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Director Nobuhiro Takamoto keeps the action focused on the girls, whose adventures juxtapose interplanetary intrigue with such mundane difficulties as budgeting, keeping house, and cooking. Additional comedy is provided by Ryo-Ohki, Ayeka's spaceship, which has been transformed into a "cabbit," a fuzzy cross between a rabbit and a cat.
The animation is minimal, even by anime standards, although Takamoto sometimes uses the limits cleverly, e.g., reducing a group of roommates trying to borrow money to a clutch of begging hands. Many elements in the stories play off Shinto legends, references American viewers are not likely to recognize; in the U.S., Tenchi plays like a cross between The Archies and My Favorite Martian. In addition to the regular series, there have been TV specials and direct-to-video adventures for Tenchi and the gang. --Charles Solomon
| ACTORS: | Tenchi in Tokyo |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| MANUFACTURER: | Pioneer Video |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Closed-captioned, Animated |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 013023014299 |
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Customer Reviews of Tenchi In Tokyo, Vol. 2: A New Friend
The second DVD in the Tenchi In Tokyo TV series. While Tenchi enjoys his new life in the big city, the girls back home are having problems with money. They don't HAVE any. So Ayeka, Mihoshi, Kiyone and Ryoko head for Tokyo in order to make their fortune. Of course, nothing is what is seems. When the girls, after many failures, find the perfect job it turns out they're working for one of Yugi's minions. Later on, after Sasami flees to Tokyo from the household, where the girls were trying to steal her money, she and Tenchi have a play date which ends up with Sasami running into another minion of Yugi (who gets beat up by Ryo-Ohki of all people).
The last episode is a flash-back of how all the girls met Tenchi. Turns out Washu and Ryoko were space pirates (gee, you guess?), Kiyone and Mihoshi are police who were chasing them, and Ayeka and Sasami are Jurai Princesses. It seems Washu and Ryoko took the Jurai Lightstone. Ayeka felt the police might not be able to return the Lightstone, so she (and her sister) also joined in the chase. Everybody ended up on Earth.
I had to take away a point because, frankly, the DVD is not very interesting. And the artwork is not as good as in the OVAs or the first TV series.
Bad series
The Tenchi in Tokyo series is no where near as good as the OAV or Universe series. The animation isn't as good, and Tenchi is a complete jerk to the girls. He betrays them and this series is nowhere near as funny as the others. The addition of Sakuya is interesting, but not enough to make up for Tenchi's rudeness to the girls. Washu dosen't get a big enough part, either. I am glad that Kiyone is in this series, but she seems meaner to Mihoshi than she was in the Universe series. In short, the Tenchi in Tokyo series is a complete letdown when you have seen the other two series.
This is a big change for Tenchi
Tenchi put his rural life away finally to go to Tokyo giving to the Tenchi we know a whole new route.This anime is great,the plot has a very good point even when the animation isn't that great as we use to see in Tenchi Muyo and Tenchi Universe but Tenchi is Tenchi,and you just have to accept what Tenchi brings us.Is Tenchi's encarnation doesn't follow the plot of Tenchi Universe at all but it is still good and very enjoyable too.I love the way they introduced us to a new generation of Tenchi.New characters were add to the Tenchi's Saga,new romances,new villains,but our Tenchi would be always our Tenchi wherever he goes and there would be his girls always by his side,I think that's what Make Tenchi one of the best anime ever made!!!