Some of the Pretty Sammy and TiT stuff is the largest departure from the old material, but it’s still respectably close.
I’m pretty sure the OVA episode was first, so it would be the other way around, especially since Ryo-Ohki’s male form has pale/white skin (which reflects Ken-Ohki as a male cabbit whose grey/white) but I wouldn’t put that thought past Kajishima “Ooo I like that design, I’m going to
On the subject of the designs, everything is pretty good, of course until we get into post 2000 Tenchi, then it gets much too sterilized like many other anime for my own good. The one thing you can tell right away is which one had the highest production value, which was the Mihoshi Special. Tri-Shading was something you RARELY ever saw on anything but the most popular stuff (aka if you saw Tri-shading outside of Gundam, there was money), along with the attention to detail
Preferred designs for each character (I like them all but if I had to pick)
Tenchi:
Ryoko:
Ayeka:
Sasami:
Ryo-Ohki:
Mihoshi:
Washu:
Kiyone:
Largely I think Universe had the best designs because of how they portrayed the characters in the series, they were very “core” versions of themselves, which lent themselves to design.
Alright, I must not have the same artistic eye as everyone else. I look at OVA 1 & 2, MS, TU, and TMiL1 and see basically the same designs…?
The only real differences I ever saw were between all of the above, OVA 3, MNE, and TiT. I do see a little bit of a difference in OVA 2, but really only in terms of coloring. And Tenchi’s design. Sorta.
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the only character I really notice a difference in between the OVA and TU is Washu. In the OVA she’s an adult in the body of a child. Whereas in Universe, she actually appears to be a pint sized adult (note the chest)
