April 6th, 2020 
AstroNerdBoy Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-ohki OVA 5 Episode 2 Trailer
Hey gang! Well, the new trailer for Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-ohki OVA 5 has dropped. Give it a look and let’s discuss!
(Note: If the video is MIA, let me know and I’ll try to rectify that.)
Items of Note
So here are some of my takeaways from the Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-ohki OVA 5 trailer. For a start, the GXP characters are going to play a major role. This is not unexpected, since Kiriko got an invite to have Seina’s baby at the Masaki residence. But I gotta say, I liked seeing Seina’s battle harem.
Teenager Sasami-chan! π
A blushing Ryoko is fine too.
Wait, is Seto-sama sitting seiza?
The woman next to her is Quis Panta, though I don’t know her. She might be from Paradise War. I’ll have to research that. Of course, she could be part of Seina’s harem, since she’s with Kiriko and Karen.
And there’s Seina as a fine young man. But he may be here as Minamida, a character from Paradise War. Minamida was already announced as being in the series. Whether other Paradise War characters are here or not remains to be seen.
I wonder if we’ll see Ryo-ohki in her humanoid form. Fuku is already a fully functioning furry member of GXP (and Seina’s harem).
I know many gaijin fans have been SCREAMING to see Tenchi and company beat up the pirates that came to attack during the GXP anime series. We may get to see that, though I can’t help but think that Tenchi is just going to OP everyone and that’ll be that. But Tenchi does teleport to space and appears to go after a pirate ship.
I have to admit, I’m more excited for Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-ohki OVA 5 episode 2 than I was for episode 1, based on trailers alone. Hopefully, the episode will be as good as advertised.
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ooh this trailer was nice!looks very promising.
I agree!
Is there any word on any of these new Tenchi OVA being picked up by Funimation?
Nothing so far…at least that I’m aware of.
Another great manga cover by Miss Nakatani-sama. This one, on Volume 7 of “Bloom into You” displays most of her armory: exquisite line-width variation — multi-hued and beautiful shading — and perfect foreshortening. The lead character Yuu appears with posture and form perfectly consistent with all of her previous appearances. Nakatani-san’s color pages usually have very complex back stories, and here poor Yuu has perceived that this strange, gorgeous girl Touko has rejected her declaration of love. This after many weeks of Yuu trying very hard, unsuccessfully, to be in love with anybody, while partnering with Touko, who fell helplessly in love with Yuu in the first chapter. I know, complex. But interesting.
Of course, after six volumes of BiY, Yuu does finally learn to love Touko, declares this love while they’re visiting the river bed, which a terrific place for it, gets apparently rejected by her and then runs home to her room upstairs. There she sweeps her pillow, pencil purse, earphones, manga, phone and school jacket off her bed. In the process she shoves the beautiful plaid comforter askew, then flops on it and stares directly at the reader. No tears. In fact, Yuu only cries once in all eight volumes. Now she thinks love over forever and was never for her anyway. At this point Nakatani-san draws her and gives us the result on the cover of Volume 7. Great stuff!
Here’re my missing is’s: is,is.
I’m glad you liked it.
Her art work is the big attraction for me, but the gentle yuri is fun too. BiY otaku will have noticed that there are lots of small but relevant details that Nakatani-san puts in her work. An example would be Yuu’s school bag in the lower left corner of this cover on Volume 7. Also, near the end of Volume 7 in a full page panel when Yuu runs to our left with her school bag streaming, two extremely thin ellipses on the cuff of her left jacket sleeve are the side view of buttons! Another example is Yuu’s stuffed animal on her chest of drawers is not just any large cat; the characteristic circular spots make it a leopard. And my favorite Nakatani detail is in Volume 5 when Touko visits her sister’s grave. The lower right panel on page 17, which has no people in it, shows a pathway between grave stones with a cleansing basin in the foreground. It took me at least ten read-throughs to notice the tiny drop of water oozing out of but not quite falling from the faucet. Nobody else does this kind of thing.