Yamada Tenza

Yamada Asaemon Tenza was a major supporting character of the 2018 manga series Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku and 2023 anime adaptation of the same name. He was an Asaemon that was assigned to monitor to take care one of the criminla, Nurugai in expedition to acquire the Elixir of Life.
He is voiced by Yusuke Kobayashi, by Ben Balmaceda in English and played by Yuta Iiyama in the 2023 Stage play of the series..
== Appearances ==
Tenza was a young handsome blond tall man with a muscular build. As an Asaemon he wears the male standard clan’s outfit being a white robe tied with a red hakama along with red fabrics around his waist that usually holds two swords on his left side. He has many red fabrics around his attire and wears long red gauntlet on each of his hand. He also wears sandals and a metal headband with two X-shaped scars on it with the right side of hair that comes out. 
== Personality ==
Tenza appears to be a strong-willed young man that refuses to leave others that he see as important behind. For example he refused to abandon behind Nurugai telling him that can not run away without him that he needs a reason, during his fight against the waves of attacks from the octopus on the shipwrecks. When Tenza first met Nurugai he asks him why was a young child like her getting executed and tells her that he believes she is innocent. Furthermore even upon receiving deadly blows to his throat and abdomen from Zhu Jin he refused to give up and continues to fight back preventing Zhu Jin to take Shion and Nurugai’s life even at the cost of his own. 
== Background ==
Tenza was trained by Shion at a young age and would eventually become a student of the Yamada Clan. He was able to gain the 10th rank within the clan and earn his Yamada Asaemon title. At 17 he would be assigned to be the monitor for the criminal, Nurugai to be part of the search for the Elixir of Life and believes that she was mistreated as due to her age.
== History ==
After the massacres between the criminals on the beach, with the ten remaining criminals among them. Each of the criminals would be sent to the dangerous island that is said to be Shinsenkyō. Upon arriving to the island with Nurugai, the two confront a Sōshin and kill the monster. Tenza tells Nurugai that she does not deserve to be part of the expedition which Nurugai perceives as pointless due the fact that she couldn’t complete her task. Tenza then tells her that he will talk to his superior to which she also thinks as pointless. The two then decide to go back to where they came from as they waited for the fog to be cleared. Some time after they would see the ship of the shogunate, however, they realize that it was a shipwreck and that nobody was in there. Monsters would appear between the broken ships which cause Tenza to draw his sword out as Nurugai then warns him that monsters are attracted to shiny objects. Which caused an octopus-like monster to attack, destroying their boat in the process. The two would then try to search for a boat while running across the shipwrecks with Tenza cutting down the tentacles of the monsters sent at them. At the end of the ship, they discovered the body of Yamada Kishō’s corps that was blooming with flowers. Tenza tries to talk to Kishō who was still alive to which Nurugai telling that it’s no use before having his body pull in the air and slashed into two part by one of the sea monsters. While they are surrounded by the monsters, Nurugai tells him to leave him behind thinking that he deserves to die for causing the death of his grandfather and the other who was living with him. Tenza tries to convince her that she is wrong and refuses to leave her behind while protecting her from the numerous attacks from the underwater monsters. Nurugai the changes her mind with her gaining the motivation to go back to the mountains. Tenza the tells her that there is a boat that is intact far away to use for their escape. 
Later on they manage to escape from the sea monsters and return to the island with their body covered in blood and injuries. As they undresses, Nurugai was revealed to be a female to which Tenza tells her that she a rather girlish body than that of all male. Which Nurugai answers that she is a female. After resting they decides to find another way to escape from the island by searching for his other Asaemon allies.
== Gallery ==
File:Tenza color scheme.webp
File:Yamada Asaemon Tenza Anime Infobox.webp|Tenza during the Island Arc
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File:Young Tenza.webp|Tenza at a young age
File:Tenza and Nurugai fight.webp|Tenza fighting alongside Nurugai
File:Zhu Jin attacks Tenza.webp|Tenza receiving deadly attacks from Zhu Jin
File:Zhu Jin kills Tenza.webp
File:Tenza's strong will.webp|Tenza continuing to risk his life in order to protect his comrades
== External Links ==
Yamada Tenza on the Jigokuraku Wiki 
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