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    ChaudSept wrote:


    The table of contents often help us to know what’s inside the novel.

    目次

    Table of contents

    プロ ローグ

    Prologue

    第1章 19才 •真夏の恋

    Chapter 1…… 19 years old – Midsummer’s Love

    第2章 17才• 不在の夏

    Chapter 2…… 17 years old – No summer

    第3章 19才• 不安な夢

    Chapter 3……19 years old – Anxiety Dream

    第4章 17才• 空白の足跡

    Chapter 4……17 years old – Blank Footprints

    第5章 17才• 消息の糸口

    Chapter 5……17 years old – New clues

    第6章 もぅひとつの19才

    Chapter 6……Another 19 years old

    第7章 19才• 17才との対面

    Chapter 7…… 19 years old – Meeting with a 17 years old

    第8章 17才• 未来の奪回

    Chapter 8……17 years old – The Future’s rescue

    第9章 19才• 燃えつきる、永遠の夏

    Chapter 9 ……19 years old – Burning out, Eternal Summer

    第10章 17才• 秋。新しい未来へ

    Chapter 10……17 years old – To a New Future

    エピローグ

    Epilogue

    あとがきにかえて

    Afterword

    ChaudSept wrote:

    But I wonder what it means, the novel seems to be seperated into parts where the characters’s ages are fluctuating between 19 ans 17 yo…

    Maybe 19 means we follow Tenchi, and 17 means we follow Ayeka & Ryoko.


    I replied to this in November, but I will give a more detailed reply. The high points of the story are as follows.

  • The film opens with Yosho and Haruna approaching Earth aboard his ship, visually similar to Funaho from the OVA.

  • Ryoko and Ayeka fight over chores when Tenchi intervenes. They turn their attention to him and ask him finally to choose between them. He escapes into the forests, where Haruna’s ghost then draws him into her fantasy.
  • Six months pass, and the Masaki household has scattered across the galaxy to find Tenchi.
  • Tenchi awakes, visibly older and more like Yosho, in an apartment with his supposed girlfriend, Haruna.

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  • Elsewhere, Sasami uses Jurai’s arboretum network, yet another visual cue from the OVA, to search for Tenchi. Ryoko and Ayeka briefly see Tenchi in the crowded city, but lose him in the chase.
  • Tenchi sketches Haruna by the moonlight and spend the night like young lovers.

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  • Katsuhito discovers Haruna’s camellia has blossomed and realizes what has actually happened.
  • Haruna meets with Tenchi after class, and they head home together in the rain. Ryoko and Ayeka spot him walking with Haruna but once more lose him in the alleys of the city. Seeing Haruna only distresses the pair more, Ayeka cracking and Ryoko emotionally turning off.
  • Meanwhile, Haruna finds a sketch Tenchi made, of a cyan-maned woman. She tears it down and crumples it, leaving Tenchi to demand why she did it. However, her tears spur him to placate her by shopping, buying a pair of matching rings. At the same time, Ryoko and Ayeka are working when the two worlds briefly converge, allowing them to see Tenchi and Haruna in their diner. Ryoko and Ayeka try to reach him but are unable to speak to him or even touch him. However, Haruna reacts to them both, clearly aware of them. Haruna then vanishes along with Tenchi.

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  • Sasami hears the tale of Haruna from the knights and relays it to Washu. She, in turn, explains the parallel world issue to Ryoko and Ayeka, making a plan to break into the other world.

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  • Again, Tenchi sketches Ryoko’s visage, but he hides the sketch before Haruna can see it.
  • Washu confronts Katsuhito, who tells his tale to her, how he planted Haruna’s camellia on Earth after her death.

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  • Again, Haruna finds the Ryoko sketch and destroys it, spurring another spat between her and Tenchi.
  • Washu uses Kiyone and Mihoshi to implement her plan, teaming with Sasami on Jurai.
  • Frustrated, Tenchi finds the bankbook and sees the nonsensical figures. Finally, he has had enough lies and deception and states he can’t love her like this any more. Ryoko and Ayeka then break into the reality and confront her, but Haruna exiles both of them and resets the alternate world. Washu sends them right back, but Tenchi orders Ryoko and Ayeka away, so he can confront Haruna himself.

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  • Katsuhito finally decides to cut down Haruna’s tree and enter the other world as well to face Haruna. He forces her to remember her own final words.
  • Yosho’s spirit guides Haruna’s away, leaving Tenchi to be rescued by Ryoko.

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  • Tenchi is sketching in the hills when Ryoko joins him for a moment alone together.

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  • Looking at the table of contents, I could speculate as to how the chapters line-up, but I do not quite see how a couple of them align yet.

  • Chapter 1…… 19 years old – Midsummer’s Love — Yosho and Haruna arrive in orbit of Earth.

  • Chapter 2…… 17 years old – No summer — Tenchi disappears.
  • Chapter 3……19 years old – Anxiety Dream — Tenchi awakes in Haruna’s world.
  • Chapter 4……17 years old – Blank Footprints — Ryoko and Ayeka search fruitlessly for Tenchi.
  • Chapter 5……17 years old – New clues — Sasami hears about Haruna from the knights.
  • Chapter 6……Another 19 years old — ???
  • Chapter 7…… 19 years old – Meeting with a 17 years old — ???
  • Chapter 8……17 years old – The Future’s rescue — Ryoko and Ayeka break into Haruna’s world.
  • Chapter 9 ……19 years old – Burning out, Eternal Summer — Katsuhito cuts down Haruna’s camellia tree.
  • Chapter 10……17 years old – To a New Future — Ryoko brings Tenchi home.
  • I am sure translating a little of each chapter might place it more exactly. In the absence of evidence to the contrary, I am fairly convinced that the novelization is, more or less, the same order of events as the film. Moreover, I am fairly convinced that the 19/17 ages are to distinguish the two parallel timelines, not that someone is actually changing age between chapters.