I, personally, think that Kajashima dropped the ball with OVA 3.  There were 
so many way he could have gone with this, and it just fell flat.  He has 
spent a decade or more writing an epic that spans tens of thousands of 
years, with a tremendous amount of back-story available for animation -- and 
he wasted two episodes out of six on Mashisu and Misao.  I rest my case.

How many great first-films have real suck-dog sequels?

I bought the first DVD of OVA 3, but I haven't bought any others as yet.  I 
was so disappointed that I just haven't gotten enthused enough to cough-up 
the coin.  Maybe after the first of the year, and then only so I have the 
complete series...

Jeff

Jeffery (Jeff) Harris
JLHOnami@mchsi.com

The Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: "Where Mihoshi is, Chaos reigns."
-- Tenchi Muyo In Depth: META FAQ  http://www.geocities.com/silentmike2001/


----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Gregory Himes" <gdhimes@yahoo.com>
To: <washu@cohprog.com>; <tenchi@usagi.org>; <ryokoforever@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 4:11 PM
Subject: [tenchi:106068] One Quick Question


> I'm hoping to spark a little life into the MLs (like Dr. Frankenstein),
> so I'm spreading my post among more than one....  (so you may get more
> than one of these).
>
> --- Gregory Himes <gdhimes@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> >watch it, let us know if the Himitsu Nabe material is on the DVD
>> >(aka Secret Saucepan).
>
> --- Mark Jones <faferd@msn.com> wrote:
>> I was going to pick it up at Best Buy, but they didn't have it at my
>> local
>> store.  Strange, considering I got volume 2 from them.  Anyway,
>> according
>> to the staff review on Amazon, it does have it.
>
> I watched the "extras" the other day, and they do have everything
> there.
> Though the staff reviewer seems to be just a touch out of their medium
> in the review.
> I didn't learn anything I didn't know before GXP started -- but casual
> and new viewers don't have the wisdom of some of our mailing lists, at
> their fingers. I did learn for certain, that the Trees pull their power
> from another dimension (which begs the question "Do the trees or the
> Choushin know if that space is unoccupied?").  And the reviewer didn't
> even bother to tell you who the "squeaky voiced" actresses were.
> Granted, the live-action part of the Himitsu Nabe isn't going to appeal
> much to most western viewers.  And, of course, "nothing that occurs
> precludes yet another series," because if Kajishima gets his way, there
> will be two more OVA sequences before the series will officially end
> (at least this semi-continuity, anyway) -- he revealed that, what? four
> or five years ago?.
> However, the little bit revealed near the end, with Noike, is a bit
> much, fictional story or even in a (impossible) real situation.  So, if
> things progress a little farther, Tenchi will have killed one half, and
> then have a close relationship with the other half of the same person?
> The family tree really will need 3 or 4 dimensions to be comprehensible
> ^_^  and then there's still the other clones... (assuming Washu isn't
> telling us whopper).
>
> Damn, now even the reviewers are bashing Ryoko.  Is there anyone
> including her co-creator that isn't going to slap her around a bit
> more?  Besides, if Ryoko's inebriated, it's because she wants to be -
> and that brings up the point, "Does Kajishima really expect us to
> believe that her new life is so bad, she wants to avoid it?"  She's
> acting more like she's under house arrest, in this series, than a
> person who can go almost anywhere in the galaxy, with or without
> spaceship, anytime she wants.  And there's all that fun she can have
> using Ryo-Ohki's eyes... Hmmm, helpful, sweet, little Ryo-Ohki  ^_^
>
> WASHU: "Now discuss!"
>
>> Amazon.com review:
>> Final Confrontation (2003) more or less picks up where the previous
>> Ryo-Ohki OVAs left off, and appends happy endings to the previous
>> storylines. Mihoshi's nutty brother Misao gets to marry Mashisu,
> through
>> the intervention of Lady Seto, "the Devil Princess of Jurai." Yosho
> and
>> Nobuyuki tell Tenchi strange stories about his mother (which don't
> jibe
>> with previous depictions of her), then Nobuyuki remarries--with
> everyone's
>> blessings. In short, the plot stumbles and collapses like Ryoko after
> a
>> three-day binge. Nothing that occurs precludes yet another series for
> the
>> ever-popular Tenchi Masaki, but fans would probably prefer one with a
> more
>> coherent storyline. The extras include Tenchi Muyo!
> Entertainment/Secret
>> Pot, in which two squeaky-voiced actresses discuss aspects of the
> Tenchi
>> continuity without shedding much light on them, and Local Specialty,
> a
>> Tenchi radio show illustrated with still images. (Rated TV PG,
> suitable for
>> ages 12 and older: brief nudity, cartoon violence, minor risqu humor,
>> alcohol use) --Charles Solomon
>
>
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