Tenchi Universe/Episodes

Tenchi Universe is a 26 episode Japanese anime series produced by the AIC and Pioneer LDC. It is loosely based on the first six episodes of the Tenchi Muyo! OVA series. The series premiered on April 2, 1995 in Japan on TV Tokyo and concluded its airing on September 24, 1995. The English-dubbed version first appeared in the United States on KTEH public television in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1997, and was later picked up by Cartoon Network, the series made it's premiere on the Toonami block from July 20, 2000 to August 24, 2000. The series began it's second run on the block on January 17, 2002 and ended on February 21, 2002. Tenchi Universe also appeared on Toonami's Midnight Run from November 6, 2000 to January 12, 2001. The Toonami version was edited for content, and featured custom opening and closing credits.

This series introduces three new characters: Mihoshi's partner Kiyone Makibi, the bounty hunter and Ryoko's rival, Nagi, and her cabbit companion, Ken-Ohki. The series also gave some characters different personalities; Washu is now portrayed as a mildly-insane egomaniac with two pop-up dolls that proclaim her greatness, and Mihoshi was portrayed as a comic relief character whose constant bumbling, blunders, and crying fits would often get the gang into trouble. Two featured films came from this canon, Tenchi the Movie: Tenchi Muyo in Love and ''Tenchi Forever! The Movie''.

Tenchi Universe was licensed in the U.S. by Geneon Entertainment who brought the show onto Laserdisc, VHS and DVD, before shutting down in September of 2007. In 2010, Funimation Entertainment announced the licenses of a handful of Geneon titles including Tenchi Universe, and an official boxset was released on October 16, 2012.

Tenchi Muyo! in Love
'''Tenchi Muyo! in Love''' is a 1996 Japanese animated film and the first of three films set in the Tenchi Muyo! multi-verse. The film takes place after the conclusion of Tenchi Universe, and so varies from the original OVAs at several points. Most noticeable of these is the inclusion of Achika as Tenchi's mother instead of Kiyone Masaki. It was followed by Tenchi Forever!, released in 1999.

Tenchi Forever!
Tenchi Forever!, known in Japan as Tenchi Muyo in Love 2 - Distant Memories, is a 1999 Japanese anime film based upon the popular Tenchi Muyo! series, and was directed by Hiroshi Negishi. It was released in America under the title Tenchi Forever!, possibly because it was to be the last Tenchi Muyo!-branded product created.

The film is the final story arc of the first Tenchi Muyo! television series, known outside of Japan as Tenchi Universe. TMiL2 is also notable for its radically different tone from its source material. Tenchi Universe excised much of the overt sexuality and violence featured in the OVAs in favor of a more comedy-themed atmosphere. The subsequent movie sequel, 1996's Tenchi Muyo in Love, was, at its core, an action movie. However, Tenchi Muyo in Love 2 is a significant departure from its predecessors; instead of the usual comedy-flavored action, the film is a downbeat, sexual melodrama that studies its characters quite intensely, shedding light on Katsuhito's past, the depth of Ryoko and Ayeka's feelings for Tenchi, and Tenchi's hidden desires.