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    • August 31, 2014 at 3:36 PM
    • in reply to: Hello!
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    Hello! Welcome to the forum! I hope you enjoy your stay, and I hope to see your face around here in a variety of topics!
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    GAH! The hype-o-meter is back at regular levels!

    I definitely love the designs for Ryoko and Washu. I was never a fan of Washu’s design but now I totally dig it. What they did with Ryoko’s hair is really cool, an attempt at making it look quasi-realistic while retaining it’s characteristics. Everybody else looks pretty normal, in fact the only redesign I could care less about is Mihoshi, but I know that outfit is almost straight from the OVA (I didn’t like it there either!).

    Definitely wondering what the mark on Ryoko’s chest and Ayeka’s leg mean. Hey, anything to give them more story relevance!

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    Wow, just finished All-New Tenchi Muyo, and I definitely prefer the first one. This felt like a series of one-shots to me with forgettable villains, though Miu and Suzuka/Kagato clone/Kiyone clone were some really good villains that I think were on par with the No Need For Tenchi villains. I don’t even know what happened in the last volume with the Kagato clone though.

    Ryoko is still the best developed and most developed character thus far. The story arc that centered on Ayeka’s confrontation with the Mitsu creature was pretty boring just because Ayeka doesn’t have a lot going for her, so giving her a cute pet that is basically a lizard Ryo-Ohki didn’t really strike me as all that impressive or engaging.

    I wasn’t a fan of the focus on Sasami, in fact I think I realized I really don’t care for her character. Usually when the Tsunami stuff shows back up I get more invested but man if she isn’t just a Mary Sue who’s just…UGH.

    However, I’m also not a fan of all the loli/little girl designs. I think I was okay with Yume just because, but Tama was a bit too much. I’m glad she faded away into the background and only showed up every now and then. The other villain who wanted to merge with Washu, UGH. There was a bit of a contradiction since he included his adaptation of Tenchi Muyo in Love in No Need For Tenchi and now we have Kiyone Masaki as Tenchi’s mom alluva sudden. Probably shoulda done something there, but it didn’t really bother me too much.

    I definitely wish there was more, but after learning Okuda worked for 12 years on this I can see why he hasn’t come back with some new material. His art, his humor, and his stories are mostly on point, and I don’t think I’ve laughed so hard at a manga before in my life. I do hope someday we can see him coming back to this in some shape or form.

    One last note, Ryoko working at McDonald’s is still the best two pages in anything ever.

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    Dagon123 wrote:

    If this is truly Kajishima’s “Endgame” in a “what if” situation for the Tenchi gang, and this is all he can come up with, then I’d say we have a better chance of seeing another spin-off series or a 4th Movie before we see another OVA.

    I think this is the truest of words ever spoken.

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    wwwwhhhhoooo wrote:

    …but to put it bluntly, cabbit/human children in an incest-ridden polygamist compound is not what I signed up for in the summer of ’00. If that’s your cup of tea, fine, I won’t try to belittle anyone or knock it as inferior. It’s just not Tenchi for me.

    It has yet to be seen how or even if Ai Tenchi Muyo! will be more up my alley, but here’s to hoping.

    This is how I’m feeling right now. Ever since I learned about the so-called “Tenchi Solution”, I’ve been kind of wary about the franchise/series. I mean I thought the whole “marry everyone” was kind of goofy, but literally just everyone having sex with each other and their kids having sex with each other and…jesus man. I mean all these years I’ve really ignored the incest coming from the whole Jurai side of things just because…well…you know. But even the plots in the official releases suffer, OVA3 was really a chance to return to form and instead we just got some overly complex sci-fi nonsense and a slew of characters that nobody really cares about.

    I won’t knock you if you like it, but I suppose I’m just a different kind of Tenchi fan.

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    Sure, I’ll take that Tenchi is dumb enough to think that getting married to everyone is a good solution…but now Tenchi has sex with everyone and makes a ton of babies? And the ladies in the house are all cool with this?

    Gotta love that main canon. wtfisthis1

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    So I just finished the first manga series!

    Honestly (and why would I not be honest)…I LOVED it. Way more than anything that’s been put out recently. Good humor that actually made me laugh out loud, cool villains, and CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT! Reading this manga actually made me like certain characters a bit more, and the art was just gorgeous. If they had animated this, I think Tenchi would’ve been even more popular, maybe up there with some of our more mainstream shonen anime brothers like Dragonball and Bleach.

    Seriously, Okuda knows what he’s doing. The characters that were added in never took too much attention away from the core cast, and seeing them reappear (i.e. Minagi) over the course of the series was really really satisfying. If you haven’t read the manga yet, GO DO IT! You won’t regret it!

    I’m going over to All-New Tenchi Muyo right now, so I’ll leave my impressions here as well!

    • August 15, 2014 at 8:40 AM
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    Thanks for the warm welcome guys! I’ll definitely be chatting it up as much as I can!

    Also, thank you for that suggestion Nil! I’ll check that out as soon as possible!

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    Nil Admirari wrote:

    Word on the street out of Comiket seems to confirm that Kajishima has no involvement in Tenchi Muyo: Ai (as we figured)

    This will probably sound a bit meam but I think that makes me just slightly more excited for Ai. I’m not really a fan of the setting but hey! I’ll take what I can get.

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    A PM would be lovely!

    Honestly, the whole Ryoko being powerless plot has really grabbed my attention, followed by the whole Ibara/Ryoko plot of Vol.9. I really just like getting a look into any sort’ve romance/jealousy with these characters, I suppose!

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