English Dub Review: TenPuru: No One Can Live on Loneliness “You’ll Repay Us With Your Body!”

Overview

After being abandoned at a young age by a womanizing father, Akemitsu Akagami is determined to live a single life. However, after slipping up and becoming enamored with the opposite sex, he decides to renounce the secular world and become a monk.

Our Take

Based on the Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kimitake Yoshioka. The story follows Akemitsu Akagami College student who’s been traumatized by his man-whoring father’s ways and the shame it’s brought to his family growing up. Years later Akemitsu studies to be a civil servant and, refusing to be anything like his father, refuses to date. One day he meets a cute girl named Yuzuki and falls in love. This sends him mad as his repressed lechery emerges. Deciding he is cursed with his father’s perversion he enrolls as a monk and joins the presumed “male-only” Mikazuki Temple. Alas, the first person he meets there is Yuzuki, half-dressed, causing wacky hijinks to ensue.

Yuzuki not knowing Akemitsu’s actual purpose is there for an arranged marriage meeting with another man, confusing her. Akemitsu reappears concussed from his fall, making her think he is a perverted ghost as he staggers around terrifying the women who live there. After he is captured it transpires the temple is now a nunnery for priestesses. Akemitsu leaves but Yuzuki, feeling sorry for him, convinces him to stay overnight to get the morning bus. Unfortunately, after realizing his family name is Akegami, it turns out that his father owes the temple ¥20 million. Akemitsu is horrified to learn he must now live at the temple as a dogsbody until the debt is paid.

Overall, that was one hell of a way to start a show. It’s clear this dude has some past trauma due to having to pay for his father’s sins of lust and debauchery and downright repressing that aspect is having unwanted consequences. You’d think it’d be that simple to not think about being anything like his Dad and be monogamous. And the fact he grew up in a small town didn’t help matters since most small towns tend to judge you by your family or past, even if you nothing like them. It also Feels like I’m watching a show from the 2000s in terms of this particular style of humor, but I look forward to seeing what happens next…