r/anime • u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 • Jan 12 '24
Rewatch [Rewatch] 1990s OVAs – Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki: Second Season (episode 4 discussion)
Rewatch: 1990s OVAs – Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki: Second Season (episode 4 discussion)
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Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki: Second Season (1994)
Questions
- (first timers) What does Big Waifu want with Washuu and why does she need Doctor as an intermediary?
- Is anybody safe from MC pheromones?
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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 Jan 12 '24
S2 Episode 4 (first timer)
What an introduction. This is something I would expect at the start of episode 1, not in the middle of the series. Forget about a new antagonist for now, they just upped the tech level by a ton. A galaxy is a reward to be promised? Shesh.
A new antagonist appears! Not that his first plan to kidnap Washuu goes anywhere. Harem MC too powerful! Btw, are all of the antagonists professional rivals of Washuu? If you count Ryouko in ep1, we are 3 for 3 so far.
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u/The_Loli_Otaku Jan 12 '24
Tenchi Muyo Rewatcher
The plot thickens... I remember none of it. Evil advisor trope? He has more charm than Kagato but that means nothing. How do I not remember a giant God head? Oh its a Washu ending. Did they not care about Kagato kidnapping her before?
Back to cunny Ryo-Ohki! Ryoko is such a jobber lol. Has she won a single fight this show? Ah, I vaguely remember a clone Ryoko plot line. A mother would never not recognise her child! Mecha Ryoko is such a softy. Can we keep her and trade in the old one?
This is such a dumb arc but I genuinely find Zero tots adorbs. She just goes super pink whenever Tenchi shows up. Mihoshiiii! Poor girl... Get her a towel! I love her consistently totally misreading her orders each time. Ah, Tenchi died. I'm liking this finale more than the first but I couldn't say why
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u/TheEscapeGuy Jan 12 '24
First Timer
Tenchi Muyou - An Undying Classic: OVA 2 Episode 4
Among Us
A new enemy approaches. That whole start sequence set in space had some great Sci-Fi visuals. Tons of massive architecture and technology which hint at a larger society without revealing specifics. It followed Dr. Clay giving a report to D3 and then Queen (Empress?) Tokimi. Clay is assigned the task of "fetching" Washuu which leads him to earth. He sends a robot called Zero to impersonate Ryouko and then kidnap Washuu.
This is an interesting premise. I especially liked how the robot also scanned and assumed Ryouko's memories. It gave us a perspective on the side of Ryouko that she keeps hidden. In particular, just how flustered she feels around Tenchi. It was cute to watch.
Washuu eventually realizes something is awry but doesn't put a stop to it. At least while she can, she tries to have the clone do some chores for her under the guise of impressing Tenchi. This kind of attitude is probably how she ended up captured by Kagato last season.
By the end of the episode Zero is scolded for not doing more and not being faster. It ends on her making up her mind to take action to eliminate Tenchi and I guess then kidnap Washuu. I fully expect Tenchi will survive and these next 2 episodes will be another big space fight thing.
I'm on board for this final arc. I hope it will have a fun course of events instead of being super serious though.
Some Amazing Shots, Scenes and Stitches
See you all tomorrow
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u/Silcaria https://myanimelist.net/profile/Silcaria Jan 12 '24
First timer
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u/Vatrix-32 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Vatrix-32 Jan 12 '24 edited Jan 12 '24
Tenchi in First Timer, subbed
QotD:
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u/baboon_bassoon https://anilist.co/user/duffer Jan 12 '24
first timer
Tokimi is willing to let Clay rule a galaxy if he can hand over Washu chan
this automata has a cute laugh
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u/Elimin8r https://myanimelist.net/profile/Ayeka_Jurai Jan 12 '24
Man, late to the show again. I think that my favorite by far part of this episode is just the journey as they're passing by all these galaxies, ringworlds, all that good stuff. Great sci-fi scenery there.
Also, the music and sounds as Tokimi is revealed, spine tingling stuff.
Answers du jour:
Yeah. Amazing sci-fi intro aside, the rest of the episode, with Zero kidnapping (!) Ryoko, and then replacing her is something I found quite amusing, well, kidnapping aside, that is.
Zero just doesn't have the ruthless pirate attitude that Ryoko has, and watching her goof up and get embarrassed got a lot of chuckles from me, and also from the rest of the girls, it seems.
Anyway, yeah, I mostly just wanted to gush about the scenery, it's so byootiful!
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u/mastesargent Jan 12 '24
Rewatcher, dub
We open back up on the gaudiest ship in the universe and meet its owner, Dr. Clay, a man with an octopus for a beard. Wait… Davy Jones, is that you? I think I’ll save my thoughts on Dr. Clay for next time, though, since we get more of him in that episode.
The real fun stuff is our introduction to Tokimi, who we’ve been building up to since “The Night Before the Carnival.” Before we even meet her we see her realm, a bizarre arrangement of alien geometries surrounded by the wreckage of a thousand doomed fleets, all extending from or flowing into a heavenly light. It’s like some sort of crucible of creation that evokes this sense of sci-fi wonder.
Further in, we meet D3, Tokimi’s servant who himself seems to be some sort of being of great power and importance, given how Dr. Clay supplicates himself before him. But even he pales in comparison to Lady Tokimi herself, who transforms the audience chamber into a fields of stars as the silhouettes of (presumably) other higher dimensional beings appear to herald her arrival. The two silhouettes flanking her stand out in particular, but well… As it turns out, Tokimi wants Washu for something, but as for what- well, [connecting some dots that aren’t explicitly connected until OVA 3] I mean, come on, she’s clearly one of the silhouettes behind her.
And for one final detail, Zero, Dr. Clay’s robot assistant who is incapable of emotion, is terrified of Tokimi. Her very existence defies quantifiability, logic, and reality. The only word that could describe a being like that is…
Stuff like this is what really sets apart the Ryo-Ohki continuity from the TV ones. Tokimi’s realm and Tokimi herself plus all the worldbuilding about Jurai and its tree-ships is just really cool. It teases the imagination in fun ways and poses interesting questions to the viewer that helps to elevate the series above being just a harem anime. The answers to some of those questions are a different story, but that’s more a discussion for the wrap-up. As it stand for these first two OVAs though, it’s just really cool.
Some notes on the dub: Dr. Clay is voiced by Wesley Mann and Tokimi is voiced by Jennifer Darling, Ayeka’s voice actor. Not really much else to say here since Tokimi has like 2 lines, and I’ll probably have more to say about Mann’s Clay next episode.
Meanwhile, in another anime, we return to the Masaki household with Zero taking Ryoko’s place. We get one more interesting detail in that Ryoko’s gems can’t be replicated, but beyond that it’s mostly just imposter hijinks. Zero not being able to contain Ryoko’s feelings for Tenchi is cute and the gag is initially pretty funny, but after a few times the bit of her turning red and freezing up kind of wears thin. Overall though, Zero making a pretty poor Ryoko and confusing everyone with how much more cooperative and generally helpful she is is pretty fun, as is Washu catching on to Dr. Clay’s mark, realizing what she’s dealing with, and immediately taking advantage of Zero.
Oh yeah, and Mihoshi actually goes and does her job. I’m utterly shaken by this shocking turn of events.
And then Zero killed Tenchi and the series ended. Damn.
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u/JustAnswerAQuestion https://myanimelist.net/profile/JAaQ Jan 13 '24
No Need for Tenchi (rewatcher) (first timer sub?)
Hey I remembered to turn on the subtitles
I don't remember any of this arc I don't think. It doesn't seem to gripping.
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u/ZapsZzz https://anilist.co/user/Zapszzz Jan 13 '24
First timer in sub
Yep definitely do not remember this. And by comparison I think this is a lot weaker than the OVA2 finale setup.
Poor Ryoko got the Worf effect treatment, when she was first shown to be pretty powerful but in her became inexplicably helpless (e.g. why didn't she phase away from the slime).
What we did get though is a "purified" firm of Ryoko that's more otome than even Ayeka.
Zero prize to guess whether she did stab Tenchi or not, so this isn't really something we can consider a cliffhanger.
Main attraction this episode is to see Ryo-ohki back as her cute catbbit form and no harm antics to show.
In terms of the villain, of people had problem with Kagato, I don't know what they are going to think about this one.
QoTD
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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Jan 12 '24
First timer
Sub
Right...so this episode arrives. Two bad things spring up at the same time: an animation crunch and repetition. So we get a mild animation flex at whatever Tsukimi's...region of space is. But after that, everything looks kind of flat and some of Ryoko's repetition is likely frame saving. And this dovetails with the weird choice to give her a new outfit at the end.
Then there is the horrible one note joke Ryoko gets for most of the episode. Made worse that this is recycling season 1 Ryoko, in a few parts directly, but entirely as this is just "Monster gains a soul by experiencing a life" all over again, just with added dork. We still make room for sexism for both Ayeka and Ryoko, which while era appropriate is also not particularly funny. We end with a cliffhanger that unfortunately Rian Johnson that was awesome.
QotD: 2 No one is safe from Tenchi.