Tenchi Muyo



Mix "Melrose Place" and Outer-Space... You'd get a pretty good description of Tenchi Muyo Ryo-Ohki, a 13 part OAV series, and the first part of the Tenchi series. Tenchi Masaki is a pretty normal teenager up until the day when he sneaks into an ancient cave, and lets free a terrible demon. OK, it' not really a demon, it's Ryoko, an intergalactic thief who was locked in the cave by Tenchi's ancestor 700 years ago. But that's water under the bridge for Ryoko. Even though she's been in stasis for 700 years, she's still a teenager, and she's got a crush on Tenchi. Since she's stuck on earth, guess where she ends up living? Tenchi's house...As if that wasn't enough, a vengeful princess Ayeaka is hunting Ryoko to find out what happened to her brother, 700 years missing. When the teen-age princess Ayeka gets marooned on earth along with her younger sister Sasami, guess where they end up living? The fun's just starting, as more and more girls from space get shipwrecked on Earth, and end up living in Tenchi's house. They've all got crushes on Tenchi, and vie for his affections. That's the premise, but the execution is killer. On to the review!


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