders, they attack the Juuken Club despite the order to wait for the tournament. It is revealed Mitsuomi was assisted in taking over his families estate by Souhaku, the head of F. While Mitsuomi wants to rule, Souhaku wants him as nothing more than a puppet ruler, causing a clash between the two. At one point Inue Noriko Shindayuu threatens to take Mitsuomi out of power and put his brother Masataka in his place. In a rare show of affection for his brother Mitsuomi orders that Masataka is not to be touched. Inue has the power to control others's minds using her voice, and believing she could do the same with Mitsuomi she continues to press him. Unfortunately for her Mitsuomi has mastered Muukuken, a Chinese style that allows him to punch with out the brain or nervous system playing a role. After this Mitsuomi agrees to help Maya take Souichiro back from Souhaku, and take Souhaku down.
Mitsuomi actually beheads Souhaku, despite Souichiro, and Madoka Mawari's hesitance to kill him, he then joins Maya outside to assist her after her fight with Tetsuhito Kagiroi. It is revealed Souhaku has powers over death, and can revive himself, though he has not yet done so.
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.
