Tenchi Forever - Tenchi the Movie

Starring:Masami Kikuchi, Ai Orikasa, K.T. Vogt, Richard Cansino, Rebecca Forstadt, Wendee Lee, Bob Papenbrook, Jennifer Darling, Matt K. Miller, Petrea Burchard, Michael Sorich, Sherry Lynn, Doug Stone, Debi Derryberry
Director: Hiroshi Negishi
Studio: Geneon [Pioneer]
Product Type: DVD

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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

Description

Tenchi walks into the mountains and disappears. After searching all over Japan for Tenchi, Ayeka and Ryoko finally locate him in Tokyo where he is now several years older. Tenchi appears to be in a parallel world with a mysterious girl, named Haruna, and doesn't remember Ayeka and Ryoko! What is the mysterious connection between Haruna and Tenchi's grandfather, Yosho? It's up to Ayeka and Ryoko to discover what Haruna wants with Tenchi and to rescue him before he disappears forever!

Customer Reviews:

Beautiful, low-key meditation.......2006-04-23

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!

Great Product.......2005-09-30

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

Say it isn't so!!.......2005-09-17

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

Tenchi does chooses........2005-07-25

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!

This wasn't the best movie but wasn't the worst........2005-04-20

This wasnt my really what i had expected. There was hardly any action in this movie, but most of it was drama. If your a person who enjoys a good movie to watch with your girlfriend then mayby this is the movie for you. this is definitly not for children because there is mature contents(saying this probably promotes younger people to watch this). This reveals about Yosho's first love and the only thing i liked about this was probably the ending music to the movie. My recommendation is that if you liked the first two movies then this is a major turn around for the series because there was hardly any violence and most of it was just watching tenchi going around in a parallel universe with another girl instead of with ayeka and ryoko.

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