Dragons Rioting tells a story involving one of the dumbest shounen protagonists in manga history. He has Hentai Syndrome (or whatever Tsuyoshi Watanabe decided to make up when looking at this list), a rare symptom that can kill him if his “groin” gets sexually aroused. To overcome this symptom, he goes to an all girls school because he thought Nangokuren sounded like an all boys school.
I don’t know either, man.
For clarity, at age 6 Rintaro Tachibana was diagnosed with Hentai Syndrome. He trained under his father (who’s always dressed in a Gi for some reason) to subdue his animal desires. To avoid his symptom from flaring up, he decided to attend Nangokuren High School because it was an all-boys school. Little did he know because he did no research whatsoever because his brain’s made of bricks, it was formerly an all-girls school that decided to go coed.
Not surprisingly, aside from all of its attempts at arousing the main character and the readers, it is a battle manga. There are teams within the school that are fighting for supremacy, and they all have an idea of how they want to run the school. Rintaro sides with first year Ayane and her friends while doing what he can to transfer immediately. Meanwhile, two other characters will soon get themselves involved with Rintaro, and I’m pretty sure I’m not going to care.
There are definitely problems with this work, mainly stemming from its empty plot line — Freezing has a better involving storyline, and that has its own issues. Maybe a closer comparison to Dragons Rioting would be High School of Dead, but the art in this volume isn’t all that impressive. I mean the battle that takes place early in the first chapter is more or less unremarkable because of the moves that are executed and the personalities of those fighting. Maybe Rino, one of the three main girls in this manga, has something in her, but no one else is all that interesting. It might be best to check out Tenjho Tenge instead of…whatever this is.
A review copy was provided by Yen Press.
