Beautiful, low-key meditation | Tenchi Forever (Ws Dub) [VHS]

Tenchi does chooses. | Tenchi Forever (Ws Dub) [VHS]

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	• Tenchi Forever (Ws Dub) [VHS] Geneon [Pioneer], 1999 average customer review:based on 141 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Great Product

Excellent dvd quality. All three Tenchi movies. What more could you ask for?

Beautiful, low-key meditation

This movie really strikes a different mood for the "Tenchi Muyo!" series. Restrained, melancholy... even poetic. Light on swordplay and spaceships, heavy on character insight and development. The animation is beautiful, with sleeker, more mature-looking character designs that really complement the film's tone.

It's the story of a spirit from Katsuhito's past, who draws Tenchi into a parallel world just beyond Ryoko and Ayeka's reach. He doesn't remember his former life, but is compelled to draw sketches of a certain green-haired demon... Yes, Ryoko fans (like myself) will find a lot to like here. Everyone has to work together to bring Tenchi back, which ends up involving a little of the usual sci-fi heroics, but mostly the film focuses on Ryoko and Ayeka and how they relate to each other. The emotional payoff of the ending is quite moving.

Fantastic English dub too. Tenchi fans, give this wonderful movie a chance!

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Tenchi does chooses.

This is a good movie..very touching. It was very different than your normal Tenchi shows. It had a more serious style to it, there was more romance than action. The animation was quite weird to me at first but I after awhile I learned to appreciate the beauty of the movie. Nontheless it is an excellent movie. I recommended to any Tenchi fan out there.

(!spoiler!) Ok..some say he does not choose but the matter of the truth is he does. He chooses Ryoko! Which made me very happy, being a Tenchi and Ryoko fan myself, but he does indeed chooses. I kinda figured after watching the last episode of Tenchi Universe. I was reading some kind of thing where they were interviewing the creator of Tenchi and he does say that Tenchi indeeds chooses Ryoko in this movie. I know it was a weird way of not showing it. I, too wish that the creators would make it more clearly whom Tenchi chooses. So we can finally all be at peace.

So for all you Tenchi and Ryoko fans out there. just hope for the OAV 3 for him to finally make a choice. And show it in a more clear and direct way.

OVERALL: buy this movie. It is absolutely wonderful and beautifully done. And go buy the new Tenchi OAV 3! Support Tenchi! Thank you for reading!

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Tenchi: Adult Edition

Before the third and final Tenchi movie, Tenchi as a whole had been hit and miss for me, ranging from 7/10 to 8/10 in terms of ratings. I enjoyed the first two OVA series but quickly grew tired of all the silliness and the lack of explanations with regards to various plot elements. It started to get stale after the harem cast had been assembled. My thoughts about the first two movies are very similar to my thoughts about the OVA. So, I didn't go into what's most likely going to be the last Tenchi anime I watch expecting anything other than the usual harem fluff, with a random, one dimensional villain thrown in so that there would be a fight to end it with a sense of purpose.

It ended up surpassing my expectations by some distance. I found it to be emotionally moving and involving - I couldn't help but care about the characters. However, it isn't something for Tenchi fans; it's for fans of well written and executed films. It has a low MAL rating - on par with the Christmas special of a second film - and I understand why without even asking anyone: because it lacks the feel of the other Tenchi anime in existence. If what came before is classed as Tenchi for the younger generation, then this is most certainly Tenchi for adults.

To start with, the art differs from the art of the previous films, both of which looking like the OVA series. I wouldn't say the previous art looks cartoony but it doesn't exactly look realistic either. The intention was clearly to make this installment more realistic to go with the story, and they started by altering the art. The faces look more realistic, the size/proportions of the characters look more realistic... everything apart from the ears and eyes looks realistic. This is a weird complaint to have but the ears bothered me, Ryoko's bothering me the most. Instead of having ears, it looks like a number of characters have rectangles stuck to the sides of their heads. I'm not sure if Ryoko always had rectangled for ears and the different art style simply made me notice, but whoever designed the ears deserves to be shot. Repeatedly.

The music also differs considerably from what's gone before, changing to fit with the new direction. In the past fitting but uninspiring and unmemorable efforts good for comedy were used, but in this there are drama orientated instrumental pieces. Even 'Étude No.3' - the famous piano piece - plays towards the end.

...Anyway, getting back on track. The story starts in normal Tenchi style; with Ayeka and Ryoko fighting like cat and dog and Tenchi getting involved. But within minutes (literally), Tenchi randomly stumbles upon a tree and, enchanted by its beauty, walks toward it. He then gets taken somewhere by a mysterious woman who appears before him.

The plot than fast-forwards six months. Tenchi has been missing and his harem have split up to search for him. Ayeka and Ryoko, who have teamed up, have managed to find out the city he's living in thanks to Washu and they work as waitresses while living there to pay the bills. Ryoko has a watch that alerts her to Tenchi's presence but hasn't had any luck finding him.

It's soon revealed that an older looking Tenchi, complete with long hair, has been living with the woman who appeared before him at the start. The woman is called Haruna and Tenchi has lost all of his memories. And when I say living together, I mean they live together as a couple, doing what couples do when alone. It's normal for anything sexual in a harem to be used only for comical purposes, without any actual sexual intercourse taking place, but there's nothing comical about Tenchi and Haruna's relationship. They're shown together in bed, naked, with Haruna on top of Tenchi early on and later Haruna moves herself slowly up Tenchi whilst he lies down, grinding her body against his.

I'm mentioning this and going into detail because it highlights the different audience the film is aimed at. Sex goes from being childish to being handled in a far more mature fashion. That's quite a jump for what was, before this attempt, a simple and straight-forward harem story involving alien ladies.

Once it's clear how Tenchi's living, the plot starts moving slower. The first twenty minutes flew by - I was surprised by the pacing - but then everything slowed down for character development. Ayeka and Ryoko become more and more depressed with every glimpse of Tenchi happy; oblivious to their existence. Despite them being rivals for Tenchi's affection when down in the dumps, rather than fight over Tenchi, they support each other. Ryoko pushes Ayeka's buttons when she's on the verge giving up and Ayeka tries to do the same for Ryoko. It's fair to say their friendship and not the rivalry they're known for shines through in the film.

All of the other development is, as you'd expected, Tenchi and Haruna development, mixed in with some Yosho (Tenchi's grandfather) development because of his connection to Haruna. The other cast members basically just make cameo appearances. Tenchi comes across differently than the plain harem lead type from before; he's far more troubled and always deep in thought, drawing in an attempt to express himself and the memories that lurk in the back of his mind. Haruna, who is the villain of the story, tries to keep Tenchi ignorant in an attempt to keep him close to her and ease her lonliness. Rather than being yet another one dimensional Tenchi baddie, she's well developed and by the end you can't help but feel sorry for her.

The important characters all receive lots of development, and the story even fills in some small Yosho related holes. The only serous flaw is that, as I mentioned before, it doesn't have the same vibe as the other Tenchi anime. It's very serious, focusing almost fully on drama. There are very few comedy scenes and the cast only gets together at the end. If I was someone who loved Tenchi for being light-hearted fun, I wouldn't be best pleased, so I can understand the problem people have with it... but I'm not one of those people and I respect those in charge for trying something different.

Overall, watching the film was an excellent way to end my Tenchi love affair. I was expecting to end it with yet another 7/10 rating, but I ended up awarding it 9/10 and actually thinking highly of a Tenchi offering. To anyone other than diehard Tenchi fans who can't accept change, I strongly recommend it.

Rating: 9/10

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Say it isn't so!!

ok, overall, they give this one an 8, but the first one a 7.4??? WHAT THE HELL'S UP WITH THAT? this is a very depressing movie. the love triangle between Aeka, Ryoko, and Tenchi is, well

The third Tenchi feature has a less playful tone than the popular television and OAV series. Annoyed by the endless bickering between Ayeka and Ryoko, Tenchi goes for a walk in the hills above the Masami family shrine--and vanishes. His extraterrestrial friends organize a search: Wasshu dispatches Galactic Police Agents Mihoshi and Kiyoni to hack the gargantuan computer at the Science Academy; Sasami does research on Jurai; Ayeka and Ryoko get jobs as waitresses while they search Tokyo for clues. Haruna, a mysterious girl linked to an ancient camellia bush, has taken Tenchi to a parallel world, where he lives a seemingly normal life as an art student. But he's troubled by headaches and the images of Ryoko that turn up in his work. Tenchi grows a bit older there, which allows director Hiroshi Negishi to depict some very mild cartoon sex between his hero and the eerily beautiful Haruna. The animation is a little more fluid than the television episodes, and there's a welter of computer-animated effects when Wasshu works her high-tech devices and the characters travel between dimensions. But Tenchi fans will miss the endearing silliness that gives the shorter adventures much of their appeal. --Charles Solomon

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