Boy, the Tenchi Muyo! franchise sure is exhausting, isn’t it? We had the OVAs, Tenchi Universe, the movies, Tenchi in Tokyo, GXP, War on Geminar, Ai Tenchi Muyo, the Pretty Sammy subfranchise, and related stuff like Photon and Dual. It’s a lot to deal with. And much like with Lupin III, a lot of it is trash. But Lupin has several entries that hold up really well, which is more than I can say about Tenchi, which at its best is decent at the most. So, I think I’m probably going to wrap up my Tenchi coverage with the three movies: Tenchi in Love, Daughter of Darkness, and Tenchi Forever. They’re not great, but they’re not terrible either. Well, Daughter of Darkness is terrible.
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Otaku Evolution Episode 113 – Tenchi Muyo! OVA 3
Ugh, it took me forever to make this video. For one, I had a cold, a bad back, and then I had to have my gallbladder removed, I shit you not. During and after that litany of health crises, plus recovery, plus my usual procrastination, I finally finished this beast of a video that really wore me out, because DAMN is this OVA just painful, emotionally and apparently physically. So I will probably never, ever watch this ever again after all this, and I say, good riddance. Maybe I’ll finally get over my anger and just move on.
Otaku Evolution Episode 90 – Tenchi Muyo! OVA 2
Anime’s favorite harem returns in six more episodes of Tenchi Muyo!, an OVA increasingly about one character (Washu), and also increasingly not about Tenchi whatsoever. There truly is no need for Tenchi when you’ve got the Greatest Scientific Genius in the Universe, a cute little bundle of trouble house guest, a hive mind creature, a robot clone, a octopus-bearded jerk, and a whole lot of inbred royalty! Oh, and I guess the boy in question occasionally does something.
Otaku Evolution Episode 37 – Tenchi Muyo! OVA 1 (SERIOUSLY, THIS TIME)
Otaku Evolution 37 – Tenchi Muyo! OVA 1 by ellbell01
What do you get when you take a bland(ish) teen boy, an emotional wreck space pirate, a haughty princess, a precious little sweetheart (who may laugh at your impending doom), a ditzy officer, the Greatest Scientific Genius in the universe, a badass old man, a pervert dad, a cat-rabbit that transforms into a spaceship, and a bunch of magic computer trees?
Wait for me to catch my breath, here.
You get comedy, mystery, romance, tit shots, incest (shudder), light sabers, and a guy who looks like a spinster librarian who plays the pipe organ. In other words, you get Tenchi Muyo, the original OVA.