Audience reviews
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Prashantttt
Tenchi Muyo
Tenchi Muyo is a 26 episode series where you see many female characters and one male character, so obviously you expect it to be harem and romance, right?
But in reality, in Tenchi Muyo there is literally 1 percent romance and 0 percent harem. And yeah, you can’t even show me proper harem or romance in this show even if you try, because it simply doesn’t exist.
I seriously don’t understand why Tenchi Muyo is treated like some legendary harem anime. If you watch it now, it just feels like outdated, messy, and poorly written trash.
Out of all the female characters, two of them keep yapping Tenchi Tenchi the entire show, while the MC just stands there like a puppet or a tree. He can’t respond to anything, has no presence, and feels like a non living object. I seriously don’t t…
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Tenchi Universe and Love Hina are usually what come to mind when someone says “harem anime”, and Tenchi does not deserve this. It’s a space opera with a love-triangle and some of the best-written female characters of 90s anime you are ever likely to find.
Only Aeka and Ryoko are even interested in Tenchi himself, the rest just find themselves in his home through circumstance and become his found-family. Sasami is never sexualised (thank goodness) and has a big-brother-little-sister dynamic with him which is wholesome and inoffensive. Washu plays with him but has her own stuff going on. Mihoshi is a ditz and just happy to be somewhere she can relax in, she has more of a relationship with Kiyone who also has very little to do with Tenchi - their interactions are some of the funniest and mo…
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This time I decided to comment only on the final episode, usually I comment episode by episode, but this time I decided to comment everything on the last one, so here we go.
First I'll comment on the characters and their changes from this spin-off to the canonical story:
Ryouko – While in the original story it makes sense that she likes Tenchi, because she lived with him since he was born and nurtured a love, in this spin-off she just falls out of space and falls in love, in fact you can't even call it love since you can only understand this in the final episodes where she cries for him, before that it only seemed to be a tease for Aeka or something, considering that in an episode she simply leaves Tenchi hungry and goes to have fun in space, the Ryouko from the original series would never…
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I saw it on 🇧🇷 in 2000, And it changed my life.
I'm a penciller, and Tenchi is such a well-built character, that made me decide to start drawing my manga.
22 years later I'm finally starting my manga, this review is from 02.08.2023 and in weeks it will be on my profile. And my manga will take a lot of inspiration from Tenchi Muyo.
Returning to the topic :v this anime is revolutionary, you fall in love with all the girls, all (Sasami is the case of "I want to protect"). And the plot is really good! It starts slow, then escalates to something cosmic!
Since you've read this far, now get out of here and go watch!
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This is an anime that I grew up watching. I loved every single one of the colorful characters, and I watched anything they released with them in it, over and over again.
I don't follow it so much these days. I have mostly grown out of it. But if I ever feel nostalgic about it, this is the one that I specifically tend to watch. It's my favorite.
The story is alright, the animation is pretty good, too. The songs and background music make me really nostalgic, and the characters are all hilarious. There are some scenes with flashing lights that I think might bother some people. It is a bit much, even for me, but really only a big deal in one episode.
I can't really say whether somebody new to this series would enjoy it because so much of it, for me, is nostalgia. If you like harem anime, th…
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First anime I ever watched , it does hold up to todays standards , does get tedious with its fillers but a short anime that you can enjoy.
Watched it first when i was around 12 when Jetix was showing anime like this shaman king and DBZ , overall enjoyment and story is cool.
Story follows the ,,chosen one,, path but Tenchi does seem a bit clumsy and gets out of sticky situations but does prevail in the end. Kagato attacks! is my fav episode of the bunch and also one of my first and fav villains I ever watched. Recommended for all ages
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First, I know there are a lot of people who have nostalgia for this anime (since it was one of the first anime shown on Toonami in America), but, to clarify, I'm a first time viewer thus have no nostalgia.
Characters 9/10
My two favorite characters would have to be Mihoshi and Kiyone. Seriously, these two characters are so funny that I would love it if they got their own spin-off show. What makes them so funny is they have completely opposite personalities; Mihoshi is a clumsy airhead and Kiyone is a hard working career woman who constantly has to clean up after the mess Mihoshi makes. They play off each other perfectly and I love this running joke how Kiyone is always complaining how unlucky she is to have a partner like Mihoshi.
Another great comedy duo are Aeka and Ryouko. A lot of…
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What can you say? It's a mid-90's harem anime featuring your standard average Joe as the main protagonist.
So this is kind of hard to review since the nostalgia factor is really strong with this one. I can remember watching this as a kid and I couldn't WAIT for the next episode to come on. If we had DVD sets like we do now, I would have pooped my pants. That's why it will be difficult to be objective about the anime, it's one that I have so many fond memories of watching that the rose-tinted glasses are firmly welded to my face. I'll do my best though....
Tenchi is an average Joe kinda guy, however he happens upon the most random, far-fetched, and by most all accounts implausible scenarios that land him with several strange women living in the house with him, his dad, and his grandpa. I…
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Tenchi Universe is a 26 episode series loosely based off of the original OVA Tenchi series, very loosely. It was directed by Hiroshi Negishi (relatively unknown) and produced by the ever pandering company that is Anime International Corporation (AIC). As a big fan of the OVA series, of course the tv series had much to live up to.
Compared to the entrancing beginning that the OVA had or anything else for that matter, the TV series is mostly just filler side-story nonsense focusing around the strange group of women that end up surrounding the main character Tenchi. Sure, the harem is in full swing, but the unique character backgrounds and mystery surrounding a certain family is sort of still there. However, what made the OVA so worth watching and what makes the viewer enjoy each of the uniq…
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No need for a review!
Especially given that everyone and their dog's probably seen Tenchi Muyo (Universe/TV aka the one who's page you're on). I'm also an unashamed fan. It's not a stretch to say that Tenchi is what got me into anime along with Outlaw Star on the legendary Toonami block a few yonks and a half back now.
Tenchi isn't just a harem anime. It's not going too far in my mind to say it is THE harem anime. A fantastic rom-com with some well placed scifi action and a nice bit of world building here and there, Tenchi has managed to create a fantastic cast of characters with unique personalities and character design (following the silhouette rule of character design, that is, in silhouette, as many characters as humanly possible should be immediately identifiable or recognizable. I…
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I've lost count of how many times I watch Tenchi Muyo, but I never get tired of watching! Tenchi Muyo is a classic tale of romance, and the high point of the series are the scenes of humor protagonized by the frequent fights between Aêka and Ryoko, competing for the love of Tenchi.
At first, the story introduze each character, and begins to create the link between the girls and Tenchi. However, this seemed to be just preparing the viewer for the main focus of the story, the events on the planet Jurai due to the appearance of legendary warrior Yosho, who had disappeared a long time ago. From the beginning, it can see that there is a mystery behind the origins of Tenchi, because of the peculiar way Tenchi and Aêka are related, and you can understand better with the unfolding of the plot.
In…
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A classic of anime and the first of the harem genre, Tenchi Muyo has a lot going for it: great balance of sci-fi and comedy elements, a delightful cast of characters, and a potential for good romantic development on the part of Tenchi and the two main love interests. There are problems with Tenchi though, and they detract some from the experience. For the sake of not being an idiot, I’m not going to include the horrible dub in my overall score but I will talk about it. So don’t think Tenchi’s getting the score it is getting because of the dub. It has a lot more problems to deal with.
Pros
1.) Cast of Characters-In order to make a successful harem anime you have to have an eclectic and very different cast of characters. No two can be alike because the audience wants to like one and empathi…
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Tenchi Universe is a spin-off to Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki. Like its inspiration, the series remains a harem comedy, following the tangled life of Tenchi Masaki and his extraterrestrial visitors.
The story is similar to the first series: progressive events cause an assemblage of characters, mishaps create subplots, a threatening antagonist later appears and the group pits to stop them. The artwork is less shaded and the animation isn't as fluid but it all still looks good. Audio is backed with a library of different music, spot-on sound effects and believably acted voices. Bolder content, like nudity, swearing and sexual references, is a lot more minimal.
One of the best points about Tenchi Universe is how nicely it transitions. Viewers don't get stuck with empty fillers; there is always som…
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Quite a dramatic difference from the Ryo-ohki ova's. they seem to have added more silliness to the story and changed the characters backgrounds completely, and did a total overhaul on washu's personality. She is no longer the deep, calm, and collected person she was in the originals. instead she has become more of a mad scientist with a rediculous ego. though the new storyline is still quite good, the added sillyness and lack of character depth definitly let me down a little bit. but still a good watch.
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After following the first 12 episodes of the Tenchi series, what else is there to do? Watch more Tenchi! Although the Universe concentrates on tons of side-stories about enemies, crazy scientist (i.e. Washu), cabbit romances, overthrowing a kingdom (you know, the general line), it is a good fill of episodes until you get to the "in space" storyline in which you are truly set into the "we've got to get Jurai back" storyline. It has it's great comedic moments, it's tearjerker moments (a certain "death" near the end of the series is a killer...) and the ever happy ending is great. Although I personally love the OVA, the Universe is a great storyline to continue along especially because of all the chaos that happens thanks to Mihoshi.
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