Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-ohki OVA 4 Episode 1 (Get ready for a wedding.)

Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-ohki OVA 4 Episode 1
天地無用! 魎皇鬼 OVA 4 Ep. 1

Spoilers Summary/Synopsis:

Part 1

Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-ohki OVA 4 Episode 1Ryo-ohki wakes up early with a fantasy about waking Tenchi. When Tenchi wakes and doesn’t react as Ryo-ohki expects, she gets angry and chases him around his room. The rest of the household gets up to do their various chores around the house, sans Ryoko. At breakfast, Ryoko laments the fact that Tenchi’s older sister (Tennyo) and aunt (Minaho) are coming to visit for Rea’s and Nobuyuki’s wedding in three days. Ryoko asks Noike what Minaho’s personality like. Ryoko is relieved to learn that Minaho is more like Funaho (Yosho-Katsuhito’s mother) rather than like Misaki (Aeka’s and Sasami’s mother).

Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-ohki OVA 4 Episode 1After breakfast, Tenchi takes a large batch of carrots to MASAKI Tsukiko, mother of Kiriko (GXP) and Kai (GXP). They talk about Seina’s time with GXP and the fact that Tenchi could use his powers to visit Seina at any time. She also encourages Tenchi to visit Airi (his grandmother) and Tennyo. The two then talk about Minaho, whom Tenchi only met at his mother’s (Kiyone) funeral as a child. Since Minaho has the reputation of being “Seto-sama’s Leash” (Aeka’s and Sasami’s grandmother), Tsukiko doesn’t think Tenchi has anything to worry about.

Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-ohki OVA 4 Episode 1Elsewhere, Minaho has a meeting with Ringo of the Hyena Corps regarding the massive revenue boost the efforts of Seina have provided to Jurai. Minaho’s staff (Fuuka, Otoka, and Mizune, all of the MASAKI family from Earth) discuss the situation with Seina and their upcoming visit to Earth. MASAKI Funaho opens communications with Minaho regarding the wedding. She is unable to attend as the fact that Yosho is still alive has not been announced. She teases Minaho about being single, then makes sure to tell Mizune to behave herself on this trip. The discussion leaves Minaho depressed, so her staff try to cheer her.

Part 2

Tenchi Muyo! OVA 4 Episode 1Airi is on her ship with Tennyo, lamenting the massive piles of work she has to do after taking time off. Tennyo has no sympathy for her grandmother. KURAMITSU Mikami (GXP) shows up in a younger body. Airi is irritated by this since Mikami makes a remark about young ones showing up at GXP Academy, suggesting Mikami may go after Seina. Tennyo decides to put an end to it by getting Mikami to help Airi with her work.

Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-ohki OVA 4 Episode 1At the Tenchi home, Nobuyuki and Rea arrive for their upcoming wedding, to be held on the property. Minaho’s ship comes into Earth orbit. Mizune briefs her that Airi won’t be arriving today due to work and that Tennyo is held up as a result. Minaho’s staff beam to the large lake deck. Mizune gets too excited and forgets protocol, forcing Otoka to toss Mizune into the lake. Minaho beams down and formal greetings are exchanged. Minaho then gives Tenchi a hug, initially causing Ryoko to negatively react before she regains composure and accepts the situation. Mizune excitedly emerges from the water with a large fish in hand.

Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-ohki OVA 4 Episode 1Minaho’s staff change into Earth clothing to head into Masaki Village. The others break up to do other things around the house, Nobuyuki heading the the Masaki Shrine. Minaho asks if she can help Tenchi as he works the carrot fields. As they work, Minaho explains that she lived on Earth for a time about a hundred years ago. She also lets out the secret that she was actually already born when Yosho came to Earth, battling Ryoko hundreds of years ago. The conversation switches to carrots, so Tenchi explains why they grow them year round, thanks to Washu’s modifications of the fields.

Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-ohki OVA 4 Episode 1Back at the house, Ryoko brings Aeka bolts of Juraian silk Minaho brought with her. Based on the color and quality, Aeka believes the silk came from Funaho’s factory. Since you couldn’t even find this on the black market, Aeka suspects that she’s being covertly told to make outfits for everyone from the silk. Ryoko seems horrified that she would be included in this. Aeka explains that Ryoko’s situation has changed and her status has risen on Jurai. Aeka then speculates that the silk gift may indicate Jurai wants Tenchi and his harem to attend when Yosho’s officially declared alive and back as a member of the Royal family.

Meanwhile, Minaho and Tenchi take a break. Minaho tells Tenchi about Kiyone. As they talk, Minaho tells Tenchi that he’s cute and that she’s decided to make Tenchi her own.

Thoughts/Review:

And so we have Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-ohki OVA 4 episode 1, something that after the completion of OVA 3 +1, I didn’t think we’d see. While I am certainly happy to see the canon Tenchi series continue, this series certainly isn’t for new fans attempting to enter the franchise.

Tenchi Muyo! OVA 4 Episode 1

Better Know Your TM!R Canon and Your GXP Novels

I’m going to start off with the bad of this new OVA series. For starters, viewers MUST have watched OVA 3, OVA 3+1, and GXP at a minimum before attempting to watch OVA 4.  To be honest, viewers should have watched OVA 1 and OVA 2 as well. That way, you’ll at least understand the situation of the forthcoming wedding between Rea and Nobuyuki. More than that, you’ll know the characters.

Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-ohki OVA 4 Episode 1

That said, it is crystal clear from Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-ohki OVA 4 episode 1 that the series is written only with Japanese fans in mind. While I mentioned that viewers need to have watched GXP, that will only allow the viewer to know names like Seina, Seto-sama, and the pirate situation (which isn’t specifically mentioned). However, as I noted in my review of the GXP anime, Kajishima-sensei hated what director Nabeshin did to his story. To that end, Kajishima-sensei began writing GXP light novels, allowing him to tell the story he wanted to tell.

Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-ohki OVA 4 Episode 1

OVA 4 takes place prior to the events of volume 6 of the GXP light novels. My understanding is that the novels introduce Minaho’s staff. So if one has read the novels, then one would expect characters from said canon novels to be in the canon anime. However, for those of us outside Japan who can’t read Japanese, we are out of luck. (The first twelve novels have summaries in poor English.) That means there are moments in the anime where characters are talking about events from the novels, but outside of Seina’s name (and the episode doesn’t explain who Seina is or what he’s doing) or Kiriko’s name, I’m not really sure what they are blathering on about.

Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-ohki OVA 4 Episode 1

Confusing Dialog

Because OVA 4 expects you to have 100% familiarity with all of the other canon Tenchi Muyo! Ryoi-ohki material in whatever form, this leads to some confusing moments. For starters, there’s nearly every conversation had in Minaho’s office (which I presume is inside her Royal Tree-ship, but that’s not even clear to me). Being as versed as I am, I wasn’t as negatively impacted as others. However, because I’ve not read the GXP novels, I didn’t know what the Hyena Corps is. While I did know Seina (the MC in GXP), it was difficult for me to understand some of the conversations about him and assigning work to Kiriko (one of Seina’s harem in GXP).

Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-ohki OVA 4 Episode 1

The first time I watched the episode, I thought I recognized Tsukiko’s place. It wasn’t until the second viewing when I caught the throw away reference to Kai that I realized this must be Kai’s and Kiriko’s mom. She was never shown in the GXP anime (or if she was, I don’t remember her). But I’m guessing that folks without that history won’t know who she is nor the conversation she’s having with Tenchi.

Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-ohki OVA 4 Episode 1

Losing The Respected Head of GXP Academy

In the GXP anime as well as in OVA 3 +1, the respected head of the GXP Academy is Mihoshi’s mother Mikami. She’s also the twin of the head of GXP, Minami. Both Minami and Mikami are visually portrayed as being in their late 50s or early 60s, even if their actual ages are much, much greater. So if it were revealed that they a thousand years old or greater, I would have been OK with that. After all, Kajishima-sensei stated that rich and powerful folks could live as much as 10,000 years.

Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-ohki OVA 4 Episode 1

Apparently, during the course of writing the GXP novels, Kajishima-sensei decided that the respectable older lady who runs GXP Academy wasn’t such a good idea. I’m guessing that because he thought it would be a barrel of laughs, combined with adding yet another sexual fetish to GXP, he’d have Mikami’s true form be that of someone roughly 30-ish. Then to cement the deal, he had that put into OVA 4, though he doesn’t make it clear if this is her true form or if Mikami is just assuming a younger form to tease Airi and Tennyo.

Tenchi Muyo! OVA 4 Episode 1

I’m told that this is Mikami’s true form, but it makes no stinking sense. The BS explanation I hear is that Mikami uses the respectable grandmother form because of her job. In my mind, it makes no sense. Since the Kuramitsu Family is a massively powerful one in the galaxy, it wouldn’t be a secret that they live how ever many years and thus don’t look old. Airi is the head of Galaxy Academy and doesn’t need to pull this “old woman” routine. So the excuse doesn’t wash for me.

Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-ohki OVA 4 Episode 1

So now, Mikami has gone from the respectable head of the Kuramitsu Clan as well as the head of GXP Academy and now is nothing more than some hussy who apparently took the bloody job so she can try to have sex with underage boys. Yes, Tennyo stated that she was going to assume Mikami’s remarks were a joke, but knowing Kajishima-sensei and his obsession with different sexual fetishes, I suspect Mikami is a shoutacon on top of whatever else she might be. 🙄

Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-ohki OVA 4 Episode 1

Mihoshi and Chibi Tokimi-sama

Mihoshi didn’t serve much purpose in the episode other than to provide a few gag laughs. One of those came from Sasami giving Mihoshi a directional vector, whereupon a witless Mihoshi ends up catching Ryo-ohki in cabbit form as she falls out of an upstairs window. The other gag came from Mihoshi fishing, catching a big fish, but then causing it to fly into the house and into Ryoko’s open mouth, slapstick style. I admit, I did laugh at that.

Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-ohki OVA 4 Episode 1

What was kind of interesting and cute is Mihoshi’s relationship with the chibi Tokimi-sama. Tokimi seems to live with the Tenchi crew, keeping watch over the household at night while they sleep. But there was something funny about the sleepy Mihoshi picking up the small Tokimi and giving her an affectionate hug, as if Tokimi were a plushie. Then chibi Tokimi is out with Mihoshi for the fishing fun. It is such an odd relationship that I wish were explored more.

Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-ohki OVA 4 Episode 1

MASAKI Minaho

While half of the episode is dedicated to the slice of life happenings at Tenchi’s house as they prepare for Nobuyuki’s and Rea’s wedding, the other half is dedicated to Tenchi’s aunt, Minaho. What little plot there is in the episode revolves around her still being single despite being several hundred years old. She gets teased by Funaho about it. And in coming to Earth three days before the wedding, her plans seem to be to claim Tenchi as her own. The implication being that she wants Tenchi to be the father of her children.

Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-ohki OVA 4 Episode 1

Personally, I don’t think that Minaho is actually into Tenchi in this regard. Based on what I saw from OVA 3 +1 where Katsuhito and Airi are apparently strongly encouraging their daughter to get married, she may have some scheme that she thinks will put them off. That might explain why she’s so pleased her mother is still buried in Galaxy Academy work and that this also keeps her niece Tennyo at bay as well. The implication there is that those two have incestuous thoughts for Tenchi (how serious that is can be debated), so removing them allows Minaho to have her incestuous way with Tenchi. Hoo!hoo! It is to laugh. 🙄

Tenchi Muyo! OVA 4 Episode 1

I do wonder why Minaho wasn’t shown paying Katsuhito a visit. After all, this is Yosho in disguise and Yosho is her father. I can kinda understand Katsuhito not visiting, based on the last episode in OVA 2. One would think Minaho would want to pay her father her respects before doing whatever else with Tenchi. But what do I know?

Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-ohki OVA 4 Episode 1

Ryoko and Aeka

I love it that Ryoko and Aeka are friends and have matured a lot. Sure, Aeka was annoyed at having to fix Ryoko’s pillow, but she did it. I enjoyed the conversation that the two had when Ryoko brought in the bolts of Juraian silk. Aeka has come a long way in regards to how she views Ryoko. Since it appears that an official announcement will be made that Yosho is still alive, we may get to see Tenchi and company head to Jurai before the series is out. But that aside, Aeka had no problem making Ryoko an outfit and acknowledging that Ryoko’s status on Jurai has risen from when she did her terrorist attack.

Tenchi Muyo! OVA 4 Episode 1

Ryoko has come a long way as well. Yes, she’s still the lazy Ryoko we know and love. Yes, she can tease Aeka. But at the same time, she has matured. While she was dreading Minaho’s arrival as well as the return of Tennyo, she handled Minaho’s embrace of Tenchi with class. OK, her initial reaction was to get angry, but she calmed herself and accepted the situation for what it was. I loved that character moment for Ryoko.

Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-ohki OVA 4 Episode 1

Final Thoughts and Conclusion

I wanted to have this review up Friday, but as usual, things didn’t go as planned. So in order to get this posted, I’ll wrap up my review of Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-ohki OVA 4 episode 1.

  • Although I doubt it gets explored, I am curious about Tokimi’s remarks on being low on power until Tsunami and Washu return so that she can free herself.
  • I liked the nods to Kiyone’s funeral. I’m thinking that since Kajishima-sensei wanted that moment showing the astral Ryoko protecting the child Tenchi from the snow that day shown in OVA 1, he’s been looking to get it into the anime one way or the other. He got close in OVA 3 by having the no snow circle where Tenchi lay outside of Ryoko’s Cave being shown. This time he got to show the scene.
  • I’ve mention Funaho earlier and I wanted to reiterate that I’m glad she got a cameo. Further, she was able to provide an explanation on why she wasn’t shown attending the wedding in OVA 3 +1.
  • While I don’t have a clothing fetish, I get annoyed when anime titles refuse to have characters change clothing. In OVA 2, we got to see Ryoko wear a lot of different things. With OVA 3, the decision was made to just pick one outfit for all of the Tenchi harem and that’s what they wear from then on. Well, that is unless there’s a bathing scene of some sort.
  • I was disappointed we didn’t get to see the floating onsen when the shot panned outside of the Tenchi home. I suppose it could be cloaked or in hyperspace somewhere. I know we saw it in OVA 3 ’cause Ryoko flew up to it with the filthy Ryo-ohki to get her clean.
  • I liked seeing Tennyo in her red beret. It almost seems like she is above Airi and Mikami as she got them both to work while she observed.

Tenchi Muyo! OVA 4 Episode 1

In the end, Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-ohki OVA 4 episode 1 has some interesting and neat stuff for hardcore fans of the canon franchise. However, it is plagued by forcing the viewer to have 100% knowledge of everything in the TM!R canon prior to OVA 4, including through the GXP volume 6 light novel. To that end, while I liked the episode on the whole, I can only give it a marginal passing grade.

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12 Responses to “Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-ohki OVA 4 Episode 1 (Get ready for a wedding.)”

  1. ghostbeetle says:

    Wow! Thank you very much for the review.
    I’m looking forward to watching it myself though I am tempering my expectations based on your descriptions. Truthfully, this isn’t far off from my own expectations after the messiness of season 3. And the eliptical nature of Kajishima-sensei’s narratives within the OVAs is also something that goes back to the very beginning, arguably. Dissapointing but not a real surprise that it has gotten even worse.
    Are there at least some worthwhile new shots of Juraian ships, exterior, interior, etc?
    Aside from the slapstick and harem hijinks that was the aspect of the series which hooked me right from the beginning. “Hi, I’m Daniel and I am a spaceship-design addict.”

    • AstroNerdBoy says:

      Wow! Thank you very much for the review.

      You’re welcome. 🙂

      Dissapointing but not a real surprise that it has gotten even worse.

      Yeah, that’s why Kajishima-sensei works best with an editor. He resents that, but I think that’s why OVA 1 is the best of the lot. Hayashi-sensei kept Kajishima-sensei from going too far off the rails.

      Are there at least some worthwhile new shots of Juraian ships, exterior, interior, etc?

      Minaho’s still unammed ship is shown coming into Earth orbit. From my glance through the raw for episode 2, I think the interior of her ship gets explored, though not as much as Noike’s was.

      • ghostbeetle says:

        *worthwhile*…ahem! ^^

        Thanks for the info! Guess we’ll have to wait and see until the remaining episodes are released. BTW, how many will there be, do you know?

        • AstroNerdBoy says:

          I thought I’d screwed up again, then I realized I was quoting you. 😆 😀 I fixed both the original entry and the quote. I did see some other red squiggly-marked words, but I left them alone.

          Thanks for the info! Guess we’ll have to wait and see until the remaining episodes are released. BTW, how many will there be, do you know?

          AIC approved four episodes for OVA 4. There’s always the possibility that more could be added if sales are good, which so far they are.

  2. OverMaster says:

    “As they talk, Kiyone tells Tenchi that he’s cute and that she’s decided to make Tenchi her own.2

    I think you meant Minaho.

    • AstroNerdBoy says:

      Haha! Ooops! I need an editor since my mind and my fingers never work well together. Thanks for the correction. 🙂

  3. O-chan says:

    I think your review actually give a lot of incentive on why the possibility of this OAV coming out in America may have diminished chances of a commercial release or at least a bilingual one. Let’s review what these issues are:
    1. The Western fandom is not only alienated from much of the additional non-anime material of the Japanese franchise but their fascination with the franchise is more through the oversaturation through alternate retellings of the OAV series. Basically, when we were introduced to Tenchi the OAV while being the prime story fell to background with the likes of Tenchi TV, Tenchi in Tokyo, the movies, Pretty Sammy (all three versions), the comics and so on. While this was normal for pretty much ALL of the AIC catalogue (El Hazard and Battle Athletes being notable examples) it seemed this cemented the image of what Tenchi was in the west with the OAVs becoming an afterthought.
    2. The Tenchi brand doesn’t draw fans like it used to in the West. I think the last big rebranding pull for Tenchi was when Funimation became the master license for the franchise. They used this to push War on Geminar as well as the re-release of the OAVs and movies on Blu-ray. That came and went but if you look at how hard it was to simply find this OAV on the internet after it was out for a month or two that tells you all you need to know. Tenchi is archived in the memories of the VHS OAV fandom and early Toonami era. Yeah, we recently had a re-release of another 90’s era anime Escaflowne but it seems the modern fandom has forgotten the popularity of Tenchi. They only see it as a footnote in starting the harem genre (which isn’t accurate) and nothing more. Because of this I don’t seen Funimation trying to move mountains to re-unite the dub cast like they did for OAV 3 (and being honest OAV 3 was at least produced in a window closer to when the last Tenchi dubbing project had wrapped). I know that isn’t important to you but I’m addressing the Western fandom as a whole. With Funimation now doing sub-only releases as an option we may at least get that but I see this not happening until 2018.

    Alright moving on to that speculation in terms of content this seems to be doing the opposite of OAV 3. OAV 3 was basically recap/ Noike becoming the new addition/ Misao zaniness/the Goddess plotline at the last minute. Pacing was all over the place in that OAV while here we get MUCH more character interaction and focus on the Jurai-centric cast. The point of this OAV seems to want to integrate/reboot GXP into the main series while continuing to expand Tenchi’s Jurai connections. I actually appreciate the interaction between Ryoko and Ayeka because OAV 3 seemed to push them both into the background outside of a few key moments. This is the first time since OAV 1 that Ryoko has been handled with a little more integrity reminding me of how she was written better in all the spin-offs. Basically the TV-verse gave her a proper character arc, while in the OAV series with all the Dr. Clay stuff I felt her development sidetracked a bit and never really properly dealt with her outside of making her the butt of a joke.
    OAV 2- Kidnapped then assimilated with Zero who was already becoming like an emotionally unfiltered version of her.
    OAV 3- Had a nice binding moment with Ryo-Oh-Ki but she also got drunk and set up events that would lead to the universe being rebooted.
    So it’s nice they’re giving her some slower moments here and not using her for comedy. I do agree that the OAV series is getting extremely lazy in using a variety of clothing designs. I know that OAVs 3-4 seem to have a much more simplified budget but it wouldn’t kill the designers to at least do maybe 3 sets of outfits for the characters. Heck, I think the TV series had more variety that this. Overall this is a good start and I’m glad their learning from some of the more grating parts of OAV 3.

    • AstroNerdBoy says:

      I think you are spot on with your analysis.

      With Funimation now doing sub-only releases as an option we may at least get that but I see this not happening until 2018.

      I agree. OVA 4 is treated as a limited edition thing in Japan, so they aren’t going to allow it to be licensed until episode 4 is about to come out or has come out. That won’t be until later this year. And even then, it will just be FUNimation announcing the license. I don’t suspect Japan would allow FUNimation to do anything with the property until 2018 to make sure they’ve squeezed all of the sales they are going to get from the very expensive Japanese release.

      Funny thing is that in Japan, the Tenchi brand is on the rise again. I didn’t think Ai Tenchi Muyo was that well received, but I’m told that sales of OVA 4 are very good. Now we get word that AIC is bringing back the Pretty Sammy side of the franchise. I always thought that was a flop since all we got from Pioneer was a subtitle-only release.

      The point of this OAV seems to want to integrate/reboot GXP into the main series while continuing to expand Tenchi’s Jurai connections.

      From what I understand, the GXP novels rebooted that part of the canon franchise. Kajishima-sensei has been writing them like mad. I’d love to see them get properly animated as a TV series. But he used them to expand the world of Tenchi Muyo as well as bring in elements from his multi-verse concepts. As such, I see OVA 4 as a way for folks who’ve read the GXP novels to get an idea of exactly when the events of the anime occur within the novel’s.

      I know that OAVs 3-4 seem to have a much more simplified budget but it wouldn’t kill the designers to at least do maybe 3 sets of outfits for the characters. Heck, I think the TV series had more variety that this.

      Absolutely! I know it is a little thing, but man, let them put on different outfits. Although to be fair, Minaho and her staff did wear different items.

  4. Chibi Tokimi says:

    That Tokimi line you found confusing was made up crap translation. I don’t remember the exact wording but the point was that she needs to stay in her very low power chibi mode because when all 3 choshin are gathered in one spot, their combined power can majorly eff up the 3rd dimension even by accident. That’s why Ryoko got freaked out.

  5. Potaton says:

    Okay, somewhat of a GXP LN reader here (reading the trans and using OCR on raw scans before machine trans reading). Of course, I’ve watched the main Tenchi series too. I just wanted to add and clarify a few things.

    Kiyone isn’t feeling incestuous with Tenchi. She simply dotes on her lil bro. She also helps keep Airi from bothering Tenchi too much when Airi vents out her “Seina frustration” by doing shenanigans that will get Tenchi mixed up in.

    The reason Minaho is relieved knowing Airi is stuck with work is because in GXP (and mentioned by Yosho in Dai-4 ki) Airi has declared some romantic and much sexual interest in Seina. Needless to say, Seina will be visiting on Earth too for the wedding so letting him meet Airi will lead to shenanigans that Minaho will have to deal with much to her dismay.

    NOTE: Seina and Yosho have talked about Airi’s intents for Seina in the GXP novels during his visit on Earth after the bike race incident Seina had with Tenchi. This talk was cut on the anime GXP. Basically, Yosho has approved of Seina and Airi having a relationship and even children.

    Yosho explains that love for long-lived races are like that and is part of maturity and outlook on love which Seina was yet to accept since he was still new to space life. He also tells Seina he wouldn’t mind raising the latter’s kid with Airi if he wishes to do so (since Yosho’s life is still a secret from space public). In dai-4 ki Yosho also says something along the lines to Seina that Airi won’t give up and that he should just give up and have a child with her.

    The Masaki/Masaki Trio of the Hyena Corps along with Tatsuki Ringo are an accounting team that specially handles logistics and finance now working to deal with Seina’s massive economic asset and the effects of his work to the economy. The nickname Hyena comes from the joke that any enemy the four face during accounting struggles (like the rival grocery chain of Seina’s parents’ family grocery business) are left defeated and torn to shreds like they’ve been eaten by a pack of hyenas.

    Another note about the four is that by GXP vol.12 Washu makes a chart of “Seina’s women” that turns his bad luck around. Basically a harem chart for him. The mechanism of his unique powers is revealed to work in groups of four women each and only specific women have this effect on him.

    One example of a group is Kiriko’s team.
    Another is the Renza Fed. girls.
    Another is Tsukiko/Kiriko’s mom, Seto, Mikami, and a yet to be revealed woman possibly Airi.
    Another is the Parallel Adventure Dual’s reincarnated heroines (Fuku is apparently Yayoi Schwael).
    And one more group is Ringo with 3 unknowns which judging by the obvious modus operandi, means its the 3 Masaki accountants complaining they’re not allowed to see Seina.

    Oh, and the list keeps growing too in GXP with more and more heroines (including Yuzaki’s daughter an infant for god’s sake) albeit the chart itself is mostly unmentioned post its reveal in vol.12.

    Considering how Minaho and Seina’s interactions in GXP are mostly just work it can be said that the fact she has her section in dai-4 ki where albeit in passing she expresses romantic interest in Tenchi, is proof that she’s probably serious. Tenchi’s reactions also follow the typical Kajishima protagonist response to a love interest’s advance. Also, I’d like to note that I’ve noticed Kajishima seems to like making scenes where the protagonist has to or ends up sleeping in the same room with a woman who inevitably ends up as a future or present love interest, accompanied by a cabbit (as a wingman in the scene). This has happened to Dual’s Kazuki, Seina, Kenshi, and now Tenchi with Minaho so that might be a sign about the two.

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