Quote Originally Posted by DDBen
Tenjou Tenge: 18+ Volumes

I liked the anime of this but found the manga suffers from the same problems. Essentially the flashbacks KILL this manga. Your reading along nicely and all of the sudden wham flashbacks for the next 10 chapters or more and they are only loosely related to the main plot I often found myself very bored during these flashbacks and by the time it got back to the main plot I forgot what was even happening. I found an identical issue in the manga where the main story was awesome and then it went into very lengthy and involved flashbacks that just destroyed the overall pace. Its still not a bad manga the main story is really very good but I can't say as I recommend it as a whole.
Spot. on. I'm completely shocked that the series is in the lead. The series goes in one direction, stays in one place, and then goes totally in another direction that was never even hinted at in the vaguest of ways before. There was zero connection between the two storylines. They mentioned doing one thing and then it's 50 chapters later and they never came back to it.

But...you were wrong about one thing. It's not 10 or more chapter flashbacks. It's usually more like 20 to 30. Granted, they are entertaining, but by the time they end you have to go all the way back to figure out why they started.