4th Tenchi Muyo! Ryo Ohki Announced After 10 Years

Compare that to how GXP has been getting novels every year for what 5 or 6 now?

Plus there’s the thing that non-OVA Tenchi doesn’t qualify as canon, so people get a giant burr up their bums.

If you’re wondering where I’m pulling that from, it’s the comments on Ai as it came out.

You could also have pointed out, that the reason we know so little about the older Hasegawa novels and so on, is because they were largely released in a pre-social media environment, much less it would have been cumbersome to even do much with those novels in an online format in the mid to late 90’s. So going by your logic, it’s not that the material was better or worse than say the GXP novels, it is that we’re in a very different technological era where we can track things better and quite simply that content is ancient by today’s standards, even if the US market never got it.

Whether it was warranted or not, Ai still ruffled feathers Dagon, on both sides of the pond. The dynamic changed. Purposefully, yes. If you rewind time back to when we were at the AICBBS, the whole cycle of events is comparable to when OVA 3 and GXP came out then. Ai (aka the non OVA preferred choice) wasn’t as expected by a chunk of the fandom, and for them it failed. Now it’s back to the OVA timeline to disappoint some segment or people group. If the fandom as a whole, were more educated on what’s actually been happening, instead of picking up from the Toonami era, it might have offset some expectations and not caused such a knee jerk reaction at each interval. But it’s not as though we haven’t tried to be that sign at the fork in the road.

From an outside perspective, you could almost say the Tenchi franchise is a rather amusing game of tennis, except each pass of the ball takes about 7-10 years.

It seems like Kajishima himself doesn’t know what he’s writing anymore. OVA 1 and 2 emphasized the fact that Ryoko is madly in love with Tenchi and will do absolutely anything for him. OVA 3 showed this once again when Ryoko, despite knowing she was completely outmatched went to Tenchi’s aid without batting an eyelid as she has done all along. The OVA series to me was written in a way to make Ryoko stand out and then he goes ahead and introduces Noike (Which I completely understand) to freshen things up and in the process completely pushes Ryoko to the side and now he’s only left with 2 choices to end it.

Tenchi marries Noike because it’s already been shown that no-one would dare go against Seto or he marries everyone including Sasami. Either way as a Ryoko fan the ending is going to be bittersweet because he’s not going to actually choose Ryoko, he’s gonna get the harem ending by default and for Ryoko it’s either share him or lose him and we all know she would rather share him with the rest than lose him and I think that’s a major copout on Kajishima’s part.

You can’t help but feel sorry for Ryoko really. She was used by Kagoto as basically a destroyer of civilizations and then she was locked away for 700 years. During which time the only thing she ever wished for was to be with Tenchi who has basically given her a new life. Then when she does finally get free, Tenchi gets surrounded by women who have fallen in love with him and now she’s probably going to have to live with the fact that Tenchi’s gonna be banging at the very minimum 3 other women besides her. Poor woman.

Probably going to get more on June 28, or sometime in between on the radio

Episodes are about 30 minutes. There are only 4 discs, or potentially 4 OVA episodes.

Release dates –

11/30/16

2/22/17

5/31/17

8/30/17

«Cast» Masaki Tenchi: Kikuchi, Masami Ryoko Orikasa Ai Ayeka 7 Mio Haruhi Sasami: CHISA Yokoyama Mihoshi: TBA Washu: Yuko Kobayashi Ryo-Ohki: Kozakura ETSU

Anime character design Takeshi Oda

Initial special edition nets you a 3 way sleeve case, a drama CD, and a booklet with Hitoshi Okuda art.

It unfolds over a 24-year long-term, synonymous work of SF romantic comedy anime “Tenchi Muyo! 魎皇 demon”.

Previous work becomes really 11 years from the (third period), eagerly-awaited Masashi sequel OVA is finally set for release in all four volumes!

★ Beginning with the first volume of 2016 released in November, to release a volume every three months, 4 total!

★ general director, the original author, Masaki Kajishima to sum up the “heaven and earth” world!

★ CHISA Yokoyama, Ai Orikasa returning as original voice actors!

Either way it’s Kajishima, with an IF like setting.

There’s also that wonderful ine – Masaki Kajishima to sum up the “Tenchi Muyo” world!

Purveyors of Google fu would also say sum up could be referencing the end, or it could just be a recap series.

Personally, I’m hoping for Kaji to bomb it so it gets rebooted. Long live the king, the king is dead.

Torpedo Tits from Titan

Knowing him though, he’d attempt to run with it, but someone’d trip cause it’s too floppy. *ba-dum tish*

I kinda want to crawl in a closet and hide under a blanket, with earbuds in playing Yamerarenai after that.

It’s pretty upbeat I guess, but it’s not elegant at all like any of the old openings.

The production team and storefront is terribly sorry for any inconvenience or change of anticipation this update has caused.

TLDR – OP and ED are being performed from someone else from Vol 2 of OVA 4 going forward. Life moves on, very few people cared.

Blu-ray release schedule:

Volume 1: November 30, 2016

Volume 2: February 22, 2017

Volume 3: May 31, 2017

Volume 4: August 30, 2017

So yes months. It’ll be nearly the same time next year before it is done with.

Aykea and Ryoko having a leisurely conversation probably harkens back the most to TMiL2.

Hi Beagle… how’s life treating you these days?

It has definitely take a back seat compared to the 90’s era where things were a lot more loose and slapstick.

Would LoveHina survive in today’s era? I doubt it. Around the time the first Negima anime came out is when roughly

the cultural shift sort of said, we’ve had enough.

I’ve always identified as a DualFan first and a Tenchi fan a few spots removed. Part of that was the over the topness of Tenchi

and it taking things too far. Dual while yes would qualify as a harem anime, was a lot more subdued. Like LoveHina there was really only 1 or 2 characters acting as a love interest while everyone else was a distraction or comic relief.

Likewise I think that formula worked for Universe. The only serious competitors were Ayeka and Ryoko from the get go. Sure we had time and space adventures where each of the girls had their fantasy, but it’s just not on the same level. Move again to TMiL2, same thing. Kiyone and Mihoshi, and by extension Sasami are all backup.

Compare that to the direction the OVA has gone… Tenchi screws everything with 2 or more legs, while being a oblivious shut in with no soul… and yeah you do basically have a boring ass H-game. The only thing moving anything along is Juraian politics… which if my rip of the last few lines is right… Jurai decreed that Tenchi should have a child.

My advice though is that we knew the OVA was in a downward spiral since years back with GXP and OVA 3, this is nothing new. You don’t jump out of a plane without a parachute or some conveyance and expect to land perfectly A-OK. Likewise no surprise here. There’s still plenty of novels, other materials to look at. This isn’t new, and the Tenchi community survived 3/4ths of the english speaking fandom washing their hands of it – last time this happened.

Kajishima’s going to do what Kajishima is going to do, we have no say in it. Just wait for someone else to pickup the license or AIC to finally die. Either way, times have changed, don’t expect anything to look like it did in the 90’s. You’ll be happier just accepting everything as spin offs.