Tenchi Muyo!

On the data. The single most important thing: these are not sequels to each other. The OVA series came first, in 1992. Then in 1995 a television series called Tenchi Universe retold the same setup differently. Then in 1997 Tenchi in Tokyo retold it differently again. All three have the same characters meeting in roughly the same way and then diverge completely. Watching them back to back as though they were seasons one, two and three produces nothing but confusion, and this is easily the most common mistake people make with this franchise. The films split across continuities too. Tenchi Muyo in Love and Tenchi Forever! follow Tenchi Universe. The Daughter of Darkness is loosely attached to the OVA cast and is the odd one. In Love is the one worth seeing regardless of which route you took. The OVA continuity is the one the creator, Masaki Kajishima, has kept working in. It is also where the spin-offs live: GXP, twenty six episodes about a different protagonist, and War on Geminar, thirteen episodes about Tenchi's half brother. Both stand alone. Release gaps here are measured in decades. OVA episodes arrived in 1992, 1994, 2003 and 2016, and a fifth batch has been discussed for years without a date. Nothing is listed here for it. Pretty Sammy is a parody: one of the cast as a magical girl in a world where the rest of the series never happened. It had an OVA and then its own twenty six episode TV show under a different name, Magical Project S. Ai Tenchi Muyo!, from 2014, is sixty four minute episodes made as a tourism promotion for a real Japanese city.

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