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CCharmanderK
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Except that "Ree-oh-ko" is the proper pronunciation of Ryoko's name. It's Ayeka (Aye-ei-kuh) that gets the worst treatment in mispronunciation.
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deathfromabove1993
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I have to agree, I am not a fan of the Daughter of Darkness movie. I love the Tenchi Muyo in Love movies 1 and 2. I'm so glad Funimation decided not to call the third film, Tenchi Forever. What was Pioneer/Geneon thinking at the time?
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CCharmanderK
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They believed that Tenchi Muyo in Love 2 was going to be the last Tenchi Muyo! anime product to be made, so they named it "Tenchi Forever" with the intention of it being final. Hell, Petrea Burchard, Ryoko's dub actress, retired from voice work after she completed recording for this film, believing her role as Ryoko, whom she had come to adore over the years, to be completed. |
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Tenchi
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Personally, I'm really only a fan of the first of the three Tenchi Muyo films. I like the "conventional" time travel story, you get a lot of "scenery porn" of Tokyo in 1970, and my favourite Tenchi Muyo character, Kiyone Makibi, is the glue that holds the whole plot together. Excluding the spinoff Pretty Sammy TV/Magical Project S, which I still find funny as heck, the first Tenchi Muyo movie is the final worthwhile Tenchi Muyo production ever made as far as I'm concerned.
I wish I had the option of buying Tenchi Muyo in Love on Blu-Ray separately from the other two films. I find both of them fairly creepy, with obsessive female antagonists, and I have a similar problem with Tenchi Forever as I do with the Ah My Goddess movie. Both films have the series protagonists simply not be quite themselves for the majority of the runtime of the film and the charm of the series proper just isn't quite there for me. |
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Tochiro
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You do. The films Japanese BD releases are on separate discs that have English subtitles and will play in a US region BD player. Oh course, the price of a single movie in japan is more than the entire set in the US, but hey, if thats what you want..... |
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Julia-the-Great
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Oh, this brings me back. Tenchi Muyo in Love was the first DVD I ever bought, back in my high school days as a young anime watcher. And I'll never forget lending it out to friends with that picture of Tenchi's naked mother on the cover...
Still! Sentimentality! Good to hear that it still holds up after all these years.  And that it STILL has that picture of Tenchi's naked mother on the cover. Good times. 
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Kikaioh
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Well to be fair, the only really cute character in the show is Sasami, and the only girls that really fight over Tenchi are Ryoko and Ayeka. I think the saving grace to Tenchi as a 'harem' romance comedy is that most of the girls aren't really attracted to him per se, they're more like secondary characters that stick around because of the oddball circumstances surrounding Tenchi. It also helped that the franchise was significantly more focused on the sci-fi action and comedy than on the romance (which might be why so many people disliked the more drama-heavy Tenchi in Tokyo). It never occurred to me before reading this review, but I'd guess that the first Tenchi movie was inspired by the original Back to the Future movie. I surprisingly remember a reference to "Back to the Future" in some of the background art of another AIC movie from around the same time period ("Burn Up!"), so I wonder if the same artists worked on the Tenchi movie too. One of the interesting things about anime back in the 80's and early 90's was how influential American sci-fi works seemed to be on the medium (like Star Wars, Blade Runner, Alien, etc.), so it's kind of neat to make another connection between an American pop-culture classic and one of my favorite anime movies. I've only seen the first two Tenchi movies and I consider Tenchi in Love to be a classic that embraces everything that's fun about the series --- and I personally avoided the third movie because I'd heard so much about the philosophy and relationships etc., which seemed to ruin the spirit of what I always saw the series to be about. I might give it a chance eventually, but I guess I'm still not in a hurry to see it. 
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getchman
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I like the second movie. I'm aware of all the flaws, but I still like it
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Etrien
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The first Tenchi movie will always have a special nostalgic place in my heart. Objectively I'd say it's unremarkable, but it just happened to be one of my earliest exposures to anime. I thought the second movie was pretty terrible, but it really helped reinforce the "man, anime is weird" experience I've come to love. I also thought the third movie was the best, but it's just been so long now that I don't even remember it anymore.
...Well, "Ree-oh-ko" is the proper pronunciation for "Ryoko" as much as "kee-yoob" is proper for "Cube". Or "Fee-yoom" is for "Fume". |
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Kazemon15
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Hmm is the BD/DVD for this remastered and worth triple dipping for?
I already have these movies on DVD (twice) and I was wondering if the quality was any different. |
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Wyvern
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I liked all three films, though personally I actually think In Love is the weakest of them. Its plot is a bit too obvious and conventional, and most of the girls aren't given anything interesting to do. It's not bad, though. I still have the poster that came with the subtitled VHS release back in the day.
I guess I'm one of the few who actually really likes the second movie. True, a lot more could have been done with the "I'm Tenchi's daughter!" twist, but it serves up a sweet story with some great imagery (Jurai's summer Christmas-like holiday) and Yuzuha is a terrific villain. I always had a soft spot for her; she's probably the most sympathetic Tenchi villain, and the most fun. Tenchi in Love 2 is actually a great movie by itself, but doesn't work as part of the franchise. It doesn't feel like Tenchi Muyo to me: it's too cerebral and contemplative. There's nothing wrong with that approach, of course, in fact it makes for an outstanding film. But it doesn't fit in with any other Tenchi production: it feels like it would have worked better with original characters. |
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Cecilthedarkknight_234
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the first movie for me has been and always be proof that a harem anime can be done right if given the proper writing. I didn't really even know what that term meant until I started to read love hina "sad but true". spoiler[ I really considered the first movie tenchi muyo "tenchi muyo in love" to be more sci fi with time traveling aspect and keeping his mother alive so he could be born, but still not changing the fact she dies.]
At least Tenchi knows how to fight and really doesn't back down in this and the supporting cast was great as well. I don't have to much else to say that review hasn't covered I just want to point out where I stand with the franchise. |
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Nocturne123
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Tenchi Muyo in Love was actually the piece of animation that truly made me take the medium seriously and set me off to really love anime.
Sure, I watched DBZ, Sailor Moon, Ronin Warriors etc when they were on DiC, UPN, and Sci Fi back in the day, but they were just like fun cool shows that I loved (though I think of them all pretty much differently now), but the characters and story really got to me with Tenchi Muyo in Love. It has a great feel to it in art, atmosphere, and just it's great in general to this day. And yeah, it is Ree-Oh-Ko. I dont really know how else you could pronounce it. |
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Sleverin
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Oh man, Ronin Warriors was awesome as a kid! They had And I Ran by Flock of Seagulls as the opening theme! I have no idea why they made that choice but whatever, that was an awesome anime as a kid...I almost want to watch it to see what happened. I mean, evil probably just gets vanquished and duly punished but hey, gotta love the ride to get there right? In relation to the topic, I barely remember Tenchi, except probably the first...episode? I don't really know the Tenchi Muyo product line that well. I just remember him fighting some evil monster after finding out he's the son of a prince or something from an alien planet and he used a lightsaber and some cool invisible laser shield or something. I always wanted to watch it properly, but man did that Tenchi in Tokyo really foul up that idea for me. |
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pachy_boy
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I'm pleasantly surprised the Tenchi movie trilogy finally getting reviewed, as well as get as good a review as it's gotten. Like the OVA, the film trilogy just looks crisp and clean on blu-ray, with Tenchi in Love never having looked so cinematic (with Christopher Franke's repetitive but still phenomenal score) and Tenchi in Love 2 more beautiful and emotionally touching (if you've grown to care about the characters, it'll definitely leave a nice haunting effect, as well as answer the question of who Tenchi chooses, at least in the Universe continuity). Although agreeably the least best of the Tenchi films, I still like Daughter of Darkness, although I don't get why Funimation just didn't give its original Japanese title Midsummer's Eve like they did with the other two. I have a nostalgiac fondness for the dub, although I admit it's a bit dated by today's standards, but it really does sound its best in these movies, the last one especially as it needs to be. My only nitpick is how barebones it is on features, which is why I've kept my original Pioneer releases, but this is a gorgeous set and a must-own for old and new Tenchi fans.
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