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The original continuity of the Tenchi Muyo! franchise created by Masaki Kajishima and Hiroki Hayashi, which consists of three six-episode OVA series, one four-episode OVA series and two special episodes. The spinoff series Bluesoleil 8.0 crack. Tenchi Muyo! GXP and Isekai no Seikishi Monogatari (a.k.a. Tenchi Muyo: War on Geminar) are a part of this continuity.
The first series, released from 1992-93 and directed by Hayashi, was mostly introductions to the major characters, who join Tenchi's harem via a Debut Queue. Episodes 5 and 6 bring in the first major villain, the space criminal Kagato. The second series, directed by Kenichi Yatagai and released from 1994-1995, includes some major revelations about the characters' pasts and features a new villain, Dr. Clay. The third series, again directed by Yatagai and released from 2004-2005 (yes, it took nine years to continue this story), focuses more on the characters' families and resolves some lingering issues from the first two parts. The fourth 4-episode series was directed by Hidetoshi Takahashi and was released from 2016 to 2017 (yes, it took almost another eleven years to continue the story again).
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The first two OVA series were notably one of the first anime released by Geneon (back then known as Pioneer) in North America. Funimation acquired the rights to the third OVA in 2005 and they would eventually license the first two OVA series 10 years later.
Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki provides examples of:
- Abbey Road Crossing: This◊ back cover for a Tenchi Muyo! soundtrack CD (which was entitled Meet The Tenchi Muyo! and featured several other Beatles cover pastiches).
- All There in the Manual: Masaki Kajishima released several Doujinshi and Light Novels expanding on the background of this continuity; part of the reason for GXP was to help explain some of this to the anime-only fanbase.)
- Ancestral Weapon: The Tenchi Sword/Master Key, which is also a Laser Blade.
- Artistic License - Lightsaber Safety: Tenchi looks straight into where the laser blade pops out at one point when his sword doesn't work.
- Arc Welding: The fourth series is this for the first three series, GXP, and War on Geminar.
- Authority Equals Asskicking: The Juraian Royal Family.
- Big Bad: Kagato is responsible for all the danger in the first series and stopping his plans is Tenchi's first mission. Subverted in the 2nd and 3rd with Tokimi, Washu's and Tsunami's sister and one of the three goddesses.
- Brother–Sister Incest: Several examples, the most prominent being Ayeka and Yosho's arranged marriage (although the actual marriage never happens.)
- Call to Adventure: Katsuhito does this to Tenchi using Schmuck Bait.
- Camp Straight: Seiryo Tennan, otherwise known as the pink-haired guy who almost marries Ayeka.
- Chekhov M.I.A.: A very subtle example. In episode 4, Mihoshi's computer lists a few of Kagato's past crimes. If you pay attention to it as it fades into background noise, one of the crimes is the kidnapping of a 'female student' from the Science Academy. Two episodes later, this turns out to be Washu (though of course she was actually a professor)
- Mihoshi asks Washu if she is the students, and Washu face-faults. Her students are pranksters..
- The Chessmaster: Z
- Katsuhito is no slouch either, given the way he managed to shovel all his princely duties onto Tenchi.
- Dark-Skinned Blond: The Kuramitsu family. Word of God says that the entire Seniwan race looks like this.
- Dude Looks Like a Lady: Misao Kuramitsu. If not for a few certain physical features, he would easily be mistaken for Mihoshi. Don't worry though, by GXP he looks like a man, albeit a very pretty one..
- Earth-Shattering Kaboom: Part of Misao's plan to 'rescue' Mihoshi.
- Also Z's entrance
- Everyone Is Related: See the Tangled Family Tree below.
- Forbidden Fruit: The reason Tenchi enters Ryoko's shrine in the first place.
- Genius Ditz: Mihoshi.
- Go Look at the Distraction: In the first episode, Tenchi has Ryoko look out of the classroom's window so he can make his escape. However, it doesn't last long before Ryoko's rage ends up igniting the leaking gas and destroying the classroom.
- Healing Factor: Ryoko easily grows another hand after Tenchi cuts it off.
- Heel–Face Turn: Zero switches sides when she refuses to kill Tenchi.
- Hermaphrodite: Washu explains that Kagato was born as one but cast out his female side due to his hatred of women.
- Incest Is Relative: All over the place in this series.
- Insistent Terminology: Misaki prefers that Ayeka and Sasami call her 'mother'. Ayeka is embarrassed about this, although her mother seems to be aware of this, not hesitating to deal with anyone who teases her kids over it.
- Kabuki Sounds: Used gratuitously to, for the most part, punctuate beats.
- Loads and Loads of Characters: Though they're mostly All There in the Manual, which tends to cause confusion in viewers who watch the 3rd OVA.
- The Mole: The shape-shifting robotZero, who ends up merging with Ryoko.
- Physical God: (Sasami/Tsunami, Washu, & Tokimi; also, OVA3 spoiler:Tenchi is revealed to be the earthly avatar of a being more powerful than the three goddesses who created the universe.)
- Rake Take: Subverted in the first episode when Ryoko steps on a metal rake. She doesn't get hit in the face, she instead bends the pole by smacking it. This, however, leaves an opening for Tenchi to slice her wrist off.
- Schmuck Bait: Deliberately used by Katsuhito in the first episode. He warns Tenchi not go down to the cave near the Masaki shrine, because he knows Tenchi will disobey and end up releasing Ryoko.
- Serial Escalation: The 3rd OVA likes to do this.
- Shout-Out: Kagato blows up Mr. Spock in the fourth episode.
- Misao's ship The Chobimaru is a giant sphere that can destroy an entire planet. In other words, it's the Death Star.
- A few shoutouts to GXP are present as well.
- Space Opera: Subverted. Most of the Space Opera elements are here, but the series mostly takes place on Earth.
- Tangled Family Tree (See for yourself)
- Transformation Sequence: Averted as Tenchi, Ayeka, Ryoko, and Mihoshi all change into their Super Modes instantaneously and usually off-screen.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: Zero (later merged with Ryoko) and Washu (sort of)
- Zigzag Paper Tassel: The entrance of the cave where Ryoko was trapped had a shimenawa hung from the walls which also encircled a large rock hanging from the ceiling.
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Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki
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Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki is an OVA anime series created by Masaki Kajishima. Directed by Hiroki Hayashi and produced by Anime International Company, the OVA was originally released in Japan on 25 September 1992. It was produced by AIC. Pioneer LDC produced the first two OVA series, and later by VAP for the third OVA series. Pioneer Entertainment (later Geneon) had licensed the first two OVA series and released them on Laserdisc, VHS and DVD. The third OVA series was licensed by Funimation Entertainment. After Geneon's departure from the North American market in November 2007, Funimation rescued the first two OVA series, along with a handful of other Tenchi Muyo! properties (except for Pretty Sammy's OVAs and TV series).[1] Funimation released a limited edition Blu-ray/DVD combo pack on December 4, 2012.[2] The first two OVAs aired on Cartoon Network's Toonami block from July 3, 2000 to July 19, 2000.[3]
First series[edit]
| # | Title | Original airdate | English airdate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 'Ryoko Resurrected' Transcription: 'Ryōko Fukkatsu' (Japanese: 魎呼復活) | September 25, 1992 | December 8, 1993 | |
| Katsuhito Masaki finding his grandson Tenchi looking for the keys to their shrine. Tenchi was able to get them from Katsuhito and went into the shrine, inadvertently releasing a space pirate known as Ryoko, who was defeated by Yosho (First Prince of Jurai) 700 years ago. Tenchi, who falls asleep on the roof of his school, wakes to be chased by Ryoko. | ||||
| 02 | 'Here Comes Ayeka!' Transcription: 'Aeka ga Deta!' (Japanese: 阿重霞が出た!) | October 25, 1992 | December 29, 1993 | |
| Ayeka Masaki Jurai awakens from her sleep and arrives on Earth in pursuit of Ryoko and her brother Yosho. The battle ensues, and in short order the guardians Azaka and Kamadake capture both Ryoko and Tenchi. Later, while Ayeka sleeps, Tenchi meets her younger sister Sasami Masaki Jurai who provides an escape for Tenchi, with the guardians pursuing them both. After a short jail-break, Ryoko joins them on the run from Ayeka's wrath. As the battle continues, Ryo-Ohki forces Ayeka's ship out of orbit into the lake near the Misaki house, destroying both ships. | ||||
| 03 | 'Hello, Ryo-Ohki!' Transcription: 'Konnichiwa! Ryōōki-Chan' (Japanese: こんにちは!魎皇鬼ちゃん) | November 25, 1992 | February 16, 1994 | |
| Ryoko pulls an egg from the wreck of her ship and introduces it as her offspring. The egg hatches to reveal Ryo-Ohki, now in cabbit form. Ayeka discovers signs of Jurai present on Earth, and opens up to Tenchi. | ||||
| 04 | 'Mihoshi Falls to the Land of Stars' Transcription: 'Hoshi Furusato ni Mihoshi Furu' (Japanese: 星降る里に美星降る) | December 10, 1992 | March 23, 1994 | |
| An incompetent Galaxy Police officer, Mihoshi Kuramitsu, is sent to patrol Earth, where the wanted criminal Kagato is headed. Meanwhile, Tenchi and his extended family take a short vacation at a local hot springs, and chaos ensues as Ryoko and Ayeka's fighting destroys the resort and causes Mihoshi's ship to crash, stranding the Galaxy Police officer on Earth.[4] | ||||
| 05 | 'Kagato Attacks!' Transcription: 'Kagato Shūrai!' (Japanese: 神我人襲来!) | February 25, 1993 | April 27, 1994 | |
| The murderous space criminal Kagato arrives on earth and seizes Ryoko, saying that he is her creator. By watching Tenchi's grandfather fight Kagato, Ayeka realizes that Tenchi's grandfather is her brother Yosho. Tenchi, Ryoko, Ayeka and Mihoshi chase after him aboard Ryo-Ohki (who has transformed into her spaceship form and combined with the remains of Ayeka's ship, Ryu-Oh).[5] | ||||
| 06 | 'We Need Tenchi' Transcription: 'Tenchi Hitsuyō' (Japanese: 天地必要) | March 25, 1993 | June 1, 1994 | |
| The girls head for Kagato's ship to avenge Tenchi. Meanwhile, on Earth, Sasami senses Tenchi is in trouble and summons Tsunami, her own Juraian battleship, to save him from near-death. Mihoshi accidentally releases a 20,000-year-old scientific genius, Washu, from Kagato's imprisonment, who turns out to be Ryoko's true creator, and Tenchi returns to face Kagato in a battle to the death.[6] | ||||
| 07 | 'The Night Before the Carnival' Transcription: 'O-Matsuri Zenjitsu no Yoru!' (Japanese: お祭り前日の夜!) | September 25, 1993 | June 29, 1994 | |
| Life after the Kagato incident is still chaotic at the Masaki household. Ayeka, helped by Washu, plants a replacement Ryu-Oh seedling to grow a new ship. Ryoko and Ayeka, spurred on by reading romantic comic books, try out all kinds of methods of winning Tenchi's love. Resolving to get the competition out of the way, they trick Mihoshi into reporting back to Galaxy Police HQ, and trap Washu in her laboratory in the closet under the stairs. However, Ryoko and Ayeka are soon fighting fist-to-fist over Tenchi again.[7] | ||||
Second series[edit]
| # | Title | Original airdate | English airdate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08 | 'Hello Baby!' Transcription: 'Konnichiwa Akachan' (Japanese: こんにちは赤ちゃん) | September 25, 1994 | April 27, 1995 | |
| Tenchi and the girls are charged with the duty of looking after his baby cousin, Taro, for a few days. As can be expected, chaos ensues and before too long the girls have run themselves ragged. It takes Washu to show them how to care for a baby, but even under her instruction they cannot cope, so Washu takes on the job single-handedly. | ||||
| 09 | 'Sasami and Tsunami' Transcription: 'Sasami to Tsunami' (Japanese: 砂沙美と津名魅) | October 25, 1994 | April 27, 1995 | |
| Tenchi and family return to the local hot springs resort in need of a holiday, but end up having to repair the place first, since they destroyed it earlier. While working at the inn, the others see a ghostly figure in white. Meanwhile, Sasami is acting oddly, and she has a secret about her past to reveal. | ||||
| 10 | 'I Love Tenchi' Transcription: 'Tenchi ga Suki' (Japanese: 天地が好き) | February 25, 1995 | June 27, 1995 | |
| Ryoko accidentally damages a robe that belonged to Tenchi's late mother. When Tenchi yells at her, he accidentally upsets Ryo-Ohki as well. The heartbroken Ryo-Ohki sulks in Washu's laboratory, where her emotions affect a colony of shape-shifting creatures (the same creatures used as a base for Ryoko and Ryo-Ohki). Tenchi apologizes to Ryo-Ohki and pick carrots, but the rest of his friends discover that the creatures have broken out of the lab and make a beeline for Tenchi. Eventually, Ryo-Ohki assimilates the creatures and becomes human. | ||||
| 11 | 'The Advent of the Goddess' Transcription: 'Megami Kōrin' (Japanese: 女神降臨) | March 25, 1995 | June 27, 1995 | |
| The dastardly Dr. Clay, acting on the orders of the mysterious Lady Tokimi, sends his robotic slave Zero down to earth to capture Washu. Zero transforms into an exact duplicate of Ryoko to infiltrate the Masaki household, but repeatedly fails to carry out her mission as she simply cannot cope with the wave of emotion she experiences when she is near Tenchi. | ||||
| 12 | 'Zero Ryoko' Transcription: 'Zero Ryōko' (Japanese: 零・魎呼) | June 25, 1995 | December 19, 1995 | |
| Zero fails in her mission to capture Washu and returns to Dr. Clay. Tenchi, Ayeka, and Washu pursue her to locate and rescue the real Ryoko. When Washu confronts Dr. Clay, she reveals that she and Clay were once contenders for the director's chair at the Science Academy, but Clay was cast out for misusing his scientific talents. He tries to destroy Tenchi as a means of manipulating Washu, but Zero betrays him and he is forced to destroy his ship to make an escape. Ryoko agrees to assimilate Zero so that she can more easily express her true feelings about Tenchi. | ||||
| 13 | 'Here Comes Jurai' Transcription: 'Ō Kitarinaba Sachi Tōkaraji' (Japanese: 皇来たりなば幸遠からじ) | September 25, 1995 | December 19, 1995 | |
| Tenchi's life is disrupted once again when some visitors from Jurai arrive. Funaho, Tenchi's Juraian great-grandmother, and her sister Misaki, who is also Ayeka and Sasami's mother, are paying a visit to Earth. Funaho has come to see her son Yosho, and to make an interesting offer to Washu. Soon after, Misaki and Funaho's husband, King Azusa of Jurai, arrives and tells Ayeka that she must marry the man he has chosen already, Seiryo. The only way Ayeka can be saved from this fate is for Tenchi to beat him in a duel! | ||||
| 13.5 | 'Here Comes Jurai 2' | September 25, 1995 | December 19, 1995 | |
| A short 'picture book' episode (vocal track and still images) foreshadowing events in the third OVA series. Mihoshi returns back from GPHQ with news of Dr. Clay. Washu carries out an amusing experiment on Ryoko. Elsewhere, Lady Tokimi and D3's interest in Tenchi grows, and a powerful warrior is summoned. | ||||
Third series[edit]
| # | Title | Original airdate | English airdate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 'Visitor From Afar' Transcription: 'Enpō Yori Kitarumono' (Japanese: 遠方より来たるモノ) | September 18, 2003 | July 5, 2005 | |
| The mysterious warrior summoned by D3 and Tokimi is sent to Earth. Meanwhile, Tenchi reminisces about the unusual events in his life that have led him to where he is now, as well as the death of his mother ten years ago. Ryo-Ohki wanders off and gets lost in the woods. After coming to her rescue, Ryoko begins to act more affectionately towards her. The next day, the Masaki household receives a most unexpected visitor. | ||||
| 15 | 'Fiancée' Transcription: 'Īnazuke' (Japanese: 許嫁) | December 21, 2003 | July 5, 2005 | |
| Tenchi is shocked and delighted when he discovers that he has an older sister named Tennyo, but Tennyo’s arrival at the Masaki house brings another revelation- Tenchi’s arranged fiancée is also on her way! Deciding to get away before this new girl can show up, Tenchi slips off to go and work in the fields, only to end up running into a mysterious green-haired woman named Noike. Could this be the very fiancée that Tenchi was trying to avoid? Whatever the case, it seems that Tenchi’s family troubles are only just beginning. | ||||
| 16 | 'Strategy' Transcription: 'Tadaima, Kyūyōchū ni Tsuki ~Strategy~ (Currently Resting ~Strategy~)' (Japanese: 唯今、休養中につき～Strategy～) | March 27, 2004 | July 5, 2005 | |
| When Mihoshi’s brother Misao gets the mistaken impression that his sister is a prisoner in the harem of the cruel Earthling Tenchi, he decides to head for Earth and wreak destructive vengeance on the entire planet! Fortunately, his adjutant Mashisu is able to divert him from his destructive plans, but it soon becomes clear that this is far from a benevolent act on her part. For Mashisu has proposed another plan, that involves luring Ryoko over to Misao’s ship, and destroying her in a planet sized explosion. | ||||
| 17 | 'Here Comes Misao on The Chobimaru!' Transcription: 'Misao ga Chobimaru de Yattekita! (Misao Arrives Aboard the Chobimaru!)' (Japanese: 美咲生がチョビ丸でやってきた!) | September 15, 2004 | October 17, 2006 | |
| 18 | 'Operation: Lovey-Dovey' Transcription: 'Rabu-Rabu Daisakusen ~Shūen no Hajimari (Lovey-Dovey Epic Battle ~The Beginning of the End~)' (Japanese: ラブラブ大作戦～終焉の始まり～) | December 22, 2004 | October 17, 2006 | |
| 19 | 'Z' Transcription: 'Zetto' (Japanese: Z) | March 16, 2005 | April 1, 2012 | |
| Lady Tokimi’s progeny Z finally moves against Tenchi, and an epic battle in space ensues. However, when the other two chôshin, Tsunami and Washu, discover Z’s motivation for wanting to kill Tenchi, they are forced to move against their sister, bringing about a confrontation that threatens to destroy Tenchi, Z and the universe itself. | ||||
| 20 | 'Final Confrontations' Transcription: 'Dai-San-Ki Purasu Wan' (Japanese: 第三期プラス1) | September 9, 2005 | November 7, 2006 | |
Fourth series[edit]
| # | Title | Original Airdate | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 'Yesterday's Party' (Japanese: 前日宴) | November 30, 2016[8] | |
| As everyone prepares for Nobuyuki and Rea's wedding three days from now, they get a visit from Minaho and her three accountants. | |||
| 22 | 'Fate of the Masaki' (Japanese: 柾木の宿命) | February 22, 2017 | |
| As the wedding approaches, Minaho starts bonding with Tenchi, as more guests keep coming. | |||
| 23 | 'Vows and Desires' (Japanese: 誓いと欲望) | May 31, 2017 | |
| At last, Nobuyuki and Rea celebrate their wedding, while the Emperor of Jurai discusses with Minaho and Airi about Rea's origins and the reason why she was sent to Earth from the world of Geminar. | |||
| 24 | 'A Good Day to Set Out' | September 13, 2017 | |
| The Masaki family rejoice with the birth of Nobuyuki and Rea's child, Kenshi. Some years later, Tenchi's family and friends discuss the preparations needed for Kenshi to fulfill his destined mission at Geminar. | |||
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