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Strong female personalities (which according to Kajishima don’t exist in real life, apparently! -
- With that being said, this is a personal point, I really do want them to try to add some closure to Tenchi’s romantic life. Even if it ends in (!!!) a break-up or something drastic, or plain doesn’t work out, why wouldn’t this dude give it a try? On one hand, I understand that the implication is “well if Tenchi chooses, there wouldn’t be a story!”, but I disagree. If anything it opens up a whole new avenue of storytelling that could lead to some really INTERESTING stories for everyone involved!
- There hasn’t been an animated version of the manga. Seriously, OKUDA WHERE YOU AT BRO
…the entire series has been misappropriated by Kajishima (and others) as some sort’ve shitty self-insert fanfic. Somewhere along the lines, the franchise went from being a really neat fusion of action, romance, and drama to what Julia once called “girl collecting”. Look at Ai for instance. We have a ton of new cast members who literally serve no other purpose than to be one dimensional (aka having one specific character trait), and be objects to latch onto Tenchi or whatever. Kajishima’s ultimate endgame for Tenchi is for him to break character, the girls to break character, everybody screws everybody, because I’m sure that’s what pitches Kajishima’s tent. Tenchi went from being a fairly unremarkable nobody who gained super powers thanks to his bloodline, to a literal god who is actually a SUPER
“But Marty, Kajishima had nothing to do with Ai!”
And I’m aware! The biggest point I’m trying to make is that the series has been shoved into this “harem” genre when it used to be so much more. I didn’t come to the series because “MAN I WANNA BE LIKE TENCHI AND HAVE 12 GIRLFRIENDS”, I was attracted because of the strong, adventurous personalities and fantastic story telling, and hell, even THE ROMANCE. When your newest series opens up with a “panty gag”, you’ve got a problem.
I have a bunch more for pros AND cons, but I’m gonna be making a video on them pretty soon. woo?
The lore is absolutely fascinating. There is so much more to this than we’ve seen, and I love to speculate on it.
The blend between character development, slice of life, action, and general world-building is pretty well balanced. I love the pacing of the first two OAVs!
Cons
Sometimes the girls can be a little
The Aeka/Sasami relationship could’ve been written better. I remember having to explain, multiple times, to the friend I was trying to convert in to a Tenchi-holic that the two of them were sisters. After watching too much Adventure Time and Gravity Falls (heck, even My Little Pony (don’t judge me, bro)) and seeing very well-written sibling relationships, I think they could’ve been handled differently, even in spite of the age gap between them. Sasami, in particular, comes across feeling a lot like a lost puppy whom the household adopted.
Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-ohki OAV 3
Pros
I thought of one! The exposition dump regarding the Chousen’s motive was nice. You didn’t need it if you’d read the novels, but it was still nice to see.
Tsunami looked surprising good in the new art style.
Speaking of Tsunami, it was interesting seeing that her relationship with Sasami isn’t totally one-sided. If her will is strong enough, Sasami can force Tsunami into action. Unfortunately, she seem to suffer from a sort of schizophrenic personality; which personality reacts strongest to the event at hand seems to become the dominate one.
Cons
There were too many characters and too much story stuffed into too few episodes. This would have been better to pan out over two OAVs instead of one. The pacing in this was just terrible!
On that note, I didn’t care for the story much anyway. I was left thinking, “So, Tenchi is the supreme being in the Universe and will one day bang everything from cute furry critters to space pirates to a pair of princesses and their mother (literally, from what I gathered regarding the solution to the Counter-Actor incident) to goddesses. Why would I watch that?” It makes Tenchi so strong he’s untouchable, and it turns every other female character in the show into a glorified blow-up doll. Terrible direction to take the story in, so I would appreciate someone else being brought on to revise/retcon/reign Kajishima in. At this rate, Tenchi will put Captain Kirk to shame and rise to become the Ultimate Womanizer.
I don’t often watch dubs, but Petrea Burchard really is the better Ryoko.
I don’t care much for Noike. Perhaps it’s because we didn’t have time to grow to like her and get used to her, as everything was being thrown at us in quick succession, but it made the household look like it was in severe disarray before she showed up, which certainly wasn’t the case.
Noboyuki’s remarriage. Just didn’t like it.
I’d better stop now. This list could go on and on…
Tenchi Universe
Pros
The characters that were added into this continuity were excellent. I love Kiyone, Achika, and all the rest. Perhaps this is why I was so disappointed in Noike; the Universe characters just fit better with the cast. Excellent villains, too.
I thought that, like the first two OAVs, this was very well paced. It was slice-of-life and a quest-like story all rolled into one, and it never felt too forced.
The characters are still just as great, and Kiyone really doesn’t feel new. It doesn’t take long before I felt like she’s always been there, and then I missed her a little when I re-watched the OAVs. The new plot just gave us a chance to see the characters in new situations.
Cons
I only cared about getting to Kagato because of Aeka and Sasami; it had nothing to do with an interest in Jurai, which is too bad. I really wanted some politics explored, but I never really got what I was looking for. Game of Thrones this was not.
Tenchi in Tokyo
Pros
The idea of Tenchi being away from the group is a good idea. It opens up opportunities to give the girls something to do other than pine over him, even though they tend to do just that anyway, and gives Tenchi a chance at a more normal life.
I thought the Aeka/Sasami sibling relationship was done a bit better in this continuity.
Yugi was a great villain!
Cons
I know there’s more, but I can’t really think of them.
Okuda Manga
Pros
Cons
Hasegawa Novels
I’m not going to go into these, as I haven’t read them all yet. In fact, I’m skipping around pretty badly. I finished the first one and then went straight to Hawaii Vacation, and I know now that I really shouldn’t have done that. There’s a villain in it that makes me think, “I should probably read these in order. I might understand it better.”
So far, however, it seems like a nice alternative to OAV 2.
Seriously though an Okuda Tenchi
and speaking of the Okuda manga:
pro: they were are fun to read.
con: I didn’t collect enough volumes!
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