Tenchi Muyo is about as much fun as you're likely to have watching anime. The only downsides, as far as I'm concerned, are the tragically unfunny dub and that the plot is left wide open at the end, something that wasn't properly remedied until a decade later. On that note, the series isn't always hilarious, but it's consistently light and fun without ever going overboard with silly or dramatic material. From the colorful and distinctively voiced cast of characters, to a wide variety of truly wild technology (much of which is functionally magic), to some spectacularly creative mechanical design, the imagination is evident everywhere, yet it's all "just there"-little is explained, and wacky stuff is tossed in as offhandedly as much of the humor. However, it's absolutely loaded with little bits of creativity and life that make is something special. If you don't go for that sort of light entertainment, then you probably won't like it. Cruising around in a ship called the Goddess, he cooks up a clone of Ryoko and sends her off to replace the real one and take care of Tenchi.Ĭreated expressly by Pioneer to appeal to anime fans and once one of the biggest franchises in the business, Tenchi Muyo is what it is: Cute, funny, fun, and not much else. The second series, Space Chapter, delves into the past of some of the crew, and introduces a whole new villain, a semi-competent mad scientist with powerful (and quite mysterious) backing, in the form of the entity Tokimi. The first OAV series, Earth Chapter, introduces the cast and eventually covers their run-in with Kagato, bent on discovering the powerful secrets of the Jurai Royal Family so he can take over the universe or some such villainy. This whole crew has only two things in common: they all seem to have the hots for Tenchi for some reason (father and grandpa excepted, of course), and they're all living in Tenchi's house. As the series progresses, poor Tenchi ends up with quite a harem of live-in aliens: Mihoshi, a ditzy but diligent Galaxy Police officer Sasami, Ayeka's younger sister Washu, a diminutive mad scientist and the greatest genius in the galaxy Ryo-ohki, the cute and cuddly offspring of Ryoko's spaceship Tenchi's enigmatic grandfather and Tenchi's widowded dad, whose only hobby seems to be peeping at the many new female acquaintances of his son. One thing leads to another, and before long Tenchi is caught in the middle of a feud between Ryoko, a superpowerful space pirate, and Ayeka, princess of the planet Jurai. Quiet, that is, until he decides to disobey his grandfather's orders and ventures into a cave near the shrine rumored to hold a demon. Tenchi Masaki appears to be a relatively normal high school kid (if you don't count the fact that his grandfather is the caretaker for an isolated shrine and is training Tenchi in some sort of ancient martial art), and his life is pretty quiet.
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