Washu's Help Desk
What is Tenchi Muyo?
What's with the different universes???
What is the difference between the series?
Which series is the best?
What is the meaning of life?
 


Tenchi Muyo is a fairly good anime; cool characters, cool story.. Yet when it comes to understanding the organization of the different Tenchi series, even Washu can become confused. Luckily, Washu happens to be the greatest genius in the galaxy, and was able to make some sense of it all. Unfortunately the rest of us have to sit and wonder what in the hell is going on... But perhaps Washu can help.



And now, help from Washu...




What is Tenchi Muyo?

First of all, Tenchi Muyo is Japanese animation, also known as anime. If you don't know that your probably lost and need help elsewhere. Tenchi Muyo is the story of a regular guy named (....prepare yourself! ) Tenchi (...WoW!). Tenchi is an ordinary guy.... until he starts to get visitors from the stars. As it turns out, Tenchi is the crown prince of a planet called Jurai. Pretty soon, Tenchi is surrounded buy girls all fighting for his attentions. The series is comical, romantic at times, and has lots of action.




What's with the different universes???

Well first of all, don't use more than one question mark when asking a question. It makes you sound like a moron. And another thing, never use more than one exclamation point, or you sound like a used car salesman. Now then, Tenchi Muyo was origonally produced as an OAV (video only release) called Ryo-oki. This continued in two sets of series. Tenchi Muyo was then produced as a TV show. The producers (in all they're moronic wisdom) changed bits of the story around. Which turned out to be a good way to milk the series for more money from poor anime fans in North America, since they could re-release the series. As for Pretty Sammi, that is something different entirely. Other "Universes" seem to pop up every now and then. The purpose of Archen's Guide to Tenchi is to help sort everything out for those who are confused by it all.




What is the difference between the series?

Well.... if you were going to list all the distinct differences... You'd probably be better off just watching all the series yourself, since it would probably take longer to explain. Just look through the rest of the page dammit!




Which series is the best?

This question is relative to the person asking the question. Each person likes different things, and some people like the OAV over the TV series, and the other way around too. It all depends on a lot of things. Some people for instance really like Kiyone, but of course Kiyone isn't in the OAV, so those people like the TV series. I've found people tend to like whichever series they happened to see first.




What is the meaning of life?

And the meaning of life, the universe, and everything is of course 42 (everyone knows that). But if you take the third derivative of the equation to find the meaning of life: the answer is Peanut M & M's... specifically, the green ones, but that's a fairly complicated explanation.





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