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Oh wow. Seems like this was a much waited ending to something that was watched a long time ago. But I am going to be blunt from the get go: don't waste your time watching this if you have already watched the main series. It's seriously not worth it.

Story: This is nothing more than a re-cap of all 24 episodes mostly concentrating on the fact that Keitaro finds his "girl of the promise" and "winding up with the one". Seriously. It doesn't even give you the great ending that we get in the manga so it's a bit of a time waster to just ... watch this to review what you have already seen.

Art: Is as lovely as the rest of the series.

Sound: Is pretty much the same as the series and specials.

Characters: We dive a little bit into the background info of all the main characters of who they are and what they did in the original anime storyline.

Enjoyment: Wow. This was seriously a downer. I was expecting to see a wedding or a big expedition kinda like the one we see after Seta "kidnaps" Naru and Keitaro to do at the end of Hina Again.

But, take your chances. It may be a way for you to see what it was you may have watched years ago but don't go into it expecting a sound answer as to who he truly winds up with and has a happy ending with in the end.

Mwahaha! Now for a review of this weird "WTH is going on here?!?!" series!

Pretty Sammy... In a few words: This is one hell of a weird anime to branch off of the original Tenchi Muyo anime o_O

Story: Is not that good yet it's not that bad. We meet along with 4th grader Sasami who is just your regular elementary school student who randomly gets powers because a certain goddess was either bored or she needed help for one thing or another (OMG... I can't believe I forgot already x.x). Oh well. This is mostly a story about the trials that Pretty Sammy has to go ... through to keep the world safe from the villians. Nothing much to that.

Art: Is pretty good. If you're used to the usual art of the Tenchi Muyo universe, then this is pretty much good. Everyone and everything look just as they should.

Sound: They have most of the music from the OVA series which is a plus for me (being the avid Tenchi fan that I am).

Character: OMG.... You have no clue as to how many times I was like "EW!! 4th GRADER... STOP THAT!" XD! It wasn't like... dirty in a sense... It was just a few of the things that the villains and everyone around that thing where saying to Sammy where like, "COME ON!" XD! But a whole bunch of those things were pretty hilariously stupid.

Enjoyment: As said above: this series is hilariously stupid. I enjoyed it a lot (although, it scared the crap out of my cousin and it has forever tainted the way she sees Sasami ^^; ). The old gang is still here... Although it's kinda weird seeing how Mihoshi and Kiyone may have switched places (mind-wise) and how Ayeka and Sasami's mom have a tendency to be crying one minute and laughing their heads off in a psychotic episode thanks to that crying O_o;

Overall, this series wasn't either bad nor good. It was just something that I had been DYING to watch after I had completed watching the OVA and Universe (+movies). It was nice to hear everyone's voices again and to watch something of the series I love so much (that was new to me) after so many years.

Having been an old Trigun fan (since they showed the anime in the old Adult Swim) this is such a great treat. I remember I once read the original Trigun manga but I don't remember it as well...

Moving on, Trigun Maximum is the best manga I've read in a long while. It's mostly good because we get to see the Vash/Knives fight work itself out and meet a good bunch of characters.

STORY: It mostly consists of Vash's vow to never kill another human being and having to go on about the world, spreading his "peace and love" routine while having enemies that randomly show ... up (because after all he is Vash the Stampede) or enemies that are thrown his way because they want to please Knives. The story is great! We get so many great comedic moments that leave you laughing for a long while and yet the fights draw you in so hard, it's pretty hard to put the manga down. It doesn't get too dark until the end... and even then, it's not extremely heavy. It's just the final fights that are like "WHOA!"

ART: Is good enough for us who know of Trigun to begin with. Lovely fight scenes with so much detail it kinda makes your jaw drop.

CHARACTER: The character development is great. As usual, Vash is the tranquil aloof good guy but it's fun to see his interacting with everyone else. There isn't much of a movement in his character until the very end unlike with the other characters (i.e. Wolfwood with whom we get to see a great deal of his struggle of Vash's idealism and his background story and all that is great to read upon). All the characters we encounter have a great background and it's great to read who they are, what they have done and what winds up happening to them in their end.

ENJOYMENT: As previously mentioned: I have not enjoyed a series as much as I did this one. It took me a few weeks to finish the entire series but it annoyed me so much that I had to wait for the rest of the books. *laughs lightly* Seriously, once you get a book, you don't want to put the series down.

OVERALL: This series kept me glued. The ending was nice and sweet... Kind of like the beginning. I was glad that by the end of it all, all was somewhat right with the world, plants and human beings lived in harmony and a certain someone who was causing trouble saw the right way to see life and gave them another chance. I really recommend this part of the series to all who have watched the anime and read the original manga. There's so much more to this one that it'll stick in your mind much more than the original and you'll feel grateful to put a great ending into a series that you have probably lived with for over 10 years.

Thank you, Yasuhiro Nightow.

*sighs* I have to begin by saying that I adore the original OVA. So, this review might be a bit biased.

I am huge Ryoko fan. I did not enjoy the fact that the producers threw in a "fiancee" into the mix especially when it feels like a lot of the fans of the other girls where cheated on by this decision. Most of the first 5 episodes have to do with us getting to know Noike and an overzealous brother of Mihoshi (this is pretty much the only romance we truly get to see panned out in the OVA). There isn't much of a ... point in this OVA to me. Except to shake things up and explain a little bit about the Great Goddesses.

The only thing that saved this series for me was the very ending of the 5th episode and the entirety of the 6th. As as true fan of the original OVA, getting to see the Goddesses in full force was a great treat. Also, getting to know more about them was beyond belief. If I was to recommend this part of Tenchi to a new fan, I would only send them to the end of the episodes I enjoyed and explained to them what happens in the other episodes so they just get to see only the great in Tenchi. Over all, I didn't like the series as much. The final episode was the best part about it.

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.