Tenchi Muyo’s Impact

Often times it goes without notice just how truly groundbreaking, and for a lack of a better term “good” Tenchi Muyo! truly was.

Like so many shows in the 90’s, it broke ground on establishing a genre, and for Tenchi it is ever so lovingly referred to as “The Godfather of the Harem Genre”, even though it itself was not a harem show.

Now some may say “But this is a Tenchi Muyo forum? Isn’t that a bit bias to say?” To which I would show you an excerpt from anime historian Jonathan Clements book “The Anime Encyclopedia” which was released in 2001

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Because as I’ve said so many times in so many Tenchicasts, is that Tenchi Muyo more than any other anime has something for EVERYONE, Sci-Fi? Got it, Fantasy? Got it, Romantic Comedy? Got it, Action? Got it, Mecha? Got it, Lovable Underdog? Got it, Amazingly deep and diverse cast? Got it, often times I’m hard pressed to find an anime better than Tenchi in that department, and honestly, there’ll never be another anime like it.

Just like Sailor Moon was neither the original Magic Girl Show(that was Sally The Witch)

nor the first fighter Magic Girl Show(Cutey Honeyanyone?) it still was the one that

everyone after it copied because it was the one that produced all the archtypes that later shows would use.

So the important thing isn’t whether or not Tenchi was the first but the fact that it was the one that introduced all the important archtypes that others would copy.

And this in the end is the most important impact that Tenchi has had on anime.

(Of course I am not forgetting all the memorable characters and the fact that it did give us

Orikasa Ai and Yokoyama Chisa as well as Petrea Burchard.)

Question starts at 41:16 (for some reason BBVideo won’t start the video at the shared point)

TL:DR Tenchi has touched a lot of people.

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The segment comes from Impulse by Steven Gould, the third part of a series of novels.

I notice that the author uses the Japanese title: Shin Tenchi Muyo instead of Tenchi in Tokyo.Trying hard with that otaku street cred?

I’m waiting for someone to cosplay as Ryo-Ohki.

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tuxedodouche

It looks like she’s sticking her tongue out.

So how long is the exact process?

Better not get it scratched.

I especially love the fact that they have Misao and Sasami walking together in the background.

Funi? 😆