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Tenchi in Tokyo (新・天地無用!, Shin Tenchi Muyō!
?, New Tenchi Muyo!), is a
26-episode Japanese anime series produced by AIC and Pioneer Animation (now Geneon
Entertainment) in 1997. It is the third series (the OVA
and Universe
series being the first two) from the Tenchi Muyo! series. It aired in
North America on Cartoon Network's Toonami block starting in the fall of 2000.
Overview
Unlike its predecessor Tenchi Universe, the last Tenchi series
is completely unrelated to the initial concept of Tenchi
Muyo! and is different from the OVAs and first TV series. A couple of
changes are that Tenchi and his grandfather are not related to Jurai's royal family, and the
secret behind the Masaki family in this series is to protect the
Earth from evil as Planet Guardians. Many of the returning
characters were also given completely different, exaggerated or
simplified personalities that makes them different from the
previous series. The series also features a drastically different
style of humor than the previous series, with more surreal gags and
situations, and a greater emphasis on physical comedy and
exaggeration. To facilitate this, the cast was redesigned so their
characters designs are much simpler, which allows for more fluid
movement which lends itself better to this style of comedy. One
final new change is that all the girls are introduced in the first
episode as already living in the Masaki home and then a flashback
in episode 7 shows how they all met Tenchi, rather than introducing
them separately as shown in the previous series.
Characters
Major
characters
Other
characters
Recurring
characters
- Hotsuma (秀眞
?)
- Hotsuma is one of Yugi's servants. He is dressed as a scientist
and has long blond hair. In the series, he tries to get the
attention of Ryoko, and he succeeds in bringing her back to her
former life as a space pirate, following Ryoko's heartbreak after
seeing Tenchi and Sakuya kiss on the school rooftops. Hotsuma's
determination to keep Ryoko away from her old friends is where he
has framed Mihoshi and Kiyone for tipping off the Galaxy Police
when the two had infiltrated their gang, and later reminding Ryoko
that Tenchi has Sakuya, when Ryoko has started to miss the
Earth.
- Eventually when Ryoko starts to get bored with her life as a
space pirate, she finds that she has been tricked after overhearing
Hotsuma talking about her bad qualities during his conversation
with Yugi. Thinking that at least she is honest with her flaws and
never ever backstabs the other girls, she decides to leave and got
ready to do so.
- When Hotsuma notices Ryoko's presence, Yugi decides that he
should just kill her and Hotsuma almost succeeds by blowing up
their ship. Luckily, Ryoko notices that she forgot the pictures of
her and Tenchi and leaves the ship in time which saved her life.
Ryoko then fights Hotsuma and although he gets the upper hand by
turning into a monster, she manages to kill Hotsuma and get
free.
- Voiced by: Wataru
Takagi (Japanese), Matt K. Miller (English)
- Tsugaru (東日流
?)
- Tsugaru is one of Yugi's servants, and a master manipulator
rather than a fighter. Distinguished by his brown hair, yellow
shirt, and rather effeminate mannerisms.
- Tsugaru first tries to kill Sasami in Tokyo until Ryo-ohki
forces him away, and then he helps Hotsuma with gaining the trust
of the Masaki family and dividing them apart, targeting Ayeka and
later Mihoshi and Kiyone, while Hotsuma goes against Ryoko. First,
he contacts Ayeka when she is walking outside the temple and shows
an image of Tenchi and Sakuya kissing, telling her to call Tenchi
and ask him directly; encouraged by Sasami, Ayeka does so, but she
does not obtain a satisfactory reply (Tenchi was just about to go
out with Sakuya), and decides to stay home anyway.
- Tsugaru later shoots down Mihoshi and Kiyone's shuttle on their
way back to Earth and then attacks them. Mihoshi and Kiyone's
normal guns have no effect on Tsugaru, until Tsugaru is killed when
he was shot by Kiyone's gun, which was loaded with an anti-matter
bullet which vaporized him to dust.
- Voiced by: Masamichi
Ohta (Japanese), Richard Cansino (English)
- Matori (真鳥
?)
- One of Yugi's servants created by Yugi in Episode 4 to help
carry out of her mission. Matori is distinguished by her black hair
and the red marks on her face. Her specialty is that she can create
guardian spirits from inanimate objects.
- Matori first creates Daidara Hoshi by tricking the girls (minus
Sasami and Washu) into constructing him. Matori then creates a fake
Nobuyuki Masaki to kidnap Sakuya Kumashiro and draw the real
Nobuyuki and Tenchi to him to bring Tenchi and Sakuya together.
During Yugi's attack on the Masaki shrine, Matori severs the
dimensional tunnel from Tenchi's side so the girls could not escape
to Tokyo.
- Near the end of the series, Yugi assigns Matori to kidnap
Sasami to make her part of her kingdom. Despite her initial opinion
of preferring to kill Sasami with the others, Matori carries out
these orders, and with her guardian spirits she easily destroys
Ayeka's defense system and almost kills Ayeka herself. Matori then
kidnaps Sasami and takes her to Yugi.
- When Tenchi breaks free from Yugi's illusionary dimension,
Matori attacks him but is driven back when the Masaki family
appears in Yugi's dimension. Sasami then tries to convince Yugi to
give up her mad scheme, and after Matori suggests to Yugi that they
should just kill all of them, in a fit of anger Yugi kills
Matori.
- Voiced by: Yuriko Yamaguchi
(Japanese), Julie Maddalena (English)
- Kazuhiko Amagasaki (尼ヶ崎 和彦, Amagasaki
Kazuhiko
?)
- Other than his brief appearance in the Tenchi Muyo OVA series Kazuhiko Amagasaki
also appears in this series as a regular. Tenchi first met
Amagasaki in this series when he moves to Tokyo. Amagasaki and his
good friend Umanosuke Tsuchida hang out with Tenchi and although
Amagasaki does not seem to be bright, Tenchi is able to help tutor
him when he needed it so he could go on summer vacation with
everyone else. Amagasaki also has an interest in professional wrestling and is
once able to defeat Sadako Ikarinu in battle.
- Voiced by: Toshiharu
Sakurai (Japanese), Michael Sorich (English)
- Umanosuke Tsuchida (土田 馬之介, Tsuchida
Umanosuke
?)
- Umanosuke is one of Tenchi's new friends after he moves to
Tokyo. He is the grandson of Dokuzen Tsuchida, the Shinto priest
that Tenchi is apprenticing to. Unlike Tenchi, Umanosuke has no
interest in inheriting his family's shrine. He is also good friends
with Kazuhiko Amagasaki and like him, Umanosuke also has an
interest in wrestling.
- Voiced by: Takehiro
Murozono
- Sugano (菅野
?), Yoshinaga (吉永
?), and Matsuno (松野
?)
- These three girls hang out with Sakuya Kumashiro and other than
gossiping with her about boys, they are also trying to match her up
with Tenchi and bring them together.
- Sugano voiced by: Manabi Mizuno (Japanese), Sherry Lynn
(English)
- Yoshinaga voiced by: Yukari Tamura (Japanese), Wendee Lee (English)
- Matsuno voiced by: Ayaka Hibiki and Hisoka Moriya
(Japanese), Rebecca Forstadt (English)
Minor
characters
- Dokuzen Tsuchida (土田 独然, Tsuchida
Dokuzen
?)
- A shinto priest and an old friend of Katsuhito Masaki, as his
ancestors had helped build the Masaki shrine. At his request to
Katsuhito, Tenchi was sent to Tokyo to serve as Dokuzen's
apprentice so Tenchi could train as a Shinto priest and be able to
inherit his family's shrine as part of the favor that Katsuhito
owes to the Tsuchida family. Dokuzen is a good natured and friendly
priest although he has a tendency to have Tenchi perform his duties
for him as he is getting on in age. Dokuzen is also Umanosuke's
grandfather.
- Voiced by: Kenichi
Ogata (Japanese), Bob Papenbrook (English)
- Mr. Fujisawa (藤沢先生,
Fujisawa-sensei
?)
- The teacher of Tenchi's class, bears a resemblance to Masamichi Fujisawa of El-Hazard, another anime series also produced
by AICHe even mentions the magical world.
- Voiced by: Kōji
Ishii (Japanese), Eddie Frierson (English)
- Ine Suzuki (鈴木 イネ, Suzuki
Ine
?)
- A guardian spirit created when Sakuya Kumashiro prayed to the
marriage goddess at the Love Knot shrine. Ine Suzuki tried a couple
of times to put the thread of fate on Tenchi and Sakuya's fingers
during multiple romantic settings, but wasn't able to succeed. Ine
Suzuki eventually drew them into her dimension, the hill of
legend.
- After successfully placing the thread, Ine Suzuki was surprised
to see so many threads on Tenchi's finger, as they represnt the
rest of the Masaki clan. It drew both Ryoko and Ayeka into her
dimension and although they had a little trouble dealing with her
thread at first, they break free and make a huge ball of her own
thread and crush her to death with it, and sending Ine Suzuki's
spirit back to the shrine.
- Voiced by: Satoko
Kitō (Japanese), Jennifer Darling (English)
- Yoshiaki Zumino (ズミノ
ヨシアキ, Zumino Yoshiaki
?)
- A guardian spirit created by Yugi, through a discarded cell
phone. He was able to disrupt all cell phone calls, as well as
corrupt Washu's surveillance units that were observing Tenchi. Once
Washu found out that something was corrupting her units and traced
Yoshiaki Zumino's location, Ryoko headed out with Sasami and
Ryo-Ohki and easily killed Yoshiaki Zumino.
- Voiced by: Wataru
Takagi (Japanese), Richard Cansino (English)
- Daidara Hoshi (大駄羅法師,
Daidarahōshi
?)
- A giant construction worker guardian spirit brought to life
when Yugi's servant Matori tricked Ryoko, Ayeka, Mihoshi, and
Kiyone into building Daidara Hoshi for her in exchange for money.
Daidara's job was to build a palace suitable for Yugi.
- An enraged Kiyone alongside Mihoshi tried to take him down with
their GP blasters, only to find it had no effect. Then Kiyone
noticed a weak spot, which Mihoshi admitted she caused when she
tripped and made a mess earlier by making a hole in the wall. The
two then fired at the weak spot and caused Daidara Hoshi to fall
into the bay taking a partly constructed palace with him.
- Voiced by: Toshiharu
Sakurai (Japanese), Michael Sorich (English)
- Satoru Zuimoto (ズイモト
サトル, Zuimoto Satoru
?)
- A monkey guardian spirit created by Yugi to steal the gems from
the Masaki clan after Tenchi returns home for their anniversary and
have Sakuya Kumashiro blamed for it, when she decided to follow
Tenchi and meet his family. After an angry Ryoko left, Washu is
able to use a device to track the gems to the real thief Satoru
Zuimoto. Ayeka knocked him out of the house with her fan, and
following him to the lake where Ryoko was, Ryoko finished him off
when she found out the truth.
- Voiced by: Masamichi
Ohta
- Yu-Ohki (雄皇鬼,
Yūōki
?)
- A cabbit created by Yugi to separate Ryo-ohki from the group
after she was blamed by Sasami for damaging Katsuhito's golden
statue (which was actually caused by Ryoko and Ayeka who were
fighting). Once Sasami found out the truth she and the others
(minus Washu and Tenchi) followed them to the moon. After Sasami's
feelings got through to Ryo-ohki, Yu-Ohki grew to a giant form,
only to defeated by Ryo-ohki's mecha form and ran away. Yu-Ohki was
then killed by Yugi.
- Voiced by: Toshiharu
Sakurai
- Pseudo-Dad (オヤジモドキ, Oyaji
Modoki
?) (PretenDad in Pioneer's
subtitles)
- A guardian spirit which is a fake of Nobuyuki Masaki created by
Matori from one of Nobuyuki's discarded cigarettes. Although her
plan was to use him to capture Sakuya Kumashiro and bring her and
Tenchi together, Pseudo-Dad had a problem of picking up any pretty
woman he sees.
- Once Matori had to discipline him, Pseudo-Dad carried out his
mission and took Sakuya to the Tsuchida shrine. Matori then lured
the real Nobuyuki right to them, and Nobuyuki bought a traffic
safety exorcising arrow from the Tsuchida shrine and used it on
Pseudo-Dad which finished him off.
- Voiced by: Takeshi
Aono (Japanese), Bob Papenbrook (English)
- Masayo Manuketa (マヌケダ
マサヨ, Manuketa Masayo
?)
- Masayo Manuketa is one of the twin comets
brought to life by Tsugaru, who takes on the form of a female
motorcycle racer. She would help Ayeka and Sasami in their attempt
to hitchhike their way to Tokyo. During a lunch stop, Masayo tells
a story to Ayeka on how she always tunes up her motorcycle to catch
her boyfriend, Isao. Touched by their story, Ayeka decides to give
up on visiting Tenchi and helps Masayo to reach for Isao instead;
reunited, they thank Ayeka and Sasami and go back to their
galaxy.
- Voiced by: Shinobu
Adachi (Japanese), Lara Cody (English)
- Isao Ketauchi (ケタウチ
イサオ, Ketauchi Isao
?)
- Isao Ketauchi is one of the twin comets who
takes on the form of a male track sprinter who had become a living
legend among bikers. Eventually for Masayo to catch up with Isao,
Ayeka, Sasami, and Ryo-ohki had to jump from the sidecar on
Masayo's bike to lighten the weight and make it go faster. Masayo
and Isao then immediately went back to being comets.
- Voiced by: Takehiro
Murozono
- Sadako Ikarinu (イカリーヌ
定子, Ikarīnu Sadako
?)
- Sadako Ikarinu was a masked joshi puroresu (female
professional wrestler). Yugi brings Sadako's spirit back to life as
a guardian spirit from her mask. Her goal was to prevent Amagasaki
from interfering during Tenchi and Sakuya's meetings. Amagasaki
eventually defeated her with one of his own wrestling moves on the
school roof.
- (Note: Based on actual female wrestler Sadako Inokari from the
1950s.)
- Voiced by: Mizue
Ohtsuka (Japanese), Brianne Siddall (English)
- Empress Hinase (樋拿畝
?)
- The Jurai Empress from 3,500 years who had sealed away Yugi.
Although she knew that Yugi wasn't intentionally harming the Jurai
people with her playful mischief, Hinase still sealed Yugi away as
her power was simply too dangerous to allow her to roam
unchecked.
- (Note: Empress Hinase's appearance is similar to Tokimi in the OVA.)
- Voiced by: Yuriko Yamaguchi
(Japanese), Brianne Siddall (English)
Broadcast
history
Tenchi in Tokyo was broadcast on TV Tokyo from 1 April 1997 to 23 September
1997.
The English-dubbed version was picked up by Cartoon Network
in 2000 for broadcast on its Toonami block (US and Europe). The Toonami
version was edited for content, and featured custom opening and
closing credits.
After Cartoon Network's rights to broadcast the show expired, International
Channel picked up the rights to air the dubbed version in
2004.
The Spanish dub (co-produced by Cloverway Inc.) was broadcast on
Univision.
Music
- Opening Theme: Yume wa doko e itta?
[Where Did the Dream Go?] (performed by Linda Yamamoto)
- Ending Theme: Yamerarenai,
Yamerarenai! [Unstoppable, Unstoppable!] (performed by the
Japanese Tenchi Muyo cast)
- 2nd Ending Theme (episode 24):
Kataomoi [Unrequited Love] (performed by Mayumi Iizuka)
- Background Music: Shunsuke Kikuchi
Trivia
- In episode 9, a commercial plays after Ayeka's show was
finished, with the caption reading, "Denchi muyo!" (No need for
batteries!).
- In episode 10, Pretty Sammy appears twice:
she first appears on one of the photo booths, and on the karaoke
monitor (alongside Pixy
Misa, wearing the Magical Project S version of her
costume).
- In episode 22, Rio Kinezono and Yuji Naruo (from Burn Up
W) have a cameo appearance, appearing as a dating couple
witnessing Yugi's descent into Earth. Also, Photon (from the anime
series Photon) appears in this
episode.
External
links
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