Tenchi Muyou! Ryououki 5th Season Episode 2 Discussion

Minamida is actually a pseudonym for YAMADA Seina from GXP. He walks around with four cabbits (D, F, M, K). These cabbits are believed to be either clones of Fuka from episode 24 of GXP or sub-Fukas (which I think is similar to the sub-Ryo-ohkis in TM!R).

eff_efferson said:
well you expected wrong cause its writer of eye burning tenchimuyotranslation blog here to clarify things

eff_efferson said:
it's outright stated by D that they are all reincarnated.

eff_efferson said:
miki is refered to as clone miki because she was murdered by tarrant but she was an ai in an android shell and didn't know it till she instictivly uploaded herself to the internet when she was killed. she later installed herself into one of the cabbits with dr.clays help when seina infiltrated tarrant's base with D and zinv.

eff_efferson said:
mirror seto is romanticly involved with seina.

Quis Panta, who according to the fansub of OVA series 4 I watched, "has a relationship with Seina," as if GXP didn't already have a high enough level of older woman power. (ALWAYS cast Kikuko Inoue!)

nDroae said:



And now we've got Kikuko Inoue cast as Seto's ????? Quis Panta in OVA 5, what a time to be alive.

nDroae said:
THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE.
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I'm trying to think of any time that the gap between my eagerness for a new franchise entry, and the general disinterest and disdain from the majority of vocal fans, has been as vast as it is for this OVA. I think this might be the most extreme it's ever been.

It's been quite a journey getting here from episode 1 three months ago. Early on it was announced that the rest of Seina's wives would be back, so that was something to look forward to. Much greater hype was created by the Episode 2 promo art showing high school Sasami. Meanwhile I watched GXP, having not seen it in ten years. I had such a good time that I've been suffering withdrawal since I finished it, something that hardly ever happens with anime. That show is very stupid, in exactly the way I like. While I was finishing it, the trailer for this episode came out, showing Seina's wives on the Kamidake II. This episode has become my most anticipated anime release of 2020.

After GXP I rewatched OVA 3, and I agree with what I've read elsewhere, that for anime-only viewers like myself it's best to go in release rather than chronological order - watch GXP first, so that you know most of the new characters before they show up in OVA 3. The one main exception is Noike, who wasn't in GXP. (Blasphemy plus ultra, I now favor Noike over the rest of Tenchi's harem!) I wasn't planning to rewatch OVA 4, but I did. I found it much more watchable than I remembered it being. It also had much more animation in its first three episodes than OVA 5 episode 1 had, and the art looked much better than it does now. :D But the content matters to me more than the art.

For the last couple of months, my mantra has been, "Can I make it to June 5th?"

I made it to June 5th.

But Crunchyroll didn't put the episode out until June 11th.

Oh well. Imma now livetweet this thing and consequently take two hours to watch it. (Update after watching: it actually took that long.)

Opening scene, we get to see Seina's wives talking about where to raise the children they'll have with him. There's such surreal novelty in watching a bunch of polygamous anime housewives calmly talk about sharing their man.





In the middle of the discussion, they say that the main reason to raise their children on earth is that Team Tenchi is so chouginga OP that no real danger will ever threaten them, and the remaining episodes will likely be just as devoid of conflict as the last five (well, six) before this one.

Oh, what's this?



First five minutes and this crazy thing is already popping off. It's a reincarnation of Mitsuki, the main girl from Dual Trouble Parallel Adventure (which I just watched for the first time over the past month), also part of Seina's harem. TIL that Seina is the reincarnation of the MC from Dual, though these connections between other characters seem vague, and I don't think they imply reincarnation. Here Mitsuki's name is Miki Steinbeck, a character from the GXP novels, whose father seems to be just like Mitsuki's father. Rie Tanaka voices Miki, as she did Mitsuki.

After watching Dual I happened to glance at the thumbnail of Tenchi Forever, and noticed that Haruna (MAL/wiki) also looks like Mitsuki. But Haruna was instead voiced by Kikuko Inoue... who in this series voices "Mirror Seto" Quis Panta. Not that the movies have any relevance here anyway, since they weren't set in this universe.

Crunchyroll has corrected Jobia's name back to Jovia. Okay



Holy crap, they're building another pond next to the first one! It's a good thing the version in my Sims 2 neighborhood is mainly based on Tenchi Universe, I don't have room for that T_T



(I put in the Nessie from the episode before this anyway) Obviously I have a lot of work left to do on those empty lots.

Scene 2 oh wow it's grand MILF supreme Seto-sama talking to Quis Panta aaaaaaaaaaaahhhh
and LOL they're getting owned over some novel events I don't know about. Wow, I'm not used to seeing Seto in that position. Hilarious!



SCENE 3 TEEN SASAMI YEAAAAAAAHHHHHH



Oh so that's why she spent hundreds of years in loli form and is only now growing, I was wondering about that. Or did I read about it a decade ago and forget? Whatever.

How many years now, and Seina is still out there fighting pirates? GXP would seem to strongly suggest that piracy would soon lose its attraction galaxywide, considering how completely he devastated them in a relatively short period of time.

Ah, but I like this plan to make a peaceful country out of them.

Banjo Island, or as subtitled by CR "Tabletop Island," is the setting of the Paradise War novels. It's called "Tenchi reject waifu island" by this blogger who seems to want to damage his readers' eyesight.

Seina looking manlier than Tenchi LOL. Well, he is, in the animalistic sense. He and his harem have been married for years, while Tenchi and co are yet unwed and celibate.

Aaaaand here's an obvious reincarnation of D from Dual Trouble Parallel Adventure. But I didn't see her in any casting announcements, and her VA Ai Uchikawa isn't attached.



On the right (identified here) is Fuku. Fuku was Ryoh-Ohki's "little sister," Seina's ship from GXP.

Is reincarnated D just not going to talk? Will someone at least say her name so I can look her up?

SHE'S JUST HOLDING STILL SMILING AND NOT TALKING LOL WHAT WHY

THE SCENE ENDED WHAT WAS THAT LOL



...Obligatory scene with Tenchi's harem, honestly until Tenchi gets his wedding I wouldn't care if they weren't even all in this episode. On the plus side, whew, more teen Sasami! I thought it might end without seeing her again.

Looks like I was right when I guessed that the Tenchi vs. pirates scene would be a minute or so in between conversations.

LOL he just Isekai Smartphoned them. I counted, and they/their ship got at most ten seconds of screentime before being completely subjugated. Ahhh, I should line up a rewatch of Smartphone, that was a good one of the GXP variety. That's a good comparison, actually - if you don't enjoy shows like Smartphone and Death March, you probably shouldn't watch GXP!



A parting gift of Wetlook Rea. Thanks for that, Ryoh-Ohki! ^_^




The top guy in this recent casting update, Shou Kukuma, I now know is the protag of Paradise War, so that makes sense. The others in the article are his main "Tenchi reject waifus," as described in the Paradise War character list here. Each is a representative from one of the great pirate guilds, as described by Quis Panta in this episode. Clearly, Episode 3 will head straight into Paradise War, introducing yet another full cast harem to torment the fans of the original two OVAs who haven't dropped this yet. Hehe!

Okay, the Paradise War wiki page sheds some light on what was going on with the cast of the island scene:


So D is a cabbit, and her name is still D. That would mean the "Fuku" on the island is not the original Fuku, then, but this F? Futhermore, this would mean that Miki Steinbeck (one of the four in the island scene) is the cabbit M, with K being Kirche. But the Miki Steinbeck Seina met in GXP novel 3 was seemingly not cabbit-related, and that happened early in his time at the academy from the start of the GXP anime... unless there's time travel involved? I don't expect a book reader will waltz in here and sort that out, so I'll look into it later.



Left to right: Kirche, Miki, Seina, D, Fuku.


Massive contrast against the first episode - I had a TON of fun watching this. And it's wonderfully amusing to me how much fun I can sometimes get out of shows that a lot of people can't stomach.

Bring on September.

nDroae said:

"Mitsuki Sanada resembles Kiriko Masaki?" Is she the true reincarnation while Miki is more of an AI recreation?

Ah, wow, okay. And now I see that the bottom of Tsukiko's wiki page partially explains how Miki ended up as a cabbit. Very cool to know, thank you.

Quis Panta, who according to the fansub of OVA series 4 I watched, "has a relationship with Seina," as if GXP didn't already have a high enough level of older woman power. (ALWAYS cast Kikuko Inoue!)

nDroae said:
SOMEHOW WHEN I WAS 22 I DID *NOT* NOTICE WHAT AN AMAZING MILF SETO WAS, BUT NOW I AM OLD AND WISE

Is she able to manipulate her size

L-Mo-Reppin said:
You should mark TLDR and put all this in a tab

eff_efferson said:
the dating sim character file gained a soul and became sentient so he wiped it's memory and deaged it and shoved it into a human shell to raise as a daughter because its a crime to kill a sentient ai and he had no other way to explain it's existance.

eff_efferson said:
in a way kiriko is both the Mitsuki sonada of her group and but the mitsuki Rara of her siserly relationship with miki

eff_efferson said:

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then you have the seto scounts the red (karen) blue (hakuren) white gyokuren( white) and green suiren, who are again analogs of mitsuki S mitsuki R Yayoi and D in that order. my theory is their group is dirived from a shared atribute of mitsuki R, that being they have dual identities and come from a nation that has mech fighters.