Ten - The Blessed Way of the Nice Guy/Characters

This is a page about the characters of Nobuyuki Fukumoto's Ten. Currently under construction; feel free to contribute.

Takashi Ten
Ten is a friendly guy who happens to be good at mahjong; or to be more precise, cheating at it. He's often hired to turn the tables around in the client's favour. If he gets caught, he lets his opponents beat him, because he knows how frustrating it is to lose. In the yakuza gamble, he joins the east side.


 * Anime Hair
 * Card Sharp
 * Cheaters Never Prosper: Actually, they do here. Mostly.
 * Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Especially early on.
 * Decoy Protagonist: He does get a bit overshadowed by Hiroyuki and Akagi.
 * Good Scars, Evil Scars
 * The Hero
 * Jerk With a Heart of Gold
 * Polyamory
 * Professional Gambler: Professional Cheater, more like.
 * Scars Are Forever: He got them from letting his opponents beat him up after being caught cheating.

Hiroyuki Igawa
A youth who becomes Ten's friend after a gamble early on. Unlike Ten he has a natural talent for mahjong, but doesn't like taking risks. Occasionally serves as the series' narrator.


 * Adventure Rebuff
 * Always Second Best: He becomes pretty miserable through most of the series because he considers himself inferior to Ten and Akagi.
 * Character Development
 * The Lancer: To Ten.
 * Narrator

Shigeru Akagi
An enigmatic man and a legendary mahjong player. Akagi has his own prequel series, which you are probably more familiar with than this.


 * Anti-Hero
 * Badass Normal
 * Cool Old Guy
 * The Gambler: Duh.
 * Grandma, What Massive Hotness You Have!: He still has a large amount of fangirls.
 * The Stoic
 * Not So Stoic: Loses his temper shortly after his introduction, and
 * White-Haired Pretty Boy: He definitely was one in his youth, and he has aged fairly well, and is still a Magnificent Bastard to the bone.
 * The Stoic
 * Not So Stoic: Loses his temper shortly after his introduction, and
 * White-Haired Pretty Boy: He definitely was one in his youth, and he has aged fairly well, and is still a Magnificent Bastard to the bone.
 * White-Haired Pretty Boy: He definitely was one in his youth, and he has aged fairly well, and is still a Magnificent Bastard to the bone.

Sawada
A Yakuza.


 * Cool Old Guy
 * Katanas Are Just Better:
 * Yakuza

Ken
A friend of Hiroyuki's. He plays for the East side in a Yakuza gamble.


 * Cool Shades
 * The Idiot From Osaka: To a certain extent. He's young, brash and enthusiastic, even directly challenging Harada- who, despite also being from Osaka, is a much cooler, calmer character and thus accordingly loses his accent as the series progresses.

Mitsui Soga
A brilliant old man who plays for West.


 * Bald of Evil: Sort of.
 * Cool Old Guy
 * The Gambler
 * Scary Shiny Glasses: Occasionally.

Ginji Asai
Plays for East.


 * Card Sharp
 * Cool Old Guy
 * Lantern Jaw of Justice

Shuuzou Kanamitsu
The head priest of a mahjong temple. He joins the East side.


 * Bald of Awesome
 * Dirty Old Monk: Priests are generally not involved in gambling between Yakuza gangs after all. He was also in Hawaii picking up chicks for some time along with several other characters, and takes a piece of hoping it will bring him luck.

Hitoshi Washio
A really skilled mahjong player. He plays for the East side.


 * Anime Hair
 * Badass Mustache / Badass Beard
 * Cool Old Guy

Katsumi Harada
The head of a Yakuza gang. He plays for the West side.


 * Badass in A Nice Suit
 * Blonde Guys Are Evil: And we're using the word "evil" very loosely here.
 * Cool Shades
 * The Rival: To Ten.
 * Yakuza
 * Yakuza

Ten's wives
Two women, both married to Ten. They appear physically early on, and are mentioned again much later in the series.


 * Polyamory

Ogami
He plays for the West side.


 * Cool Shades