Takahashi City holding Event on 11/28 – OVA4 production info

Oh, and a higher presence of the actual girls. I know the previous doujin preview showed Misaki and Funaho, which is great, but if this is mostly about Juraian politics, I will be dissapointed. Still, the designs look okay. Kind of fan art looking to be honest, but I like that Noike isnt shoved in there.

Classic Tenchi…for now…

My brother actually sent me this news. I have mixed feelings about it, mostly because I want to be excited and join the Tenchi gang on new adventures, and I don’t even mind Juraian politics. However, I want the whole harem aspect to take a backseat and just let the characters be themselves. The great thing about Tenchi is that there are amazing characters; they just need something to do besides fight over Tenchi, who is well on his way to fulfilling his destiny as Ultra Stud, the embodiment of Male Wish Fulfillment, at it is. I mean, the idea of the average guy getting the hottest girl, or girls if it’s a harem, is getting a bit old, and in time the girls often go the way of the Tenchi girls, who have been stripped of just about everything that makes them complex and interesting and has managed to turn even the eight-year-old into just another trophy on Tenchi’s mantle.

However, I’m going to be optimistic. We might get more of a classic vibe, along with a grander idea of the Tenchi universe as a whole. We might see Tenchi dropped down a peg or two to make him both relatable and relatively human again, and we might see the other girls with their own stories and personas explored. I’m crossing my fingers and waiting patiently!

I do think that Airi’s and Katsuhito’s past should come back to haunt them a little. This means that one of OVA 4’s main villains should be from the mysterious Airai. Another choice of an antagonist is King Azusa Masaki Jurai. As an antagonist, Azusa is merely testing Tenchi to see if he is truly worthy of marrying Ayeka.

When it come to Tenchi making a choice, he will likely continue seeing his female roommates as sisters. Yet his feelings for them are slowly becoming more intimate.

But I’m excited in an overly cautious way!

Does that mean that there’ll be a limited number of lockers for cosplayers to store their costumes?

Edit –

After, the “preparing for marriage bath” was from Omatsuri Zenjitsu no Yoru Tenchi Ban 7.12

This particular image was from the big 4 doujin that came with IF, which did nothing more than the same image

without the center text. Which was literally said as coming soon, after recounting OVA 1-3.

The tweet doesn’t say anything too useful either.

Tenchi Muyo!

[the fourth production start of Tenchi Muyo!Ryo-Ohki!]

It is the 23rd-year this year!

The Tenchi Muyo!R yo-Ohki series that has begun to change at last!

It is the beginning of festival!

In other news, Ai’s book/manga? version is going on sale in the first week of December according to a tweet.

my time being exposed to the fandom makes me want to burst out laughing like Mark Hamill’s Joker.

Keep up the faith though, maybe something will happen.

I’d actually be slightly surprised if Funi does pick it up, because they are well aware of the backlash OVA 3 got, plus there’s the Petrea issue, which is far far lower on their list of concerns vs. sales. Harem anime have been in a decline and are at an all time low in popularity anyway. The only exception being Nisekoi, and I’d hold that due to it’s manga roots and visual presentation being a mix of Love Hina meets the Monogatari series.

What’s going to matter is how it is received in Japan. Which while not a city stopping event, there did appear to be some turn out for the thing in Takahashi. Over there people have access to the doujin info much more easily, and a lot of the old guard that shipped one girl or the other has moved on. Canonical continuations are more equivalent to god speaking from on high over there, where as Ai got a lot of backlash on both sides of the ocean. Take a look at twitter using any of the tenchi hashtags, the vast majority of people are dying for OVA 4 because of misconception that it’s going to go they way they want and they will see Tenchi get with Ayeka or Ryoko, and see space battles again. Except that doesn’t exist anymore, the story isn’t consistently more of OVA 1 and 2.

The question is just how much can Kajishima piss off everyone, and Tenchi survive on it’s name alone, because it isn’t itself anymore. If they are starting with the wedding of Noike, it’s likely we’ll see the typical reintroduction with the cast doing a lot of nothing, Seto or someone showing up out of the blue, ending with a teaser pic of everyone in royal dress. 2 will be the wedding. But where does it go from there? The little side stories from the minor doujins? Does it cover Rea and the Geminar reveal about Kenshi’s origin? Is he going to time skip to when Sasami is a teen and Tenchi’s boning Noike (Omake)? Or really time skip and go straight to IF with Noike’s first kid? Even further when the collection of kids is in school?

The problem again, is where in any of that, is a antagonist? There’s no enemy, there’s no fight, there’s the lazy and uneventful days of carrot fields and deciding which space chick to bone every day. The same is said of Tenchi’s son, and Seina’s son, and so on and so on.

If he can’t pull off more than that with OVA 4, then yes the OVA series is dead. It needs an enemy, it frankly needs Star Wars injected back into it stat. We need a unknown enemy to drop out of orbit, blast the household, poison Noike and her die in Tenchi’s arms at the pulpit, and kick off a hunt. We need someone to hit Jurai in the meantime and give them a real bloody nose. We need queen Misaki to be captured and 3 episodes of her being converted into the evil counteractor, designed to go after Tsunami. We need Tenchi’s battles to be hard and uphill, and Mihoshi to take a hit for the team, leading into a explanation of what the deal is with her bow and broken brain.

We need a hero and his epic companions, not a boring ass harem daycare simulation.

I am starting to think that Takahashi City Japan wants to be the city where the Masaki Shrine and Tenchi’s place are located. During the nineties, Talahashi was a town. When I see Google’s Takahashi Map and Google Earth, there are some places in the city where the Masaki Shrine and Tenchi’s place can be located.

If OVA 4 is a sequel to the Ryo-Ohki OVA series, some questions can answer. I don’t want to see Mihoshi to be a lot like her Universe counterpart. Strangely, there is going to be a planned visit to Earth by Funaho and Misaki. I want Funaho and Misaki to surprise Ayeka, Sasami, and Katsuhito.